# Rotten to the Core

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/rotten-to-the-core/86997>\
**Category:** Official News\
**Created:** [January 26, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/rotten-to-the-core/86997 "2025-01-26T23:00:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![STUB](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/stub/32/74879_2.png) [@STUB](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/STUB)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 7:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/rotten-to-the-core/86997/21 "2025-01-28T07:30:01Z")

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Yuup , used to make many a paladin rattle with fear in there full plate mail armour. You know maybe they should of made the decaying gems scale with the how much your armour troops lets say between 5-10% per gem per round, if the player is already at a numerical disadvantage troop wise, imho this would still make them mediocre but more worthwhile across the board , because i should imagine with how underwhelming the campaign pass especially to end game players most of them will be keeping there hands in there pockets.

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**Author:** ![Tresk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/tresk/32/98004_2.png) [@Tresk](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Tresk)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/rotten-to-the-core/86997/22 "2025-01-28T11:41:27Z")

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> [@Darkborne](#):
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> Thanks for confirming that decay gems match with brown gems. It’s just that the heroic gem tooltip is misleading because it states that they’re brown gems, but doesn’t mention that they can be matched. I assumed that they were just stone blocks, and I didn’t want to misinform people.

I had the same sort of assumption until, as I said, I noticed the AI matching them. Something about the look of them, for me. 🤷‍♀️

My initial thought on them was something along the lines of, wtf? What a stupid idea. lol I still think they are pretty dumb. But at least they are dumb in a way that doesn’t really matter. I’m not looking forward to when they inevitably come up with magic eating gems, though. 👀

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**Author:** ![Stratelier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Stratelier](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stratelier)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/rotten-to-the-core/86997/23 "2025-01-29T02:04:10Z")

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> [@Tresk](#):
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> Something about the look of them, for me. 🤷‍♀️

Is it the medium brown? I often find myself referring to Brown Gems as “black” gems because their shade of brown is SO dark.

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**Author:** ![Tresk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/tresk/32/98004_2.png) [@Tresk](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Tresk)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/rotten-to-the-core/86997/24 "2025-01-31T13:11:46Z")

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> [@Stratelier](#):
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> Is it the medium brown? I often find myself referring to Brown Gems as “black” gems because their shade of brown is SO dark.

I was all set to say “no, that’s not it.” But it kind of is it. 😂 Or, part of it, at least. The heroic gems that match color are all pretty close to the normal gems, in coloring. But they also don’t have a lot of **different** colors in them. They are just “shaded” like their respective color gem, more or less. And, they also have more of an “icon” look to them. Less detail? Stylistically, the decay gems are much closer to demonic portal gems than say, barrier gems. If that makes sense. But, YES, the fact that there is so little color alignment between the decay gems and a brown gem, is also a factor.

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