# Update 8.7 Patch Notes
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154
**Category:** Official News
**Created:** [July 14, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154 "2025-07-14T02:10:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Gems-of-War](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Gems-of-War)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/1 "2025-07-14T02:10:50Z")
Originally published at: [Update 8.7 Patch Notes – Gems of War](https://gemsofwar.com/update-8-7-patch-notes/)
We have reworked the quest path that takes you from creating a hero to starting Broken Spire. They are now their own storyline called Dragon’s Pursuit. We have rewritten the conversations, reworked the battles, reviewed the quest rewards, and added 3 new quests to the storyline. After creating a Hero, players are taken directly to…
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### Author:  [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/2 "2025-07-14T02:12:15Z")
**Small note from me:** As we have recently had an update every month, the window to action QoLs and client update bug fixes from a current update, is really tiny or sometimes is missed before that next update already needs to be submitted.
This is why currently you will see some things be implemented in the 2nd or 3rd next update
_Also, why Sokun & I included an update cadence question in the [Community Survey](https://forms.gle/s511PRhQ72wi2b438)!_
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### Author:  [@Darkborne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkborne)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/3 "2025-07-14T02:34:33Z")
We appreciate having constant updates to the game. You guys want to make the game more enjoyable for newer players, and that’s what has been the focus for quite some time. Little by little, things will get better (as long as pesky bugs don’t keep bothering us).🦟
And thank you for removing guild war permissions from rank 3 members. That caused a lot of chaos when we had to demote everyone because too many people kept changing things and being confused.
After all the data from the community survey is looked at, I am sure that you guys will have a clear direction on what to focus on for future updates. I am trying not to comment on the forums as much because the wheels already seem to be in motion without my input anymore.
Fun fact: I helped Team Cherry with testing for bugs and performance about a year ago for Silksong and am glad that their dream will finally be realized soon. Their studio is in Melbourne too, so something right must be going on down under! Maybe it’s the kangaroos…🤣
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### Author:  [@Stratelier](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stratelier)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/4 "2025-07-14T03:38:17Z")
As a veteran player, I kind of wish we were allowed to repeat these early-game reworks just to see firsthand what they are even like now. Sure, the in-game rewards for new players are basically moot to older players, but still.
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### Author:  [@NerdieBirdie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/NerdieBirdie)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/5 "2025-07-14T03:54:52Z")
> [@Stratelier](#):
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> As a veteran player, I kind of wish we were allowed to repeat these early-game reworks just to see firsthand what they are even like now. Sure, the in-game rewards for new players are basically moot to older players, but still.
Could always make a new account if you wanted!
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### Author:  [@WhoDat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/WhoDat)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/6 "2025-07-14T07:01:04Z")
Thank you for the update. Please look at the list of Improvement requested earlier but unfortunately little done.
> [@Game Improvement list](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/game-improvement-list/83126):
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> Updates on the List of Improvements: (last update- 22 Aug. 2025) Improvement list: 1. More options to resolve the lack of deeds and books The new PVP edition sort helps to get random books. 2. Offers that help player progression (promised a long time ago) Nothing 3. Target a specific dragon boss’s crafting In the Soulforge, you can craft a dragon boss, they are on rotation basis 4. Improve Treasure Hunt mode (promised a long time ago) Nothing 5. Improve Arena again. Nothing 6. Team-spe…
Thank you
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### Author:  [@esslee](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/esslee)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/7 "2025-07-14T07:21:49Z")
The update option has not shown up yet for me on iOS (iPad)
Is it supposed to be live yet ?
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### Author:  [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/8 "2025-07-14T07:50:35Z")
> [@Update Forecast](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-forecast/81807/79):
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> 8.7 is _in theory_ releasing this Wednesday AEST.. just waiting to get the patch notes from the team to try and share in advance.
👾
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### Author:  [@esslee](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/esslee)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/9 "2025-07-14T07:53:38Z")
Ok - thanks for that TheldleOne 😀
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### Author:  [@Zuul-Emo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuul-Emo)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/10 "2025-07-14T19:48:07Z")
> [@Update Forecast](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-forecast/81807/79):
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> > [@Update Forecast](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-forecast/81807/79):
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> > 8.7 is _in theory_ releasing this Wednesday AEST.. just waiting to get the patch notes from the team to try and share in advance.
