Talk:Charms/@comment-6216630-20130515191133/@comment-484486-20130516163248

Sometimes the challenges only require weapons that can bought with gold. Last one I did was like that. Also you can pretty much get a dozen or so gems from the bronze lottery. Instead of immediately hit spin, look to see if the gem prize is the first one, if not hit the back button, then select the bronze lottery again. Repeat until you have the gem choice in the first spot. Most of the lower tier weapons only cost 50 gold once you are higher level, so depending on what quest is you should be able to save up for that quickly. You can also get an additional 10 gems or so a day from watching the ads. Finally gameloft gave everyone 100 gems with 1.0.1. ( To be honest I did buy some gems on sale, and used it to by a bunch of bag slots, because the fun game to me is see what equipment is out there... my main character has a 108 bag slots. )

As to randomness, the most useful charms are the least common to drop. I'll see dozens of nature, power for every perception or agility. And dozens of perceptions or agilitiy before I see a bandit.... and few bandits before I've seen a wisdom.

bandits, blessing wisdom, winter, storm, and mind are all on the rare end.

perception and arcana seem to be at least uncommon.

Nature, and power seem to be very common.