So, I’ve been dabbling in Raid: Shadow Legends for a couple of months now. I’m free to play with the exception of a few dollars of google balance that was available to me because of the Google Rewards survey app. As a result, gems, energy, and silver are very limited. Early on, I made quite a few mistakes with how I chose to spend those resources. In this post, I’ll give a very simple overview of how to approach champion masteries. Should you use gems to unlock? Should you use energy on the minotaur boss? Read on to find out.
Spending Gems on Masteries
The general rule of thumb here seems to be: Only the first champ. Getting one champion with full masteries can be a huge early game boost so it’s worthwhile, but as I’ll get into in the next section, it doesn’t continue being worthwhile. So, for your first good champ AND before you’re able to do stage 15 of the Minotaur, spend the 800 gems on a set of masteries and then hold your gems for other things.
Energy & Minotaur Stages
Don’t bother with this until you can do stage 15 of Minotaur’s Labyrinth. The rewards below that point aren’t really worthwhile (this is also why it’s okay to spend gems to get masteries for the first time). To show that running the minotaur stage 15 is worth it – the math apparently goes something like:
- 157 runs to get full masteries on one champion
- 157 runs * 14 energy = 2,198 energy required.
- 2,198 energy / 130 (full energy refill) = 17 (rounded up) energy potions
- 17 * 40 gems each = 680 gems.
Completing the whole thing is also worth about 600k xp and some silver, so make sure to take at least one champ that needs levels. Also, for me personally, since I only get 126 energy per refill, it takes about 18 refills to get that done, but 720 gems is still less than 800 and I get the silver and xp… so still worth
Is The Time Worth It?
The last thing to consider is that it takes a long time to do 157 runs unless your team is fast. My team takes 2-5 minutes depending on who lives. For some, just spending the gems might be worthwhile anyway. For those who spend money to buy gems, the dollars might be worth the hours.
For me, though, only one will end up bought with gems, the rest get farmed for maximum reward.
And I normally don’t do things quite like this… but I should. So here’s my referral link for Raid. It’s not a sponsored post or anything official, just my regular in game link. If you’re starting new, may as well use this one and help out! https://link.plrm.zone/app/fvptj