NTE Gacha System: Complete Wishing Guide
Everything you need to know about wishing in Neverness to Everness — the currencies, the banner types, the costs in real money, and how NTE’s system compares to the other major gacha games on the market.
Quick Reference
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| Cost per pull | 160 Annulith |
| Cost per 10-pull | 1,600 Annulith |
| Base SSR rate | ~0.6% |
| Soft pity starts | Pull 70 |
| Hard pity (guaranteed SSR) | Pull 90 |
| 50/50 mechanic? | None — featured SSR is always the featured unit |
| Pity carry-over | Yes, within the same banner type |
| Hard pity worst-case spend | 14,400 Annulith |
Currencies
Annulith — the premium currency
Annulith is the cash-shop currency. You buy it with real money or earn it slowly from in-game sources. 160 Annulith equals one wish; 1,600 buys a 10-pull bundle. Every other wish currency in NTE eventually traces back to Annulith.
Fabricated Dice — the standard wish ticket
Earned from story progression, daily commissions, achievements, and event quests. Used exclusively on the standard (non-featured) banner. Don’t hoard them — standard banner SSRs aren’t time-limited and the value-per-pull is lower.
Solid Dice — the featured wish ticket
Earned from limited events and converted from Annulith on featured banners. Used exclusively on featured (limited) character banners. This is the dice you actually care about — every Solid Dice you save is a step closer to landing the unit you want.
Tri-Keys — the Arc weapon ticket
A separate currency only used on the Arc (weapon) banner. Tri-Keys come in 10-pull bundles — you cannot single-pull on the Arc banner.
Banner Types
Standard Banner
Permanent, never rotates. Pulls use Fabricated Dice. SSR pool includes the launch roster of standard-pool characters. Useful for filling out gaps in your account but not where to spend your premium currency.
Featured (Limited) Banner
Time-limited, typically 2-3 weeks. One featured SSR character per banner. Pulls use Solid Dice. No 50/50 — every featured-banner SSR you land is the featured character. This is where most of your Annulith should go.
Arc (Weapon) Banner
Time-limited, weapon-focused. Pulls use Tri-Keys, only in 10-pull bundles. Soft pity triggers at pull 60. Featured Arc has a 25% chance per S-class drop, with a 20-pull guarantee fallback so you’re never more than 20 pulls away from the featured Arc.
Real-Money Math
Annulith bundles in the cash shop typically work out to roughly $0.015 per Annulith at the best price tier. Using that ratio:
| Goal | Annulith | Approx. USD |
|---|---|---|
| 1 single pull | 160 | ~$2.40 |
| 1 ten-pull | 1,600 | ~$24 |
| Median featured SSR (~75 pulls) | 12,000 | ~$180 |
| Worst-case featured SSR (hard pity, 90 pulls) | 14,400 | ~$216 |
| Featured C0 + signature Arc (median) | ~24,000 | ~$360 |
Note that login bonuses, story rewards, and event quests typically front a player with roughly 40-60 free pulls in the launch window — meaningfully reducing the cash spend for a launch-day F2P pull plan.
How NTE Compares to Other Gacha Games
| Game | Soft pity | Hard pity | 50/50 | Worst-case for featured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NTE | 70 | 90 | No | ~90 pulls |
| Genshin Impact | 74 | 90 | Yes | ~180 pulls |
| Honkai: Star Rail | 74 | 90 | Yes | ~180 pulls |
| Zenless Zone Zero | 74 | 90 | Yes | ~180 pulls |
| Reverse: 1999 | 60 | 70 | Yes (70/30) | ~140 pulls |
The takeaway: NTE is roughly twice as F2P-friendly as the HoYo trio for landing a specific featured unit, because removing the 50/50 cuts the worst-case spend in half. The trade-off is that the wide soft-pity window means median spend is still high (~75 pulls) — there’s no “getting lucky early” the way Reverse: 1999’s tighter pity allows.
Pull Strategy
- Save Annulith for featured banners you actually want. The standard banner is permanent; it will be there forever.
- Don’t partial-commit. NTE’s wide soft pity means going halfway has poor expected value. Either commit to the worst-case 90-pull cost or don’t pull at all.
- Use pity carry-over to plan multi-banner runs. Stuck at 40 pity on a banner you’ve cooled on? Save the 40 for the next featured banner.
- Skip the Arc banner unless you’re a whale. Tri-Keys cost more per equivalent stat boost than character SSRs.
Plan With Our Tools
- Wish Simulator — run 10,000 simulations to see the real distribution of pulls needed for an SSR.
- Annulith Budget Calculator — enter your stash, get the probability of landing your target.
- Pity Tracker — log every wish, never lose track of pity progress.
- Current Banners — active wish banners with rates and pity rules.
Related Reading
- Scarborough Fair: NTE’s Wish System Explained — the board-and-dice mechanic underlying the rates.
- NTE Pity System: Soft Pity, Hard Pity & No 50/50 — the pity ramp in detail.