Challenge Dungeons

Daily Dungeon Challenges are similar to dungeons where you send a pet into the challenge and get rewards based on how well they did. However, there are some differences compared to regular dungeons:


 * your pets do no gain experience from these dungeons
 * instead of items, you will obtain gems depend on how well you did in the challenge
 * you are limited to 3 tries a day, which can accumulate to a maximum of 10 (which can be increased with challenge point upgrades).
 * special effects of pets (Undine or Elephant for example) won't work in Challenge dungeons

There are 6 types of Challenge Dungeons, each giving a different element gem:
 * Elemental Challenge: gem from the 5 elements
 * Neutral Challenge: neutral gem
 * Water Challenge: water gem
 * Fire Challenge: fire gem
 * Wind Challenge: wind gem
 * Earth Challenge: earth gem

There is an Overflow Point perk that improve the Gem Gain for each Challenge Dungeon done.

Gems have three purposes. The first is that you can trade 2k of each gem type for a dungeon party slot. This is important as your progression speeds up significantly if you can send more than one party into the dungeon.

The second purpose is to obtain the Alchemist cape. Pets are not capable of crafting T3 materials without this item. Like the dungeon party slot, it also costs 2k gems of each type.

Lastly, gems can be attached to equipment to improve it depending on the gems. Note that a gem can be combined with other gems of the same element to form higher level gems, up to level 15 gems. This level cap can be increased through Overflow Points, although it is not advised due to how expensive the upgrade is.
 * Neutral gems increases all of the pet's element stats by (1 * Gem Level * Equipment Tier).
 * Water gems increases the pet's health stat by (1% * Gem Level * Equipment Tier).
 * Fire gems increases the pet's attack stat by (1% * Gem Level * Equipment Tier).
 * Wind gems increases the pet's speed stat by (1% * Gem Level * Equipment Tier).
 * Earth gems increases the pet's defense stat by (1% * Gem Level * Equipment Tier).

Guide to Gems
Gems provide an easy way to vastly improve the gear of your pets. At the highest end, which is generally level 15 until endgame, a gem can end up giving a piece of T3 gear 45% of any stat (or +45 to all elemental stats), regardless of its rank or upgrade level. With this in mind, it isn't wise to just create only level 15 gems or only attack gems. Knowing what gems to create and where to use them can result in a more balanced team.

Level 10 Gems

This is the ideal level for the initial gems of all your equipment. While you miss out on 5-15% stats, you gain the ability to make 32 gems instead of 1, which is a pretty good deal all things considered.

The goal should be to get all your teams gear level 10 gems. By doing this, it should significantly boost your dungeon progress. As for what kind of gems you should use, this widely varies on the pet.

Generally, your damage dealers and supports want attack gems. However, when you go into D3, you want some health gems on them, since they will always take damage from ambushes.

Besides attack and health, neutral gems are a good middle-ground gem. They provide defensive and offensive stats if your pet has elemental advantage. It's something to consider over health gems if you want to still increase damage without sacrificing that much protecting. Of course, end game the attack gem still provides more damage. Neutral gems are also important when fighting the Mimic enemy in D3 dungeons, along with other bosses which tend to be Neutral element.

The defense gem are comparable to health gems, but have a different purpose. Certain fights value defense more, like v4s or certain bosses. Other times, health offers more overall survivability. They not only result in pets taking more damage before dying, but they also improve the heals of your support, as healing is based on the target's max health.

Lastly, speed gems have a more niche use verses the other 4. The benefit of speed is increasing the number of actions a pet has per turn, up to 3 max (1500 speed), improving the odds the pet acts first (minus ambushes), and giving defense piercing damage if it has more speed than the defending pet. While all of this sounds good, pets generally reach the speed cap without any gems, so their value is just for improving turn order and defense piercing damage. Both of these don't hold as much value and generally, you won't see many pets with speed gems being used except in special cases (like Earth tower).

Once all your gear has level 10 gems, then it's time to consider merging them and creating higher level gems. Having the challenge point purchase to prevent those gems that are being removed from losing a level will save you a lot of gems, so it's suggested not to remove gems until then. As long as you have the challenge point purchase, increasing your gem levels in increments of 1 or 2 is best as waiting to jump from level 10 to level 15 will take some time.

Note: You can replace a current gem with a new gem to skip the removal of gem process. It will save you a lot of time if you do this.

What To Gem Each Class
For those who just need to know what to gem everyone at a glance, you can refer to the following. Note, this is a basic guideline as will change depending on the gear you have for your pets and how far you are into dungeons.

It doesn't matter where you put your attack and def/health gems, so generally try to keep them on the same type of equip to make swapping easier (ex. most swords have fire, most accessories have water or earth) when you are reforging/upgrading.


 * Mages: 1 Fire, 2 Water. Basically the fire will be the sword and HP on the other 2.
 * Defenders: All Earth (v4's)/ All Water (dungeons). More defense benefits v4's, but more water benefits dungeons. Which gear they are on doesn't matter. A mix of earth/water can be good if you don't want to re-gear for v4's/dungeons.
 * Supporters, Assassin and Rogues: All fire, water if needed. If adding water, recommended starting with accessories/armor.
 * Wind or Neutral gems: Start with accessories then move up to weapon. Generally used to help with a speed problem or elemental problem. Since neutral gems are both offensive and defensive, they can replace either on of the water or fire gems you have on your pet.