# New Faction - Lyrasza's Lair **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [February 21, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533 "2020-02-21T07:00:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saltypatra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/saltypatra/32/59750_2.png) [@Saltypatra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Saltypatra)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/1 "2020-02-21T07:00:29Z")
Originally published at: [https://gemsofwar.com/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/](https://gemsofwar.com/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/) New Faction: Lyrasza’s Lair Join Baba Yaga, as you explore the madness of Lyrasza’s Lair! We have a new Faction to delve, as well as lots of new troops, experimented on by Lyrasza! To celebrate the release of this new Faction, we will be running a Faction event over the weekend for Lyrasza’s Lair. ---
**Author:** ![awryan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/awryan/32/74650_2.png) [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/2 "2020-02-21T07:19:50Z")
@Mithran I did Tier 4 from the shop. I can figure out how many shards I used if necessary. But for me… The Epic Rarity troop seemed unusually elusive. ![Screenshot_20200221-011807](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/c/6/c6ac5b77576a540022b64d17cdf66ab4e7dd6eb4.jpeg) Has this been messed with again? ![Screenshot_20200221-011819](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/8/c/8cfcaa4ffbb3acdb536633bfa0f899d3b9641293.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/3 "2020-02-21T07:20:10Z")
3,000 to get epic to mythic (9 epics/4 tier 7s from the store) 5,800 to get legendary to mythic 7,000 to get rare to mythic 7,600 to get ultra rare to mythic Forgot to write the starting point of my treasures, so I don’t have it this time. At least the shard pulling went better this time than last time. Sitting on 14 copies of the Epic at Mythic at the end. ---
**Author:** ![noob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/noob/32/54823_2.png) [@noob](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/noob)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/4 "2020-02-21T07:42:44Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/9/8/981399ffabbc65fc6e538f9547aeb1b7cec96f1a.jpeg) 9200 shards to max the rare. Such rng ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/5 "2020-02-21T07:46:25Z")
> [@noob](#): > > 9200 shards to max the rare. Such rng You _have_ seen what this faction is like, yes? The troops might as well have “RNG” tattooed on their foreheads. ---
**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/6 "2020-02-21T07:48:38Z")
This faction is madness. BORK BORK ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/7 "2020-02-21T07:48:49Z")
Good grief, capitalize. What the censoredwords. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/f/d/fde5e26291a92a08a3371fa72ea8355602bcbdb4.jpeg) Not hard to do. I Can Prove It. ---
**Author:** ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/8 "2020-02-21T07:49:49Z")
Earnt 28,800 shards since last delve. Spent them all because why not? Received: 102 CP 341 GR 192 PC 88 KC 52 GL 20 ST Enough to take hoard to 318, but I only wanted to go to 200 so I used 20 ST, 40 GL and 1 KC to get exactly lv 200. Gold cost was only 1,379,000. I’ll update post with how much gold I make taking delve to 500. ---
**Author:** ![Eika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/eika/32/103088_2.png) [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/9 "2020-02-21T08:05:38Z")
Too many OR’s for my taste. Gotta be honest. ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/10 "2020-02-21T08:07:52Z")
8k got me this: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/b/c/bc927389aa314d28163f2325b479b72f646002f2.jpeg) I wasn’t paying attention, went slightly overboard. So probably closer to 7.8k or something to get the Rare. (Tier VI purchase so that’s only 15 Epics) ---
**Author:** ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/11 "2020-02-21T08:33:19Z")
Is this the first delve with no treasure rooms? ---
**Author:** ![Mithran](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mithran/32/18064_2.png) [@Mithran](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mithran)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/12 "2020-02-21T08:42:13Z")
> [@awryan](#): > > But for me… The Epic Rarity troop seemed unusually elusive. Without how many total shards you used I can still compare the state rate within the troop subset. Stated rate of Epic troops within the subset of having pulled a troop is about 13.3%. You got 15 Epics out of 208 total troops pulled (only 1 of your Epics was from the shop). The cumulative probability of getting 15 (or fewer) Epic troop drops out of 208 troop pulls at the stated rate of 13.3% is about 0.2%. That “bad luck” akin to some of the worst I’ve experienced in this game with regard to troop drops (both “good” and “bad”), for over four years across four