crates to gems ratio

moo_2021 · February 22

haven't seen anything recently so here is my experience today:

Bought 85 crates for 1100 gems to get the two mounts on discount. I extracted everything including furniture that some might prefer to keep. A few crates contain 5 rewards instead of 4. At least 2 rewards just gave lots of gems directly. I didn't get any apex reward.

The initial crates are likely to result in less gems, because they contain new costumes, pets, etc, that you haven't collected yet. Without any large rewards, the last 15 crates of mine still resulted in more than 150 gems, as the rate became more predictable the more of the same crate I bought.

So, in order maximize gems, it looks like the best way is to keep buying the same crate you already have, not any others.

After owning nearly all non-apex collectibles, the rate became better and better - the last 90 crates yielded about 1500 gems (= 250 per 15 crates), and the previous batch 60 crates for 700 gems (= 175 per crates). In the last batch also got 1 apex mount and 1 apex skin, which cannot be extracted.

So basically, unless some good luck happens (300 gem from a daily crate), 250 gems per 15 crates is probably the limit. Meaning to get 2500 gems you'd need to acquire at least 10 * 15 crates, and the cost could easily be double that.

Now it's a good time as the crates are on sale, though crowns are not. Next time I'll buy crowns when discounted and keep them until crates are on sale, or just save endeavors, since all radiant apex mounts only cost 16k endeavors.

ADarklore · February 23

I found the same thing. Whenever new crates come out... you always get the most gems AFTER you have already acquired most of what the crates offer- then your dupes are converted to gems. Thus, if you buy crates, you always get more gem return for investment the more crates you buy and more dupes you can get to convert to gems.

moo_2021 · February 23

Also it's pointless to expect any good rewards. So it's not really gambling, just an expensive way to buy certain items.

Necrotech_Master · February 29

moo_2021 wrote: »

Also it's pointless to expect any good rewards. So it's not really gambling, just an expensive way to buy certain items.

this is why i generally dont ever buy crates

but ill certainly open free ones lol

Misty_Shafow · March 25

i think the big problem is gems you get from duplicated items they should at least gives back 3/4 of the value
for example you get dup that's posted on crown store for 100 gemms they sould convert it to 75 gemms
thats way they encourage players to spend real money on crates because crowns are expensive after all

mikejezz · March 27

I bought crates once years ago. A 5k crown bundle.

Only got garbage and was utter disappointed.

I will open free ones gladly, but the drop rates makes me want to never waste money on them as I would regret it because I will never get the cool stuff.

So I use my crowns on dlc etc since there rarely comes any cool on the store for non crate buyers.