Wuthering Waves is a story-oriented action role-playing game (RPG) that is coming globally on 22nd May, 2024. The game features a ton of futuristic cities and a post-apocalyptic environment that has given rise to “Resonators”. In this guide, you will be learning about the entire gacha system of Wuthering Waves and its diverse mechanics. On your journey, you will be recruiting many new Resonators and Weapons to play with, and understanding about the gacha system mechanics is important for an efficient progression.

The Gacha System of Wuthering Waves

Like many other live-service games, Wuthering Waves also features a thorough gacha system that aims to help players recruit new Resonators and Weapons. It offers a mixed banner, wherein players will be summoning for both Resonators and Weapons, at different probabilities. The gacha system is widely considered the only way to get the best of the bunch. However, it comes at a cost. The cost of your premium currency called “Astrite” or another summoning currency called “Tide”. The name of the gacha system is called “Convene” in official in-game terminology. 

Each weapon and Resonator are assigned a base rarity, depending on which their stats are based out of. The higher the rarity, the better the stats. You can get 3-5 star weapons and 4-5 star Resonators from the different banners available. The gacha banners also have different rarities for different rarities of weapons and resonators. The higher the base rarity, the lower the probability of summoning the weapon/resonator. Similarly, the lower the base rarity, the higher the probability of summoning the weapon/resonator.

Interestingly, Wuthering Waves also has a soft pity mechanism in-built in all banners. Players are guaranteed to get a 4-Star weapon/resonator on the 10th summon, if the previous 9 did not yield any 4-Star weapon/resonator. 

Understanding the Gacha Currencies

It’s imperative to learn about all the different currencies that encompass the Convene/gacha system of Wuthering Waves. While are there many different currencies, the core one’s are as follows:

• Astrites – This is the premium currency that is primarily used to summon weapons and resonators in different gacha banners. You can obtain them via missions, events and certain shops. Astrites can be further used to purchase Lustrous Tides, Radiant Tides, and Forging Tides at the exchange rate of 160 Astrites for 1 of the above.
• Tides – This is the official gacha currency or gacha tickets that can be used to summon weapons and resonators in the majority of the banners. You can obtain them via missions, events and certain shops.
• Lustrous Tides – This is a gacha ticket that can be used in the Novice Convene, Character Permanent Convene and Weapon Permanent Convene.
• Radiant Tides – This is a gacha ticket that can be used in the Character Event Convene.
• Forging Tides – This is a gacha ticket that can be used in the Weapon Event Convene.

Oscillate Corals and Afterglow Corals

Whenever you summon on any banner in Wuthering Waves, you will obtain either Oscillate Corals and/or Afterglow Corals. These are also currencies that can be used to purchase Tides, Wavebands, upgrade materials, and other resources. Oscillate Corals are obtained whenever you summon a 3-Star weapon. You will get 15 Oscillate corals for each 3-Star weapon summoned. On the other hand, Afterglow Corals are obtained when you summon 4-Star and 5-Star Weapons/Resonators. 

Each 4-Star weapon gives you 3 Afterglow corals, and each 4-Star resonator gives you 3 Afterglow corals. Each 5-Star weapon gives you 15 Afterglow corals, and each 5-Star resonator gives you 15 Afterglow corals. When you get 7th duplicate 5-Star weapon/resonator, you will instead get 40 Afterglow corals. 

Wuthering Waves: Different Types of Convene Banners

Wuthering Waves has a ton of different types of summoning banners in their Convene system. Each banner is different and allows players to get new weapons and resonators. In this section, we will be learning about the differences of all the banners as per information available of the last closed beta test. 

• Novice Convene – This banner guarantees players with a 5-Star resonator within 50 summons. In fact, you can only do 50 summons in total on this banner. You can only do 10 pulls at a time, and not single pulls. Only Lustrous Tides are used for summoning on this banner. You will receive a 20% discount on doing a 10-pull, costing you only 8 Lustrous Tides instead of 10. 5-Star Resonators are available at a 0.8% rate, while 4-Star resonators are available at 6% rate. 

• Character Permanent Convene – This banner guarantees players with a 5-Star resonator in 80 summons. The pity is not shared with other banners. Only Lustrous Tides are used for summoning on this banner. 5-Star Resonators are available at a 0.8% rate, while 4-Star resonators are available at 6% rate. 
• Weapon Permanent Convene – You can select a 5-Star weapon of your choice from any archetype. This banner guarantees players with their chosen 5-Star weapon in 80 summons. The pity is not shared with other banners. Only Lustrous Tides are used for summoning on this banner. 5-Star weapons are available at a 0.8% rate, while 4-Star weapons/resonators are available at 6% rate. 
• Character Event Convene – This banner guarantees players with the rate-up 5-Star resonator in 80 summons. The pity is not shared with other banners. Only Radiant Tides are used for summoning on this banner. 5-Star Resonators are available at a 0.8% rate, while 4-Star resonators are available at 6% rate. This banner features 1 rate-up 5-Star resonator and 3 rate-up 4-Star resonators. 

Playing Wuthering Waves on a bigger screen of your PC with BlueStacks without worrying about battery drainage and smooth gameplay is highly recommended.