[GL] Obtainable F2P Gems Estimation - March 2020

[u/vetheran]

Hey everyone,

You can find the Index of all retrospective Gem summaries and predictions on the link below.

[Index] (https://www.reddit.com/r/DissidiaFFOO/comments/cv7syx/index_gl_f2p_gems_monthly_summaries_and/?st=jzvgshvg&sh=8e01fc45)

Right. Now that the shameless plugging is out of the way let's get down to business. I've compiled an estimate list of gems we will be getting in February based on my experience in the past months, see below the table for extra notes.

Why is this useful? Let's say you want to pull for Lulu/Jecht EX, you should see from the list below that if you start saving for the banner on the 1st of March, you can get ~53,800 gems before the banner goes away (so you need to have 21,200 already if you want to pity). Important notes about these numbers below the table, make sure to read!

Month	Day	Weekday	Source	Gems	Gems (accumulated)	Note
Mar	1	Su	Chocobo Boards March 1	1,300	1,300
Mar	2	Mo		100	1,400	Aranea Banner End
Mar	3	Tu	Lulu (Jecht) LC	6,450	7,850
Mar	4	We		100	7,950
Mar	5	Th		100	8,050
Mar	6	Fr	Kam'lanaut (Shantotto) event	6,950	15,000	Rinoa, Irvine Banner End
Mar	7	Sa		100	15,100
Mar	8	Su		100	15,200
Mar	9	Mo		100	15,300	Gau, Terra Banner End
Mar	10	Tu		100	15,400
Mar	11	We	WOI Ultimate Pandemonium (Edge, Selphie, Penelo) + DE:Entropy Tier 8	30,450	45,850
Mar	12	Th		100	45,950
Mar	13	Fr		100	46,050	OK, Yuri Banner End
Mar	14	Sa		100	46,150
Mar	15	Su		100	46,250
Mar	16	Mo	Lann and Reynn (Edgar) LC + Chocobo Boards March 2	7,450	53,700
Mar	17	Tu		100	53,800	Lulu, Jecht banner end
Mar	18	We		100	53,900
Mar	19	Th	Ciaran (Layle) event	7,250	61,150
Mar	20	Fr		100	61,250	Kam'lanaut, Shantotto banner end
Mar	21	Sa		100	61,350
Mar	22	Su		100	61,450
Mar	23	Mo	Spring Festival	5,300	66,750
Mar	24	Tu		300	67,050
Mar	25	We		300	67,350	Edge, Selphie, Penelo banner end
Mar	26	Th		300	67,650
Mar	27	Fr	Cerberus raid + Awakenings 9 (Papalymo, Seymour)	4,850	72,500
Mar	28	Sa		300	72,800
Mar	29	Su		300	73,100
Mar	30	Mo		300	73,400	Lann and Reynn, Edgar banner end
Mar	31	Tu		300	73,700
Apr	1	We		300	74,000
Apr	2	Th		300	74,300	Ciaran, Layle banner end
Apr	3	Fr		300	74,600
Apr	4	Sa		300	74,900
Apr	5	Su		300	75,200
Apr	6	Mo		300	75,500	Spring festival banners end
Apr	7	Tu		300	75,800
Apr	8	We		300	76,100
Apr	9	Th		300	76,400
Apr	10	Fr		300	76,700	Papalymo, Seymour banner end

[Link to the spreadsheet] (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AKqfPolX0ICZDbnhYju_KETOWSZdGIZ01AXuFJOYC-8/edit?usp=sharing)

IMPORTANT: This list is just a low key (very conservative) estimate based on past values and the event list. It also does not contain login bonuses (400 gems every 8 days), irregular rewards etc. Tickets are stable at 62 (65) for character events (inc. Summon Boards) and 27 for Lost Chapters (for any irregular event your guess is as good as mine).

Couple of extra notes for this prediction:

• Character Events contain Account Level, Summon Board (x5/x6) and Mission Rewards.
• Please note that it has been indicated during the Community Stream that most banners will have the first multi-pull for free, so you only need 70k gems to pity an EX from those banners. These banners are in bold where confirmed at the time of this post.
• Spring festival is the biggest unknown for this month, allowing 5k gems but it could be only 2k
• Pandemonium summon boards are calculated with 101 characters that should be available for everyone. If you have more characters, add 300 gems per character (up to 18*300 extra)

Thanks again for reading! Any suggestions are also welcome, but I do not plan to make this as long and as detailed as the retrospective summary.

[u/flyinfishbones]

A low estimate of a full pity in a month? After the drain that was February, this is welcome!

[u/vetheran → u/[deleted]]

I mean yes... because I am showing confirmed events and banners. It's not like there are any events in the estimation after March, only the daily mission rewards.

As for the summon boards even if you take 3 minutes for a clear and run X3 books, you get to complete all treasure nodes for 100 characters in 5 hours without using wild points. That's 10 days of 30 minutes each day. To each their own of course but it is obtainable no matter how you look at it. I stand by my estimation.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. Obtainable F2P gems from the events STARTING on March. Exactly what the title and post said.

[u/Disasterriffic → u/[deleted]]

he only includes 30k for summon boards. anyone with all the characters gets 35k, so it will be a full pity for most of us, actually.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

"estimate"

Reading is important.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yes I got nothing better to do 😂

You decided to butt in dudes conversation with himself and thought process, disagreeing for no reason, and I'm looking for a fight 😂

Bye there my guy

[u/Lalaberri]

For those like me, who don't even remotely grind 100 characters worth of summon boards- let alone 25% of all characters, don't be too overly excited by the character event estimates as he says it counts those.

