Gems of War - How to farm Runestones using GaPs (READ description)

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Published on December 31, 2021 4:57:06 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYUTgC08EZU

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Hi there! So the spawn rate of Cursed Gnomes is still incredibly low, even with the boosted spawn ratio which runs about one week more. If you have problems finding Cursed Gnomes, but are sitting on plenty of Verses and can craft Gnome-a-Paloozas, here are instructions how to get those precious Runestones to upgrade your Soulforge. Please be aware that this method is only to getting runestones from a spawned Cursed Gnome. You will not receive much other rewards from other gnomes like you usually do with GaP runs.

You need reliable Explore 12 team. Something that gets the work done and doesn't let Gnomes run away. I prefer D.Axe/Centuragon/Zuul/Lep build with Elementalist. The idea is to craft GaP and do the battles in E12 instead of E1 with Ironhawks or Rowanne team. GaP rewards are based on battle duration and opponent team score. If you do fast battles in low explore, your rewards will be only a portion of what you would get in normal battles, resulting to usually 2 runestones from spawned Cursed Gnome. So instead of doing low explore runs, we do these battles in Explore 12 (higher opponent team score) and we WAIT before we kill the last enemy (to increase battle duration).

You enter the battle, and if you do NOT see Cursed Gnome, you retreat from the battle, but don't quit the explore run (to save time). You repeat this process UNTIL you face Cursed Gnome, and here comes the important part. You must wait 45 seconds before killing the last gnome. Tests by the community show that 45 secs is about the optimal time to get maximized rune amount, all things considered. You can also wait longer, which in theory should increase your rune rewards but that is not the case most of times. You can actually pull even 25 runes but most of times it is something between 10-15 runes. Also, you can get +10 Runes with about 30 secs battle duration but usually the rune amount is less than 10 runes if you do 30 sec battles. So in short, rune amount varies a lot but with +45 sec waiting time should always guarantee you +10 runes.

Notice that in this clip I sometimes kill the gnomes after 30 secs wait time, because this was recorded when I was still testing things. Afterwards I can say the 45 seconds waiting brings the optimal outcome.

These GaP runs can be done outside of Vault weekend because we are not trying to maximize Vault Key outcome, but we are trying to maximize the spawn amounts of Cursed Gnomes.

Also it needs to be said that sometimes the run can be very brutal and you can be left with just one or two Cursed Gnome spawns. This happens sometimes, but on average you should get close to 50 runes per 15 min GaP run. My best run so far is 92 runestones from 15 min GaP run.

I suggest to use timer to track when the GaP is nearing end, so that you can maximize rewards from the last battle of the GaP run.

Prep - 00:00
GaP start - 00:18
1st Cursed Gnome - 2:44
2nd Cursed Gnome - 4:46
3rd Cursed Gnome - 5:56
4th Cursed Gnome - 6:53
5th Cursed Gnome - 12:56
6th Cursed Gnome 14:56

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