Has anyone figured out the drop rate odds for it to drop her (or any descend) directly as the gem instead of herself? I got one gem in about 10-12 runs yesterday – when I got the first on maybe the second run, I was hoping that maybe the odds would be decent enough that I could just run it over and over again, but now it's not looking that way.

Is there somehow anywhere better than her own descend to get her (she doesn't drop evolved anywhere, does she – even hard, sucky dungeons)? (2a.) Or is there a more efficient path to evolve her than "Run Khepri > Run Valk > blow a ton of EXP on Valk > evolve Valk > etc, etc."... Like say, what's the highest evo of Valk that I can get to drop?

Who on earth decided to make such an annoying evo into an Awoken mat? Mion all over again (still have two unevolved Alrescha). I have two Nut, two Hathor, two Famiel, and a Ruel... two Khepri down, five to go. weeps.