Ultimate F2P Gem Spending Guide for Rise of Kingdoms

A comprehensive free to play (F2P) gem spending guide for Rise Kingdoms (ROK), including when to gem special events, commander wheel of fortune events (such as YSG and Alexander the Great), VIP, Books of the Covenant, and master blueprints. We even cover how you can get more gems.
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0:00 Intro to Gem Spending
2:08 Holiday Gem Event
3:11 Enable Gem Use Confirmation
4:46 Commander Wheels
6:57 DO NOT SPEND HERE
8:14 Gems on VIP
12:36 Books of the Covenant
15:15 Master's Blueprints
16:26 Arrows of Resistance (DO NOT)
18:43 How to get gems
21:56 Summary of Priorities
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[@Chisgule]

BLUESTACKS ►► Play RoK on your computer: bstk.me/silVzSTqU ← SUPPORTS the channel. ALSO, BE SURE TO GET YOUR DAILY QUESTS DONE FOR 100 GEMS! I didn't talk about this in the video because I kind of assume our F2P warriors get it done, but WORTH MENTIONING for sure. ALSO - is there anything else you'd like me to cover next for F2P players?

[@andrewz.7516]

AOO for f2p, great content as usual

[@necromancer5960]

Chis, you should better talk about the most efficient way to expertise legendary commanders for absolute f2p players

[@cookieswithmilk4833]

🇰🇾🀄️👩🏿‍⚖️👩🏿‍⚖️👩🏿‍⚖️😱👺👹

[@qooow]

Maybe put in your gathering gem tips for people to farm during kings tax (30%gathering boost, huge acceleration) and to do so during the kvk event in home kingdom because it is mostly empty at the time. Also using a PC emulator doing that for faster search doesnt hurt either :D. I hope you dont get offended, this is all for good intention. Love your channel and they should put advertisment for it on loading screen for new players instead of dumb thing like "Hey you unlock gold on LVL 10 city hall".

[@ReaperYT-BS]

HIDDEN LOTUS F2PPP YEAAZAZ

[@Shavock]

I love how organised your guide vids absolutly helpful, thank you for your work

[@gabrielo9891]

Quality content as usual 👌 Thanks Chis!

[@jenardcedricrodriguez4974]

This is awesome chis.. you always gives us a bunch of tips for free to play 😊😊👌👌

[@kingtee7792]

This will save me gems Very well explained chisgule Your also so close to 100k subs

[@krindzsman4290]

I Love the intro. Thx for the awesome Vid!

[@gulfarazansari3930]

I have learned soo much from chisgule his tips are absolute and i follow em all being a f2p player

[@sentinelprime5305]

I know a lot of f2p players. I think it will help them a lot if I share this video on our Discord. As always, a very good video and explained in a very factual and understandable way.

[@AshUltima]

Chisgul can you start a new account in a new kingdom. That content is incredible!

[@abdulqureshi69]

And without too much spending

[@escgaming9210]

I don't think he will cause he already has 3 account to take care off and it's all active and contribute to the kingdom

[@plentypotential]

He will get zeroed by trolls

[@sniper_senpai17]

Agreed

[@tylerbennett4908]

Really really appreciate this noodley math about gems and especially VIP. I'm struggliing a lot with math around barb forts and figuring out how many t4s we need for a level 5, also the distribution of covenant books and Lohar heads by percentage of damage done. Thankfully I am in alliance that gets it now, but previously the heavy hitters would only join low level rallies and I wouldn't ever get heads. I was infuriated by this with the witch hats near Halloween.

