Gem (Plants vs. Zombies Heroes)

For other uses, see Diamond (disambiguation).

A gem

Gems are a currency found in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, and the primary currency of this game, used to buy almost all of the packs at the store. Take note that an internet connection is required when you are spending gems for packs.

How to earn gems

There are four ways to earn gems:

• The first one is by purchasing gem packs with real-world currency. These gem packs each offer an incremental gem value with a higher cost. Gem packs that cost more money have higher value compared to cheaper packs. To view the gem packs available to buy, see the store page.
• The second one is via the Quests system. Every three hours, a new quest appears with reward values from 10 to 100. Once the quest is completed, the player can visit the Quests to claim the rewards. However, be sure that you have internet connection in order to get new quests. Up to three quests can be active at one time before new ones are added.

List of rewards for playing Ranked Matches

• The third one is via the Ranked Matches. Gems are rewarded each time the player ranks up in Ranked and each time the player reaches a higher league in Ranked. For example, in the Wooden League (the lowest league), 10 are rewarded for ranking up, but once the Bronze League is reached, 50 are rewarded in place of the rank up gem reward. Like the Quests system, you need an internet connection to play ranked matches.
  • Previously, it was 20 for ranking up within the Wooden League, and 200 for getting promoted to the Bronze League.

The reward for watching an advertisement

• The fourth way is by watching advertisements, which will reward 5 each. The player can watch up to 20 advertisements per day, for the maximum daily total of 100.
  • Previously, it was 10 for each ad, but the player was limited to 10 ads per day. If the player still had an older version, they could get 10 from watching ads in the older version, then update to the new version, possibly resetting their ad count.

How to spend gems

Gems are normally used at the store to buy card packs. There are various offers that cost gems.

The most basic packs the player can buy with gems are Premium Packs or Galactic Packs that contain 6 random cards with at least 1 Rare or higher, costing 100 per pack. Normally, in these cases, there is also a Multi-Pack option for 1000 that includes a free additional pack (resulting in a total of eleven packs) and one guaranteed super-rare card. These multi-pack options are currently only purchasable via microtransaction.

There are Hero Packs that only offer cards that a specific hero would use (limited to the heroes the player owns), costing 200 each. If the player is missing heroes, the weekly packs may offer a specific hero (usually the 10x hero) in the store, costing 750 each along with two cards.

There are also tribe packs that offer cards from Premium, Galactic, Colossal, and Event sets; each pack cost 100. Like most packs, they contain 6 random cards according to the name of the tribe pack. These include the Nut Pack, Team-Up Pack, Science Pack, and many others. These packs may not have certain cards if they were recently released at the time.

At certain times, tribe packs may also release Super Rare packs, with each pack containing 6 random cards of both Premium and Galactic, including one guaranteed Super Rare or higher card, for 150. A Legendary pack may also be offered, containing 6 random cards per pack, including one guaranteed Legendary card, for 500.

And lastly, the store can have a single specific card that is guaranteed according to the rarity of the card. A specific Super Rare in the store can cost 250 while a specific Legendary card costs either 250, 500 or 1000.

Gems can also be used for the purpose of acquiring event cards. As the player needs a specified number of tickets to get an event card, they can spend up to 500 to get one copy of that card instantly, with the gem price lowered by 50 for each tenth of the ticket count requirement cleared (rounded down). 20 can also be spent to instantly skip the four hours of waiting time required for the ticket boost.

Trivia

• Gems in this game have a near-identical look to their Plants vs. Zombies 2 counterparts, but with shading changes.

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