Love and Deepspace F2P Wish Guide: How to Save Wishes and Beat the 50/50
The 5 pool types, what each one actually guarantees, and where a free-to-play player gets the most character per Wish spent.
Not every Deepspace Wish banner works the same way. Single Featured and Daily pools give you a 50% shot at the one featured card when you land a 5-star; Three Featured pools (multi-character) raise that to a 75% combined shot split across three cards, backed by Precise Wish so you can lock in exactly one of them. Lose that coin flip anywhere and the game's hard guarantee makes your very next 5-star the featured one. For F2P players stretching every Wish, Three Featured banners are the highest-value place to pull.
Love and Deepspace's limited pool isn't a single formula — it actually runs 5 distinct pool structures, each with its own guarantee. Knowing which one you're pulling on changes how good your odds really are.
- Single Featured: one card featured, 50% of your 5-stars are it.
- Two Featured: two cards featured, 50% total UP split evenly (25% each).
- Three Featured: three cards featured, 75% total UP split evenly (25% each), plus Precise Wish target-locking.
- Rerun: a repeat of a past limited banner — its pity, Precise Wish choice, and Wish Point all carry over from your original run of that same banner.
- Selectable Featured: you personally choose 5 5-star memories to be your rate-up pool, paid for with Empyrean Wish, does not share pity with any other pool, and hard-caps at 350 pulls before it closes.
Precise Wish and Wish Point only exist on the multi-character (Three Featured) pool — this is the layer that makes it the best-value pull for F2P players. You pick one of the featured cards as your target. From then on, every 5-star that lands on a non-target card adds 1 Wish Point; once you've banked a single point, your very next 5-star on that pool is guaranteed to be the exact card you targeted.
- Switching pools resets your Precise Wish target choice and Wish Point count — don't jump between multi banners mid-way if you're chasing a specific card.
- Precise Wish has no equivalent on Single/Two Featured pools; those only have the standard 50/50-style hard guarantee described below.
Every limited pool type shares one universal safety net: land a non-featured 5-star, and the game's hard guarantee makes your very next 5-star pull the featured card. This guarantee resets the moment you actually land a featured hit. On top of that, your pity count itself carries over between successive limited banners — if you had 25 pulls left toward your next guarantee when one banner ends, the next banner starts with those same 25 pulls already counted.
- Worst case on any limited pool: you're never more than two 5-star pulls from a featured card.
- Exception: Selectable Featured explicitly does not share pity with Xspace Echo (the permanent pool) or with other limited banners — it runs its own separate track.
A few concrete moves that make limited Wishes go further as a free-to-play player:
- Use Rippling Echo early. This newcomer pool caps at just 50 pulls, costs 20% less per pull, and guarantees you an SSR of the Companion you choose — the single best value pull structure documented in the game, worth using before you move past the new-player period.
- Default to Three Featured over Single Featured when you don't have a strong preference — the raw math favors it (75% vs 50%), and Precise Wish/Wish Point remove most of the remaining risk.
- Budget carefully around Selectable Featured's 350-pull cap. Since it doesn't share pity with anything else, going in without a plan can burn Wishes you'll want elsewhere.
- Trust the Chinese-native numbers over the English ones where they disagree. The soft-pity threshold (climbing chance from pull 61 to a guaranteed pull 70) is confirmed on the game's native Chinese wiki; one popular English source for this same mechanic admits it doesn't have enough data to confirm it. This guide uses the confirmed Chinese-native figures throughout.