# Update 8.6 Patch Notes **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [June 24, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998 "2025-06-24T00:09:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zuul-Emo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/67e7ee/32.png) [@Zuul-Emo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuul-Emo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/21 "2025-06-24T13:17:19Z")
> [@GoblinCoffeeShop](#): > > the three objectives gating progress 3? The picture on the help page shows the top of a 4th now, and a scroll bar that suggests at least another 3 after that. I’d assume we now have 6-8 tasks to complete. And each task has three levels, with each level giving a reward. Not sure if that’s per week or expected to be done over the whole campaign though (the bottom of the picture shows “Campaign ends in: 60d 06h” so hopefully over the whole campaign). From the image, the tasks give specific rewards, such as deeds. The stars now only upgrade the artifact, nothing else. I see that as possibly better (we’ll see), cus it means you can do your 100 battles anywhere every week and finish the campaign. And then, separately you can choose to do the tasks, if you want the specific rewards shown. As long as it isn’t increasing the workload, that makes it easier to pick what you care about and do that. Like, the picture on the help page shows the grave keeper task requires you to match skulls, and you get a treasure troop as a reward. If you don’t care about delves, you could skip/ignore that task and focus on others (though you’ll probably auto-complete it just by playing). [EDIT: If it matches the 9 tasks in PvP, which it looks very similar to, it’ll be annoying having to keep claiming tasks whenever they pop up, so you can make progress on the next task, rather than just waiting and claiming everything. And having all these tasks spread out everywhere with pop-ups that make it tricky to tell what just completed, is probably gonna be annoying. If they keep adding all these tasks, we might need a location that manages them all, where you can go and see which have tasks complete, and maybe claim all from there.] ---
**Author:** ![NerdieBirdie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/nerdiebirdie/32/103793_2.png) [@NerdieBirdie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/NerdieBirdie)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/22 "2025-06-24T13:39:56Z")
My completely unproven conspiracy theory is that the reason Campaigns are tweaked so often as opposed to other modes is because they are currently GoW’s biggest money-maker. As far as I know, Campaigns have the best bang for your buck due to having books of deeds and a few other nice resources. I’m guessing IP2 wants to capitalize on them as much as possible by making them simple as possible (“you’re already easily earning the stars, why not throw $10 in for significant rewards?”). Whether that’s the case or not - and I have exactly zero evidence to back it up - I’m glad they’re not just making the paid rewards overpowered, which would be far simpler to code but lean more into P2W territory. ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/23 "2025-06-24T14:01:09Z")
> [@NerdieBirdie](#): > > Whether that’s the case or not - and I have exactly zero evidence to back it up - I’m glad they’re not just making the paid rewards overpowered, which would be far simpler to code but lean more into P2W territory. Is there any level of confidence that they’re even keeping the free path at a similar reward rate? If anything, they are making the paid rewards more overpowered… spoilers already show the campaign mythic is something that can be made shiny… only saved by the fact that this particular mythic’s spell is underpowered and the shiny effect is hyper narrow AND worthless due to its own trait. However one of these days, the shiny will matter and at the very least 2 mana less on the cast is a positive on this one if ever forced to use this thing. ---
**Author:** ![Born2beagator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Born2beagator](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Born2beagator)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/24 "2025-06-24T14:30:50Z")
And even then i think more players are becoming like me. I take a weak off from pvp and drop to ruby then do a week on to get top spot. Competing in diamond league requires too much time. All diamond league is is a contest of who has more time, its not difficult for players with most of the troops. ---
**Author:** ![Fourdottwoone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/fourdottwoone/32/66655_2.png) [@Fourdottwoone](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fourdottwoone)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/25 "2025-06-24T15:23:30Z")
> [@TheIdleOne](#): > > Is there any level of confidence that they’re even keeping the free path at a similar reward rate? Looking at the past campaign, they’ve already tried to remove the most popular reward (books) from the free track. After enough pitchforking this was eventually called a configuration mistake caused by upcoming campaign changes, supposed to get corrected. Except that only part of the books were restored, and we never received an explanation why this fell short halfway through. So, no, my level of confidence that this update will not further hurt F2P players is next to zero. I’d even go as far as to suspect that the patch notes went missing because they didn’t tell a happy enough story, even when glossed up. Bad news is something we’ve traditionally been left to discover on our own. But who knows, there’s always the chance to get positively surprised. ---
**Author:** ![GoblinCoffeeShop](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/goblincoffeeshop/32/101110_2.png) [@GoblinCoffeeShop](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/GoblinCoffeeShop)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/26 "2025-06-24T15:26:35Z")
Ah, I misunderstood what I read on first pass. Thank you for correcting me ☕ ---
**Author:** ![Darklord1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Darklord1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darklord1)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/27 "2025-06-24T16:19:43Z")
Looks like copy and paste of PvP and we know how awful those goals were to start with. So much grind and you up basically had to play every day. ---
