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5.3 Update Stream Summary
December 14, 2020

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Warbands

  • Aimed at newer players, gives pre-built teams that are ready to be played.
  • Five warbands, each with their own theme/playstyle.
  • New banners and team slots for experienced players.
  • Purchased with 50 WarCoins from the shop, each. (New tab on top of shop screen).
  • Once purchased, players can buy booster packs for 15 WarCoins for that warband. Gives traitstones, souls, additional copies of warband troops randomly.
  • WarCoins can be obtained via the adventure board, login rewards, and directly purchased through the shop as a microtransaction.
  • Warbands can be cycled to offer new warbands by the devs in the future.

Shrines

  • Completely optional offer-based content.
  • New type of offer for gold plus additional resources.
  • Current shrine is Shrine of Cunning (can change in future).
  • Gold from all battles fill the shrine (1 to 1 ratio, not deducted from player battle winnings).
  • When the shrine is half full, the offer becomes purchasable as a microtransaction.
  • The offer improves if the shine becomes full.
  • Once full, the offer will expire in 48 hours, at which point the shrine will reset. The same offer will repeat until the shrine changes in a future update.
  • Offer is based on the player’s account level.

Tutorial Changes

  • New account tutorials have been reworked.
  • Player will be asked if they have experience with match-3 RPG games. Based on choice, the tutorial sequence will be different to be more user-friendly.
  • Reworked tutorial for describing traits.

Arena Changes

  • The epic troop will now be picked first, and then descending in rarity to common last.
  • The chosen arena team is now shown before starting the arena run.
  • A player may re-roll the team once per run (1000 gold paid). Retiring the run resets the re-roll counter.
  • There is now a confirmation button for purchasing end-of-run arena offers, in case of misclicks.

VIP Chest Changes

  • VIP chests will no longer yield traitstones as the result of the key being consumed. Traitstones may be given as bonus rewards (30% chance) on top of the troop pulled with a key.
  • Mythic troop drop rate has been improved from VIP chests (1.67% rate).

Bug Fixes / Misc. Things

  • Christmas theme/music is back in the game for the holiday season.
  • Lesser Orbs of Growth can be crafted into Gold Rings in the Soulforge (3 to 1 rate).
  • Greater Orbs of Growth can be crafted into Crowns in the Soulforge (3 to 1 rate).
  • A Tower of Doom crash when using scrolls to clear rooms with unlock scrolls has been fixed.

Other Notable Information

  • WarCoins being given to new players through a new player login calendar. Experiences players will have then awarded through an upcoming special login calendar reward.

  • Warbands will not be offered until 5.3 is forced onto all platforms because of this week being a Guild Wars week.

  • No plans to increase the number of keys used per chest opening over 200, because of server strain issues and poor internet connection potential issues on mobile platforms.

  • Switch version of GoW is being updated from 5.0 → 5.2.5 today. 5.3 will be in a future update.

  • Medal issues with kingdoms at Power 21+ (ex: Mist of Scales) causing erroneous Daily Deal offers is not fixed with this update. Devs are aware of the issue.

  • No changes to medal loadout UI or attaching to teams in this update.

  • Update launching within the next 48 hours.

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