Having 32 kingdoms at power level 30, and the others nearly at their max level, I started to get superfluous books so I’m happy I can continue upgrading my kingdoms. I saw someone complaining about pets in the new system, but since the orb of minions it’s easy to mythic them. Mine all are anyway (except the immortal ones).
I have been back and forth reading the patch notes, and it is a hefty change, but a good one, I think.
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This! Exactly in the same position as you. But I am also now grateful that I most likely won’t have to farm gold marks anymore. It has not been fun for me, but did it for the books. But I will check into PvP to hunt the pet gnomes, my guilds loves pet.
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Actually you can. Sort of. When opening Shiny Chests you have a 20% chance to get a token for the “featured Troop of the Week”. 
Unfortunately due to the increasing pool of available shiny troops the chance to get a troop to shiny level 3 declines every week.
Hopefully we will see some paid “Shiny Token Bundles” for specific troops in the Shop some day to get around this.
Kinda ironically, you’ll still probably want to farm gold marks for Shiny Keys from those Shiny requirements. Going off the top of my head, it actually takes longer to unlock the access to buy Shiny Keys in a new season.
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Damn, I kinda wanted to cut myself loose from PvP, as I spend too much time on it. I will see what to do.
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Thank you! So it’s me, who must look closelly)
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The way I see it is thus:
Like many of you reading this, I farmed Gold Marks pretty aggressively (for a totally F2P) for the sake of the Books of Deeds. I’m still going to farm at the same rate, because honestly doing those handful of battles every day isn’t particularly onerous (IMO). But I’m going to use those Gold Marks to purchase the seasonal Mythic from the PvP shop instead of waiting forever and a Wednesday for it to come around in the Soulforge. (And then to have to spend the other resources to craft it there.)
Any leftover Gold Marks after that, something I ought to have if from no other source than from my guild’s success in Guild Wars? I might buy Dragonite if I haven’t gotten Pandemonia by then. Otherwise I’ll start buying Shiny Keys because there’s actually a tangible benefit to making troops shiny now whereas there really wasn’t before. (Most troops with shiny levels aren’t worth using in any circumstance.)
It still sucks that there’s no way to explicitly target shiny tokens for a particular troop or even just one particular kingdom at a time, but maybe the developers will fix that sometime around version 16.4.
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If I understad it correctly I can now use my Rainbow Crystals to upgrade the magic kingdoms, and not be depended on the purple kingdom crystals and so on rising the magic kingdoms to the skill point level.
If so, that is a win at least for me, that was struggling finding purple books in general for the 3 or so Magic kingdoms I have yet to get the extra magic skill point from.
I read about 100 comments, thanks everyone that took place. I am now drained, and wont read 100 more.. lol
I have not come to the part if Soulforge will have new offerings of the new resources as everything Deeds and whatever will get removed. But I assume for now there wont be any of the new resources there. Hope it is planned for the future, some crafting possibilities of them.
Ref. Value of Gold Marks in 9.2
Can’t help but wonder if the Citadel Sigils Purchase$ will be affected, and therefore whether the design team has thought this through when they decided that:
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The issue here is you’re comparing the converted value of the 2 books in the new system, rather than their actual value now in the current system. The developers are actually being very generous in the conversion of deed books.
In the current system, 2 books will get you from level 15->16, or halfway from 16->17, and less than halfway at higher levels. The Rainbow Crystal gives more than half enough xp to gain a level at high prestige, so a Rainbow crystal is pretty much worth more than 2 books now. It’s only because the conversion of the books to 16 crystals each is so generous, that they work out better after conversion.
It’s for this reason I think complaining about the imbalance between the level/power->prestige conversion (which is fair IMO) compared with the books->crystals conversion (which is generous) is tantamount to complaining that the book conversion is too generous. Jeto seems to be saying this stuff is set now, so won’t be changed before 9.2, but if changes were still on the cards, I’d worry that complaining about the imbalance would backfire, and get the book conversion nerfed.
I’m satisfied that my maxed kingdoms will convert to prestige 50 (seems very reasonable for level 20 / power 30 to convert to prestige 50). I’m not going to fret that other players who held off on upgrading now get more xp from books than me. I’m just grateful the book conversion is so generous and I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
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That’s quite convincing. The developers have consistently added more ways to obtain Books of Deeds across all these patches for blancing. I’m glad with the new system. But I’m frustrated with the conversion, since I unfortunately happened to spend all the books I had been hoarding for years just a few days before the patch was posted.
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Presumably, you mean the Monday reset following the update’s release…
(That’s not how it reads, right now.)
I thought it was perfectly clear. It can’t very well force a reset *before* the update drops, can it?
I have to be honest and say that it feels like you’re just really looking for things to be pedantic about.
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When exactly is the update coming? @Jeto We wait!!!
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Just calm down. No one is even here on the weekends anyway.
Next week is already busy enough with Guild Wars, and with a new update, there are bound to be some problems. Switch will probably get the update on May 26, but it’s not really that big of a deal.
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What will happen if the update drops next week, during GW week and people are holding off on updating the game?
That would mean we would not all be on the same version of the game, wouldn’t that be a recipe for disaster and cause stability issues with game crashes?
No bother. It’s a lifetime normal thing, glitches during the GW week 
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SO with gws coming this week , @Jeto can we get the 9.2 update after gw because of past updates there always seems to be bugs with every update. And GW’s means so much to us that the timing of the 9.2 update would be better after these next week’s gw’s. I hate to see a gw bug B/c 9.2 update
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Updated the table as some of the Shiny tasks in track 3 were incorrect. Basically, lowered the Shiny level requirements
Also, I haven’t shared a date for release cos we don’t have one yet.
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