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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.
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