[@lostenan2092]

Hello everyone, as a F2P this is my ultimate gem spending guide. Card king = only flip 2 cards unless there is 1 gold head in the cards, that's when you should flip it. The value of heads amounts to 450-750 gem per piece (including the 3 gold head from the card king itself, Richard for example) depending on the amount of flips that you will do. In case you are wondering how much is the value if there is no gold head on the reward list, it is 1000 gem per head. (this is the same amount of gem prize for this Halloween event which is good but not the ultimate spending guide) Wheels = I've done a lot of testing and my results showed 10 spins is the most valuable, second is 45, the third is 100. The further you go the amount of gem per head increases, the 10,45, or 100 should be your checkpoints. Do not stop on the 25, or 70 checkpoint because the checkpoint requires you to do like 2.5x amount of spins to get to those checkpoints, while the head chest rewards for 10,45, or 100 gives you a better value for the amount of spins needed every checkpoint. Gem gathering = Basic way is to send a march, wait for it to go home then send again. Ultimate way is to have a certain amount of troop load, and the moment they starts to walk back to your home you have to send them again to the next one, basically no rest. City skin = Do not invest on this 10,000 worth gem city skin unless you really need the city skin for it's stats, not the looks. This Halloween city skin gives attack stat which is really bad for infantry, health is the way to go. You should invest on 7,000 gem city skin that gives 35 gold heads.

[@noobatredstone3001]

Don’t agree with the wheel. 100 spins has the best value, followed by 45. 10 spins is too random to talk about it.

[@lostenan2092]

@@noobatredstone3001 My test results did not include the rng or chances of spinning the wheel. This is only for the value of the chest rewards by how much spin you do.

[@lostenan2092]

@@noobatredstone3001 As for my defense on the 10 spins. It will only cost you Free+400+400+400+800+3600 = 5600 gems to 10 spin. So imagine having 5600(10 spin) every time the wheel will show up, it will be 5600 x 10 = 56000 for 100 spins while you all know that doing 100 spin costs like 70,000. Okay let me get the exact cost, it is 70,400.

[@Yudha.2]

Why The Halloween City Is Bad? I though Its Good And Its Infantry. Imho F2p Or Low Spender Need It To Compete In Battlefield 🙁

[@lostenan2092]

@@Yudha.2 Health is the most prioritized stat in ROK and it is based on the experienced, new players, and content creators of youtubers showed that health really does provide the best results in the battle report. ROK is always about lasting longer in the open field or even in rallies. Being a glass cannon is not recommended that's why you'll see Khan as an example not being in the top list of commanders you should invest in first. Personal experience as f2p that I regret: I got Dragon boat, Timbered Ensemble which both gives archer defense while decreases cavalry health/defense. I got the Moment of Celebration, one of the latest archer city skins and it gives archer health and reduces infantry attack. Now the question is, can I use all of them? A big no, and the only one that I'm gonna use is the one that provides health. My main point is, F2P don't have the luxury to collect city skins for the looks. You should always focus on the stats and literally in every event, should always aim for value, value, and value.

[@TheEngineeringDreams]

I'm a F2P from 1597 with 42M power now. Books of the covenant seems a bit of a waste to me. If you see the time which is needed to research some of the last tiers in the acedamy it takes about 2 months. A F2P player will never have enough speed ups to rush these. Even with the 7% extra research speed the amount of time will still be around 2 months. Within these two months you can rally forts. Which I do as well (about 20-30 forts a day which gives around 40 books of convenant per day). Quick math shows it will be less time to rally forts than pushing gems into the castle for researches. I push all my gems into VIP level since they are not needed anywhere else. Also an extra tip on the master blueprint, never buy these during more than gems event. This is a waste of gems in that spot. If the event "Build up" comes around you can build a building for 100K points which will give you 1300 gems. If you do that you only miss out on 700 gems which is not as bad as 2k during more than gem event. This means you can spend those left over gems on vip again. I am 300 days into the game and have reached 13,5 Vip level many spenders are not as high as I am while I am F2P.

[@xxresistantxx50]

Wdym bro, isn't it possible to buy the blueprint first during more than gem event and hold on to it until build up event comes?

[@gustavoandradepacheco5798]

Buy the master's blueprint during more than gems, use the master's blueprint during the building event.

