Tower of Fantasy is a game that has gacha elements in it. Unlike Genshin Impact, where the focus on gacha is mostly on characters, Tower of Fantasy's gacha mostly focuses on weapons which in turn unlocks them as characters under the Simulacrum tab in your inventory screen.
Due to this, it's important for players to know how the gacha works as Tower of Fantasy's gacha can be a little bit overwhelming especially if it's your first rodeo into the world of gacha games.
To collect characters, "Simulacra", you'll acquire their weapons. Simulacra are just character skins for the weapons you'll obtain. The main focus in Tower of Fantasy is your weapons and how you customize your loadout. Weapons have effects, and pairing synergistic weapons together unlocks resonance (bonuses for elements and skills). For the most part, you'll link SR and SSR weapons together; only three rarities exist, rare (R), secret rarity (SR), and super secret rarity (SSR). The higher the rarity, the more challenging the weapon is to obtain. Wearing a powered-up Simulacrum also unlocks traits, which are passives that boost your weapons to enable a play style within the team (e.g., tank, support, shield break, and dealing damage).
There are five gacha currencies in Tower of Fantasy:
All of these gacha currencies can be obtained by exchanging your dark crystals in the shop. Some of these, namely Gold Nucleus and Proof of Purchase can be obtained as you do quests and explore. Dark crystals can also be obtained this way.
Tower of Fantasy has 5 gachas running all at the same time. The five gachas are called Choice Weapons, Choice Matrices, Rebirth of Clemency (featured weapon banner), Reconstruction (featured matrices banner), and the Black Nucleus Cache.
The choice weapons banner is probably the first banner you're going to be exposed to. This Banner features a collection of SSR weapons, SR weapons, R weapons as well as weapon batteries that you can use to level up your weapons. Here's the list of the weapons in this banner and their base probability.
Currency needed to roll: Gold Nucleus
SSR (0.75%):
SR (1%):
R (91.40%):
R (6.85%):
This banner also has a pity system that guarantees you SRs and SSRs once you reach a certain number of rolls. At 10 rolls, you're guaranteed an SR and at 80 rolls, you're guaranteed an SSR. The good thing about the pity system of Tower of Fantasy is that it doesn't reset even if you get a weapon of the same rarity. For example, getting an SSR at your 30th roll will not reset your pity and you are still guaranteed an SSR at your 80th roll.
Note: this banner and the featured weapon banner do not share pity.
After rolling, you get you can use to buy stuff from the weapon store. You can use these currencies to buy weapons you already own, so that you can increase their refinement level (stars). a currency (black gold) that Weapon duplicates also give you currency.
Just like choice weapons, but this is for matrices. This banner features various matrices all ranked from SSR to R. Here's the list of all the matrices included and their base probability.
Currency needed to roll: Proof of Purchase
SSR (1.7%):
SR (7.5%):
R (90.8%):
This banner also has a pity system put into it albeit different from the choice weapons banner. Instead of 80 pity for SSRs, the choice matrices banner has 40 pity for SSRs. SR pity isn't changed.
Note: This banner and the featured matrices banner do not share pity.
After rolling, you get a currency (base chip) that you can use to buy stuff from the matrix store. You can use these currencies to buy matrix boxes where you can select a matrix you want from the box.
The featured weapon banner is a limited-time banner that features a weapon that's not included in the choice weapons banner. This means that this will be the only time you're going to be able to get the featured weapon unless Tower of Fantasy decides to re-run that certain weapon. Here are the list of weapons in this banner as well as their probability.
Currency needed to roll: Red Nucleus
SSR (0.75%):
SR (1%):
R (91.40%):
R (6.85%):
This banner has a pity system similar to Choice Weapons Banner, however, they do not share pity count. In addition to the pity system of Choice Weapons Banner, the Featured Weapon Banner also operates with a 50/50 system in mind. This means that whenever you get an SSR weapon, it's either going to be the featured weapon or another weapon from the Choice Weapons Banner.
After rolling, you get a currency that you can use to buy stuff from the limited store. What's different about the store here and the choice weapons is that for 120 of that currency, you're going to be able to buy the limited weapon. This means that you wouldn't need to try over and over again, just get to 120 rolls in the banner and you can get the weapon.
After the banner expiry, the excess limited currency (flame gold) you have will be converted into black gold.
This banner is pretty similar to the choice matrices banner but this banner, like the Featured Weapon Banner, is only available for a limited time. This means that the matrices that are featured here are only unique to this banner. We're still not sure if the matrices found here will completely disappear once the banner is over. Here is the list of matrices in this banner and their base probabilities.
Currency needed to roll: Special Voucher
SSR (1.7%):
SR (7.5%):
R (90.8%):
This banner has a pity system similar to Choice Matrices Banner, however, they do not share pity count. In addition to the pity system of Choice Matrices Banner, the Featured Matrices Banner also operates with a 50/50 system in mind. This means that whenever you get an SSR matrix, it's either going to be the featured matrix or another matrix from the Choice Matrices Banner.
After rolling, you get currencies (Overclocking Chip) you can use to get the matrix you want from the limited store. This currency is different from the currency you get if you roll from the Featured Weapons Banner. After the banner expiry, Overclocking Chips will be converted into Base Chips.
This is probably the gacha where you'll mostly pull on because the currency used here can be obtained just by exploring and doing quests, not just that, they're also plentiful. The Black Nucleus cache is a banner where no pity system exists and it's a free for all. Since there's no pity system, the probability of this gacha is abysmal, but that's fine because the number of black nucleus they're giving out just by exploring is quite a bit. Here is the full list of weapons and items in this gacha as well as their probabilities.
Currency needed to draw: Black Nucleus
SSR (0.3%):
SR (3%):
R (30.7%):
Others:
- Weapon Battery II (5%)
- Weapon Battery I (40%)
- Elementheart (1%):
- Elementcore (20%):
Note: some of these maybe return in the future if you can't find it in the game.
These are all the information of the Gacha mechanism in Tower of Fantasy, the followings are some links to other guide and tips for Tower of Fantasy: