What to spend gems on in Azure Lane as a low spending or f2p player?

Azur Lane is a well-known gacha game for being quite fair to free to play players and low spenders alike. The game features numerous events and methods to earn rolls to get your favourite ship girl on banner as well as methods to earn premium currency which can be used for either rolls or various upgrades to your other game mechanics.

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Best way to spend my gems in Azure Lane?

There are several ways to spend your gems in Azur Lane. One of the best ways to spend gems is on expanding your Dorm. To get to this option, navigate to Train located at the bottom left side of your screen. The game will start with two slots for a fresh account and all other slots need to be purchased with gems. It is very worthwhile to spend gems on these and get the maximum dorm size so you can place your ship girls within the dorm to collect various exp bonuses as well as to recover morale faster.

To purchase these slots, the third slot costs 300 gems, fourth 500 gems, fifth 800 gems, and sixth slot 1200 gems.

What to spend my gems in Azure Lane on besides Dorm Expansion?

The next best way to spend your gems is to use them on the Academy slots. The Academy in Azur Lane is an option that players are given to level up the skills of their ship girls. Each ship girl can go into the Academy and level up their skills with skillbooks. To maximise this option it is definitely something to focus on if Dorms have already been maxed out or you as the player have spare gems to spend. The expansion cost for the Academy is 500 gems for the third slot and 600 gems for the fourth slot.

Can I also expand my dock capacity in Azure Lane?

You are able to expand your dock capacity in Azur Lane with gems, the starting dock capacity is quite large however this starts to feel cramped as you keep collecting ship girls and progressing farther into the game. The dock capacity cost will be 200 gems for 10 slots. This will only be worthwhile when you have maxed out your slots and truly require more slots as there are other options to buy which may give you an even better experience in the game like azur lane skins and azur lane oath rings.

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How do I buy an oath/promise ring in Azur Lane?

The promise ring in Azur Lane is what is used to “marry” a ship girl in Azur Lane. This is one of the mechanics that make this gacha game popular among dating sim and visual novel fans as well as giving the players something unique for working hard on a certain ship girl. After spending a long time collecting ship girls, earning tech points in Azur Lane and grinding map after map, it’s time to finish off your waifu in the best way possible.

Promise rings are the marriage system in the game and allow players to obtain new graphics, skins and voice dialogue from the ship girl along with a boost in stats. There are not many other methods to obtain this promise ring aside from purchasing them with gems so it is recommended for end game players who have already built their core fleet and are looking to get even stronger or to simp for your waifu.

How much are skins in Azure Lane?

Skins in Azur Lane cost a variable amount ranging from 780 gems to 1180 gems depending on several factors such as if it is seasonal or on a rare ship girl. The gems are well used in this department as there aren’t any other avenues to purchase skins in the game, with Azure Lane primarily being a gacha collector game it would make sense for players to purchase their favourite skins eventually as these could give their character a whole new design complete with Live 2D animations!

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