# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2693
**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:** [August 19, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/2693 "2019-08-19T01:34:34Z")
\*\*\* I think I’ve got all the major points written down. Added relevant dev posts further downstream to post to appropriate areas for clarification. **Dev Q&A Questions 4.5 Update** **What is the theme of the 4.5 update?** – Overworld progression rework (newer players) – Kingdom deed system (veteran players) **Why are you changing how players go through kingdoms?** – Difficulty for new players to understand the Overworld. – No real organization to Overworld kingdom unlock progression. – Difficulty was very uneven across kingdom quests/challenges. – Avoiding the issue of quest NPC from kingdoms showing up in later kingdoms, before actually being introduced to players. _ **New: Overworld kingdoms are now unlocked in blocks to give progression for new players.** _ – Kingdoms are released in a set order. – All questlines in a set/block of kingdoms need to be completed to unlock the next set of kingdoms. – 11 sets/blocks of kingdoms that will be unlocked. – Questlines for each set/block of kingdoms gradually progress in difficulty. – Completing a set/block of kingdoms’ questlines grants a prize or unlocks a game mode. – If a player does not have all kingdoms’ questlines compete when 4.5 releases, modes already unlocked will be grandfathered to players. **What’s happening to the Gorgotha Evolved Questline/ War and Peace weapon?** – Quest removed, weapon placed as a prize for completing a certain set of kingdoms’ questlines. **What are the changes coming for difficulty in Quest?** – Questlines are auto-scaling in difficulty. Difficulty will not be selectable by the player. _ **– Difficulty sliders in all game modes that still have them will be removed in 4.6.** _ **Why are Kingdoms going to level past 10?** – To give further power progression. – New kingdom level cap is 15. – Uses a new currency called Deeds, past level 10. – 6 colored deeds, and an Imperial deed. – Need imperial deeds in addition to colored deeds for kingdom levels 14 and 15. – Colored deeds are assigned to each kingdom’s mana mastery color. – Deeds are primarily obtained through the adventure board. Flash offers possible. _**New: Adventure board tasks are normalized for all players in 4.5, being rolled once by the server and sent to all players that day (everyone gets the same tasks).**_ ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/a/0/a0eae3a8830012d468746e199ef670371b9e81a8.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/8/f/8fccf5ccf3e01202c3d647ab6897c403df352893.png) **What does leveling my Kingdom get me** – Additional stat point at Kingdom Level 15. – New stat bonus (Kingdom Team Bonus) for building a kingdom team; 4 tiers of power, 2 past level 10. – Faction bonuses that apply to the associated faction’s Treasure Hoard; 2 tiers of bonuses mentioned past level 10. _**Sirrian states that deeds might show up in Flash Offers. He also expects that it will take players at least a full year to raise all Kingdoms to level 15. At that point, Kingdom Levels will likely increase to 20 (absolute long-term max level planned for the deed system).**_ **What’s are Deed and how do you get them?** – Deeds are currency used to level kingdom levels past 10. – Deeds are primarily awarded through the Adventure Board. Three tiers of tasks, by color, Epic, Legendary, Mythic. Legendary and Mythic offer Imperial deeds as well. – No crafting deeds in Soulforge. – Distribution of deed resources to be tightly controlled. (See Sirrian note directly above) – _ **May** _ be alternate ways to obtain deeds in the distant future. **How has Kingdom progress management changed? (Question about surfacing Kingdom Power and Kingdom Level)** – Kingdom management is currently bulky; too many clicks, interface streamlined. – A Kingdom’s levels can be bulk leveled at once (if sufficient resources/deeds are available). – Kingdom quest can be directly selected from kingdom menu. – Interface will be further refined in 4.6. **Why are Challenges changing?