What should I spend my gems on?

[Prescott1111]

I've just collected 750 gems, and have already bought it's mine, offline profits +750%, BLC coins x3. faster artifacts, and super durable artifacts. Any thoughts on what I should buy? I may do one of the 750 ones but I'm not sure. I don't think I want borb taxi upgrade since it seems easy to grind borbs afking using borbo and the claw machine.

Edit: I should also mention I've MLC'd once, have amber leaves and crunchy blc, and unlocked up to tower level 120.

[Daunmi]

Bad news first: BLC x3 is useless. Sorry. On the plus side, the artifact ones are probably the two best gem purchases you could ever make, so that's good.

Opinions as follows:

Offline Artifacts is a nice way to get extra artifacts without having to leave things running all the time. It's not a fast rate at all, but gets (VERY approximately) about 30 orbs in 10+ hours. The better reason for having it is that unlike sitting AFK in the volcano being offline will give you extra OTHER things, like Gravity Balls for the Tower, and Blazing Skulls to get past Celestial leaves each MLC. Just generally helpful.

Offline Seeds will be helpful for hitting the bag limit for merge seeds, because the seeds that 'spawn' offline can be anything and it seems to be equally random so it's a faster way to fill Obsidian and Benitoite. Again, like Offline Artifacts, this is helpful for every time you MLC.

More Seeds isn't bad. I'm not sure exactly how it works with the various new extra seed spawning upgrades, but it'll help you every time you MLC.

The Buy Borb Taxi Ltd upgrade is about as useful as the It's Mine upgrade: both of them are only useful if you can't be bothered doing things yourself. You probably have a decent trading level so you'll got borbs by the thousands. So yes, you can probably avoid it for a while.

The MLC x3 upgrade might be helpful because it'll only take 5 or so MLCs before you start having to MLC multiple times to be able to afford anything, just as a warning. It wont help much, but every little bit might speed things up.

The Converters Output x300%, Ultra Fruits, and various time travel upgrades are mostly useless (until you're at a point time travelling is the only upgrades remaining, anyway).

Customer Acquisition SEEMS to be very useful, until you realise that you can trade for hundreds of cheese to pay for your trade refreshing. And that you're generally only going to be trading for cheese anyway (and, of course, borbs until you buy the Buy Borb Taxi Ltd upgrade).

The Prestige Coins x3 is... useful. Technically, in that it has a use. It WILL give you SLIGHTLY more prestige coin rewards, but it's really only worth it when you're pushing for the last few trees to hit your next 50. At the point you're at, I doubt you'd care, because I'm pretty sure you'll be hitting 800 trees and the next 50 will take so many prestiges that it's just not worth it, and you probably will be too busy MLCing to care.

All Leaves +750% might be worth it. If it affects Gem leaf rewards significantly enough, you might want it. If not, you wont. Gem leaf rewards slow down a LOT once you hit the e7 and higher range, so as long as you're getting that much it probably wont help.

Max Offline time COULD be VERY helpful under the right conditions. Firstly, it doesn't let you claim multiple days of gem rewards, so keep that in mind. Secondly, it only really helps if you have Offline Artifacts AND you're planing on being away from your computer for a while (for obvious reasons). A single day (or half, even) should be enough to give you all the rewards you want (you sound late-game, so I'm assuming you've got decent upgrades to things), but you can never have enough Orb of BLCs, so this lets you get up to 7 days worth of offline artifacts if you're not going to be able to check in every 24 hours.

[Prescott1111]

Originally posted by Daunmi:

Bad news first: BLC x3 is useless. Sorry. On the plus side, the artifact ones are probably the two best gem purchases you could ever make, so that's good.

Opinions as follows:

Offline Artifacts is a nice way to get extra artifacts without having to leave things running all the time. It's not a fast rate at all, but gets (VERY approximately) about 30 orbs in 10+ hours. The better reason for having it is that unlike sitting AFK in the volcano being offline will give you extra OTHER things, like Gravity Balls for the Tower, and Blazing Skulls to get past Celestial leaves each MLC. Just generally helpful.

Offline Seeds will be helpful for hitting the bag limit for merge seeds, because the seeds that 'spawn' offline can be anything and it seems to be equally random so it's a faster way to fill Obsidian and Benitoite. Again, like Offline Artifacts, this is helpful for every time you MLC.

