What do you spend your Gems on?

Yesterday I spent $25 to get my fifth builder, lvl3 Dragon upgrade had 3days to go so I finished that to use since we were in the middle of a war, and I have around 600 left for boosting barracks for farming.

Ofc Builders are the most important useful way to use gems but 5th builder was 2,000 gems so no way Ill get that unless I buy a google play card.

I usually spend my Gems on.....

Boosting Barracks, I have 2 lvl9 and 2 lvl7 Barracks, I usually boost the 2 lvl9 Barracks.

Boosting King: When I boost 2 Barracks I usually boost my King too.

Emergency War Army: happened a couple times where I loose track of time and theres less than an hour left in war mode and I still have both attacks!! Boosting wouldnt be fast enpugh, so I gem my war army and spells, very pricey, almost 150 gems for 10 Dragons and 3 Rage Spells, but I cant let my team down!!

Freeing up a builder thats almost done, esp when sitting on alot of Dark Elixir: So my Wizard Tower has 30min to finish, I cant wait bc I have to go do smth, but I have the 20,000 DE to start my king upgrading to lvl5, no shield and if I log off there goes 1,500 DE from some th9 destroying my base....

So instead of getting my DE raided Ill finish if theres like 30min or less to go and i cant wait it out online. Then I can dump that 20k into my King and not worry about it.

That has only happened once before though, if its a gold or regular elixir upgrade Im not that worried since its not nearly as big of a grind to farm that back......

I NEVER gem gold elixir or DE!! Thats prob the worst way to spend your gems, to fill my gold and elixir from 0 to 6 million each I think its something like 3,000+ gems, so like $25, crazy.

I also never spend gems to "wake up" my King, its dumb to spend 40+ Gems to Heal him instead of waiting 30min when you can boost him for less than 1/4 the cost, you still have to wait around 7min but it lasts for 2 hours.

Over a corse of spending the same 40 gems to heal your King once, you can boost him 4x and he will get healed a total of 40-50 times.

Also for Clan Troop Requests instead of waiting 20min I think its 41 gems to 'request now' like maybe a war total emergency, but other than that boost 2 barracks my king and spell factory.

Boosting the Spell Factory I have done a few times but when Im farming I hardly ever use spells, so theres not really any point, maybe when im a higher level or trophy pushing....

If you use alot of spells 7min Lightning and Healing Spells and 11min Rage Spells beat how they normally take SOOOOOOO long.

So what do you spend gems on? WHat do you think is a good way to spend gems? What is a bad way to spend them???

Worst use of gems is to use for gold to 'skip' when searching for a raid hahah, I think its like 3 or 4 gems every single skip!!! ;)

I have only spent $5 on gems for my 4th builder. The rest of the gems I am saving for my 5th. I have spent a few on 1 gem boosts (barracks/spells only) and a few to finish/start an upgrade early if I was going to be unavailable for several hours and didn't want to raided to lose everything. Lately I have spent 175ish on the last bit of DE to upgrade BK to lv 5. It was late and I didn't want to lose 900-1000 overnight. I don't have any plans to use any gems in the near future. Level 7 btw.

oh. And I don't gem troops/spells or to boost/wake up the king. Nor will I buy gold or elixir Or boost them. Only DE if given the situation above. But I'm usually very stingy with my gems :)

Never buy gem
but 5th builder is a priority
next boosting barrack or 1 gem event

Whenever there's only like around 1 hour or more for a building to finish, I'll gem it.

When I'm training myself at using certain army compositions, I'd gem/boost my barracks.

When Clan Mates wants a troop for war, I'd gem it ASAP.

Everytime 1-Gem boost event.

I boost my barracks and spell factory:cool:

OP, I use the same way you do. Same circumstances and everything.

Just don't buy gold and elixir with it, huge ripoff. But I do like to keep both level 6 drills boosted which costs 60 gems per day. Doing this I get nearly 10,000 dark each day from collectors. It's enough to keep my low level heroes upgrading.

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Originally Posted by wormwood1

OP, I use the same way you do. Same circumstances and everything.

Just don't buy gold and elixir with it, huge ripoff. But I do like to keep both level 6 drills boosted which costs 60 gems per day. Doing this I get nearly 10,000 dark each day from collectors. It's enough to keep my low level heroes upgrading.

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Nah I dont buy gold or elixir either bro, total waste, just boost 2 barracks and your king for 30 gems and you will end up with resources in the amount where you would have had to spend 800-1,200 Gems, totally rediculous.....

My collectors are low 3 lvl10 9 lvl9, and I never boost them, would rather just make up in a raid or two saving like 80 gems or whatever.

However Im considering boosting my DE Drills, for th8 maxing both of them was my first priority.

So the boost cost is 15 Gems each, boosting gives you double the amount for 24 hours? So instead of just over 2,000 DE daily I would be drilling close to 4,100.

Might do that, will help with my DE for starting to upgrade my hogs, esp since I have 600 something gems.

So might boost both drills for 5 days, thats a little over 20,000 there, maybe boost for 6 days to account for some of it getting stolen.