** – Dated, not very challenging. – Rewards are outdated. – To give progression and practice for players to learn how to play endgame-difficulty matches. – Challenges are now played in tiers. – Similar to Class Challenges, each challenge is played once. Clearing all challenged in a tier awards a prize and advances the player to the next tier. – There are 10 Tiers of difficulty (Tier 10 = level 250 enemies) – Each Tier has a theme reward for prizes. – Tiers have the same theme reward for the same challenge tier across all kingdoms. – Challenges are NOT repeatable once cleared. **What happens if I’ve maxed out all my Challenges already?** – If a player has a challenge 5-starred, it will be mark as complete. – If a player has all 35 challenges complete in a kingdom, they will start at Tier 2 and not 1. Side discussion: – Clearing challenge tiers may become a Kingdom Power requirement in the future. – Explores and base PvP not planned to ever use energy. With the changes to Challenge + Quest difficulty what’s happening to other game modes that use difficulty? – In 4.6, all player selectable difficulty modes will be removed (these will still be in place in 4.5). _**[RIP fire bomb/bombot/firebird teams]**_ – Needed to happen for the eventual “big 5.0” update in 2020. **Misc.** **Anything you can share for the future?** – Nimhain is still working on the spell text normalization. Appears to imply that the work will be completed in 4.6. _ **Nim also teases that she found a spell error on a unit that players haven’t pointed out to the devs yet; challenges players to find that error.** _ – No planned kingdom reworks. – Explore mode rework in 4.6 (will not use energy). **Are Xbox Players going to get another chance at the Shark Week Offers that they didn’t get?** Under internal discussion on what to do. Possibly planned to be rescheduled somewhere in the future. **Open Q&A** – Old cosmetic pet rescue on the weekend where no event currently exists each month. [Open to feedback] _ **First cosmetic pet rescue this coming weekend. Dragonkitty** _ – What happened to the Design-A-Weapon winner? Weapon was “too good” for an Epic weapon. It is still being worked on. – Orbweaver class in PvP: devs are currently watching this, class may be tweaked. However, Sirrian states that the class is not overwhelmingly used in PvP according to analytics. – Normalizing Haste scrolls in Tower of Doom amongst guilds? Devs will look into this. – Selectable pet rescues?: Fully chooseable: No. Using a “bait” to get a narrow pull of pets, possible in future. Tying pets to kingdom of the week in future? Maybe. Idea is fluidly being discussed. – 1500 guild seals per player cap being removed? Sirrian is not a fan of the system. In the distant future, a new system might be designed. – New guild guardians? Not planned. – Vash’dagon spell to be modified to be like Black Beast? Yes. In 4.5??? – Kingdom mana color combination banners in the future? Definite plans for exotic banners in the future? Yes. Won’t happen until after all +2 +1 -1 banners are completed. _ **Sirrian lets slightly slip out during this discussion that a third world map is coming in 5.0.** _ – Underworld delve bug compensation discussion: Sirrian discussed why bug was left in place all weekend and how it slipped through multiple levels of QA {also apologizes for the error} He personally calculated compensation and believes it is fair. – Lifespan of GoW: Hopes many years. Sirrian states that population numbers are STILL growing after five years. – Create/Destroy affix/suffix on weapons: Devs have stopped using these on weapons. Regarding old weapons that have these: no good solution has been found. May just replace this on old weapons eventually. – Redo older kingdom art? Possible. Sirrian even mentioned art on specific troops, as well being replaced… – Improved Class Event rewards? In the future, likely. Not until after all classes have been released (April 2020). – Orbs in Legendary Tasks? Nope. Contender for fastest and hardest NO ever on stream. – Guild jumping for rewards fixes? Might be some tweaks in the distant future. – PQ Capture puzzles in GoW (or similar)? Nim/Sirrian loves the idea, but it doesn’t match the gameplay of GoW. Also, spoilers for puzzle solutions would quickly be placed on Internet. [Was discussed internally a long time ago] Devs aren’t too keen on adding more new game modes to the game at this point. – Old hero class trait revamps? Nimhain says yes, it’s planned in the future. Warden given as example. – Devs wearing GoW shirts on stream; are they available? Dev say yes, by end of year. _ **End of Stream** _ --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463)._