# Snakes and Ladders **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [April 30, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/snakes-and-ladders/23353 "2017-04-30T23:00:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jainus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jainus/32/34949_2.png) [@Jainus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jainus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/snakes-and-ladders/23353/62 "2017-05-05T06:50:21Z")
> [@Carolilya](#): > > I really dislike the Empowered and Drain Mana mechanics I like both, in theory, but they are both used too much and a bit indiscriminately. Take ScaleGuard: pretty powerful spell for just a common troop, but in itself not broken. But if you could cast two quickly in succession, that’s really strong because of the double damage factor. Oh let’s give it Empowered - now the AI can cast _four_ in succession at the start of battle. It’s a bit thoughtless really. In isolation, the spell is okay, maybe a little too good on a common… and Empowered in some places is fine. But the combination is obviously silly here. ---
**Author:** ![mraider94](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mraider94/32/21939_2.png) [@mraider94](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/mraider94)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2017, 7:02am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/snakes-and-ladders/23353/63 "2017-05-05T07:02:03Z")
OH what if empowered units started silenced? Or what if you could manually silence your own troops.🤔 ---
**Author:** ![turintuor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/turintuor/32/4097_2.png) [@turintuor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/turintuor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/snakes-and-ladders/23353/64 "2017-05-06T03:59:08Z")
So how much players get the last event reward (250…)? Is it normal that the 6th reward requires 5 times more event gems than the 3rd one? ---
**Author:** ![Rasper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/rasper/32/2363_2.png) [@Rasper](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rasper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/snakes-and-ladders/23353/65 "2017-05-06T04:28:12Z")
I just hit the 150 reward today. Not sure I’ll do another 1000 treasure hunt turns this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Taisiakat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/taisiakat/32/75810_2.png) [@Taisiakat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Taisiakat)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 5:55am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/snakes-and-ladders/23353/66 "2017-05-06T05:55:07Z")
Best way to fight Scale Guards is with scale guards 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![beanie42](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/beanie42/32/19802_2.png) [@beanie42](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/beanie42)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/snakes-and-ladders/23353/67 "2017-05-06T12:37:47Z")
> [@turintuor](#): > > So how much players get the last event reward (250…)? > Is it normal that the 6th reward requires 5 times more event gems than the 3rd one? I don’t remember the exact normal progression ratios, but this “feels” normal. As for getting the last reward, I stopped at 100 because the next gold reward is insignificant and doing another 150 maps is too many even for some gems 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Draprion](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/draprion/32/8238_2.png) [@Draprion](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Draprion)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/snakes-and-ladders/23353/68 "2017-05-06T18:26:54Z")
Doing even 1 map feels me with dread. I only do them if I need to get the epic troop to mythic [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/snakes-and-ladders/23353.md?page=3)