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> 👾
Any reason the patch notes can’t contain expected release date any more, Jeto? Seems bad to have that info in another thread but not this one.
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### Author:  [@Kelana](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kelana)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/11 "2025-07-14T20:24:48Z")
> [@Jeto](#):
>
> **Small note from me:** As we have recently had an update every month, the window to action QoLs and client update bug fixes from a current update, is really tiny or sometimes is missed before that next update already needs to be submitted.
>
> This is why currently you will see some things be implemented in the 2nd or 3rd next update
> _Also, why Sokun & I included an update cadence question in the [Community Survey](https://forms.gle/s511PRhQ72wi2b438)!_
Personally, I’d be happy to have less frequent content drops in exchange for more QoL updates. I think it would make the game better overall. Thanks for looking into this option as a possibility.
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### Author:  [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/12 "2025-07-16T00:04:36Z")
## Update 8.7 has just been pushed out!
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### Author:  [@Darkborne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkborne)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/13 "2025-07-16T00:13:05Z")
Calm down!..it isn’t an emergency…yet.🤣
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### Author:  [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/14 "2025-07-16T00:17:04Z")
2.84GB for this update. Man, I hope it includes some milk and cookies too.
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### Author:  [@Sister\_Tatz](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sister_Tatz)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2025, 9:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/15 "2025-07-16T09:31:51Z")
A little less than a GB on iOS. Wonder what the difference is. 🤷🏻
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### Author:  [@LucianoPoa78](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/LucianoPoa78)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/16 "2025-07-16T20:18:47Z")
> [@Unable to level any of my troops](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-level-any-of-my-troops/88168):
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> Platform, device version and operating system: steam, pc windows Screenshot or image: n/a see my bug report I sent in via support site. What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened: I expected to level up my Acolyte. I tried to level up my Acolyte and the game would only allow me to close and go back to a blank screen after a message from Luther saying “lets get back into the fight” How often does this happen? When did it begin happening? Started after the update. The be…
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### Author:  [@333DRAGON](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/333DRAGON)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 8:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/17 "2025-07-17T08:23:44Z")
Jeto I appreciate you a lot but this morning when I logged in, I hated your entire DEV team, despite your statements in another post, your team did nothing at all to resolve the matchmaking, if no one knows how to resolve it at your place, be honest and say so, this will prevent us from registering at GW next time. We are in the top 40 and as this has already happened to us on other GW, we are facing the world number two guild. Do you find this normal??? Do you find this funny??? Find this amusing for us??? We lost in advance like the other times, thank you, for me and my players, your team has spoiled our fun on this Event, and therefore 0 chances of gold marks tomorrow morning at the reset, it’s desperate.
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### Author:  [@CHIEFSFAN27](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/CHIEFSFAN27)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 9:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/18 "2025-07-17T09:30:30Z")
It was even less fun for number #1 facing lower competition no fun just free gold marks
Bringing back the brackets is the only fix there was a reason same 8 guilds always stayed in the first bracket
Reason they gave for removing them was it took to long for new guilds to move up the ranks yet it will take over a year for the soulforge to completely rotate now 😂
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### Author:  [@333DRAGON](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/333DRAGON)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 9:49am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/19 "2025-07-17T09:49:01Z")
Indeed you are right, also zero pleasure for the 8 ultra competitive GW guilds of the old rank 1, the two guilds are therefore punished in this super scenario which is repeating itself for us, for the 3rd time. Let’s hope for a resolution with the 8.30 update 😬
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### Author:  [@Vold](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vold)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-7-patch-notes/88154/20 "2025-07-17T23:34:09Z")
Are the 3 new achievements for matching Burning, Barrier, and Freeze gems tracking/unlocking for anyone on Xbox?
I went from the midway point for the Matching Heroic Gems campaign task on Silver to Gold while running a 4x Fire Spirt team for matching Burning Gems and it didn’t unlock and progress shows 0% on the achievement tracker. Didn’t even get any progress toward Barrier gems when playing PvP in Maraji Expanse.
The game shows that it updated on Xbox recently. Maybe i’ll uninstall it and reinstall to see if it fixes it.
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