[@TheEngineeringDreams]

@@xxresistantxx50 It is possible ofcourse but at my level I only have huge upgrades to go (academy, watchtower, hospitals) takes a lot of time to gain speed ups for those to make it a quick upgrade (speeding wise). So I am stuck with those for a long time till that event pops up and I am able to use it. You would gain another 1300 gems indeed if you buy it on MTG event but I rather buy 50k Vip points each MTG event to race towards VIP 14. Which is from lvl 13-14 250K vip points. Rather achieve it in 5 MTG events than in 6 or 7 due to buying blueprints from the shop. Those 700 I lose during build up event is not as much compared to the vip points I miss imo.

[@michaeltrinh4394]

Power gain will stall from 35-40 mil power, having a lvl25 castle will allow you to upgrade more and get the T5. F2P will not really use T5 in open field, but if you're playing long term you'll want them eventually, so sooner the better! 😄

[@blainewagner5539]

I am F2P and have 400 days in speedups so you can get the speeds

[@inditee]

Thank you so much Chisgule!! Thank God there are people like you to help us :D

[@TiltedPenguin292]

This was helpful thanks bro 😉

[@randytope2280]

Wonderful. Thanks!

[@ShivaEditz]

As always great video

[@danicegomez2510]

Thanks for your hard work, and all the breakdowns. Almost too much information if there is such a thing!

[@DavidBrent2003]

Nice one Chisgule 👍

[@santhoshr5441]

Bro f2p needed more videos like this ...just do more for us ..how to invest and where..nice video very useful

[@meysamh196]

Thx for the guide 🥰

[@prasannavb2060]

Hi im a f2p thanks for the video . I have 75k gems for alex 100 spins just collected 75k gems in 45 days . I got tempted to get the city skin but controlled myself 😊😊😊. Your video motivated me a lot thanks .

[@rokmain4080]

The only intro i love🥰

[@aniketghosh.2138]

Chis i just joined your kd and its awesome🥳 people active to do forts all the time

[@JDRuleZZ1]

Always buyed the 8h booster at VIP shop. Ok I stop this now and focus on the things u said. Thangs from Germany :-)

[@godfather53]

Very useful video

[@Ticadakusable]

in all Your videos , Thank you!

[@Al-ze6uo]

As a f2p, I honestly didn't like your last video where you talked about gems... But this one is good😁 I'll leave a like 👍

[@kshitizraj4485]

Hey Chis , Thanks for all the guides , they help a lot . Just a quick question , do you think it would be better now to go for ysg and then richard to chain barbs of level 40 and above ? i have been doing lvl 36 with a 5511 richard and it struggles a bit

[@Giraves]

I learned gem use confirmation the hard way. I accidentally used 16k gems for a stone quarry research 😅

[@MemerCat0]

this is a certified BRUH moment

[@KRATOS-ul8zu]

thanks for all the info bro you are our ROK Wikipedia :) , can you please do a video for a low spender/F2P player on which legendary commanders they should focus considering the time they will take to max them, and considering that they might not get those commanders in MGE cuz of those whales in the kingdom. :)

[@senseijason854]

My guy almost at 100k

[@karankullar8508]

1 more awesome video for f2p players 💯

[@k1ok_]

nice video keep it up

[@widowm4k3r73]

Very helpful video thank you,all my buildings are level 25 except castle,academy.I have so much rss all I do is farm gems.1500+ a day

[@nikkutinejrrr5930]

Get a job save a lot of time

[@willgodefrey7370]

Chisgule again great video. Can we get an update that includes moderate spenders that includes what to spend on as we consider some new events like egg and other material events that use gems.

[@MrJessie51]

thank you

[@doofydt2447]

Nice microphone bro 😎

[@Kneirros]

Me: **inhales deeply with eyes closed** *_I've never been this early for ages._*

[@nikosparta2441]

That is why I keep my gems in the gem packs in the inventory so I don’t have a large amount that I could accidentally lose. I only open the packs when I know I’m about to use them.