Thanks, ill try it today and see, farming for DE is such a pain....would rather spend 200 gems to get that 20k DE

Rax/Heros/Spells for farming. I did buy the 4/5 builders. If I remember correctly I did buy the DE for the barb king when I first became a TH7. I almost never gem build time. I'm sure it's happened but exceedingly rare.

I spent gems to get my builders (5th today after reaching master and getting the 1k gem). I have 200 gems left that I will spend on 1-gem boost, or occasionally on the spell factory.

Of course I've never bought gems and never will.

I spent all my gems from in-game stuffs strictly for builders (got my fifth two weeks ago after around seven months playing the game, now th9) and occassional boosts. I never finish now anything because for me it is a waste of gem.

And i do not plan on spending money on this game.

I usually just boost my barracks or if I'm really desperate I try to finish something close to finishing.

lab upgrade and hero upgrade sometimes spell factory

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Originally Posted by Carsonel

Yesterday I spent $25 to get my fifth builder, lvl3 Dragon upgrade had 3days to go so I finished that to use since we were in the middle of a war, and I have around 600 left for boosting barracks for farming.

Ofc Builders are the most important useful way to use gems but 5th builder was 2,000 gems so no way Ill get that unless I buy a google play card.

I usually spend my Gems on.....

Boosting Barracks, I have 2 lvl9 and 2 lvl7 Barracks, I usually boost the 2 lvl9 Barracks.

Boosting King: When I boost 2 Barracks I usually boost my King too.

Emergency War Army: happened a couple times where I loose track of time and theres less than an hour left in war mode and I still have both attacks!! Boosting wouldnt be fast enpugh, so I gem my war army and spells, very pricey, almost 150 gems for 10 Dragons and 3 Rage Spells, but I cant let my team down!!

Freeing up a builder thats almost done, esp when sitting on alot of Dark Elixir: So my Wizard Tower has 30min to finish, I cant wait bc I have to go do smth, but I have the 20,000 DE to start my king upgrading to lvl5, no shield and if I log off there goes 1,500 DE from some th9 destroying my base....

So instead of getting my DE raided Ill finish if theres like 30min or less to go and i cant wait it out online. Then I can dump that 20k into my King and not worry about it.

That has only happened once before though, if its a gold or regular elixir upgrade Im not that worried since its not nearly as big of a grind to farm that back......

I NEVER gem gold elixir or DE!! Thats prob the worst way to spend your gems, to fill my gold and elixir from 0 to 6 million each I think its something like 3,000+ gems, so like $25, crazy.

I also never spend gems to "wake up" my King, its dumb to spend 40+ Gems to Heal him instead of waiting 30min when you can boost him for less than 1/4 the cost, you still have to wait around 7min but it lasts for 2 hours.

Over a corse of spending the same 40 gems to heal your King once, you can boost him 4x and he will get healed a total of 40-50 times.

Also for Clan Troop Requests instead of waiting 20min I think its 41 gems to 'request now' like maybe a war total emergency, but other than that boost 2 barracks my king and spell factory.

Boosting the Spell Factory I have done a few times but when Im farming I hardly ever use spells, so theres not really any point, maybe when im a higher level or trophy pushing....

If you use alot of spells 7min Lightning and Healing Spells and 11min Rage Spells beat how they normally take SOOOOOOO long.

So what do you spend gems on? WHat do you think is a good way to spend gems? What is a bad way to spend them???

Worst use of gems is to use for gold to 'skip' when searching for a raid hahah, I think its like 3 or 4 gems every single skip!!! ;)

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I completely non-IAP got 5 builders (just got the fifth today :D), so don't give up on it just because it looks like a lot of gems.
Personally I gem hero and barracks, spells I just don't use often enough farming to care to boost it. I honestly wouldn't spend gems on any of the "____ now" deals because they're usually just not worth it.

-builder
-barracks boost
-1 gem boost event

Builders, Barracks Boosting + Heroes boost.

I have spent 50$ of my money and now 150$ of x-mas and birthday gift cards. I spend my gems on barrack boost(my farming and to help durinf wars), 5th builder and for shaving some time off upgrades (when storages are full). What I refuse to spend gems on is to buy loot. I can farm any and all resources and keep all five builders busy at all times.

I bought 4th/5th builder somewhere around th5. I bought gems for Bk when first hitting th7.

Boost barracks every other week or so.
Boost de drills if I get a gem box and only then.
Any supercell event with 1 gem boosts.

All of the games other "gem" costs seem rediculous to spend anything on. Any building timers past th8 is like a $20 iTunes card minimum

never spent money.
I use gem to spend up my king during farming when my Queen is upgrading, because he die more frequently.
I'm planning to buy a week shield when I'm going to upgrade to th10, full collectors.

I'm currently saving up for my fifth builders hut. I use my gems for 1 gem boost events ONLY or when I REALLY need to boost something. I once spent quite a few to finish my th4 because my friend kept telling too, big mistake. Although I don't use the gems anyways so yeah.:p