Gem Balls

[grustardo]

How does this mechanic work?
Every x ball has a gem or has a chance to spawn? Or is it more limited like every x seconds a gem ball spawns?
It's nice to know because if you want to minmax gem balls, it would be easier to spawn less balls but proportionately more ball gems - so you can split them with saws as much as possible..

Gem balls are imo the most important mechanic to farm gems.
I farm 7,2k gems per minute in average at tier1 and less with triple ball rate. I also think that this game stat doesn't count the gems, which you get after a reset.


600 gems per min via passive generation.
430 balls/min (~7,16/s or 21,5/s with triple ball rate) + saws (~9,5/s)
~= 1000 or 1860 balls/min with triple ball rate and no ball gems.

To count all ball shrunks you have to multiply per level you clear so optimal x10
~= 10000 or 18600 shrunks/min:
- gems via reset (gem/15balls) ~= 666 or 1240 gems/min
- electric tower kills (3gems/10balls) ~= 3000 or 5580 gems/min
Sums up to an average maximum of 7420 gems/min with triple ball rate or 4266 gems/min + ball gems!!!

[NoPants]

It's a flat % chance per ball drop. Saw balls can split gem balls. The chance increases on higher tiers.

[grustardo]

Originally posted by NoPants:

It's a flat % chance per ball drop. Saw balls can split gem balls. The chance increases on higher tiers.

thanks for clarification - so the triple drop rate powerup is only good if you want to farm gold (prestige) and nothng else.

[sir_derlin]

There appears to be a bug in the wide screen orientation. The "Triple ball drop rate" light powerup has small text in the narrow view saying no gem balls will spawn while active, but in the wide view, the text is not shown.