Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-27101994-20170211103201/@comment-24275721-20170213181802

Snapdragon717 wrote: Grinding for Level 3-5 for each world takes a LONG while. I spent about 1000 gems or so (800 from what I had when the update came out and 200 earned) on PS pinatas to get them maxed (still waiting for a PS Pinata to give me at least 2 more Threepeater seed packets to fully have all PS plants maxed at this time). But anyway, if you watch gem ads each day, you'd get to 200 in 2 weeks. To get 1000 gems, that's 10 weeks. 10 weeks times 11 worlds... and yeah... 121 weeks. Aka 2 years and around 3 1/2 months. Obviously, this doesn't take into account RNG and excess gems from playing levels, as well as Travel Log pinatas.

I really hate getting Lost City or other world pinatas that have all plants needing 100 seed packets after level 2. And this is only ONE THIRD of leveling. Not to mention the later two thirds are more grindy Some plants (especially sun producing plants and some delayed instants and Winter Melon) need 3000 seed packets for their last level up. Have fun with that.

Premium plants require less but their seed packets are so random that it changes the trouble you are about to face from sheer grinding to sheer waiting and grinding.