**Author:** ![GoblinCoffeeShop](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/goblincoffeeshop/32/101110_2.png) [@GoblinCoffeeShop](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/GoblinCoffeeShop)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/28 "2025-06-24T16:32:49Z")
I really wish we could see what’s coming next on the locked reward trackers. Why can’t we know from day one: - what is required for all three tiers? - what is rewarded for completing each tier? If you want to plan to do them all without cramming at the end, you ought to know the totals… Only way to do this in the PvP locked rewards is to use data that players themselves consolidated from a previous season and hope it’s the same for the next season. ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/29 "2025-06-24T22:32:37Z")
| Reward (Bronze) | Reward (Silver) | Reward (Gold) | | --- | --- | --- | | 2x Deeds | 1x Imperial Deeds | 1x Book of Deeds | | 20 Chaos Shards | 100 Jewel Shards | 25 Cursed Runes | | 1x Epic Treasure | 1x Legendary Treasure | 1x Mythic Treasure | | 20 Chaos Shards | 100 Jewel Shards | 25 Cursed Runes | | 2x Deeds | 1x Imperial Deeds | 1x Book of Deeds | | 2x Deeds | 1x Imperial Deeds | 1x Book of Deeds | | 2 Gem Keys | 2 Event Keys | 2 Vault Keys | | 1x Lesser Orb of Glory | 1x Orb of Glory | 1x Greater Orb of Glory | That’s what I can see are the Campaign task rewards As for the tasks, much like PvP… | | #1 | #2 | #3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Slayer - Kill Enemies | 400 | 1600 | 3600 | | Brawler - Win Battles | 100 | 300 | 700 | | Grave Keeper - Match Skulls | 2000 | 5000 | 9000 | | Mana Master - Match Mana Gems | 12000 | 20000 | 32000 | | Match Master - Match 4 or more Gems | 2000 | 3000 | 4000 | | Heroic Master - Destroy Heroic Gems | 400 | 1400 | 2000 | | Archmage - Cast Spells | 400 | 2400 | 4000 | | Favored Enemy - Kill Enemies | 360 | 720 | 1200 | ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/30 "2025-06-24T22:36:17Z")
the elite pass doesnt have to be bought to access the campaign tasks right? if so that seems? good ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/31 "2025-06-24T22:44:50Z")
You do not need to purchase the Pass, to unlock the above rewards - these are unlocked by completing the task itself, just like PvP Goals The Campaign Pass track, has free rewards and Elite Pass/Elite+ Pass rewards of it’s own and they unlock from collecting Stars.. which you now will get during a Campaign, just from completing specific battles. ---
**Author:** ![Anam\_Cara](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/anam_cara/32/103620_2.png) [@Anam\_Cara](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Anam_Cara)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/32 "2025-06-25T00:53:15Z")
It’s really nice to see that we are still able to get 3 free books! Thank you 🥰 ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/33 "2025-06-25T00:57:31Z")
Patch notes should be out by the end of today, I am just reviewing it at the moment _As I do not write the patch notes_ ---
**Author:** ![Julli-of-North](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/julli-of-north/32/91083_2.png) [@Julli-of-North](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Julli-of-North)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/34 "2025-06-25T00:59:44Z")
Sneak in some puppy pictures, will ya? I think we all could use cute puppy and kitten pics right about now. ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/35 "2025-06-25T01:03:04Z")
open if you dare > **Summary** > > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/f/e/feefa7de803bac5e0c9fb6e59988852434cacade.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Julli-of-North](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/julli-of-north/32/91083_2.png) [@Julli-of-North](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Julli-of-North)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/36 "2025-06-25T01:10:00Z")
14 out of 10 points! ---
**Author:** ![Anam\_Cara](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/anam_cara/32/103620_2.png) [@Anam\_Cara](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Anam_Cara)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/37 "2025-06-25T01:12:46Z")
Agreed!!! So cute!! ---
**Author:** ![Darkborne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkborne/32/95796_2.png) [@Darkborne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkborne)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/38 "2025-06-25T01:27:38Z")
Well, at least you are getting help with your laundry.🤣 I never know where I might find my calico… ![1397](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/1/2/129deb2fb8f0011106f73136e0b3e28be7f9f14d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/39 "2025-06-25T01:46:05Z")
**Edited in the patch notes.** ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/40 "2025-06-25T01:59:47Z")
> [@Jeto](#): > > ##### Shiny Mythic Troop > > We are introducing a Shiny Mythic Troop in each new campaign. > > Tokens for the new Shiny Mythic Troop will be in the Elite and Elite+ rewards in the Reward Track. This will allow players to upgrade the Campaign Mythic Troop to a shiny version. > > Elite Pass Players will be able to earn Shiny Mythic Tokens to get the Campaign Mythic to Shiny Level 1, while Elite+ Players will be able to earn Shiny Mythic Tokens to get the Campaign Mythic to level 3 (if they complete the reward track). > > Shiny Mythic Tokens will go into Shiny Chests 3-4 weeks after the Campaign ends Conflicted… A) It’s about time they started making Campaign mythics better. A lot of the most recent ones (and this next one too) were terrible. Astaroth.. like.. really? I don’t see the appeal in elite pass+ if the mythic as a base is not worth investing in. B) But then if Campaign mythics start being better (really low bar), then… this becomes pay 2 win.. right? surely no one is thinking that shiny keys are pay to advance faster?.. I’m actually rather surprised there isn’t any shiny mythic tokens in the Campaign Task rewards. Feels like an obvious missed opportunity for a Level 1 Shiny reward for a tier 3.. [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998.md?page=3)