Free-to-Play Resources
Certain resources in Wizardry Variants Daphne can be used to obtain in-game content or upgrade your adventuring party. While many can be purchased at the Wizardry Variants Daphne Official Web Shop, Wizardry Variants Daphne Web Store, and at the Jeweler (see Guide Purchase Evaluaions page), Free-to-Play (F2P) players rely on in-game resource accumulation over time. The summary below tries to cover regular, reliable resource accumulation methods. Intermittent events can provide additional resource gain opportunities, some of which are noted where appropriate.
Gems
Two Gem types: Gems of Erin (Purple) and Gems of Org (Green).
Purple Gems must be purchased through one of the methods mentioned above. Green gems can be purchased as well, but can also be obtained in-game for free. Both gem types generally exchange at the same rate for items, although there are certain Purple-gem-only Jeweler items. Unless noted otherwise, details below refer only to Green Gems.
Monthly totals assume a 30-day or 4 week month for easy math.
Regular Gems
| Source | Frequency | Amount | Monthly Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Mission Completion | Daily | 20 | 600 |
| Jeweler "Daily Adventure Handy Supply Set" (100gp) | Daily | 10 | 300 |
| Weekly Mission Completion | Weekly | 200 | 800 |
| Official Web Shop Weekly free gems | Weekly | 50 | 200 |
| Weekly Web Store free gems | Weekly | 50 | 200 |
| Adventurer's Guild "Today's Supplies" / last day | Biweekly | 200 | 400 |
| ---- | |||
| Total | 2,500 |
Optional Gems
| Source | Frequency | Amount | Monthly Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeweler: Exchange - Guild Points - Gem of Org x250 (1000 pts) | Monthly | 500 | 500 |
| Jeweler: Exchange - Bounty Medals - Gem of Org x100 (400 pts) | Monthly | 500 | 500 |
Irregular Gems
| Source | Frequency | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Adventurer's Gulid "Special Supplies" (tied to events, ~1-3 monthly) | ~ Monthly | 200-500 |
| Event mission gems (usually 1-3 monthly) | ~ Monthly | 200-1,000 |
| "Maintenance" apology gems (1-4 monthly) | ~ Monthly | 200-1,000 |
| Old Castle Ruins Event challenge rewards (>Bronze Grade) | ~3-4 Months | up to 3,000 |
One-Time Gems
| Source | Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|
| New Account gems | ~2,000 | New Accounts get gems in their Guild Mailbox to build account. Usually spent on remains at the Jeweler. |
| Official Web Shop one-time free gems | 800 | One time free gems at webstore using your User ID |
| Weekly Web Store one-time free gems | 800 | One time free gems at webstore after setting up a login with email and user ID |
| Tavern / Scrawny old man / Friend Invite activity | 25-100 each | When others use your code, you get gems as they progress throuh Beginning Abyss. Each milestone can be received 5x. |
| Abyss "Clearance Missions" completion | ~1,000 | Each abyss has a no-time-limit mission set with gem completion reward. |
| In-game Achievements | 20-50 each | Game progression and special milestones in combat successes, compendium/collection, etc. |
Uses
Gems can be used in the game as a general currency for upgrades at the Jeweler (adventurer's remains, equipment packs, spellbooks, class change books, etc.) and in-game activities (resurrections, Mausoleum assistance, expanded inventory space, relic removal, etc.). Some in-game activities let you use gems instead of Gold for the same item. Gems are scarce enough that use for those cases is discouraged. Popular uses are listed here:
"Banner" Adventurer Remains:
- The most popular gem use is for Limited time special adventurer's remains that give a chance (typically 2%) to get new Legendary characters or new skins for existing characters.
- These special remains typically cost 200 gems each from the Jeweler, or 11 remains for 2,000 gems.
- Each Limited Remains usually gives, along with the random character, one 'pity' token that can be exchanged at the Jeweler for remains, equipment, and supplies.
- Guaranteed banner character remains typically cost 100 (for legendary) or 60 (for non-legendary) tokens.
- At a 2% success rate, the probability of at least one success in N pulls is: P(N) = 1 - 0.98^N. So odds of having pulled one character on the way to reaching pity is: P(60)=70.2%, P(100)=86.7%
- So odds are fairly good you will get the banner character before hitting the 'pity' limit, but the gem-cost of a 100% guarantee banner pull is:
- 60: 5 x 2,000 + 5 x 200 = 11,000 gems
- 100: 9 x 2,000 + 1 x 200 = 18,200 gems
- Banner events sometimes provide 2-4 free remains that slightly reduce the above "guarantee" amount by 200-600 gems.
- The maximum regular gem rate of 3,500 gems/month gives enough for '100% pull' on legendary banners every 18,200 / 2,800 = 5.2 months.