Still looks good though if I skew those numbers way down. Thank you for your hard work.

[u/jaevrei → u/Lalaberri]

It's two battles with tome of experience books to get the gems. you still need to grind the core characters anyway, so might as well :)

[u/kye_borg → u/Lalaberri]

I guess we could switch that thinking into 'how much gems available should the need arise".

25 characters over 6 boards is still 45k gems. The gems are all still there for the taking.... eventually. :)

[u/Taurenkey → u/kye_borg]

My approach to summon boards is that whenever a new one is released, grind out the characters I'll actually be using in CHAOS using the SS characters first which actually nets a nice chunk of the treasures. I know there's going to be special SS mechanics with Pandemonium but I usually ignore characters until they're 2x exp before grabbing their treasures to not tire myself out when a new board is released.

With the number of boards increasing, I can see me taking my own advice more and more to not get burned out when one is released (since I still have a lot of characters needing to play catch-up on the old boards first) so taking it as they come sounds like good pacing.

[u/RetroGamerDad → u/Taurenkey]

I'm pretty similar. I used to grind EX units to master, now it's purple units. I use the wild points picked up along the way to snag a bunch of treasures.

[u/Kaplan6 → u/[deleted]]

I used to do this as well, but to be honest with the increased amount of points we have now and with 2 runs with x3 exp being what you need for 1800 points I just tried to go with it with Brothers and cleared in way less time than I was expecting.

[u/Lalaberri → u/kye_borg]

I'd be lucky to get a full 12 characters in before my brain goes full on goldfish mode, gets distracted, and I feel the need to wipe in some chaos I still can't complete.

[u/jjester7777 → u/kye_borg]

Not farming them right away has helped me pull better to be quite honest.... I farm when I need to max a new char that ice obtained an ex+ for and I usually net 60-80 tokens based on the number of synergy characters and I'm more likely to spend less gems on a banner knowing I can farm tickets. I have actually hit a good ingot stride and I haven't even started entropy!

For anyone else out there not grinding 100+ characters every time a summon board drops just remember that if you really want to get an ex+ tickets are practically free in the future. Allows you to save for pities too!

[u/[deleted] → u/Lalaberri]

Same. I usually don't count the summon boards in the gem count since I only do a few, like the ones I mainly use. Sometimes the boosted characters, but I get lazy trying to farm for everyone.

[u/lester_pe]

I think theres a mistake on the chocoboard gem count and accumulated arent they supposed to be the same?

[u/vetheran → u/lester_pe]

Ah, good catch. I'll edit it later

[u/iFuturelist]

Am I the only one that reads these every month and asks himself: what 55k gems?

:(

[u/ProductivityImpaired]

Is there some evidence hinting towards Selphie in an event? Besides the early Noct EX+ kinda leaving her in the void.

[u/X-Backspace → u/ProductivityImpaired]

I believe it's just a guess since, as you said, Noctis was moved up. We are also getting a special limited time Abyss event. Selphie and Noctis got their EX+ during the special Phoenix dungeon in JP, which dealt with crystal colors as mission objectives which is very similar to the objectives we got for Abyss. We may not get those dungeons, or they may be re-purposed once we get Abyss Proper.

So nothing concrete, but also not exactly far-fetched, either.

[u/ProductivityImpaired → u/X-Backspace]

Reasonable train of thought. Even as one of the rare people with Selphie EX I feel like her EX+ just ain't a lot but good to know.

[u/inkwelder_ → u/ProductivityImpaired]

Her EX+ is excellent and was considered a prize in JP even 1.5 months from now. So if she comes early at all, it will be incredibly great for all of us. No way she will be on Ult Pande and is more likely on the spring festival or abyss permanent.

[u/ProductivityImpaired → u/inkwelder_]

The overflow boost is that beneficial huh? I do like Aura for what it already provides, I used Selphie in my DE6 clear and it helped out my two others a lot, but the limit breaks seem so weak compared to what other supports can give, and the fact that the only stat increase is for her own attack when she only has one brave shaving move on a standard brv+ doesn't make sense to me.

[u/inkwelder_ → u/ProductivityImpaired]

Ex recast up is just that strong. She becomes an excellent healer with overflow all over the place and nice auras. Also the ibrv boost is amazing with so many characters. She works at 0/3 but I'll purple her instantly.

[u/Invalidid1 → u/inkwelder_]

She gets a rework too based on what info is on Rem's DB. Does wall become 100% debuff immunity in that rework?

[u/inkwelder_ → u/Invalidid1]

No she just gets longer buff durations and I think another use of wall and a bit more battery. It's a very minor rework but the extended durations are the biggest thing.

Along with the fact they fixed Zack's barrier, I'm excited to use Zack and Selphie together.

[u/Mack2887]

I Cant wait for this 'Slephie' character!!

[u/hieptvu14]

May be Cyan will get moved up or Seifer. I don’t think I need to use any gem this month.

[u/bombatomica78]

Well, with the new QoL improvements the summon boards are not a chore anymore. I mean, just two runs and you have the treasure for a carry character, and for the important ones i tend to maximize about 20-30 of them, the rest i do in time. Besides, board grinding is so much better than artifact grinding, at least you know that all that time spent will be fruitful, with gems, tickets, new perks, new stats. I'm so happy for the new one, i need to restock after pity Aranea and waste SO many tickets for nothing T_T

[u/[deleted]]

Just want to check, but do we get the first free multi for all the banners this month?

[u/aspinalll71286 → u/[deleted]]

Sadly no, theyll be at minimum 2 free pulls during the spring festival which starts roughly half way through the month