accounts, but not bad enough to declare something being broken given the sample size. (Though seeing these kind of numbers would make me enough to be suspicious and at least take more samples, because it makes this data set fall pretty far outside a 95% confidence level estimate.) If you had four fewer Epic drops with an otherwise equal distribution between the troop rarites, you’d be far enough off the scale that even this sample set would have been enough for me to say something is probably broken. If you and _others_ had similar distributions, I’d say _something_ is at probably at least off somewhere, but lets take a look at the others so far: @Shimrra got 30 epics out of 400 total pulls, with an expected rate of 5.99%, and so got much more epics than expected, but still totally within reason. Total expected shards to mythic all spent were really close, though, still well within reason. The distribution from @TheIdleOne is also in line with expectations. Not quite dead in the middle, but pretty close, with the total expectation of shards spent being spot on. 20 copies of the epic in 380 pulls, so slightly fewer epics than average, and still well within reason. @Noob’s numbers are in the top 4 percentile range of “bad luck” for _rares_ (unsure about epics, since shop tiers aren’t stated), but would have fallen within a 95% confidence level estimate for rares. Unsure how many shop tiers were bought, but would likely between 26 and 30 epics in 460 pulls, in line with expectations (slightly above to slightly below). The distributions appear to be spread out, as expected, so theres no evidence of anything being skewed or broken, leaving the initial set as just an anomaly with no greater explanation than “bad luck”. Probably. ---
**Author:** ![Stix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@Stix](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stix)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/13 "2020-02-21T08:42:31Z")
Did I Mis An Update To The Official English Language Guide? I could have sworn the correct way is to capitalize the first word only (plus exceptions like names). ---
**Author:** ![Buttsniff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@Buttsniff](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Buttsniff)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/14 "2020-02-21T08:43:38Z")
What’s madness storm even supposed to mean? The help tabs to the side only denotes a cleanse, but I’m not even sure if that’s just my medal of cedric global medal applied. ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/15 "2020-02-21T09:00:05Z")
> [@Stix](#): > > Did I Mis An Update To The Official English Language Guide? > I could have sworn the correct way is to capitalize the first word only (plus exceptions like names). Its a reference to a song. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/7/0/70cc4b1563e1224c38f473539f00591ab64b0ab0.jpeg "Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg) ---
**Author:** ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 10:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/16 "2020-02-21T10:10:00Z")
PSA: It’s not really obvious from the delve layout but you can take any path you want to the boss room. You don’t have to do the middle UR room at all if you don’t want to. You could do the top-left room then do the bottom-right room if you wanted even though they appear not connected. ---
**Author:** ![Avathar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/avathar/32/33071_2.png) [@Avathar](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Avathar)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 10:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/17 "2020-02-21T10:23:19Z")
> [@Buttsniff](#): > > What’s madness storm even supposed to mean? Blue+purple storm, it shows by clicking on the storm symbol: ![Screenshot_20200221-112202](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/9/a/9a33aa44c2956138636dc665d19d08ae240383c0.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Emos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/emos/32/5163_2.png) [@Emos](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Emos)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/18 "2020-02-21T10:33:40Z")
A minor quibble but: this Faction is linked to Shetang but the quest features Baba Yaga and she talks about Urskaya? ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 10:41am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/19 "2020-02-21T10:41:54Z")
Most of the factions are mismatched from their overworld counterparts. ---
**Author:** ![Thevc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thevc](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Thevc)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533/20 "2020-02-21T13:22:50Z")
@Stix…all spells are incorrectly capitalised in this game. Pick any troop you want and there is guaranteed to be incorrect mid sentence capitalisation. [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/new-faction-lyraszas-lair/61533.md?page=2)