[@jecainglet9109]

I have 30k gems and vip 10 in 67 days old kd while being 100% f2p thank you for the farming gems guide chis

[@nonenonenonr]

Me: looking for science video Chis: Attractive thumbnail

[@kzh5443]

That was really funny bro about the wall upgrade thing 😂 appreciate your content bro, keep up the good work 🙏

[@TFTCarnage]

Thank you. Comment on algorithm

[@generaltaco5028]

So much holidays in such short amount of time 3 months which means more seasonal events for games 😁😁

[@thatoneguy7506]

Chis vids are so well made go back over email the time

[@thomasflaye1741]

When you’re vip12 and the 250k gap from 13 means you’ll get t5 sooner than vip 13

[@chrisstarcitizen4125]

Great sound with this mic.

[@reverse436y6]

thanks :)

[@heinhtetstyles8710]

Nice guide but need to change the order to priotization. Always go for vip first vip 10 then 12 then 14 if you want efficiency. Go for wheel if you want fun.

[@rjayhao3053]

Targeting VIP14 is very very good Idea.

[@jordanjiang4090]

Awesome

[@davidb5205]

About forts vs gemming books: For 140 AP (cost of one fort rally), you can easily chain 20+ barbarians and get far more value in terms of both gems and speedups. 1 Fort = 3-5 books max. 20-30 barbs (Level 21+) chained = 90 gems on average. This is the case for low level barbarians in home kingdom, and even more true for Lost Kingdom barbs. That alone is more value, but on top of that, you get EXTRA value from spending those gems on books during MTG. Fort drop rates are inefficient use of AP for upgrading your castle in a reasonable amount of time.

[@davidb5205]

@Matheus Miguel 140 AP gives more than 50 gems when barb chaining which is the max value you can get from a fort in books. If you did such a test, you weren't barb chaining. You were likely hitting barbs with 5 marches, spending 30 AP per barb which is terribly inefficient.

[@davidb5205]

@Matheus Miguel Before I had YSG expertised, I actually used Aethel + Richard because Aethel has a 180 degree AOE. With YSG expertised, I use Richard + YSG for long barbarian runs and Lohar + YSG if I want to kill quicker.

[@joshuakneisley2939]

Curious your thoughts on spending gems as a free to play or very low spender that only has t5 siege to unlock? 😁

[@vigneshrajk7526]

Hi Chisgule, This is an amazing guide, Wish you made this earlier. I am a f2p almost 550 days into the game. I already got max castle, vip 14 and 3 max legendary [YSG, Alex, Guan]. Could you please share your thoughts on how I should plan and spend my gems ?

[@calvinsmyk4625]

Hey chrisgule , i am a very limited spender and i am at a point where i have maxed my academy , i sit on VIP 10 nearly 11 and finally got YSG expertised. Now i saved around 55k gems and its alexander wheel. Now is my question if i should invest all my gems into the next alex wheel or if i should spend them on something else ...

[@ilir4186]

My small son went into my pc on blue stacks while i was working ,spend 34k gems on city decoration but than destroyed them xD

[@Chisgule]

🤯

[@muhai6920]

Do a free to play series starting from a new account

[@BIOFRENZY1]

@Ghiscule I started playing ROK in a kd that got the YSG wheel almost right away after I joined. I didn't get the unlock of course... We are 100+ days later and haven't seen YSG in card kings. Is there another way to unlock him? Thanks!

[@CaptainLegionary]

Tux for the gem use conformation cuz I did accidentally spend like 1k gems, literally 1k on just upgrading saw mill to lvl 1

[@giiyu7297]

Notification gang✌️

[@aced6750]

just from out first lohar in the kingdom i knew the arrows would be pricey so i made sure to kill enough to get me to like 2 or 3 k arrows so itll hold me till the next one (mainly f2p so i wont have to worry about it anytime soon)

[@aabad21]

Free2play all day!