More Seeds isn't bad. I'm not sure exactly how it works with the various new extra seed spawning upgrades, but it'll help you every time you MLC.

The Buy Borb Taxi Ltd upgrade is about as useful as the It's Mine upgrade: both of them are only useful if you can't be bothered doing things yourself. You probably have a decent trading level so you'll got borbs by the thousands. So yes, you can probably avoid it for a while.

The MLC x3 upgrade might be helpful because it'll only take 5 or so MLCs before you start having to MLC multiple times to be able to afford anything, just as a warning. It wont help much, but every little bit might speed things up.

The Converters Output x300%, Ultra Fruits, and various time travel upgrades are mostly useless (until you're at a point time travelling is the only upgrades remaining, anyway).

Customer Acquisition SEEMS to be very useful, until you realise that you can trade for hundreds of cheese to pay for your trade refreshing. And that you're generally only going to be trading for cheese anyway (and, of course, borbs until you buy the Buy Borb Taxi Ltd upgrade).

The Prestige Coins x3 is... useful. Technically, in that it has a use. It WILL give you SLIGHTLY more prestige coin rewards, but it's really only worth it when you're pushing for the last few trees to hit your next 50. At the point you're at, I doubt you'd care, because I'm pretty sure you'll be hitting 800 trees and the next 50 will take so many prestiges that it's just not worth it, and you probably will be too busy MLCing to care.

All Leaves +750% might be worth it. If it affects Gem leaf rewards significantly enough, you might want it. If not, you wont. Gem leaf rewards slow down a LOT once you hit the e7 and higher range, so as long as you're getting that much it probably wont help.

Max Offline time COULD be VERY helpful under the right conditions. Firstly, it doesn't let you claim multiple days of gem rewards, so keep that in mind. Secondly, it only really helps if you have Offline Artifacts AND you're planing on being away from your computer for a while (for obvious reasons). A single day (or half, even) should be enough to give you all the rewards you want (you sound late-game, so I'm assuming you've got decent upgrades to things), but you can never have enough Orb of BLCs, so this lets you get up to 7 days worth of offline artifacts if you're not going to be able to check in every 24 hours.

Thanks for all the advice, I think I'll probably go for the offline artifacts since I've waited this long to save 750 gems and I can get all the upgrades I really care about from the mergeable seeds through trading. After that maybe I'll try going for MLC x3, but I'm sort of afraid that'll become obsolete pretty fast like BLX x3 did after I bought it.

Edit: Just saw there are new gem upgrades in the gem shop with the upgrade, haven't spent my gems yet. Think any of those would be worth it?

[Daunmi]

Keeping in mind that I haven't actually tried them or heard anything about them...

Better Pets/Better Uniques sound exceedingly useful. Pets (specifically Penguino and Flocko) and Unique leaves (Glitter and Rainbow leaf) are useful pretty much all the time as soon as they're relevant all the way to the end-game. Getting a bit more out of them is going to be good. How good? Don't know yet, but since it all adds up over time I'm hedging my bets on it being pretty worth it. In the end, faster artifact spawning is enough to make it worth it no matter how much or how little it changes.

ALB Outsourcing seems like a quality of life upgrade more than anything. 3 or so MLCs and the bonuses you have make your gold coin rewards go up plenty, and affording all the ALB upgrades in the coin shop becomes easy. One extra benefit to the gem upgrade is that you'll be able to take your ALBs in right away, instead of having to restart the tower after getting the upgrade, so that's good. But not exactly a 'must have'.

[Prescott1111]

Yeah I think I'll get both of those. I'm assuming better unique leaves stacks with the one that gives more gems, so that seems like a sound investment, and one of the challenges gives an additional pet as a reward, so with 4 pets I bet having better pets would be quite useful. It seems a maximum of 23 gems can now be earned a day (another challenge rewards +10 daily gems, nice!) without purchases, so hopefully I can get back to 750 relatively soon and get offline artifacts.

[Daunmi]

Well, I'm going to assume that getting an extra 20% of +5 gems is unlikely to help.

[Prescott1111]

Yeah when I first wrote that I thought it was an extra 100% which would obviously be much better. I guess it'll still be a bonus daily gem which is better than nothing