Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Gacha is 600 diamonds for a chance at 8 shards. That's 75 diamonds per shard IF you're lucky enough to not end up with a piece of blue equipment instead. At 20 diamonds per shard, chests are objectively cheaper and less risky. That said, I don't know how much the loot table for chests overlaps the gacha loot table. I haven't seen a chest drop treasure shards, so if you care about those more than purple shards, then save for gacha instead.
Ya I meant the character gacha, especially once new characters are added. The gear gacha doesn't seem worth it either. I can get like 40-50 purple shards per day running raids, I wouldn't want to spend any gems on them at all really. The chests don't seem as bad as I first thought though as I mentioned in my ninja edit right before you posted, it seems you might as well open them, I'm still not sure if they can have anything amazing in them though.