Gifts of Drifting Mist Tides Cover Only 15% of Pity Gap

Direct Answer: They Don't Replace a Top Up

Gifts of Drifting Mist Tides only nibble the first pity gap. Version 3.6.0 released 19 Aug lists this 7-day login with Resonance Sim Realm and Wuthering Exploration: Fogveil Pagoda. It matches prior Gifts of Solsworn, Gifts of Amber, Gifts of Starlight, Gifts of Aftertune, Gifts of Freshers Week, Gifts of Approaching Dawn, and Gifts of Aftertune-style logins that award Radiant and Lustrous Tides or about 1,600 Astrite.

Hard pity is 80 pulls at 160 Astrite each, or 12,800 Astrite from zero. Most 5-stars land at 70–80. A comparable 7-day login, Unsigned Good Wishes (Feb 17–Mar 19, 2026), awarded 1,600 Astrite over 7 days—about 10 pulls. That's under 15% of a 70–80 pull first gap.

If you still need paid currency after counting those gifts, a Wuthering Waves Lunite top up after Gifts of Drifting Mist on buffget fills only the remaining pulls—competitive pricing, fast delivery, and secure transactions without buying more than the gap.

First pity vs full featured guarantee

First 5-star on a limited banner is 50/50. Losing 50/50 guarantees the next 5-star is featured, so worst case is 160 pulls or 25,600 Astrite. Best case is winning 50/50 near soft pity: about 70 pulls or 11,200 Astrite. Average featured Resonator cost sits around 65–70 pulls (10,400–11,200 Astrite). Event tides cannot cover 160 guaranteed pity.

Who can skip a top up—and who cannot

Skip a top up if leftover pity plus Tides plus Astrite already reach 70–80 pulls, or if you sit at 60+ pity with guarantee active and only need 10–20 more pulls. Don't skip if you're at 0 pity, chasing Qingxiao on Wind of Transcendence or Jingran on Where Santu Beckons, and your gifts-plus-F2P stack is still ~10 pulls. F2P income is 8,000–12,800 Astrite (50–80 pulls) per patch; Daily Activities add 60 Astrite/day (1,260 over a 21-day banner). That's a full gap only if you saved the whole patch.

What Gifts of Drifting Mist Tides Are

They're event-granted Tide items, not Lunite and not a shop refill. Claim from the Version 3.6 event hub, then confirm mail and Convene inventory. Gifts of Solsworn (3.2) required 7 login days for Radiant and Lustrous Tides; treat Drifting Mist the same: log in all 7 days or you lose the set.

Claim location and inventory

Open the event hub, claim daily, then check mail if it didn't auto-add. Screenshot Tide count before you Convene. Unused Tides stay in inventory and carry between limited character banners the same way pity does—pity and 50/50 carry over until you pull any 5-star, which resets the counter.

Why Tides, not Lunite or Astrite

Tides are pull tickets. Lunite is paid premium currency that converts to Astrite 1:1. Astrite buys Tides in Tidal Exchange at 160 each. Gifts never convert into Lunite and don't unlock first-purchase doubles. Mixing those three is how you overspend.

Lunite, Astrite, and Tide Types You Must Not Mix

Lunite packs: $0.99=60, $4.99=300, $14.99=980, $29.99=1980, $49.99=3280, $99.99=6480. First-time purchase doubles Lunite: the $99.99 pack yields 12,960 Lunite (~81 pulls, ~$1.23/pull); the $0.99 pack doubles to 120. Repeat $99.99 grants 8,080 Lunite (6,480+1,600 bonus), ~40 pulls at ~$2.50/pull. Version 1.2 removed top-up bonus reset, so doubles are one-time.

Paid Lunite conversion path

Lunite Subscription is $4.99 per 30 days: 300 Lunite immediately plus 90 Astrite per login day, totaling 2,700 Astrite (~17 pulls, ~$0.29/pull). Miss a login and you forfeit that day’s 90 Astrite. It doesn't auto-renew. A 180-day cap applies; buying past 179 remaining days grants 330 Lunite instead of extra days. Subscription alone is ~17 pulls—still far from 80 hard pity.

Radiant vs Lustrous vs Forging Tide

Radiant Tide is limited character Convene. Forging Tide is weapon Convene. Lustrous Tide is standard. Each costs 160 Astrite in Tidal Exchange. Weapon banner has no 50/50; featured weapon is guaranteed at 80 pulls and uses a separate pity. Spending Radiant Tide on the wrong Convene is a permanent waste. Bank event Radiant Tides for the featured Resonator, not Lustrous.

