Balancing & Changes

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July 4th

• Updated Gems of War forum sign up settings for new users are now required input their invite code.
• Updated Forum profile Settings, so player invite codes are not displayed publicly

I plan to adjust this in the near future, so all existing forum members will be prompted to add their invite code to their profile before gaining access to the forum again.

This is to speed up the reporting process of issues on the forum, by removing the need for us to ask for invite codes as they will be visible on your profile to only the devs/admin team.

This change will be applied to all existing users in the next 24 hours.

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Voice of Orpheus Spell applied incorrect damage

• The boost ratio amount was including the troops’ mana in the boost calculation

This change came through last week, along with others that were explained in this weekly blog

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Eleanor: Eleanor’s new spell was proving to cause confusion for brand new players, since they use her in the tutorial.

• Changed her spell so it now destroys 8 random Gems, instead of allowing her to choose the color destroyed
• Changed her Mana Colors to help new players have a better spread of Mana across their first 4 troops.

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July 21st
Yu-She, Dago’Nath, King of Cups will not be releasing in Chests or the Vault this week, due to some other issues taking away from them being set up in time.

Once I get confirmation they have been set up or confirmed added, I’ll make a new post.

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July 28th
Troops being added at weekly reset:

• Astaroth
• Dago’Nath
• Yue-She
• King of Cups (Vault)

Couple were already mentioned in the weekly blog, but just in case.

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Added language options to Freshdesk

A couple of notes:

• I do not know how accurate these are; they are via Freshdesk
• I am not 100% sure if you need to be logged in to your Freshdesk account, for this option to appear

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Starting September;

We are going to trial merging the Weekly Event Blog with any Pet Rescue and Weekend Event blogs - so you have a one stop blog for the normal weekly events.

Special events such as Campaigns, PvP Seasons, Holiday events, Legends Reborn, Kingdom Pass, New Mythics, etc would still have their own blogs.

I’ll try and post another reminder during the final week of the month, to avoid anyone asking where the Friday event blogs are (Bounty and Expanded Faction).

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A note from me: Please remind your Guild/Alliance Friends that they won’t get a Gold Mark Region bonus if they aren’t Legionary VIII or higher!

Got a lot of tickets overnight from rank IX players reporting missing Gold Marks, when you cannot earn them yet.

In the process of making sure all the articles state it clearly and seeing if there is a way to show this better in-game.

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Note for Faction Expansion - Oct 17th, All Seeing Eye

We will be releasing new troops in Faction Expansion events at Ultra-Rare rarity.

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Starting September;

We are going to trial merging the Weekly Event Blog with any Pet Rescue and Weekend Event blogs - so you have a one stop blog for the normal weekly events.

Has started from this week

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Coming in 8.9

Warband rotation:

• 5 Warbands at a time will be displayed in the shop

• Every 2 weeks, 1 Warband will rotate out, and another will rotate in, as it cycles through all 9

  • Each warband will be available for 10 weeks

  • It will then cycle out for 8 weeks, before coming back in

was gonna be in my next qol blog..

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September 17th

The GoW website will experience up to 4 hours some downtime on Wednesday, September 17th between 12:00 AM (midnight) and 4:00 AM PT

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Coming in 8.9

In the process of fixing an issue with the ad rewards on mobile devices, we will be updating the software related to it.

Unfortunately, due to updating this software as a requirement, it will mean that devices that cannot be updated beyond Android 5.1 (from 2015) or iOS 12 (2018) will no longer be able to run Gems of War as of 8.9.

Older devices, over time, lose their ability to meet minimum requirements for apps/games, but I wanted to call this out as we specifically have the information on exactly what will prevent a device from running Gems of War.