# PVP Change Notes July 24th 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [June 24, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-change-notes-july-24th-2024/84490 "2024-06-24T02:24:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Kafka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kafka/32/33529_2.png) [@Kafka](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kafka)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-change-notes-july-24th-2024/84490/1 "2024-06-24T02:24:11Z")
Hi Adventurers, We’ve added some PVP change notes to the [weekly event blog here](https://gemsofwar.com/legends-of-the-fall/) that we wanted to highlight. ## **PvP Changes** We have a couple of changes in PvP going out this week. ## Alliance Balance We are increasing the skill point bonus for Alliances with 0-1 Citadels. - 0 Citadel Alliances – changed from 20% skill point boost to 40% skill point boost - 1 Citadel Alliances – changed from 10% skill point boost to 20% skill point boost As it does currently, these apply to the attackers only. We will have an additional change coming in the next update to try and further aid these Alliances, and _may_ test applying them to Defenders. This change will be released today. This is just one small change to Alliances, it is not intended to be “the” fix to the Alliance balancing. The reason for this change is to make it a little easier for members of smaller Alliances to win battles against the top Alliance. We will be watching how this change goes and making further tweaks as necessary as well as continuing to look into the overall Alliance membership and balancing. ## Stellarix and Wand of Stars We are aware of the ongoing concerns about the strength of Stellarix and Wand of Stars in PvP Battles. While we are looking into addressing this, we will be temporarily replacing Stellarix and Wand of Stars on opponent teams with Diamantina and Prismatic Orb respectively. This is to help reduce some of the frustration around encountering them in PvP battles, as we investigate, plan, and test any changes around them. Players will be able to continue using Stellarix and Wand of Stars themselves, as this should only affect opponents’ teams. This troop swap in opponent teams will be released tomorrow. – Thank you all for your patience and feedback so far! --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-change-notes-july-24th-2024/84490)._