# 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:** 2949
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_4.6 Preview Stream Notes_ Explore mode has been reworked. – Explores now are a series of battles, similar to Arena runs. **General Flow** – Difficulty selection (between Tiers 1 and 12) [Level 1 = level 11 troops, Level 12 = level 250 troops] – Players will need to unlock each difficulty tier (once ever) initially, similar to challenge tiers. – Greater gold quantities drop match at higher difficulties, no modifiers for souls. – Four consecutive battles at the chosen difficulty – Enemy teams are comprised of teams built using the Team Builder from that kingdom. – Fifth battle is a mini-boss battle, that yields a number of Mythstones based on difficulty setting (subject to randomness in given range). Mini-boss battle always features a kingdom legendary. – If the player has collected 100 Mythstones after receiving the Mythstones in the 4th battle, the player will gain access to a sixth Mythic boss battle (else the run ends). – The Mythic boss battle features the kingdom Mythic and will drop at least one Token (see below) and a **guaranteed** Arcane Traitstone from that kingdom. **Losing During Explore Runs** – Matches 1-4 have infinite retries. – The Mini-boss (Match 5) only allows one attempt per run. Losing ends the run. – The Mythic Boss (Match 6) only allows one attempt per run, as well. – Losses during Matches 1-4 gives the player the option to lower the difficulty setting. Doing so returns the player to Match 1. **Mythstone Bonus Runs** – On the Krystaran Overworld Map, there are now orange indicators that randomly move round between kingdoms (similar looking to new class quest indicator). – Completing a Explore run in a kingdom that has a Mythstone bonus indicator yield 20% more Mythstones than would be granted for a difficulty level normally. – After completing a single run at the bonus rate, the player will need to choose a difficult kingdom to find where the bonus marker has moved. **Tokens, Badges, and Medals** – Mythic Bosses drop a number of Tokens, based on difficulty level chosen. – At 4.6 launch, there will be six (6) types of Tokens, one for each rarity level. COMMON: Gaard (Armor) RARE: Yasmine (Life) ULTRA-RARE: Cedric (chance for troops to auto-cleanse per turn) EPIC: Aranaea (Attack) LEGENDARY: Anu (Starting Mana) MYTHIC: Nysha (Magic) _ **More token types are very likely to appear in future updates.** _ – Three Tokens evolve into a Badge. – Three Badges evolve into a Medal. – Badges and Medals (not Tokens) can be equipped to the Hero(ine). – Each Badge and Medal offers a specific effect. – These effects follow the same rules as traits. All badges/medals stack EXCEPT the Badge/Medal of Anu (gives starting mana). **Elite Levels** – All troops can now gain Elite Levels via feeding them Medals **only**. – There are three (3) Elite Levels [Bronze, Silver, Gold] available at 4.6 launch. – Although troops can be fed medals of any rarity, 100% chance for upgrade needs either a medal of the base rarity of the troop, or three (3) medals of the next lower rarity. – Stat gains from elite levels are based on the role assigned to the troop. – There will be no special skills/effects from Elite Levels in 4.6. (Possible in future). – Souls are also used as a currency for feeding medals to troop. – Troops with Elite Levels have a special indicator around their mana counter on their card. – Elite levels in 4.6 will not affect Hero(ine) classes. – Players can see opponents’ troops with Elite Levels in PvP/Guild Wars. **Misc** – The match status screen now shows banner and mana link color bonuses for both players in the match. – Chat has been moved to a tab on the left side of the screen. – _**Stunning a troop will disable special effects granted by medals for that troop (Ex: Cedric Medal auto-cleanse), similar to disabling traits. Stat medals are not affected.**_ – [Android] Google Play cloud saving for accounts has been enabled. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463)._