Reverse: 1999 Pull Currency Guide

Only two things spend on the banner, so learn these first:

• Unilogs — the direct pull item. One Unilog buys one roll on a character banner. This is what you are really saving.
• Clear Drops — the premium 'gem' currency. Clear Drops don't pull on their own; you exchange them for Unilogs. So your true pull budget is Unilogs you hold + Unilogs your Clear Drops can buy. Always count both together.

Keep these separate in your head from the progression currencies — the gold/coin used to level Arcanists and the mats for Insight (level caps), Resonance (stat tuning) and Psychube upgrades. Those never buy pulls, so never let a 'save your currency' habit stop you spending them; a maxed roster you can't build is wasted.

There is no single faucet — income is the sum of many small streams, which is why patient accounts still keep pace. The reliable sources:

• Main story — the biggest one-time lump. Clearing new chapters (and their exploration/collectible completion) pays out a large stack of Clear Drops and Unilogs. Don't leave story unfinished 'for later'.
• Events — every patch's limited event hands out event currency, free Unilogs and often a free Arcanist. Clear the event shop and story every time; missing an event is missing pulls you cannot get back.
• Daily & weekly assignments — small but constant. Doing them every reset is the single biggest F2P multiplier over a month.
• Idle income from your base — your Wilderness/home generates resources passively; log in and collect so it doesn't cap out.
• Endgame & recurring modes — the roguelike-style and combat-challenge modes refresh rewards on a cycle and are a steady Clear Drop source once your roster can clear them.
• Mail, maintenance compensation, code redemptions and milestone/login rewards — easy to overlook, so check mail regularly.

The core F2P discipline is focus, don't sprinkle. Reverse: 1999's 6-star pity counter is shared and carries over across every limited banner — it never resets just because you switch banners, and it hard-caps at 70 pulls (the base 6-star rate is roughly 1.5% per pull). What does reset per banner is the 50/50 guarantee on the featured rate-up character: lose that roll on one banner and the guarantee does not carry over — you start a fresh 50/50 on the next one. So focusing all your pulls on one banner isn't about protecting your pity (that was never at risk); it's about not burning your guaranteed rate-up on a character you don't actually want.

Practical routine:

• Pick your target early. Watch upcoming banners and decide who you're saving for before you have the currency in hand.
• Convert your budget to a pull count. Add your Unilogs to what your Clear Drops can exchange for, and check it against the hard-pity threshold of 70 pulls. Aim to enter the banner with enough to reach the guarantee, so a bad-luck run can't leave you empty-handed.
• Hold through banners you don't need. The hardest and most valuable habit. Skipping is a strategy, not a loss.
• Prioritise DPS-defining and support pulls over duplicates. A team is one DPS + one Survival (heal/shield) + one Support; a new Arcanist that fills a missing role does far more than a Portray (dupe) on someone you already run.

Common beginner traps that drain a save:

• Pulling on the standard/permanent banner when you're low on currency. Limited featured Arcanists usually define the meta; spend your saved budget on the featured banner you planned for.
• Chasing Portrays too early. Copies raise a character's ceiling but a fresh, well-built single copy clears the whole story and most content. Breadth of roster beats depth on one unit for F2P.
• Ignoring free Arcanists and Psychubes. Event and shop-obtained units and gear cover real roster holes for zero pulls — build them before you decide you 'need' a pull.
• Panic-pulling. If a banner isn't your target and you're not near a save goal, hold. Currency kept is a future guaranteed 6-star.

Remember Afflatus matchups when choosing a target so your pulls actually improve your team — it is one four-way cycle, not two triangles: Beast beats Plant beats Star beats Mineral beats Beast; Spirit and Intellect stand outside it, countering nothing. The winning side deals extra damage. A character who covers an Afflatus or damage type (Reality vs Mental) you lack is worth more than a strong duplicate of what you own.

Knowing your real monthly income turns "should I pull this banner" from a guess into a budget. Here is what a F2P account can expect from routine content alone, separate from the story and event lump sums already covered above.

Beyond currency, pulls also come as tickets you never have to convert: the Pawnshop hands out +10 pulls a month across its weekly refreshes, and the free track of Roar Jukebox adds another 2. Add it up across a full playthrough of chapters 1 through 4 and a patient F2P account clears more than 156 pulls before touching a single event banner.

Remember the conversion rate when you total your budget: 1 pull = 180 Clear Drop, or 1 Unilog, and 1 Crystal Drop = 1 Clear Drop — so Crystal Drop from card/monthly rewards folds straight into the same pull math.

Pawnshop — the guaranteed 6-star this guide hasn't covered yet. Beyond currency, the Pawnshop's Treble Counter lets you trade Album of the Lost for a specific character no matter how unlucky your pulls have been: 240 Album of the Lost = 1 chosen 6-star, or 60 Album = 1 chosen 5-star. The characters on offer rotate every month, so a name you want isn't always available — check the current rotation before banking on it. Album of the Lost (and its 4-star counterpart, Track of the Lost) comes from pulling duplicates of characters you already own, so a sprawling collection of dupes isn't wasted — it eventually buys the one unit you're missing.

What actually costs real money. Skins and character icons are the only purchase in Reverse: 1999 that requires spending beyond the free/subscription income above — and they are purely cosmetic re-skins with no stat difference whatsoever. Every gameplay-relevant resource on this page (pulls, Insight materials, Resonance materials) is earnable through the F2P sources described here; nothing that changes combat power is locked behind a wallet.

Recommended spending order if you do put money in (pricing below is CN-server reference only, not a confirmed global price):

What each pack actually contains: Roaring Month = 300 Crystal Drop + 2,700 Clear Drop + 1,800 Activity; Rookie Shopping Day = a 4-star Arcanist (Bunny Bunny) + 1 Unilog + 10,000 Dust + 10,000 Sharpodonty; Rookie Offer = 1,360 Clear Drop + 35,000 Sharpodonty + 35,000 Dust + 6 Fine Insight Casket + 6 Simple Insight Casket + 6 Bottle of Pages; Initial Summon Pack = 20 Unilog; Offer of the Month = 1,800 Clear Drop + 10 Unilog; the Battle Pass runs ¥68 for Deluxe and ¥98 for Collector.

Treat the Pawnshop rotation as a backstop, not a plan: check it after every save cycle, but keep saving through banners the way the earlier section describes — a guaranteed trade is a bonus on top of a healthy pull budget, not a replacement for one.