# Gems of Streaming

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**Created:** [September 18, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463 "2017-09-18T23:46:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gems-of-streaming/30463/4272 "2021-07-06T01:31:55Z")

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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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