GemsAndGold

GEM SPENDING
I will discuss my recommendations for gem spending for new players. I will break things up into three categories. F2P (Free or minimal spending), Dolphin (Spend a decent amount), Whale (Car payment spending).

Summons
I'll start with the least obvious, what not to spend your gems on. Summons. You will be out of gems too quickly and not have a whole lot to show for it. There are exceptions, but I will get to that later. Summons is notoriously not the best method to get legendary characters. It is best to save gems for other uses. 3000 gems buys you 11 characters. at 3% you will average needing 3 10+1 pulls, so 9000 gems, to get a 5 star character. And 50% of the time it will be an epic as a 5 star. So you'll often need 18000 gems just to get a legendary. This is the reason it is recommended to stay away from gem pulls. Whales- As an exception, I have heard whales say that you will start to stock up 'too many' gems. If you are ever over 100K, Then yes spend some gems on some summons just to get them down. But don't spend them all.

Shrine of Prayer
Let me quote the biggest whale I know. "Shrine of prayer should be ignored unless you get free tickets." Lets do the math on this one. 4500 for a 10 pull. 45 pulls to get one legendary, 20500 gems. And it's the one you want, not a random one like with summons. Sounds to good to be true doesn't it? That's because it is. It only take a month or two to realize that the biggest limiting factor and you get more powerful is not getting duplicates of the heroes you are trying to level, but instead getting enough fodder to level them up.