[@princeboob3012]

I need so many gems 😭

[@muslimking3869]

I have 150k gems ryt now and I'm waiting for Alex comes in wheels my Alex is 55

[@torryunggul6229]

Try to farm gem on main account and build 1-3 farm account to help you collect main account rss

[@waldo-ot6ul]

@@muslimking3869 just rub it in

[@Khaliji.Studios]

One way you forgot to mention is that you can also gain gems from completing the MGE tasks.

[@noxxer8972]

I don’t really know what is good on this game and I was wondering what I should use out of boudica sun tzu belisarius osman baibars and Matilda of flowers, I’m f2p so I’m not using legendary yet

[@vaughnlawson22]

I’m saving up for a civilization change

[@jaysoncortel3149]

Got richard today any tips im using him as garrison

[@Beaudin196]

So I am new too the game 4 days in , vip pass at lvl 3 should I use my 5k gems too upgrade my pass or keep it for these events your talking about like wheel of fortune and others or I should just spend the 150 gems a day for second builder

[@themagicjuice1942]

What about on 2 day building contracts before you get to VIP 6?

[@redhaalshafai4412]

Chisgule , someone is a cavalry player and he wants to max his next open field commander and he says that YSG is not important in open field for cavalry players, so what do you think?

[@anis2642]

I was thinking it was just better to farm gems just during kvk because of lv 3 min nodes and then when you aren’t in kvk just farm normally and u can take 1 day off every week to farm gems when you have time

[@JohnusSmittinis]

I actually word disagree that VIP 6 is important. It takes 11,500 points to get to VIP 6, and you get roughly 200 VIP a day. That's 58 days. So you can either spend 11,500 to get to the second building queue, or use 29 two-day building contracts (150 gems each) for a total of 4,350 gems. I'd rather have the building queue and keep the gems.

[@jenqq8514]

can u always go back buy the special privilege? like lvl 5 i didnt buy it but i wanna go to lvl 6 vip already and buy the lvl 5 special next week?

[@thornadohq5048]

Hey Chis pin this. Each festival event has an alternating flow. Current alliance based rewards and other 7k gems spend event type. Next event will be 7k gems one. 7k gems spent gives you back 7k gems in return and along with 35 gold heads. To do these types of event make a team of 3 -4 byddies and tp to zone 1 in least resources rich area. Gather level 1 resources nodes (will take about 14 to 20 mins) in mean while your resources production will be enough to give you event currency. Rally low level forts and kill barbs 3 times a day. Totally free. For vip , spend gems for vip on more than gems event. It's a 2 day event and needs 25k gems each day. Get gold heads in return. So gather about 57k gems as back up. Have a nice day. Migrate to k75 if you like good kind mates. We zero toxic players. So you will be safe.

[@jirielrantayo7609]

What alliance are you in 75?

[@thornadohq5048]

@@jirielrantayo7609 PO/NL

[@cryo2383]

Stopped after the 7k tip :p

[@rhodinnatividad3469]

Btw what happens if I gather gem deposit after gem deposot and then I got hit during gathering or during marching, what happens to the gems?

[@daimyomasamune2342]

I think you shouldve mentioned joining a top alliance boosts f2ps by a lot not just by forts but also with speedups,gems and books of the covenant

[@waffelo4681]

But i really love my alliance rn mann they're really nice and all lol

[@kevinwardell528]

Hey! Question.. I’m in my first experience to kvk 1 and like I’ve teleported to lost kingdom and been here for about 3-4 days I think enough to where we captured ruined CF.. YSG wheel is active aswell. And I’m wondering if I should drop every single gem into that wheel? I am not F2P I made pretty wild purchases 😂 Currently I have all the following Vip 12 Ch25 17M power Mina CC baibars beli sun tzu and kusonoki and Joan of arc all expertise 750K total troops trained 453k special unit Cavs included And 12k gems I should have watched your videos prior to playing rise of kingdoms because I wasted so much of everything. I’ve already made changes on how I’m saving up items. But yeah should I dump every single gem in that wheel? I still plan to purchase in game whenever I see /need something

