# Gems of Streaming **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [September 18, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463 "2017-09-18T23:46:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 210
**Author:** ![Lyrian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyrian/32/61071_2.png) [@Lyrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyrian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4272 "2021-07-06T01:31:55Z")
**5.6 Preview Stream Notes** **July 5, 2021** **Status:** Stream has ended. _Gnome-A-Palooza_ - 4 new gnome units, from the gnome band Mana Surge. - Names: Baz Bonebeater, Cindi Savagelips, Freddi Fretfiddler, Hoagi Humbucker (_credit: Neritar_) - Drops verses when defeated (1 unique verse per band member). - Combine the four verse pieces in the Soulforge to create a Gnome-A-Palooza. - 4 Gnomes (except Cedric, pet gnome in only in PvP) will then spawn in ALL battles that can spawn gnomes for the next 15 minutes. - All gold earned is doubled while Gnome-A-Palooza is active. - Gnome-A-Palooza is a single-player event. - Players may stack multiple 15 minute sessions (there will be a display bug at launch if more than 1 hour of duration is stacked, but does not affect the functionality of the event or the time awarded). - New music plays while the Gnome-A-Palooza is active. - A timer with the remaining time left in Gnome-A-Palooza will appear on the World Map. - Band member gnome spawn rate is lower than other gnomes (normal spawn rate during Gnome-A-Palooza) - Minor Glitch: Hero is not replaced by a gnome in PvP, but the player will earn 4 gnomes’ worth of prizes. _Misc_ - New Heroic Gems added to game for future campaigns (no details given). - 2 new Warbands in this update, replacing 2 existing warbands (Armored Legion and Entangled Woods; _credit: Neritar_). Replaced warbands may come back in the future. - Side note: The devs currently do not have the functionality to manually manipulate the Adventure Board. May be added as a dev tool in 5.7. _Lycanthropy Changes_ - Lycanthropy now behaves similar to Transform in that the target’s level becomes halved on transform. - The visual effect for Lycanthropy (the devour part of it; not shown on stream) has been replaced to better differentiate the status effect. - There is a new unique audio effect to signal when Lycanthropy has been inflicted upon a unit as an audio cue. - Lycanthropy transforms now act as a kill for task completion. _Other Bug Fixes_ - _ **Valravens will now award sigils when transformed by Lycanthropy.** _ - Spells that duplicate gems now work on Doomskulls. - Banner count now correctly adds Warband banners to a player’s total. - A bunch of visual UI glitches are fixed. _Misc_ - First-time Gem purchase bonuses are renewed for all players. - Task skip costs are now show on the skip button itself. - No new kingdoms in the short to medium-term future. - No planned changes to timing of events during Guild War weeks. Devs are fairly settled on the current status quo. - Tower of Doom more often than once every 11 weeks? _Salty: No comment at this time._ - Patch timing: Not this week. Could be anytime starting next week or any point thereafter… - The devs can’t duplicate the explore crash on consoles. They’ve tried to duplicate the issue without success on internal consoles. ---
**Author:** ![Neritar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/neritar/32/39263_2.png) [@Neritar](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Neritar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4273 "2021-07-06T02:16:44Z")
> [@Lyrian](#): > > replacing 2 existing warbands (stream moved too fast to catch names of removed (not permanent) warbands. Armored Legion and Entangled Woods ---
**Author:** ![Lyrian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyrian/32/61071_2.png) [@Lyrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyrian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4274 "2021-07-06T02:18:21Z")
Thanks 🙂 Got the names of the band members, by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![Neritar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/neritar/32/39263_2.png) [@Neritar](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Neritar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4275 "2021-07-06T02:20:11Z")
Baz Bonebeater, Cindi Savagelips, Freddi Fretfiddler, Hoagi Humbucker according to Taransworld, and looks like confirmed on stream ---
**Author:** ![covertmuffin123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@covertmuffin123](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/covertmuffin123)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4276 "2021-07-06T02:23:04Z")
Will the team slots and banners from the removed warbands be unobtainable? I’ve only been offered enough coins to buy one warband since they launched. Thanks for the stream notes! ---
**Author:** ![Lyrian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyrian/32/61071_2.png) [@Lyrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyrian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4277 "2021-07-06T02:45:18Z")
> [@covertmuffin123](#): > > Will the team slots and banners from the removed warbands be unobtainable? I’ve only been offered enough coins to buy one warband since they launched. They said they would come back at some point in the future, but did not give any sort of timetable for that. ---
**Author:** ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4278 "2021-07-06T03:17:46Z")
I love the idea of the gnome a palooza. THIS is the kind of fun new injection the game needs, not stupid lycanthropy. So will the 4 new gnomes be new troops? Available only by VK’s? ---
**Author:** ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4279 "2021-07-06T03:54:10Z")
> [@Lyrian](#): > > Banner count now correctly adds Warband banners to a player’s total. @Saltypatra What about the pet count? I’m showing as 2 missing pets but I have them all. The team slots count is also fubar. Will these be fixed as well? ![6-07-2021_1-52-06_PM-fiywafvc](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/c/a/cad2ac4acb599950d6e9ba492500c088591b0c48.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Freak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/the_freak/32/32738_2.png) [@The\_Freak](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/The_Freak)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4280 "2021-07-06T04:19:46Z")
