Thank you very much for your detailed explanation 
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Will we be able to tell how many people have defeated each position when choosing our route? So that we can go for the complete set bonus?
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I’m looking forward to the strategies needed and team work in guild for the new guild wars. There are some interesting aspects.
When devs go and look at future revisions, can you look at the scoring. You’ve said it’s simpler, yes it looks that way. However we have no clue how our players will have performed unless all 30 take 5 screenshots daily, even though they will probably not get all the right data required.
The old versions could tells us;
each indiividual score by player for all 6 days, if we monitored the in guild menu.
the player could tell us their daily score/report and we as GL could see it by looking in game
we had inter guild rankings, from 1 to 5, with it being possible for any player to check in game to see if they were winning that race
We could see defence wins on our own individual screens. We could caculate how many defence wins the guild had.
With external help, we could plot how our players did, what teams actually won, what teams worked and that was what the old guild wars was great for.
We don’t know if any defence has won a battle either, as there is no individual defence screen for players. I think we can see if all defences are set I suppose.
We can’t even begin to guess how our opponent is doing vs us on a given day as there is no semblance of knowing. In the past, we could see how many battles they had played by seeing how many battles the paragon had faced. If Paragon was 1/5 near end of the day, we knew there were multiple losses to defences before them.
The in guild individual competition was huge. We logged alliance high scores by day, colour, defence win best ratios and everything like that in alliances. We were also able to run leagues thanks to some savvy folks, where the whole alliance, even the new guilds could interact vs every one who entered across the spectrum of guilds, comparing scores and teams.
Now we will have a guild leaderboard and a completely unintuitative, borderline pointless us vs them scorecard, with no real way to see it as anything as two numbers. The only way you might is if your guild regularly get the set bonuses.
The post you made about reducing the overhwelmingness on players was really good, it’s good to hear that. However I don’t want to be overly negative, but more or less once something has been released, you’ve ignored feedback completely. This guild wars needs the ability for players to know their cog in the guild’s wheel has been useful, we need the ability to see individual scoring and we neeed all of what made the old guild wars fun from an interaction point of view, adding into this version.
That I am sure will be a win win, as there will be some fun aspects of this version. The one last thing in compettiive play, which guild wars is, the bugs that can be abused need to be removed and fixed. No news on those in this patch.
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Thank you 
no, all the bonus we have mentioned are the only bonuses - so there are none for your team construction.
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There are no penalties or bonuses for your team builds
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@Pit - this was in response to another question 7 days ago. So y9u can use as many Takshakas as you like 
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I crafted them all, including the weapons. Weapons not in inventory until after global reset, but all of the new dragons are there. Played with Chrys. in PVP and E12. So it works. Took me 19 tries to get all 6 dragons… hard to see so much dragonite fly out the door at once after a year of painfully finding and hoarding it.
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Think ill wait a couple of hours till reset to craft the rest. I know gems of war (havent) got a long history of introducing buggy new content XD but ill wait anyway.
(assuming this is during the 3 days out and prior to the final hour)
If a member makes a mistake or changes their mind when or after adding their defending team to a building,
- can they edit it?
- delete the whole team?
- change to a different building?
- Will they get an invalid warning for any troop not meeting the restriction?
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What about small guilds? From what i read this new GW is even more useless to play for small guilds like ours (5 members) than the old GW.
All Guilds can play, even if you have 1 member. You just will have a lower morale bonus for not having a full Keep of defenders.
Each location you do not have a player on, will be defended by a Guardian team.
You have up until an hour before the event begins to make changes. I would not leave it that long, as you have had multiple days prior to double check your teams, but the option is there.
Once a Keep is locked in though, it cannot be changed. So there is not the risk of the Keep changing right before the event and everyone’s teams being booted from the locations.
Again, I would ensure everyone in the Guild is talking about their Keep colour choice and setting teams before there is a risk of the event starting and not being able to make any defense changes.
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I don’t think that’s true:
- The individual rewards, for number of battles won during the event, look significantly better than the old GW rewards – particularly for those of us that never got anywhere close to bothering the leaderboard.
- The guild rewards, for winning a day: may be harder to get initially for small guilds, depending where your trophy count seeded you. But eventually the ELO algorithm should shake us out so that you get ranked alongside, and I assume matched against, similarly-scoring guilds; where you’d expect to win about half of the time.
I DM a casual guild and I’m cautiously optimistic about new GW. Even with low participation, and even if we’re matched out of our league, it still seems to me worth going for the individual rewards (for which I think you need to be only good enough to beat the “easy” team at the Gate? if the subsequent battles look too hard, just fight more Gate battles) with the chance at the guild rewards as a nice-if-it-happens bonus.
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I can’t seem to toggle over to Guild Wars Medallion and Rewards in the Guild Wars screen on Xbox Series X.. am I missing some kind of magic trick to get over there with a controller?
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Same here, unable to move across. Also on Series X if that helps.
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It appears there is a bug, that we will have fixed in 8.5.
Currently, you can only get over to that side when the “To War” button is visible.
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So all we are going to see is diamantina and 3 Takshaka or Pharoah Khafru’s in the palace defenses and win with broken spire troops? You even play your game?
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It sounds worse than it is. I beat all those teams tonight in PVP with 3 diiferent Broken Spire teams - I played T3 in Central Spire. Test it out. Ymmv, ofc, depending on your stats. You have to use Broken Spire troops and weapon but you can use Elementalist. It was fun.
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Palace stats will probably be like a frenzy zone one cast and 2 troops are gone