# Abominable Snowman **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [May 29, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655 "2016-05-29T23:00:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ashasekayi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ashasekayi/32/61090_2.png) [@Ashasekayi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ashasekayi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/21 "2016-05-30T02:47:50Z")
That’s good to hear. Thanks 😸 ---
**Author:** ![Royalty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/royalty/32/1683_2.png) [@Royalty](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Royalty)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/22 "2016-05-30T05:04:38Z")
You think 1 traitstone will result in a fierce competition? I don’t think so 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Machiknight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/machiknight/32/6108_2.png) [@Machiknight](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Machiknight)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 5:15am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/23 "2016-05-30T05:15:32Z")
I think it will result in a MorE fierce fight than otherwise. I know I’ll try to make 1k next time. ---
**Author:** ![Namour](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/namour/32/2957_2.png) [@Namour](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Namour)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/24 "2016-05-30T05:21:09Z")
Agree @Royalty. Hopefully they’ll have some tiers. I would think: 1st - 16 arcane 2nd - 12 arcane 3rd to 20th - 6 arcane 20th - 100th - 3 arcane 101 - 200th - 2 arcane 201 - 1000th - 1 arcane Maybe you could throw differing gem amounts in between 200-1000 to make competition fierce for each 100th position (ie 200-300, 300-400 etc). ---
**Author:** ![zackdale](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zackdale/32/4933_2.png) [@zackdale](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/zackdale)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/25 "2016-05-30T06:42:21Z")
Yeah a trait stone I don’t need and don’t care about having a bunch on hand. I can save glory or burn it in chests! Woot. Shame I got nothing from the 48 glory keys I just got. Where or where is my great maw! ---
**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 6:55am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/26 "2016-05-30T06:55:54Z")
Depending on how many gems you earn as income, I would start saving to buy event chests on key weeks. Every time I made 550 gems, I would spend 450 on gem chests. This gave me enough of a savings account that I was able to buy event keys to earn The Silent One, Goblin King, and (I sincerely hope) Borealis in their respective events. Drifting Sands and Blighted Lands still only have seven troops. A second event for them surely must be coming, so be ready to buy event keys to get your missing Maw. ---
**Author:** ![Ozball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ozball/32/36110_2.png) [@Ozball](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ozball)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/27 "2016-05-30T07:19:58Z")
EDIT: This is much easier in an image ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/2X/3/3fbe0e2aa819a60e7f582e35ffb2033afe150446.jpg) The numbers look like this ingame: 1st - 11 2nd-3rd - 9 4th-6th - 6 7th-10th - 4 11th-20th - 3 21st-50th - 2 51st-100th - 2 100th+ - 1 The tiers below 100 are 101-200, 201-500, 501-1000 and 1001+. They all get the same traitstones, but differing amount of souls and gold. ---
**Author:** ![Gwynhbleidd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/gwynhbleidd/32/3783_2.png) [@Gwynhbleidd](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Gwynhbleidd)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/28 "2016-05-30T07:54:43Z")
Weird, after restarting game, I dont see 1 traitstone as reward for 1001+ 😕 @Sirrian,@Nimhain, could you clarify this? 🙂 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/2X/0/01a573a22eb0178320dc6b5957e5d83ee876f3f4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![yonizaf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/yonizaf/32/1435_2.png) [@yonizaf](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/yonizaf)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/29 "2016-05-30T08:02:38Z")
That was probably a mistake they fixed. The devs clearly mentioned only rank 1000 or better will be getting a traitstone: > [@Sirrian](#): > > we’ll be extending the arcane traitstone rewards right down to position 1000 ---
**Author:** ![Nimhain](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/nimhain/32/47049_2.png) [@Nimhain](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Nimhain)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/30 "2016-05-30T08:02:59Z")
We’re only giving traitstones for the top 1000 players. The traitstone at 1001+ was a visual error we corrected. ---
**Author:** ![Gwynhbleidd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/gwynhbleidd/32/3783_2.png) [@Gwynhbleidd](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Gwynhbleidd)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 8:06am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/31 "2016-05-30T08:06:01Z")
That’s what i thought ^^. Thank you for answer 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Personette](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/personette/32/3845_2.png) [@Personette](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Personette)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/32 "2016-05-30T08:30:31Z")
I just traited up my Behemoth. Looked over the list of blue/brown troops and I wasn’t quite convinced that I want to spend glory for any of the others. I had a handful of Shield traitstones so this wasn’t the costliest event for me, glory-wise. Maybe it’s good to save up for whatever comes next week. But maybe I can afford to kit out a second troop. Is there anything I’m going to REGRET not traiting? ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/33 "2016-05-30T08:34:22Z")
> **[Troops - Gems of War Database](https://gowdb.com/troops/?color1=blue&color2=brown)** > > A list of all troops in Gems of War and their statistics. Behemoth, possibly _Luther_ now that his traits don’t contradict each other… realistically, the rest of them only are applicable if you need to max out a kingdom. Blue/Brown _really_ got the short end of the stick, they didn’t even have an Ultra-Rare on live until today (which I totally spotted first). ---
**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/34 "2016-05-30T09:04:23Z")
You might want to wait and see what the other Horsemen are like. One might require blue/brown, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 9:16am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/35 "2016-05-30T09:16:55Z")
Oh yeah, that’s encrypted now. Oops. Shoulda noted down what I knew 😛 Not that I would bother loading up on Ultra-costed bundles for that purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 9:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/36 "2016-05-30T09:53:00Z")
This is why backups are important! You never know when people are going to start caring that all their information is in plaintext and begin encrypting it! ---
**Author:** ![ZeZign](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zezign/32/13752_2.png) [@ZeZign](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/ZeZign)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/37 "2016-05-30T11:33:11Z")
Nice change with the traitstones. This will make the competition for top 100 worth something. Placed ~50 this last go and felt it was really all for naught. ---
**Author:** ![captain\_video](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@captain\_video](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/captain_video)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/38 "2016-05-30T16:25:03Z")
Both my Steam hero and my phone alt made it to Tier 1 last week, and that was plenty for me. My phone alt got 46 duplicate glory keys she wasn’t expecting, which dropped a Legendary, don’t recall which one. My Steam hero scored two War last week, so I’m good. ---
**Author:** ![Personette](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/personette/32/3845_2.png) [@Personette](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Personette)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/39 "2016-05-30T17:38:37Z")
Thanks, @Lyya and @Shimrra. I wish it made sense to spend ~2k glory on traitstones for a card I might not get for another 200-300 levels, but that sort of thinking is way out of my league right now. And my Luther is still level 6. I think I’ll hold off for the next event. ---
**Author:** ![Spherix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/spherix/32/2388_2.png) [@Spherix](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Spherix)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655/40 "2016-05-30T21:05:34Z")
> [@Shimrra](#): > > Luther now that his traits don’t contradict each other… When did that happen? It can’t have been all that long ago, because I just put together a team with Luther. Leader, Grudge, Armored is an improvement, but I might have to rethink the team a little. [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/abominable-snowman/7655.md?page=3)