GEMS! I'm about to come into a stockpile of 28,000 gems! How should I spend them?

I'd gem troop levels, and constantly do barracks when i have free time.

I would focus on defenses as farming walls is much easier (there are more but they are cheaper)

why on earth are you spending $200 on this game? Its an itunes card, spend some on music for your pod or something. lol

♥♥♥♥ you blew $200 and your base is still premature for a TH 9. Should've learned to BAM and boosted barracks.

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Originally Posted by dkurtz1

Haha I'm just from a big family is all. Otherwise I'd never expect anything as nice as this.
Sorry you didn't get birthday presents man :(

ah its all good, i just didn't have that good of a past :/

Your base is too premature 28k gems wont even make a difference. The only way to progress fast is to boost barracks and constantly raid, not gem resources which I'm assuming you did

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Originally Posted by freshlikealex

Your base is too premature 28k gems wont even make a difference. The only way to progress fast is to boost barracks and constantly raid, not gem resources which I'm assuming you did

This.

What a waste of $200.

You have some money left over after this right? Because I'd want to have $10 left over after spending 200$ in gems :P

$200 for defense?

this game is all about offense... why no love for offense

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Originally Posted by dkurtz1

Hey guys, I'd love any and all advice I can get on where best to use these gems. It's my birthday and I just received word that my aunt and uncle will be sending me iTunes gift cards this year. $200 worth to be exact (I have a big family.)

My clan name (it's just me and two buddies) is 'AR Crushers' - and my name is dkurtz1
I'll be the first to admit that I did rush to TH10 but now I'm committed to improving the rest of the defense, walls, etc. to catch up to it. I'm also way high on cups right now because I'm pushing to Champion to get the achievement. Then I plan on dropping back down to somewhere around GoldII to farm and join a proper clan.

Please give me some advice about where to best spend these gems to improve the overall balance of my base.
Pic of my base is posted below as well.

THANKS!

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***UPDATE***

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for the great advice!

There have been a variety of responses but the majority have been;

heroes
defense
boosts

So I just got the iTunes cards and already burned through all the gems!

HERE IS WHAT I DID:
Wiz Towers - had 3@lvl4 and 1@lvl5 - TOOK ALL WIZ TOWERS TO LVL 6
Teslas - had 4@lvl2 - UPGRADED TO LVL 3, but didn't gem them to completion (now using 4/5 builders)
Xbow - had 9 days left to upgrade to lvl2, gemed that to completion.
Dragons - went from lvl 2 to lvl 3
Goblins - went from lvl 4 to lvl5
Cannons - had 3@lvl8 and 3@ lvl9 - Upgraded so now i have 4@lvl9 and 2@lvl10
Archer Queen - upgraded to lvl3 (only used a few hundred gems on her to grab the remaining DE) (using my 5th builder)

Yea so that's how quickly gems can go fellas. It doesn't seem like much when you write it all out like that. The Wiz towers where the biggest expense because I was so far behind on them and didn't want them all down at once for days on end while waiting for builders. They cost about 9k gems. Teslas were another ~7k gems, Gob and Dragons upgrades totaled ~9.5k.

If anybody disagrees with how I spent them, I don't really care to hear about it becuase it's too late now! If you're somehow who thinks geming time is a waste than you don't know how impatient of a man I am. And I think we can all admit how hard it is to hold onto gems, especially large quantities of gems.

Again, thanks for the advice and clash on!

Just a bit of advice on how to use the gems. I recently posted a thread and movie of myself spending 30,000 gems. I learned a tough lesson because I intended on spending all of this money on DE. What I came to find out afterwards is that if you let your DE get to zero and then buy a large amount in bulk as appose to purchasing per troop you will get more bang for your buck. So if you do end up doing heroes or DE troops make sure that you fill the storage then buy the upgrade as appose to buying the missing amount.

If you buy 20,000 DE it costs 867 gems (23.1 DE per gem)
If you buy 100,000 DE it costs 3000 gems (33.3 DE per gem)
If you buy 200,000 DE it costs 5667 gems (35.3 DE per gem)

I just did a quick test for comparison and I'd need 27,901 DE for my BK upgrade which would cost me 1077 gems (25.9 DE per gem). For my AQ I need 37,901 DE and it would cost me 1344 gems (28.2 DE per gem).

So it appear to be a sliding scale where the more DE you buy the cheaper per DE it costs. So, you're much better off waiting until your DE is mostly empty and buying 200k with gems to get the most bang for your buck.

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Also, the CoC wiki does mention how they calculate costs:
http://clashofclans.wikia.com/wiki/Cumulative_Costs

The cost of resources will be calculated using the most economical means possible. That means 8,001,000 gold or elixir for 2,467 gems and 200,000 dark elixir for 5,667 gems.