It looks like you donate gold to your guild to complete tasks. These tasks give gems, what looks like a key, or blue coins that the guild spends to increase magic masteries for all members. The highest number of possible members in the guilds i can see is 26, but it looks like guilds start at ten members. I assume you donate gold and such to increase that number.
Hi fellow TA members! I have created a guild call 'Aushield' I have been hitting PVP really hard and racked up 30+ trophies now, so the guild is sitting 350+ on leaderboard. I am aiming to get past 100 to promote the guild to next rank this wk. Would love other TA members to join in the fun! if interested pm me your invite ID or post it here
Game works on my iPhone, but not on my iPad mini retina. Dunno quite what to make of that.. I'm happy just playing on my phone for now though.
Weird, works on my iPad and my iPhone. Sync is flawless too. Maybe reinstall? This game took me completely by surprise...can't put it down. I daresay it's even better than PQ because of the interactions and synergies between the party, that are fundamental over level 20 or so. I'm loving the enemies too...some enemies combinations are just brilliant (I HATE those griffin like guards that lower your attack rate with a passion).
Id love to join the guild. Im level 25 and my invite code is snotty I know its not terribly polite to link another forum, but the official website http://gemsofwar.com has a bug forum. Theres news and tweets from the devs there too. I hope the game works on ipad mini 2! I was just about to upgrade the missus device as an early xmas present so she can play the game, and i was going to get her the mini 2
Boy, you must be a much better player than me My party is vastly more powerful in stats and abilities, filled only with epics and legendaries (which I've received only through gameplay, no IAP, by the way, which is nice), but I still struggle. I make progress, but I still struggle. And the wyrm is toasting my (really rather pretty) ass with gusto!
I maybe just be lucky, but in my experience the single characters doesn't make things easier (of course 4 legendaries help). MUCH MUCH more important are the whole party and the synergies, plus the bonuses granted by the banner (the little icons in the bottom). There is much more strategy than meets the eye in the game, and the more I play, the more is evident (some enemies synergies plus AI are pretty brutal....like the first one makes all gems blu, the second one use the blue combos to power the attacks and charge the third one that actually destroy 3 characters etc...and you must prevent all this). As for the Wyrm...it took me 3-4 tries. I actually defeated it focusing more on preventing red gems avaibility thant building up my powers. It worked For example, I've now swapped my Warlock for a legendary character...but it's not working that well despite him being incredibly powerful...because he doesn't fit well in my party..so I have to make more changes. (actually he just steal power from the others so I always end with everyone killed but him, and he alone can't defeat the enemies). This is where the game really shines imho.
Man, epic brain fart. Every single game like this, you get to keep the gold you match. Somehow, with this game, it didn't occur to me that this might be true, and I didn't realize it would be helpful to let matches I'm dominating continue a bit longer and farm gold. This ought to help; I'm out of gold.
Hey Guys, I'm one of the devs on the game. I was reading this thread to get an idea of what folks were liking/disliking about Gems of War, and I figured I should reply to a few things: Bugs: @Xexist, If you find any bugs, please let us know over at [email protected]. No matter how much QA we do, nothing beats having real players banging away on the game to find the weird stuff! Economy/Gold/Souls: Our goal is to be fair and not have a hard paywall. We're still tinkering with the economy to get it feeling right, so bear with us as we improve all this during soft launch. Balance: Same as the economy, we'll be actively updating this game for a long time to come (we hope). We're already keeping a close eye on the troop balance, and taking special note of anything that seems under or over-powered The current gaming landscape is actually pretty neat for games like Gems of War. We can add content, balance, features (and bug fixes) to the game continuously, which is something we've wanted to do to a game for MANY years. I like to think of this soft launch as just the starting point for something that could become pretty epic! P.S. It doesn't cheat honest... but we have some improvements to the random number generator in the next update. Cheers!
Hi Sirrian!!! Please congratulate with the rest of the crew, game is awesome and finally a legit heir to the original Puzzle Quest imho (I daresay I'm even liking it more so far). I must confess that I was REALLY skeptical by the model you adopted (I tend to avoid freemium games but the lure of PQ is hard to resist)....but, and it's maybe the very first time, you manage to be REALLY FAIR, and the game seems to me perfectly balanced (besides a big difficulty spike at level 10-11...but maybe it was just me not wanting to explore the realms instead of stubbornly continuing the first storyline). I know this is probably not what you really wanted to hear, but I really can't understand how you will monetize the game. Various 'currencies' aside, the game screams premium everywhere, it's fair and I do not even see how paying could make it any easier (getting more characters, hoping for legendary? I dunno). Not that I'm against this, but of course I want the game to be successful because it deserves it and because it will mean that more is coming Terrific char design too, some enemies formations are awesome (those griffin like monsters!!!). Also, app is really ultra slick, congrats!!!
Enjoying it so far. Couple of suggestions: (1) Lower the initial gold per city if you need too, but jack up the increments. Because completing two or three quests to raise your income by 5 gold feels insufficiently rewarding; (2) So many of the quests are to unlock a challenge. It feels like a little more variety is needed. Maybe a quest for a better weapon, a token to do a pvp for free or something similar. (3) I'm only level 11, but what about random drops of common troops? I saw I had 3 of one kind in my inventory, so maybe it happened and I just didn't notice. If so, maybe you can make it seem like a bigger deal some how. (4) I'm a veteran to this type of game, but I didn't realize you get gold from matching gold. Yeah, dumb of me, but you do show a +gold symbol when you do a big match, so why not show a +gold when you match gold? Good work so far.
CMON USA... You'll are killing me talking about this game...I was an avid PQ player and fan...I can't wait much longer my head might explode
I finally bit the bullet and set up a NZ account. I had no idea how, google'd it and found step by step. Whole process took just over 5 minutes. Easy peasy.
@ArtNJ: Thanks for the suggestions. Good stuff there! @Pitta: As for monetizing. Our priority so far has been to concentrate on making the game fun (an ongoing task still); we've got some time to tinker with economy and monetization now though, but we really do want to be as kind as practicable with that. I don't really feel that monetizing should be about tricking, manipulating, or forcing folks into spending. I think our main goal should be to create a game, world, characters, and community that people really like, and then to create things that players can optionally buy to improve their own experience. Might be a touch ambitious, but you gotta think big, I guess