- Usually this is significantly reduced by irregular sources. Monthly 'possible' gem rates above of 4,100-6,000 reduce this to 3.0-4.4 months.
- Banner adventurers generally come out more often than this. Even with other Irregular Gem Sources F2P players should not expect to get every banner with free resources.
Handbooks
- Ally class changes require class-change handbooks or similar items for every class change event for that character.
- The Jeweler offers four random class change books each week at a cost of 400 gems each (two are limited to Purple Gems).
Inventory Storage Increase:
- The default inventory storage space is 500 slots.
- The limit can be increased by 25 items for 100 gems up to a new total of 1,000 slots for total of 2000 gems.
Adventurer's Guild Adventurer Limit Increase:
- The default registered adventurer headcount limit is 100.
- The limit can be increased by 10 slots for 100 gems up to new total of 200 slots for a total of 1,000 gems.
Guild Points
Guild points (blue tokens) are earned by completing activities at the Adventurer's Guild
Regular Guild Points
| Source | Frequency | Amount | Monthly Total† |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Mission Completion | Daily | 40 | 1,200 |
| Weekly Mission Completion | Weekly | 600 | 2,400 |
| Adventurer's Guild "Today's Supplies" (Days 3 and 11) | Biweekly | 200 | 400 |
| ---- | |||
| Total | 4,000 |
Uses
Guild points can be Exchanged at the Jeweler for gems, adventurer's remains, gold, and items, most useful items below.
| Jeweler Guild Points Exchange Item | G.P. Cost | monthly limit |
|---|---|---|
| Gem of Org x250 | 1,000 | 2 |
| Legendary Adventurer's Remains (general pool, guaranteed) | 8,000 | 1 |
| Adventurer's Remains (ordinary) | 800 | 3 |
| Class-Specific Remains (ordinary) | 800 | 1 / class |
Blacksmithing ore and Amnesia incense are also available (for removing attached Bondmates), but both are now more easily obtained through in-game activity.
Adventurer's Remains
Uses:
In this game, Adventurer's Remains are used by the Masked Adventurer to resurrect allies to help him in his adventure. Remains can be specific to one particular adventurer, or to a group or type of adventurer, or can be ordinary remains that pull randomly from the entire adventurer pool. Gaining additional adventurers increases your party options and gaining duplicate copies of adventurers can increase the power of your adventuring party in numerous ways by allowing skills to be inherited or increased in power, or by providing adventurer tags for grading up to higher levels. As such accumulating adventurer remains is one of the primary ways, even a necessary way, of advancing in the game.
Regular Adventurer's Remains
| Source | Frequency | Amount | Monthly Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventurer's Guild "Today's Supplies" (Day 7) | Biweekly | 1 | 2 |
| Bone Picker Abyss-wandering NPC | Weekly | 1 | 4 |
| Adventurer's Remains weekly random chest drop | Weekly | 1 | 4 |
| Beginning Abyss Weekly Respawning Remains | Weekly | 1 | 4 |
| Beginning Abyss Monthly Respawning Remains | Monthly | 9 | 9 |
| Trade Waterways Abyss Monthly Respawning Remains | Monthly | 1 | 1 |
| Impregnable Fortress Abyss Monthly Respawning Remains | Monthly | 1 | 1 |
| Crucible Mausoleum Respawning Remains | Biweekly | 4-6 | 8-12 |
| Crucible Mausoleum Tallow Bone Summoning | Weekly | 1 | 4 |
| ----- | |||
| Total | 37-41 |
Optional Adventurer's Remains
| Source | Frequency | Amount | Monthly Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeweler: Guild Points - Legendary Adventurer's Remains | Bi-Monthly | 1 | 0.5† |
| Jeweler: Guild Points - Adventurer's Remains | Monthly | 5 | 5† |
| Jeweler: Bounty Medals - Adventurer's Remains (800 pts) | Monthly | 5 | 5 |
| Jeweler: Gems - Adventurer's Remains (200 Gems) | n/a | 1 | 17.5†† |
| Jeweler: Gems - Adventurer's Remains 11 pack (2,000 Gems) | n/a | 11 | 19.25†† |
| Jeweler: Gems - "Banner" Adventurer's Remains (200 Gems) | n/a | 1 | 17.5†† |
| Jeweler: Gems - "Banner" Adventurer's Remains 11 pack (2,000 Gems) | n/a | 11 | 19.25†† |
† assume 4,000 maximum regular monthly guild points rate and full usage
†† assume 3,500 maximum regular monthly gem rate and full usage
One-Time Adventurer's Remains
| Source | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bone Collector New-Game Legendary Adventurer's Remains Selector | 1 |
| Beginning Abyss B1F Southeast corner remains | 1 |
| Beginning Abyss B2F "Abyss Key" locked room chests remains | 4 |
| Class-specific Mausoleum Remains | 29 |
| Anonymous Adventurer Mausoleum Remains | 6 |
Guild Tags
Guild Tags are required to increase a character's Guild Grade that sets the maximum level the adventurer can reach. An exam must be passed and a Guild Tag payment must be made to rise above level 20, and for every 10 levels thereafter. In addition, the required Guild Tag is formed by Unifying two tags of the previous level.
