Eternium ANB Gem Budgets and Spending Priorities Guide

To participate effectively in Eternium’s A New Beginning (ANB) events, budget at least 500 gems for Bronze league, 1,500 gems for Silver league, and 2,000 or more gems for Gold league. Because each successive league features a shorter active play clock, you must spend more gems upfront on research slots, experience boosters, and companions to keep your hero's power ahead of scaling trial monsters before the timer expires.

League Gem Budgets and Timer Constraints

The active play timer tracks only the time you spend inside combat zones, pausing while you remain in town or manage inventory. Shorter timers require higher upfront spending to reach the trial milestones needed for top rewards.

Bronze league offers the most combat time, allowing you to level skills naturally with minimal booster usage. Silver tightens the clock, requiring continuous experience boosts and immediate slot unlocks. Gold provides the narrowest combat window, demanding an aggressive starting bankroll to fast-track character power from the first minute.

Top Gem Spending Priorities

Spend your event gems strictly on upgrades that compress real-world research time or combat leveling time. Misallocating currency into luxury items will leave your hero underpowered as the event clock runs down.

1. Second and Third Ability Slots: Buy both additional ability upgrade slots as soon as you create your event character. Skill upgrades take real-world time to complete. Running three slots simultaneously ensures your primary attacks, mobility skills, and passive damage buffs advance together without stalling.
2. 200% Experience Boosters: Purchase 200% experience boosters from the shop to accelerate the climb to level 70. Since the event clock pauses in town, an active booster provides maximum efficiency during combat, cutting required leveling runs by more than half.
3. Companion Slot Unlocks: Open active slots for companions such as Marcus, Eileen, or Robin. Their crowd control, stuns, and haste buffs are vital for surviving large pulls in higher trial tiers.

Avoid spending gems on cosmetic unlocks, mystery gear chests, or excessive inventory expansions. Your basic inventory space is adequate for managing essential crafting materials and active equipment.

Account Preparation Before the Event

Prepare your main account before the event starts to minimize in-game gem waste. Certain progression systems and resources carry over to your temporary event hero automatically.

• Bank Daily Gems: Accumulate your starting reserve over several weeks by completing daily quests and watching the five daily billboard advertisements on your main profile.
• Level Crafting Mastery to 50: Crafting Mastery is account-wide. Reaching level 50 on your main profile guarantees that your event hero crafts rare, epic, and legendary items at reduced material costs and with higher base stat rolls.
• Purchase Set Recipes for Gold: Visit Liana on your main character and purchase class set recipes using gold. Unlocking recipes beforehand prevents your event hero from spending gems to acquire them during the event.

Leveling and Trial Progression Strategy

To maximize your active timer, transition out of the story campaign quickly:

1. Play Act 1 of the story campaign only until you unlock your first companion and core skill setup.
2. Shift immediately into the Trial portal once unlocked. Trials feature dense enemy packs, yielding significantly higher experience per combat second than story maps.
3. Keep a 200% experience booster active while clearing dense packs to maintain kill streaks.
4. Craft fresh common or uncommon gear rolled with bonus Experience every 10 to 15 levels. Crafting lower-tier gear saves gold and materials while keeping your leveling speed high.
5. Reserve top-tier crafting materials and gold for level 70 legendary set items once you reach the endgame phase.

Milestones and Event Transfers

The primary targets in ANB leagues are Celestial Transforms, which are awarded at designated trial thresholds (typically Trial 90 and Trial 110). Using a Celestial Transform on a level 70 legendary item maxes its base stats, adds bonus Vitality, and marks the item as permanent so it transfers to your main account when the event ends.

When your event timer expires or you choose to end the event early:

• Accrued experience converts into Champion Points on your permanent profile.
• Equipped gear, remaining gold, gemstones, and unspent crafting components transfer to your permanent stash via the in-game mailbox.
• Any unspent gems return directly to your shared account balance.