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 gnomesā 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 targetās 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 playerās 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 thereafterā¦
The devs canāt duplicate the explore crash on consoles. Theyāve tried to duplicate the issue without success on internal consoles.
Will the team slots and banners from the removed warbands be unobtainable? Iāve only been offered enough coins to buy one warband since they launched.
@Saltypatra What about the pet count? Iām showing as 2 missing pets but I have them all. The team slots count is also fubar. Will these be fixed as well?
No idea other than getting the Steam Puppy and Droidbot on the same account. XBox has 2 exclusives and Playstation has 1. I guess the max for anyone is āall minus 2ā.
Oh I canāt wait for that gnome thingy, itās been a long time since something new was fun, or I hope it will be fun and beneficial for the player, what could possibly go wrongā¦
Donāt want to be mean, but there might be too much hype for it, and base rates of spawning these 4 gnomes might be pretty lowā¦
Especialy that they:
Which means, you might be having multiple copies of 3 verses while missing 4th type for weeks
But thatās only me. I see this change as possitive, but i expect much lower impact on gameplay, than it is expected from comments.
Anything else required in addition to the four verse pieces, like a Pet Gnome Bait? Gnome-A-Palooza sounds way too good to be true, I just canāt shake the feeling thereās a hidden catch somewhere.
There are 4 unique verses. In other to create that Gnome-o-something players needs to have 1 of each. Each verse can be obtained from 1 exact new gnome (one verse per gnome, assigned 1:1). These 4 new gnomes have LOWER chance to spawn then any other gnome already ingame.
Soā¦ just imagine having multiple copies of 3 verses and missing 4th one for a month or fewā¦
And it might be similiar to other players, but they will be missing other verseā¦
@terberos I prefer to cut down the hype early, instead of looking at people disapointment once update goes live, but I wonāt mind to be wrong on this. Iāve just shown a borderline example: where rng is screwing player - that might not be the case of every player, but at least some will be on that spot
