# 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:** 4050
**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:** [December 15, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4050 "2020-12-15T02:35:39Z")
_5.3 Update Stream Summary_ _December 14, 2020_ **Stream has ended.** _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. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463)._