# Update 8.9 Patch Notes **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [October 28, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836 "2025-10-28T23:59:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![SoCalKingg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@SoCalKingg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/SoCalKingg)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/84 "2025-10-30T19:01:30Z")
What we were promised: A fix to Sentinel Prime achievement. What we got: No fix and a much worse achievement added. Sometimes I think they intentionally try to make us mad. Still no easing of the Hoard Mimic achievement after many years. I gave up after 400 hours of trying to get it. Only one I’m missing besides the Sentinel Prime one. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/85 "2025-10-30T20:34:52Z")
this is related to the known issue where troops are not transformed in PvP, which I am awaiting an update on when the fix will be released ---
**Author:** ![333DRAGON](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/333dragon/32/101551_2.png) [@333DRAGON](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/333DRAGON)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/86 "2025-10-30T21:48:21Z")
Jeto, your update is very good, excellent even, it’s just a shame that your company has spoiled the fun with your Paragon achievement, as other players have already said above. Your achievement will create a lot of tension in some guilds and will cause players to leave. The next Guild War hasn’t even started yet, and I already have a player who’s considering leaving to go and get the achievement in a smaller guild. Of course, a player who leaves the guild won’t come back, which won’t be acceptable to us. So you’re going to destroy part of the guild ecosystem and the good atmosphere that prevails there. Your company isn’t aware of the future damage you’re going to cause in some guilds; what’s looming on the horizon is very serious, even if it’s a nice challenge to perform well in Guild Wars, it’s a destructive challenge. We’ll talk about it again in a few weeks or months, when the guild leaders come here to report the number of players lost. ---
**Author:** ![covertmuffin123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@covertmuffin123](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/covertmuffin123)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/87 "2025-10-30T23:56:26Z")
> [@333DRAGON](#): > > Your company isn’t aware of the future damage you’re going to cause in some guilds I know we complain about a lot here on this forum, but I really hope that the team has been made aware of the feedback and is at least considering it. Any reassurance that Jeto could provide, if they might change it later, could prevent this damage and keep people from leaving their guilds. And of course, leaving a guild for the Paragon achievement hurts your (now former) guildmates by ruining their monthly GW score. Even if players want to rejoin their guilds later, they might not be welcome. This is really just a huge self-inflicted wound. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/88 "2025-10-31T00:03:54Z")
I have no information to share at this stage, I have passed this feedback on from the forum. ---
**Author:** ![AMT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amt/32/56829_2.png) [@AMT](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AMT)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/89 "2025-10-31T00:41:46Z")
> [@Kezef](#): > > have a listing of all three Glory orb types (with their current quantity in my inventory) 👆 this ![Screenshot_20251031-083659160](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/3/9/392c0d51a710ff39b4610b771f0e194d82fc62e5.jpeg) Being unable to see my orb stash for all orb types is a QoL downgrade, since the orb stash is part of the decision whether to upgrade a troop or not. 🙏 🖖 ---
**Author:** ![Kezef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Kezef](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kezef)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/90 "2025-10-31T00:46:15Z")
> [@covertmuffin123](#): > > leaving a guild for the Paragon achievement hurts your (now former) guildmates by ruining their monthly GW score. It goes well beyond that. It’s not just “ruining their monthly GW score”, but all the other guild stuff that go on. For example, a guild would be short during the weekly event, meaning those who remain will have to do/spend more if it’s a guild that works to fully complete an event. And the player who has bailed on the guild to get Paragon elsewhere probably shorts himself on both the event rewards and from the Guild statue tasks. I guess I can understand in some vague academic sense what the developers were aiming for. But it’s one of those ideas that never should have gotten out into the wild. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/91 "2025-10-31T00:48:37Z")
> [@AMT](#): > > ![Screenshot_20251031-083659160](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/3/9/392c0d51a710ff39b4610b771f0e194d82fc62e5.jpeg) > > Screenshot\_20251031-0836591601920×847 160 KB Just to confirm I am understanding the feedback, you can view your Orbs on the screen before this one ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/2/3/23bc0494ac55ab390c0a9013f1e83d1e697597ce.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/7/d/7d21a254d648ff52ae528f53b9e6599c45dc6dcb.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![AMT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amt/32/56829_2.png) [@AMT](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AMT)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/92 "2025-10-31T01:01:14Z")
Yes, we used to be able to see our orbs in a single screen while upgrading troops with orbs, now it’s extra steps on that front. 🙏 🖖 ---
**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:** [October 31, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/93 "2025-10-31T01:05:31Z")
Yeah thats what i figured, the back and forth if needed - qol already made ---
