Wuthering Waves Reroll Guide: Is It Worth It in 3.5?

Short answer: yes, but only if you spend an hour on it rather than an afternoon. The reroll economy here is built around two things a new account gets for free — a discounted beginner banner and a guaranteed pick from the Novice Selector, which hands you any standard 5★ Resonator with zero gacha luck involved.

• The beginner banner (Utterance of Marvels) sells pulls at a lower cost than the normal Convene, which stretches a fresh account's starting currency further.
• The Novice Selector removes all randomness from your first support or DPS pickup — you choose the unit outright.
• Because pity is not reset between banners of the same type, a reroll account that ends up “close but not quite” isn't wasted the way it would be in a system with no carry-over.

The catch: reroll accounts only pay off if you're chasing a specific SS-tier unit for a specific team plan. Rerolling blindly for “something good” wastes more time than it saves.

Before you touch a single pull, decide which role you're building around. The current SS tier has a clear headliner for support, and three very different main-DPS options depending on playstyle.

• Shorekeeper — support. Widely considered the single most valuable unit in the game: continuous team healing plus a Crit buff field, knockdown recovery, and K.O. prevention. She slots into almost every team, making her the safest reroll target if you only get one shot.
• Aemeath — main DPS (Fusion). One of the highest damage ceilings available, built around Tune Rupture and Fusion Burst rotations alongside Lynae and Mornye.
• Hiyuki — main DPS (Glacio). Built around the Glacio Chafe status, with self-buffing and AoE control on top of nuke-level burst damage.
• Augusta — main DPS (Electro). The F2P-friendliest SS pick: low investment, works with a 3-piece echo set, and can stop time for several seconds during her Liberation.

Verdict: if you're rerolling for exactly one unit, make it Shorekeeper — she is useful no matter what DPS you pull later. If you already know your playstyle, Aemeath, Hiyuki, or Augusta are all valid alternate targets.

Reroll strategy only works if you know what's actually on the banner. Patch 3.5 splits into two phases, and the roster on each phase changes what a fresh account should chase.

• Phase 1 — Yangyang: Xuanling. A Havoc Sword unit, running alongside reruns of Lynae and Luuk Herssen. If your reroll goal is Aemeath's Tune Rupture team, Lynae's rerun in this phase is a genuine bonus pull.
• Phase 2 — Suisui. A Glacio Rectifier healer, running alongside a rerun of Aemeath herself. This phase is the one to target if Aemeath specifically is your reroll goal, since she becomes directly pullable again.

One honest caveat: Suisui is a brand-new kit at time of writing, so there's no verified tier placement for her yet — treat any “she's SS” claim you see elsewhere as unconfirmed until more data settles. Don't reroll purely on a hunch for an untested unit; anchor your target on Shorekeeper, Aemeath, Hiyuki, or Augusta instead, and treat a rerun landing on the same banner as a bonus.

Separate from the beginner banner's paid pulls, every account gets a one-time Novice Selector — a free pick from the standard 5★ pool with no rate-up, no 50/50, no waiting.

• The standard 5★ pool includes Verina, Encore, Calcharo, Lingyang, and Jianxin.
• Verina is the correct pick, essentially every time. She's the standard pool's top healer: team-wide ATK buffs, coordinated attacks, and death immunity, with a short field time that lets your greedy DPS rotations keep working.
• None of the other four standard 5★s solve as many team-building problems for a brand-new account — Verina pairs cleanly with almost any free or early-pulled DPS.

Treat the selector as a guaranteed support slot, not a gamble. Take Verina, then spend your actual pulls chasing whichever SS-tier DPS or Shorekeeper you decided on above.

New accounts almost always have two banners tempting them at once — a featured character and a featured weapon — and limited Astrite to spend on either. The rule that actually matters for a reroll:

1. Always prioritize the limited character banner over the weapon banner when you're starting out. A weapon only makes an existing kit stronger; a character defines whether you have that kit at all.
2. Weapon pulls are the same 0.8% base rate as characters, but with no 50/50 to lose — every 5★ pulled there is the featured weapon. That consistency is nice, but it's irrelevant if you don't have a unit to hold the weapon yet.
3. If you're deciding between finishing a character's copies or grabbing their signature weapon first, the character banner wins on a fresh account almost every time.

This is the single most common reroll mistake: burning a discounted beginner banner's currency on a weapon pull before locking in the character it's meant for.

A clean reroll session takes four moves, in order, and shouldn't need more than one sitting.

1. Create a fresh account and clear the opening story far enough to unlock the Convene screen and the beginner banner.
2. Spend the discounted beginner banner pulls first — they're cheaper than standard Convene pulls, so use them before anything else.
3. Use the Novice Selector on Verina immediately; there's no reason to delay a guaranteed free 5★.
4. Check your result against your target list: Shorekeeper, Aemeath, Hiyuki, or Augusta. If you land one, keep the account and start building around it. If you don't, remember that any partial pity you built up isn't lost — it carries into that same banner type later — so weigh continuing on this account against starting a new one before you delete anything.

Verdict: reroll once, decisively, with a target already chosen — don't reroll indefinitely chasing a “perfect” account, since the free Novice Selector already guarantees you a solid support no matter what the paid pulls give you.