Wuthering Waves Pity Explained: Soft Pity, Hard Pity, 50/50

Every pull on a Wuthering Waves Convene banner rolls against a flat 0.8% base chance for a 5★ Resonator or weapon, and that rate applies equally to the character banner and the weapon banner. Nobody clears a banner purely on that base rate, though — the game raises your odds the longer you go without a 5★.

• Hard pity is 80 pulls. If you have not pulled a 5★ by your 80th convene, the next one is guaranteed.
• Soft pity starts around pull 66. Tracker data shows roughly half of all 5★ drops land somewhere between pulls 66 and 74, meaning the odds ramp up hard well before the true 80-pull ceiling.
• The consolidated rate (base rate blended with pity) works out to about 1.8% per pull across a full cycle.

In plain terms: keep pulling past 65 and you are very likely to hit a 5★ within the next handful of convenes, not at pull 80 exactly.

Here is how your odds build up across a run, starting from a fresh pity counter. This is the cumulative chance of hitting at least one 5★ by a given pull — before the character banner 50/50.

The rows up to 60 follow directly from the published 0.8% base rate. From around pull 66 the per-pull rate climbs steeply — that is soft pity, and it is where most 5★s actually land. Kuro only publishes the 0.8% base, the 50/50, and the pull-80 guarantee, so the 66-79 figures are modeled estimates. On the character banner that 5★ is then a 50/50 for the featured Resonator, which is why a featured character averages about 81 pulls, not 54.

The featured character banner works the way most gacha veterans expect. Every time you pull a 5★ on that banner, there is a 50/50 chance it is the featured Resonator versus a random standard 5★ character.

1. Win the 50/50 → you keep the featured Resonator, counter resets.
2. Lose the 50/50 → you get a standard 5★ instead, but a guarantee flag locks in.
3. With the guarantee active, your very next 5★ pull on a featured character banner is 100% the featured unit, no coin flip.

So the real worst case on a character banner is losing the 50/50 near hard pity, then needing a second full pity cycle to lock the guarantee — painful, but capped.

This is Wuthering Waves’ signature quirk and it genuinely differs from how weapon banners work in other big gacha games. On the weapon Convene, there is no 50/50 at all.

• Every 5★ pulled on the featured weapon banner is the featured weapon. Full stop.
• Compare that to other major gacha games, where weapon banners typically run a rough 75/25 split or still gate you behind an off-rate chance. Wuthering Waves does not.
• That makes the weapon banner’s effective cost identical to its hard pity: worst case is 80 pulls, period, for the signature weapon.

Verdict: if your build genuinely needs the featured signature weapon and Astrite is tight, the weapon banner is the more reliable spend — there is no losing a coin flip and starting over.

Your pity counter is not wiped when a banner rotates, which matters a lot for budgeting across patches.

• Pity carries over between successive featured character banners, and separately between successive featured weapon banners.
• The standard banner keeps its own counter, entirely separate from both featured banners.
• Practically: if you are sitting at pull 50 with no 5★ when a character banner ends, you start the next character banner already at pull 50 toward hard pity — you do not lose that progress.

This is why it rarely makes sense to stop pulling right at a bad number — unspent pity always rolls into the next banner of the same type.

Each convene costs 160 Astrite. Astrite comes from events, exploration, the Beginner’s Convene, and top-ups, while Lunite (the paid subscription currency) converts into Astrite over time.

• Average case: expect around 54 pulls for a 5★, once soft pity is factored in — that is your realistic planning number, not 80.
• Worst case, character banner: up to 160 pulls to guarantee a specific featured Resonator, if you lose the 50/50 right at hard pity and need a second full cycle to lock the guarantee.
• Worst case, weapon banner: capped at 80 pulls, since there is no 50/50 to lose.

Convert 54–80 pulls into Astrite (160 each) before a banner drops so you are not guessing mid-patch whether to save or spend.

Pity is not just about 5★s. Wuthering Waves guarantees a 4★ or higher every 10 pulls, so a long dry spell on the top rarity still hands you steady 4★ Resonators and weapons along the way.

• This 10-pull 4★ floor applies on every banner — character, weapon, and standard.
• It is why a 54-to-80 pull budget is rarely a total loss even if the 5★ timing is unlucky: you are stacking usable 4★s the whole way.

Keep this in mind when deciding whether to push for a specific 4★ weapon copy alongside your 5★ target — the 10-pull guarantee means those copies arrive on a predictable schedule, unlike the 5★ itself.

All of the above are averages and worst cases — your actual position depends on your current pull count, whether a guarantee is active, and which banner type you are on. Rather than eyeballing it, run your numbers through the pity calculator on this site: it takes your current pulls-since-last-5★ and guarantee status and tells you the real probability of hitting the featured unit within your remaining Astrite.

• Works for both character and weapon Convenes, since their math differs.
• Useful before every new banner to decide: pull now, or save for the next one.

Plug in your numbers on the pity tool before you commit Astrite — it takes the guesswork out of a system that otherwise looks scarier than it is.