Heavyweight Fishing Currencies: Gems, Tickets, Crystals

Five currencies, five jobs

The confusion that costs people the most is Crystals versus Tickets. Crystals are the trait-reroll currency. They do not buy skills. If you are hoarding Crystals waiting to summon, you are hoarding the wrong thing.

Crystals

Five Crystals buy one reroll item from Nanjiang on Beginning Isle, and one reroll item rerolls the trait on one skill. Chasing a 0.1% Mythical trait is therefore roughly 1,000 rerolls, or 5,000 Crystals — which is why nobody sensibly targets one directly.

Codes are the single biggest Crystal drop in the game. 13KActives gives 400 Crystals and 200 Tickets on its own, though it requires Level 200. The three Visits codes give 50 each at Level 50. See the codes page.

Gems

Gems come from daily tasks and from beating secret fish. The payouts are published and they are not equal:

• Sanguine Fish — 20 Gems (Amber Isle, Blazing Sun)
• Flying Fish Emperor / Empress, Reborn Puffer Beast, Frost Kingfish — 10 Gems each
• Most others — 3 to 5 Gems

At 50 Gems per rod craft with a 50% failure rate, one Pure Diamond attempt is roughly five Sanguine Fish. The Taiji code gives 500 Gems outright, but it needs Level 500.

Tickets

Tickets come from the daily easy and hard Ticket quests, given by the quest NPC on Beginning Isle. The 7/11 update reduced their difficulty. Since banner pity only guarantees a Secret at 1,000 summons, the daily quests are not optional if you want one — they are the plan.

Cash

Cash is never really scarce; it is just slow. What matters is that the late-game sinks are enormous: 300M for the Maoshan Rod, 700M to clear both merchants, and about 750M in expectation to finish the Spirit Blessing chain at 50M per 20% attempt.