Endless Grades: Pixel Saga – Daily Gem Gains Guide

How to Min-Max Your Gains

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Gems are important for every part of the game and it is entirely possible to reach far being F2P/Semi-P2W. Your daily gem gain is also important if you want to min-max your gains as a P2W and push ahead for divine tournament.

Starting with the most obvious and easiest, we have the Store.

Store

Always claim your freebies from store starting with:

• Specials
• Deals
• Ad Shop (All) [Not gems but worth in equivalent in gems like pet food & realm tickets]
• Gems (Ads)

Dont forget your daily claims from:

• Free draws
• Check-in rewards
• Daily quests

On average you can expect 470 gems per day from store and daily quests.

Mine Shaft

From the mine shaft, you have a chance to find Gem deposits that give you 25-75 gems each time you mine them. The deeper your mining depth, the higher the likelihood.

Always claim your free 15 pickaxe from ads to maximize your gains here too.

On average you can expect 100-200 gems per day from here.

Mine Zone

Everyday, your first 3 mining zone enjoys a time acceleration effect. So maximize your gains by securing the highest grade of mines your can obtain, ideally Gold Mines.

Dont be afraid to go for gold mines for your first mining zone after reset because they will be 45mins and scroll down the list if you want to avoid the highly contested ones.

If successful, you should obtain 400-500 gems from the first 3 mine shafts alone. And throughout the day, you should expect ~1000 gems if you can secure all 3 mine shafts throughout the day even after paying for energy.

Xeno

Everyday, you will have 10 attempt at the world boss with extra gems as reward per attempt. Use all your attempt even if you dont think you can hit the next damage tier for rewards so you can get some free gems.

Expect ~100 gems from here.

Arena

Arena sometimes reward you with gems and should not be seen as a reliable source but can be profitable if you play it smart.

Each fight can reward you with gems but the bulk of your gem rewards will come near reset. Push your arena near reset and always skip the combat to maximize number of potentially winning fights.

If successful, you should see 100-200 gems from standard arena as daily reward; 50-100 gems from dusk arena, and; 15-200 depending on League. Totaling about 150-450+ depending on your standing.

Dungeon

Dungeon is relatively straight forward with approximately 2-3 sweeping tickets a day on your relevant tier of rewards.

On average you should see ~100 gems here a day once you hit early-mid game.

Dispatch

Dispatch can be a reliable source of gems every day but should be used for recruitment scrolls once you hit Lv16.

• From levels 1-8, refreshes are not very worthwhile and should be avoided.
• From levels 9-14, refresh whenever you have 4 or more unwanted expeditions and look for any Gem expeditions that are 4* or higher. If you are shard hunting, expect your gem gains to drop.
• From levels 15-16, you will be hunting for recruitment scrolls and less so on gem expeditions anymore.

Before level 15, your gem expeditions should net you a positive return of ~200-300 after refreshes daily. So make sure you diligently do your expeditions.

What is dispatch?

It’s essentially a feature where you send heroes to complete certain missions and get rewards. The heroes do not become unavailable for PvP or stage pushing, so no need to worry.

Dispatch sucks; I only get purple shards.

Yeah, early on it can be rough, but make sure you always complete all dispatch missions as soon as possible so you can unlock the more rewarding higher levels later. Later rewards include SSR shards and scrolls.

How often do I get new missions?

Yes, every 8 hours. The first refresh is at the server reset time (Fun fact 1: that is at midnight server time) (Fun fact 2: the server’s timezone is UTC-8), the second one being at 8 am (server time), and the third one at 4 pm (server time). You get as many missions as your level specifies on the table, which is anywhere between 5 and 14, corresponding to levels 1 to 10 (after level 10, it’s always 14 anyway).

Is there any strategy to it?

The early levels don’t really have any strategy, but if you get diamonds, all the better. The real fun starts when you reach level 14, where the odds become good. You can definitely start before, but the odds will not be in your favor (15% isn’t really in your favor, but that’s the best you’re going to get!).

Is refreshing worth it?

If you’re on the higher end of the levels, absolutely. You can get a lot of scrolls this way for an average price of 150-200 diamonds each round.

How many scrolls can I get through dispatch per day?

Considering you get 14 missions every 8 hours, in a day you get 42 missions:

• A 6-star scroll mission (you won’t get scrolls on lower star missions) gives you 1 scroll.
• A 7-star scroll mission gives you 2 scrolls.
• If you were to use all missions on scrolls, you would be getting at least 42 scrolls.
• If you got ultra lucky and got 7-star scroll missions every time, you’d get 84 scrolls.

Let’s do math!

Considering you have 14 days between the end of one bounty event and the beginning of another, you would obtain at least 42×14=588 scrolls before the next event even starts. During the 6 days of the event itself, you could acquire an additional 42×6=252 scrolls (let’s be conservative here), bringing your total to 840 scrolls. That’s quite a few! However, it’s still short of the 1200 scrolls needed to complete both rounds.

Now, if we’re a bit more optimistic and assume you receive an average of 50 scrolls per day (which would mean getting around eight 7-star scroll missions – perhaps a bit high, but let’s go with it!), over the 20 days encompassing the break and the event, you would accumulate 50×20=1000 scrolls. You could then obtain the remaining 200 scrolls through weekly missions, the guild shop, both the regular tower and its elemental counterparts, or, if absolutely necessary (though not generally recommended), the regular shop.

Final Word

If you are maximizing all your gains, your daily gem count should be ~2500+. Enough for you to buy the discounted Recruit Scroll from market without issues. Any other gem sources like weekly and arena standing will depend on you and can reward you with up to 5000+ gems.

Chests are also an important source of gems but will be left out due to saving habits for events or emergency gem sources. Codex/milestones/Main quest will not be discussed here due to different levels of progression amongst players as well.