# Traitstones

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/traitstones/63202>\
**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\
**Created:** [May 2, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/traitstones/63202 "2020-05-02T11:50:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ZombieGamer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zombiegamer/32/62511_2.png) [@ZombieGamer](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/ZombieGamer)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/traitstones/63202/1 "2020-05-02T11:50:39Z")

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Does the difficulty of explore affects the drop of rare traitstones (like arcane and celestial) or do they drop randomly?

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**Author:** ![Dust\_Angel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/dust_angel/32/35256_2.png) [@Dust\_Angel](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Dust_Angel)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/traitstones/63202/2 "2020-05-02T12:22:41Z")

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Difficulty has no effect on trainstone drops.

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**Author:** ![Lorien1973](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lorien1973/32/75546_2.png) [@Lorien1973](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lorien1973)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/traitstones/63202/3 "2020-05-02T12:33:35Z")

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It does. Mini bosses have a higher chance (up to guaranteed) chance to drop an arcane at higher level explores.

HOWEVER, you want to farm traitstones at the highest level explores you can one-shot everything. That will net you the most arcanes over a shorter period of time.

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**Author:** ![Dust\_Angel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/dust_angel/32/35256_2.png) [@Dust\_Angel](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Dust_Angel)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/traitstones/63202/4 "2020-05-02T12:53:50Z")

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I tend to disagree. It does not.

Boss fight gives a guaranteed arcane regardless of difficulty (it’s just that doing Explore 1 takes more time to collect enough mythstones to unlock boss fight than Explore 12 would require); and while one could argue that mini-boss fight has a higher chance of dropping bigger traitstones than four preceding battles it is not, once again, tied to the actual explore difficulty (that is - Explore 1 to Explore 12).

At least, I haven’t noticed anything when playing my explores.

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**Author:** ![YourMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/df705f/32.png) [@YourMom](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/YourMom)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/traitstones/63202/5 "2020-05-02T17:09:11Z")

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What Lorien means is Mythic Boss guarantee Arcane,  
Higher lv let you meet mythic boss more often,  
So more arcane.