**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:** [October 31, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/94 "2025-10-31T03:27:30Z")
It’s like the pause menu downgrade. Why do they think that making us do extra steps to achieve something, which we were already able to do in less steps, is some kind of “upgrade”? If they spread info from one page to multiple, without adding anything to that page, they’ve just made it worse. If they make us navigate more menus to perform the same task or access the same info, they’ve just made it worse. If they’ve taken away features we use, without replacing them with something as good, or better, they’ve just made it worse. If they’ve removed info we need to know, without providing it elsewhere, or giving better info, they’ve just made it worse. It seems like almost every time the UI changes now, it’s someone making it worse, and I don’t see how they can’t get that. Thank you for passing this feedback on, but I’m long past the point of thinking they’ll listen, given they haven’t in the past. Hope I’m proven wrong, but I have no confidence in it. ---
**Author:** ![captain\_video](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@captain\_video](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/captain_video)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/95 "2025-10-31T03:32:00Z")
> [@Gems-of-War](#): > > We have updated the Troop Upgrade menu to bring all aspects of troop upgrading back into a single menu. The Troop Upgrade Menu has been updated to the UI style to be similar to the Immortal Menu. > > On the new Overview menu, players will be able to view their Troops’ information and easily navigate to the different types of Troop upgrade menus. This has to be one of the stupidest things the dev team has done in the history of the game. You broke the “Ugradeable” sort option in the Collection menu by reclassifying every troop not yet at max level as “Ugrgradeable”. For newer players, that will be 95+% of everyhing they own. I want to be able to see, at a glance, which of my troops are awaiting ascencion, and which have trait(s) which can be immediately unlocked with traitstones in my inventory, not using orbs. This will tell me where I want to farm on any given day. Now that information is buried. I don’t want to have to scroll through the entire troop list several times a day to find what, if anything, I have waiting to be upgraded without the use of orbs. Do any of you people actually play the game you’ve built? Silly question, I know. ---
**Author:** ![awryan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/awryan/32/74650_2.png) [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 8:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/96 "2025-10-31T08:34:46Z")
No pet rescue pop up when logging into the game even if an active pet rescue is going on. A QOL update that breaks the game instead of making it better. Very on brand GoW. ---
**Author:** ![Dwuemka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/dwuemka/32/67058_2.png) [@Dwuemka](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Dwuemka)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/97 "2025-10-31T08:54:50Z")
> [@Gems-of-War](#): > > Improvements to the tech around the Rewarded Ad videos, to help address the issue where no video is available. Well, the improvements mean that the Rewarded Ad button is missing since the update (on Android) 😅 I guess that’s a solution too… Also: all the changes to pet rescues are nice and fun, thank you, but pet rescue phone notifications are still missing in action. Can we finally get a fix for that, please? ---
**Author:** ![SilentCitizen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/silentcitizen/32/88855_2.png) [@SilentCitizen](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/SilentCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/98 "2025-10-31T11:26:45Z")
Can someone point me to where the **Disenchant All** button went? ---
**Author:** ![Hayabusa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/hayabusa/32/85130_2.png) [@Hayabusa](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Hayabusa)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/99 "2025-10-31T11:51:43Z")
Right Stick. Just push it on the troop menu and you’ll disenchant them. Old version was much easier and better, but it’s still working ---
**Author:** ![Kezef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Kezef](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kezef)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/100 "2025-10-31T12:02:28Z")
> [@Zuul-Emo](#): > > It seems like almost every time the UI changes now, it’s someone making it worse, and I don’t see how they can’t get that. But that same “someone” can point to all the UI changes he programmed when he’s sitting for his annual review and pay raise! It’s an actual measureable, even if all of us detest it. (/sarcasm) ---
**Author:** ![dwshasta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/dwshasta/32/83395_2.png) [@dwshasta](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/dwshasta)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/101 "2025-10-31T13:04:35Z")
Dear lord..this might be the camels back : ( Took me 15 minutes to upgrade a troop, in what used to take 45 seconds. What is the reason for making something so freaking difficult to do? ---
**Author:** ![AMT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amt/32/56829_2.png) [@AMT](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AMT)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/102 "2025-10-31T13:07:47Z")
![Screenshot_20251031-210457478](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/5/c/5c06b25af4b2a167af5654c08e229fc2614d1c11.jpeg) While there is an additional confirmation message upon clicking, putting these two buttons so unnecessarily near each other seems like a recipe for Power Orb Refund Tickets. 😅 🖖 ---
**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:** [October 31, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836/103 "2025-10-31T14:23:35Z")
I tried to accept the changes to the new troop upgrade menu when I bought the new bounty troop from the shop, but man…So many unnecessary menus, too much information, and an overcomplicated mess. (You can’t even scroll through your medals to upgrade your troop on the Switch and have to use the touch screen).🤦‍♂️ It’s like the new troop upgrade menu was designed by people who never actually play this game…Oh wait…it was… [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836.md?page=4) [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-9-patch-notes/88836.md?page=6)