Wuthering Waves has a unique way of drawing special characters and weapons that all miHoYo games don’t use. In HoYoverse games – Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact and Honkai Star Rail – players draw from banners that combine characters and weapons, so there’s no guarantee you’ll get anything special from any one draw.
Wuthering Waves offers players at least three distinct banners: One that requires the most common Bright Tide pull from the banner; second, which requires the rarer Radiant Tide; and a third that is a weapons-only event standard requiring A Forging Tide.
None of the Genshin or Honkai games have ever had a completely separate weapon banner that needs a different item from the other banners to be activated.
The only weapons banners in Wuthering Waves set the game apart from any other HoYo game, ensuring that players can have a better chance of pulling the characters or weapons they want when they come together with the powers. This post on Reddit highlights how much players enjoy this unique approach to the gacha system.
There are also starter-only banners that new players can take advantage of to get four- and five-star characters and weapons earlier in the game than usual.
Let’s not forget the built-in mercy system in Wuthering Waves:
For every 10 Meetings with one of the banners, players are guaranteed to receive a four star item or better. The base four-star drop rate in WuWa is 6%, and the average drop rate is 12%.
Five star characters/weapons are guaranteed after 80 pulls by any standard. The standard drop rate for five-star characters/weapons is 0.8%, and the average drop rate is 1.8%.
These rates are calculated per banner, so you can’t expect to have 80 pulls through each banner and suddenly get a five-star item. I recommend that you focus on one character and one weapon that you want from the Convene system and keep pulling from the same banner until you reach your goal.
But the thing that makes Wuthering Waves stand out the most? In their permanent armorial standardyou pick a five star weapon you want and the next five star you get is guaranteed to be that weapon. End of story. I got my chosen weapon the first time I Summoned with the banner (even though I did Summon x 10). Once you draw your weapon, you can then change the target of the banner for more luck.
According to a Reddit post, it is better to roll on the weapon banner if you are F2P because there are no other ways in the game to get these weapons. I didn’t see a way to earn or buy the ones offered either.
Want to read more about Wuthering Waves at Pro Game Guides? Check out our piece on Wuthering Waves – When is the next banner coming? and Wuthering Waves – All current banner characters, ranked.
