Two currencies
Gems buy gem-shop fighters and, historically, fruit spins around 200 Gems. Raid Tokens buy the raid shop. Mixing the wallets is how a new account owns five starters and nothing that can hit an eight-minute threshold.
The starter row is about 50 Gems: One Hero, Saiya, Kuroshi, Shinobi, and Gomi. Buy one. The next purchase that usually changes clear speed is a shop unit around 1600 Gems or more. Mid-shop faces in the hundreds are optional only after that unit exists. Pet capsules at 150 Gems, with a legendary pity around 60 misses, are a side spend. Raid capsules cost about 150 Raid Tokens, or 150 Speed Raid tokens on that machine, with a mythic pity around 100.
The October description lets you sell fruits and pets back for Gems. That does not make the capsule the first purchase.
Daily gems
Daily quests have paid about 70 Gems each. The combat set people count is log in, one dungeon, a dungeon with two or more players, one raid, and one Boss Rush, about 350 Gems when all five pay. After the pets update, the final "clear the rest" reward is a pet capsule instead of a lump of raid tokens. Wait a few seconds after the daily reset before you enter a raid, or the quest can miss a lobby that started on the previous day.
Codes at level 10 are a lump, not a salary. Redeem them, then go back to this list. AFK Place adds a slow gem drip and pays double on weekends after 24 July 2026. VIP has been described as doubling AFK gems. It is optional. The pass prices players quote are Extra Drop at 999 Robux and VIP at 799 Robux. Extra Drop adds drops in Dimensions, Boss Rush, and raids. Neither pass is required to afford a 1600-Gem unit if dailies and raids are running.
Raid gems are the second prize
About 20 percent of normal raid rolls are gems and about 78.8 percent are tokens. You still raid on a gem day because a full lobby creates many rolls. Boss Rush, Time Challenge, and Speed Raid add smaller piles. Dimension cards are not a gem farm.
Spend the first 1600 on a fighter you will equip in PLAY and in raids. Do not convert that plan into a raid-token banner. Pity on those banners is a late token dump.