GEM SURGE: 4/5 to 5/5 Gem Upgrade Math

Update has not gone live yet on the server I play, but someone just posted the following: 1 Orange/Purple Crest = 16 points, 10 Obols (Phantom Market) and 10 Litra (Phantom Gallery) give 1 point. There are checkpoints within the event, the first Polished Jade (the things you need to collect for the upgrades) starts at 600, and then progresses in 400's until 22 - so 600, 1000, 1400, etc.

Okay let me do some quick rough math (excuse any errors it is 4am)

22 PJ's needed for a 4/5 to 5/5 upgrade

Final points needed for 22: 8800

To get to 600, need to run 37.5 crests, each 400 points after that is 25 crests.

If you were to run ONLY crests to get to 8800, you need to run 563 crests. [(600/16) + (400/16) x 21]

Phantom Market: 1 point per 10 Obols, 11k Obols for full clear = only 1100 points, i.e. 2 PJs

Phantom Gallery: 1 point per 10 Litras, 27,360 Litra for full clear = 2736 points, so full gallery clear is 6 PJs

If you were to do a full phantom market + gallery clear = 3836 points, 9 PJs.. For the remaining 13 PJs, you would need to run an additional 335 crests to get 22 FOR A SINGLE 4/5 to 5/5 UPGRADE

They also just mentioned that you get 100 free points weekly, so 300 over the course of the 3 week event. Adjusting accordingly, that's ~19 crest's worth. So best case scenario for a single 4/5 -> 5/5 upgrade, full phantom market and phantom gallery clear + 316 crests.. lmfao.

In terms of orbs, full PM+PG clear = 38,360 orbs. 1 Crest = 160 orbs, so 316x160 = 50,560.. Total, 88,920 orbs. One $200 orb bundle gives 15,000 orbs.. So round it off to 90k orbs, you would need to buy 6x $200 bundles, this is a $1200 event.

Their greed is truly unfathomable.

If my math is wrong, please do correct me!!