Tag Requirements per Adventurer per Grade
| Adventurer Grade | Max Level | Tag required | Ungraded Tag Count | Cumulative Ungraded Tags | Party of 6 Cumulative Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ungraded | 20 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 0 |
| Lead | 30 | Ungraded | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Bronze | 40 | Lead | 2 | 3 | 18 |
| Iron | 50 | Bronze | 4 | 7 | 42 |
| Steel | 60 | Iron | 8 | 15 | 90 |
| Copper | 70 | Steel | 16 | 31 | 186 |
As this table shows. the required number of tags for each grade grows quickly and tag accumulation can become a primary bottleneck for advancing in the games. They can be accumulated from some of the following activities.
Regular Guild Tags
| Source | Frequency | Amount | Monthly Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventurer's Guild "Today's Supplies" (Day 10) | Biweekly | 2 | 4 |
| Weekly "Slay Dangerous Monsters" request | Weekly | 4 | 16 |
| ---- | |||
| Total | 20 |
Irregular Guild Tags
| Source | Frequency | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| "Urgent" Slay Dangerous Monsters Events | ~ every 1-2 Months | 10-15 |
| Tag Retrieval Events | ? | 40-50 |
Optional Guild Tags
Guild tags can be obtained by dismissing (retiring) adventurers from the guild. See full details in the FAQ.
| Ungraded Adventurer Type | Tags received on dismissal |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | 1 Ungraded |
| General | 2 Ungraded |
| Legendary | 1 Iron Grade, 1 Ungraded (5 Ungraded equivalent) |
At high grades, dismissing extra adventurers may be necessary or collecting enough Guild Tags to advance. Using the numbers of regularly available adventurer remains as described above, the available tags are:
| Remains | Tags from dismissing 39 Ungraded Remains |
|---|---|
| All Anonymous | 39 |
| All General | 78 |
| All Legendary | 39 ungraded, 39 iron |
| Expected Value††† saving legendaries | 54.6 ungraded |
| Expected Value††† using legendaries | 56.55 ungraded, 1.95 iron |
††† using the standard adventurer remains drop rates: Anon:50%, General:45%, Legend:5%.
From this we see almost 75 ungraded tags can be obtained monthly using regular means (direct tags + dismissing all regular remains). Including legendary dismissals, the iron tags make it equivalent to about 92 ungraded tags, noting that iron tags cannot be 'downgraded' and are only useful to reach Steel and higher grades.
While it does involve a player deliberately sacrificing other party improvement options for tags, we can consider including the regular 3,500 Gems/month to produce ~19 additional remains to increase the total available for dismissal to about 58:
| Remains | Tags from dismissing 58 Ungraded Remains |
|---|---|
| All Anonymous | 58 |
| All General | 116 |
| All Legendary | 58 ungraded, 58 iron |
| Expected Value††† saving legendaries | 81.2 ungraded |
| Expected Value††† using legendaries | 84.1 ungraded, 2.9 iron |
††† using the standard adventurer remains drop rates: Anon:50%, General:45%, Legend:5%.
Thus, the maximum ungraded tag rate using direct means plus all regular gems to get and dismiss remains is about 101 tags per month if don't include dismissing legendary adventurers, and 127 if you do.
Time requried to grade up your party
Using these numbers, the time to grade up a 6 member adventuring party:
| Regular Tags alone | dismissing regular Anon/General Adventurers | and Legendary Adventurers | including Gem bought Anon/Gen Adventurers | and Legendary Adventurers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 member party ungraded-to-iron tag accum. time | 2.1 months | 2.4 weeks | 2.4 weeks | 1.8 weeks | 1.7 weeks |
| 6 member party iron-to-steel accum. time | 2.4 months | 2.8 weeks | 2.3 weeks | 2.1 weeks | 1.6 weeks |
| 6 member party ungraded-to-steel tag accum. time | 4.5 months | 5.2 weeks | 4.2 weeks | 3.9 weeks | 3.1 weeks |
| 6 member party steel-to-copper tag accum. time | 4.8 months | 5.6 weeks | 4.5 weeks | 4.1 weeks | 3.3 weeks |
| 6 member party ungraded-to-copper tag accum. time | 9.3 months | 10.8 weeks | 8.7 weeks | 8.0 weeks | 6.3 weeks |
All told, the tag economy does place a throttle on free-to-play adventurer progress. A player with game knowledge could race through the few abysses in a few days, but without financial investment they will find themselves level-locked by the free-to-play Guild Tag economy until they accumulate enough for advancement.