# Campaign Begins: Crown of the Decaying Queen **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004 "2025-01-27T07:00:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gems-of-War](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/gems-of-war/32/2281_2.png) [@Gems-of-War](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Gems-of-War)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/1 "2025-01-27T07:00:10Z")
Originally published at: [Campaign Begins: Crown of the Decaying Queen – Gems of War](https://gemsofwar.com/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/) New Campaign Begins A brand new Campaign begins today. Investigate the plague of decay that is sweeping across Krystara. New Heroic Gem: Decaying Gem During this Campaign, we have a new Heroic Gem that players may encounter in puzzle battles – the Decaying Gem. Decaying Gems are Brown Gems. While they appear on the board… ---
**Author:** ![Lucien](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lucien/32/75325_2.png) [@Lucien](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lucien)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 7:27am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/2 "2025-01-27T07:27:23Z")
them gems are going to [expletive redacted] SUCK ---
**Author:** ![Darklord1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Darklord1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darklord1)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/3 "2025-01-27T08:30:22Z")
I wish they just stop with all these nonsense gimic gems, it adds nothing of substance. I’d much rather they use some common sense and align the regions to the events so there is progress instead of overloading kingdoms with the same troop types. Even better have a catch up campaign with no stupid gems that brings the levels of the blocked kingdoms up. ---
**Author:** ![STUB](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/stub/32/74879_2.png) [@STUB](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/STUB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/4 "2025-01-27T09:31:58Z")
I dont mind this mecahanic tbh, i guess it was dreampt up for newer players with lower stats. But as a 1700+ im indifferent to it as losing that much armour doesnt affect didly squat. ---
**Author:** ![Theoden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@Theoden](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Theoden)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/5 "2025-01-27T13:35:43Z")
> [@Gems-of-War](#): > > Decaying Gems will occasionally (but rarely) drop like regular Gems during the Crown of the Decaying Queen Campaign. So rarely, I’ve not seen it happen after nearly 3 hours’ play. I’ve only seen them because the Raid troop creates them. ---
**Author:** ![DracoL1ch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/dracol1ch/32/75027_2.png) [@DracoL1ch](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/DracoL1ch)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/6 "2025-01-27T14:38:50Z")
This campaing is missing gems in fights, but I can’t say I miss them ---
**Author:** ![Grundge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e99b99/32.png) [@Grundge](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundge)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/7 "2025-01-27T17:49:20Z")
Whatever. The portal gems are gone! 🎉 ---
**Author:** ![Zuul-Emo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/67e7ee/32.png) [@Zuul-Emo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuul-Emo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/8 "2025-01-28T03:22:56Z")
> [@Theoden](#): > > So rarely, I’ve not seen it happen after nearly 3 hours’ play. I’ve only seen them because the Raid troop creates them. Yeah, same. I was finding it weird I’ve not seen any yet. Especially since it seems like they’re only really effective when you get a few on the board, so even if 1 appears, it won’t do much. I expected them to be kinda common. Not gonna complain, just surprised at not seeing them. ---
**Author:** ![Stratelier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Stratelier](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stratelier)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:55am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/9 "2025-01-28T03:55:26Z")
According to the Artifact lore, looks like we’ll be visiting these Kingdoms: - Silverglade - Urskaya - Pan’s Vale - Stormheim - Dragon’s Claw - Hellcrag - Bright Forest - Leonis Empire - Karakoth - Forest of Thorns Soulforge alert: Dread Arquebus (a component Weapon for The Ruby Macaque) should be available during Week 5 - Dragon’s Claw. Don’t miss it! ---
**Author:** ![Grundge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e99b99/32.png) [@Grundge](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundge)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/10 "2025-01-29T02:54:40Z")
I think the P2W mythic should actually be good. It should be doing true damage. ---
**Author:** ![Snarko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@Snarko](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Snarko)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/11 "2025-01-29T11:36:06Z")
> [@Gems-of-War](#): > > Decaying Gems will occasionally (but rarely) drop like regular Gems during the Crown of the Decaying Queen Campaign. After hundreds of battles I have yet to see this happen. I asked in the guild if anyone has seen it and the answer was no. Either this is the rarest campaign gem ever or, more likely, it is not dropping like it’s supposed to. ---
**Author:** ![Ilmarien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ea924/32.png) [@Ilmarien](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ilmarien)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/12 "2025-01-29T14:46:07Z")
The last 2 days, I got several decaying gems on battles. Specially the raid event. Not flooding the board, but at least 3-4 per battle. ---
**Author:** ![becauseican646](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@becauseican646](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/becauseican646)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/13 "2025-01-29T14:55:15Z")
the raid boss troop creates them when you cast ---
**Author:** ![Kezef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Kezef](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kezef)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/14 "2025-01-29T18:55:15Z")
The campaign mythic’s damage potential is probably about equal to that of Yasmine’s Chosen. I’d take YC over her, because of the better traits and real looping potential, but I don’t think that the campaign mythic is _terrible_. Probably more “meh”, but most campaign mythics have been. (Also, most mythics in general.) ---
**Author:** ![Darklord1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Darklord1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darklord1)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/15 "2025-01-29T21:08:55Z")
So campaign mehthics then? ---
**Author:** ![Zuul-Emo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/67e7ee/32.png) [@Zuul-Emo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuul-Emo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/16 "2025-01-29T23:08:31Z")
Would kinda make sense if the drop rate of decay gems increased each week, until we saw loads in the last week of the campaign, since the campaign seems like it’s all about decay spreading through the lands. But, it seems likely they just forgot to turn them on, which isn’t such a bad thing, since most players seem to complain about the hero gems, anyway. So, if we do get some time without them, and possibly 50 gems as an “apology” for not having them for a while, that’d be fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![Elfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/258eb7/32.png) [@Elfin](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Elfin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-begins-crown-of-the-decaying-queen/87004/17 "2025-01-30T01:54:26Z")
They are dropping regularly in my game on Android.