What are you doing with 3-6 hours each day if you’re not grinding PvP or completing PvE events???
Sorry to hear about friends sometimes taking as much as 4000 gems to awaken a mythic. Also, it’s completely understandable that most people have neither the time nor collection to go high in the PvP rewards. However, it does strike me as a little odd that you’re struggling to complete PvE events, particularly with how you have 5 awakened mythics. Besides Dungeon Challenge, it should be possible to do them all after less than one year playing an account.
Also, the vast majority of free gems are gained from things everyone can participate in. Login, shrine, etc. Not being able to complete events doesn’t shift the numbers much.
Here’s a post where I broke it all down.
So that’s shrine = 450 gems/month
Logins = 63 gems/month
Daily missions and PvP = 86 gems/month
Easier part of events and MBQ with spare tickets = ~140 gems/month
Completing stuff = ~141 gems/month
Of the 880 monthly free gems, you’re only cut out of 140 if you can’t do the harder content. Shrine and daily login alone makes up roughly 60% of the free gems.