Evil LandsHow to Get the Most Free Gold in Evil Lands
In Evil Lands gems are the premium currency and gold is the maintenance currency. Gems have no daily faucet: they almost always arrive tied to progression that only pays out once.
What is the fastest and most efficient way to get Gold in Evil Lands?
Gems are used to buy chests from the shop, which is where the best gear in the game comes from, and to reset your character's attributes if you want to switch combat style. Gold is the everyday resource: it pays for gear upgrades, repairs and skills, and it drops from enemies and quests. The imbalance is deliberate: gold is renewable and gems are not, so the free-to-play strategy comes down to squeezing every single-use source dry.
Every day
- Gems and gold across every stretch of the campaign, unevenly distributed
Story quests and daily assignments
The campaign is the main source of gems. Plenty of quests include gems among their rewards, on top of the usual gold and experience. Assignments that refresh daily keep the trickle going once you are already deep into the story. Because the payouts are uneven, it pays not to leave quests half-finished in zones you have already cleared: going back when you are overlevelled is quick and releases rewards that would otherwise sit there uncollected. It is the slowest route, but it is also the only one that holds up across an entire playthrough.
- One chest every four hours with gear and gold, at no cost
The free shop chest
The shop offers a free chest that can be claimed every four hours. It is not a source of gems, and that is worth saying plainly, but it is a source of gold and of gear you can dismantle. Its real value is indirect: the more gold and materials that come in this way, the less pressure you have to spend gems on shop chests. Two or three claims a day builds up a flow that covers a good chunk of the cost of upgrading gear.
Every week
- Chests whose contents improve with the rank you reach
PvP arena chests
Fighting in the arena hands out chests, and the contents depend on the rank you hold: the higher you climb, the better the loot, which can include gems and valuable gear. It is the most volatile part of the economy, because it depends on who the game matches you against and on how well your character is geared. Even so, the guaranteed minimum for taking part makes the arena a reasonable weekly stop, especially once the campaign has been squeezed dry and the available achievements start running thin.
One time only
- One-off gem payouts for hitting specific milestones
Progression achievements
Many of the game's achievements hand over gems a single time when you reach a milestone: killing a certain number of monsters of one type, hitting a given level, clearing zones or accumulating gear. Because they are one-off payouts, they make up the biggest block of gems a free account can aspire to, but they also run out. It is worth opening the achievement list every so often to see which ones are close to completion: often you are only a handful short and one targeted session closes several at once.
- Preserves almost your entire gem balance for high-level chests
Dismantle instead of selling, and never buy from the merchant
The merchant's prices are wildly out of proportion to what the gear he sells actually delivers, and spending gems or gold there is the most expensive mistake a free account can make. With spare gear, dismantling usually returns more value than selling, because the materials feed the upgrades on the gear you are actually going to use. The rule that works best is to reserve gems exclusively for chests once you are already at high level, and to leave the merchant alone even when you have a gap to fill.
What does not work
No generator can add Gold to your Evil Lands account: the balance is handled on the game’s servers and there is no way to touch it from outside. If you arrived looking for one, we explain in detail how they work on the inside and why they always end the same way.
See why Gold generators are a scam →Frequently asked questions
How do you get gems in Evil Lands without paying?
Through two main routes. Campaign quests and daily assignments hand out gems among their rewards, and progression achievements pay out once when you hit milestones such as defeating a certain number of enemies or reaching a given level. On top of that come PvP arena chests, whose contents improve with your rank. Outside those sources, gems can only be bought with real money.
What is the best use of gems when they are scarce?
Chests, and preferably once you are already at high level, because the gear that comes out scales with your character and opening them early wastes pulls. Resetting your attributes also costs gems and only makes sense if you are going to change combat style completely. What never pays off is buying gear from the merchant: his prices sit far above the value of what he offers.
Why is dismantling gear better than selling it?
Because the gold a sale returns is small compared with the materials you get from dismantling, and those materials are what feed the upgrades on the gear you actually use. Upgrading gear is the great gold sink in Evil Lands, so every spare piece turned into materials cuts the bill directly. The exception is very low-level pieces, which barely return anything either way.
What is the difference between gems and gold in Evil Lands?
Gold is renewable: it drops from enemies, from quests and from the free shop chest, and it goes towards upgrading gear, repairing it and levelling skills. Gems are the premium currency and have no source that generates them on its own over time: they depend on quests, achievements and arena chests. That is why gold is spent freely and gems are hoarded.