[@Natalious2001]

edward is op really op... when u are a mega spender and a rally leader

[@thornadohq5048]

On the point regarding spending gems for 500 ap. This will be of extra value during kvk. New higher level barbs are coming which can drop about 100 gems. Point at 17:22

[@ay5205]

I spent lots of gems on buying vip I don't know if that's worth it, now I have a lot of legendary commanders our kingdoms age is very young but I don't even have their first skill maxed out,. .... broken hearted, and I certainly put in lots of money say buying Minamoto but it seems like those winning the mitightest commanders are putting more money than I did but still, don't know if I should spend on wheels of fortune or vip

[@IamnotfromUSA]

You will get all of your gems back if you farm with expertiesed YSG.

[@reinyeradoriuq2733]

He's overrated

[@IamnotfromUSA]

@@reinyeradoriuq2733 no he is not

[@ericdartiguelongue5313]

AP rate drop for fort is between 10% and 15%

[@neilcarlosjavier558]

question! im an occasional spender and im currently VIP 12. should i push for t5 and buy books of the covenant or gem up my vip upto 14?

[@seek232]

14

[@gonhelitorion8582]

Today is spent all my gems for the commander wheel to get richard I and i am not even max lvl

[@shiro6904]

More than Gems event comes every 40-45 days

[@farmingitemgaming6979]

waiting for alex wheel still gathering more gem and barbs hunt ~~

[@andrewchen6826]

same

[@osaidalshaer3340]

To summarize never spend on lucky wheel or card king just get commanders first time then go VIP 10 and aim for VIP 12 and only spend gems on VIP every more than gems event after VIP 12 castle books, done.

[@reinyeradoriuq2733]

What if I'm vip 13, and have castle 25 now. Where should I spend next? Vip 14 or wheels? Its 250k vip points away

[@marv_8484]

Does someone know when we will get the next mtg?

[@unnoyosa6800]

Want to ask if I gem the gold heads in the Halloween event that is happening? is it worth or not?

[@jackrisonjoseph]

Save your gems

[@ryder2156]

3:11 PLEASE DO THIS I spent around 10,000 gems on accident trying to heal a full hospital when i had the rss to heal

[@KingvGio]

😂

[@jackrisonjoseph]

Yeah I once bought the 5% attack boost from the merchant shop accidentally which cost me 2k gems. I know its not a lot, but I'm wasting my gems on useless stuff😪

[@braxxxgaming3084]

Hey Chis between Wheel and Card King what is the cheapest way to unlock a commander?.. Thanks!

[@jackrisonjoseph]

Card king

[@s_967]

is spending gems on the wheel worth it?

[@nebajay2408]

I have timed it and i gathered 3200 gems in the space of 12 hours, but it requires you to get back to home kingdom while every one is on the lost kingdom map so that you wont have any competition or shortage of gem nodes to jump to.

[@davidb5205]

This is a reasonable amount of gems for 12 hours. It's more efficient to have four marches gem gathering and one barb chaining. Barb chaining with free AP (especially with YSG) produces more gems per minute than gem gathering. There was someone who tried convincing me that it was possible to collect 4500-5000 in ten hours, even though it was mathematically impossible.

[@michaelkareka9889]

Do u jeed to get castle level 25 to get t5?

[@WORRIOR-zl1bd]

Who is better ysg , artmisia,or ramsies for longbowmen

[@djbitt9823]

Definitely go and invest in YSG as he offers the best value for open field and also in general (events and pve) ramesses and artimisia are more of niche-role commaders. If you are further interested take some time to watch guides here on KZbin

[@watson1501]

What’s going on governors

[@binbaaz1]

I farm every day 500 gems and also get time to farm gold and get rss from my farm and I'm free to play only unlock mina

[@willa4998]

Wish I could change servers cause the big guys in mine kill my lil farms

[@TheLakey00]

where should f2p spend gems when T5's are unlocked, and VIP is 12+ ?