Do you have all the platform-exclusive pets? I think that’s what is missing. ---
**Author:** ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 4:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4281 "2021-07-06T04:38:48Z")
How am I supposed to get the pets exclusive to other platforms? I have no pets showing in unowned. ---
**Author:** ![terberos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/terberos/32/68944_2.png) [@terberos](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/terberos)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 6:16am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4282 "2021-07-06T06:16:19Z")
Is it ok if I copy this message to share it with my guild, so much info? 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Freak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/the_freak/32/32738_2.png) [@The\_Freak](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/The_Freak)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4283 "2021-07-06T06:23:17Z")
No idea other than getting the Steam Puppy and Droidbot on the same account. XBox has 2 exclusives and Playstation has 1. I guess the max for anyone is “all minus 2”. ---
**Author:** ![terberos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/terberos/32/68944_2.png) [@terberos](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/terberos)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 9:07am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4284 "2021-07-06T09:07:21Z")
Oh I can’t wait for that gnome thingy, it’s been a long time since something new was fun, or I hope it will be fun and beneficial for the player, what could possibly go wrong… ---
**Author:** ![Sytro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sytro](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sytro)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 9:19am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4285 "2021-07-06T09:19:19Z")
> [@terberos](#): > > Oh I can’t wait for that gnome thingy, it’s been a long time since something new was fun, or I hope it will be fun and beneficial for the player, what could possibly go wrong… Don’t want to be mean, but there might be too much hype for it, and base rates of spawning these 4 gnomes might be pretty low… Especialy that they: > [@Lyrian](#): > > - Drops verses when defeated (1 unique verse per band member). > - Combine the four verse pieces in the Soulforge to create a Gnome-A-Palooza. > - Band member gnome spawn rate is lower than other gnomes (normal spawn rate during Gnome-A-Palooza) Which means, you might be having multiple copies of 3 verses while missing 4th type for weeks 😉 But that’s only me. I see this change as possitive, but i expect much lower impact on gameplay, than it is expected from comments. ---
**Author:** ![Live](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/live/32/40596_2.png) [@Live](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Live)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4286 "2021-07-06T09:24:53Z")
> [@Lyrian](#): > > 4 new gnome units, from the gnome band Mana Surge. Same as the gnomes before? No real use but the only way to get them in the collection is by Vault Keys? ---
**Author:** ![Fourdottwoone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/fourdottwoone/32/66655_2.png) [@Fourdottwoone](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fourdottwoone)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 10:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4287 "2021-07-06T10:04:22Z")
> [@Lyrian](#): > > Combine the four verse pieces in the Soulforge to create a Gnome-A-Palooza. Anything else required in addition to the four verse pieces, like a Pet Gnome Bait? Gnome-A-Palooza sounds way too good to be true, I just can’t shake the feeling there’s a hidden catch somewhere. 🥴 ---
**Author:** ![Sytro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sytro](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sytro)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 10:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4288 "2021-07-06T10:09:11Z")
> [@Fourdottwoone](#): > > a hidden catch somewhere. Catch is simple: There are 4 unique verses. In other to create that Gnome-o-something players needs to have 1 of each. Each verse can be obtained from 1 exact new gnome (one verse per gnome, assigned 1:1). These 4 new gnomes have LOWER chance to spawn then any other gnome already ingame. So… just imagine having multiple copies of 3 verses and missing 4th one for a month or few… 😉 And it might be similiar to other players, but they will be missing other verse… ---
**Author:** ![terberos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/terberos/32/68944_2.png) [@terberos](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/terberos)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 10:24am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4289 "2021-07-06T10:24:57Z")
@Sytro You really know how to ruin a party, don’t wait for an invitation to my awesome birthday party! 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Sytro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sytro](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sytro)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 10:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4290 "2021-07-06T10:30:34Z")
@terberos I prefer to cut down the hype early, instead of looking at people disapointment once update goes live, but I won’t mind to be wrong on this. I’ve just shown a borderline example: where rng is screwing player - that might not be the case of every player, but at least some will be on that spot 😉 ---
**Author:** ![terberos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/terberos/32/68944_2.png) [@terberos](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/terberos)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 10:44am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4291 "2021-07-06T10:44:05Z")
Was there any talk of these new gnome drop rates compared to each other? I hope it’s the same for each. [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463.md?page=209) [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463.md?page=211)