Should You Save or Spend Your Pulls in Destiny: Rising?

Like all gacha games, Destiny: Rising limits the amount of pulls it gives players, balancing free pulls with ones that take a bit more work (or money) to obtain. Due to the limited supply of free pulls available, some players might debate whether it’s worth it to even spend them now when the game’s so new. There are a few factors to consider when deciding when and how to spend Destiny: Rising‘s premium currencies—”Bon Voyage” Charms, Lumia Leaves, and “Bon Voyage” Charms L.E.—so make sure to consider carefully before spending them.

Before You Pull, Gather Lumina Leaves

Gacha games tend to have similar systems, wherein players earn premium currency that can be spent on pulls to grab new characters, equipment, and more, and Rising works the same way. The more common premium currency, Lumina Leaves, can be earned by completing quests, claiming Triumphs, and a plethora of other activities, but the catch is that it takes 180 Lumina Leaves to buy one pull from either the limited or permanent banners, meaning players need to earn 1,800 total to do a single ten-pull.

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Thankfully, there are ways to earn Charms on their own as well. They’re rarer and harder to find, but eventually add up. BV Charms are most often awarded as login rewards, and can more often be purchased in bundles from the Rising shop for Silver, a currency that can only be bought with real money. While getting Charms directly can be tricky, Lumina Leaves can be earned through most of Rising‘s activities.

Most activities that award Lumina Leaves do so in quantities of 10, 20, or 30, with some giving more or less depending on what type of quest or Triumph they are. With the game being so new, there are plenty of Lumina Leaves to be collected, but these reserves will dry up as the game gets older and more of those Leaves get earned. This means that later banners are going to be more difficult to scrape up the Leaves to pull from, encouraging players who didn’t save their Leaves to spend money before the banner goes away.

Destiny: Rising’s Gacha System in a Nutshell

The broad-scale picture of Rising’s gacha system is this: trade Lumina Leaves for Bon Voyage charms—either the regular kind or Limited Edition for non-permanent banners—then use those charms to pull for characters on whichever banner players choose. Both banners offer characters, cosmetics, minor currencies, and enhancement materials, with the only difference being that Limited banners only stick around for a while.

There is a pity system as well, raising the chances of getting a five-star character each time the player pulls without getting one. The base chance of earning a “Mythic” character is a flat 1%, which then raises with each pull, resetting when a five-star is earned. Some players will spend their pulls on a banner they don’t care about to build their pity up, increasing their chances of pulling the character they want on the next banner, but this is a risky thing to do for a few reasons.

“Building Pity” is a Gamble, Save Your Pulls

There’s a common practice in gacha games of building pity, which is the practice of pulling on a banner for its lower-quality items in order to increase the odds of pulling a higher-quality item. A lot of people will try this out in order to pull things on the current limited banner in order to set themselves up to pull the character they’re looking for on the next one, but it comes with the risk of ruining the player’s odds. Like anything in a gacha, this is a gamble, and can end up with players wasting their pulls on a banner they don’t care about.

While this probably isn’t what most players want to hear, saving your pulls is just the smart move. There’s no use pulling on a banner for a character or item that isn’t interesting or useful, and even if you do get good pity built, you run the risk of blowing it all on a 5-star you don’t want or won’t use. Unfortunately, gacha games like Destiny: Rising profit the most off of players who have a hard time resisting the call of the ten-pull as soon as they get the currency to do one, and players who spend real money topping up their in-game currency to get there. Resist the urge, save your pulls for a character you really want, and save your wallet at the same time.