First Pity Gap Math: 80, 50/50, and 160

Gap formula: remaining pull gap × 160 Astrite − current Astrite − saved Tides − daily claims before banner end. Hard pity is 80. Soft pity start is reported as pull 66, 65–75, or 70; plan as if most 5-stars land at 70–80. A 4-star is guaranteed at least every 10 pulls. Utterance of Marvels novice banner guarantees a 5-star within 50 pulls (10 pulls cost 8 Lustrous Tides) and closes after that 5-star—don't mix it with limited math.

How to read current pity

Open Convene history for the featured Resonator banner only. Count pulls since the last 5-star. Note whether 50/50 is live or guarantee is active. Pity doesn't transfer to weapon Convene. Screenshot Tide count, Astrite, Afterglow Coral, Oscillated Coral, pity, and the banner end countdown before you spend.

Soft pity vs hard pity

At 0 pity you need 70–80 pulls for the first 5-star. At 40 pity you need about 30–40 more. At 60+ with guarantee, budget 10–20. Don't treat soft pity as a promise; hard pity at 80 is the only guarantee.

They Only Cover a Slice of the First Pity Gap

Coverage in pulls:

• Event tide gifts: ~10 pulls max (under 15% of 70–80)
• Lunite Subscription: ~17 pulls
• First-purchase $99.99 pack: ~81 pulls (12,960 Lunite)
• Worst-case 50/50 lose twice: 160 pulls

Gifts-only cannot replace paid Lunite. Gifts plus leftover Astrite can close a mid-pity account. Gifts plus a Lunite top up is the path when you're at 0 pity and still want Qingxiao or Jingran.

Version 3.6 adds Qingxiao (5-star Aero/Sword) via Wind of Transcendence and Jingran (5-star Fusion/Broadblade) via Where Santu Beckons. After you bank Drifting Mist Tides for Qingxiao’s limited Convene, you can buy Lunite Qingxiao after event tides through buffget if the remaining first pity gap still exceeds your Astrite—wide game coverage, excellent customer service, and high user ratings on a shortfall-only buy.

Worked examples

0-pity alt: 80 hard pity = 12,800 Astrite. Ten event pulls leave ~70 pulls (11,200 Astrite). Subscription adds ~17; you still need ~53 pulls.

Mid-pity (40): ~40 pulls left (6,400 Astrite). Ten gifts leave ~30 pulls. Saved patch Astrite plus dailies can finish this without a shop buy.

Post-50/50 lose at 0 toward the guarantee: another 80 pulls. Gifts still cover ~10. That's not a skip-the-shop pass.

What the Gifts Cover—and the Shortfall

After Tide gifts, convert leftover Astrite in Tidal Exchange only for Radiant Tide if the featured Resonator is the goal. Pioneer Podcast Battle Pass is $9.99 and grants 680 Astrite plus Lustrous Tides on the paid track—it's a supplement, not a Lunite top-up substitute.

Astrite still needed after Tide gifts

From zero, 11,200–12,800 Astrite for first pity minus ~1,600 from a 7-day login leaves ~9,600–11,200. Daily 60 Astrite doesn't close that before a 21-day banner ends unless pity is already high. Waveplates, Union Level milestones, Illusive Realm, and Data Bank resonance cost are extra F2P drips, not an 80-pull dump.

Coral shop as a small filler

Afterglow Coral and Oscillated Coral can buy a few extra Tides. Treat Coral as a 1–3 pull filler after you screenshot inventory. It won't cover 80 hard pity or 160 guaranteed featured.

Gifts-Only vs Gifts Plus Lunite Top Up

Three paths:

1. Gifts-only: ~10 pulls. Fine for 60+ pity with guarantee. Unsafe at 0 pity.
2. Gifts plus leftover Astrite: add saved 8,000–12,800 per patch if you didn't spend it. This is the real F2P first-gap closer.
3. Gifts plus Lunite top up: use first-purchase doubles if still available ($99.99 = 12,960 Lunite, ~81 pulls). Repeat packs are worse value.

Featured Resonator odds and Tide burn

Win 50/50 at soft pity: ~70 pulls. Lose then win: up to 160. Don't merge weapon Convene into that budget. Full Cartethyia + Defier's Thorn style dual-target budgets run 37,000–40,000 Astrite/Lunite, with weapon needing an extra ~80-pull cycle.

Weapon Convene is a separate gap

Forging Tide pity is separate. Event Lustrous Tides don't belong on limited Radiant banners, and Radiant Tides don't belong on standard or weapon. Banner-type mismatch is the fastest way to “lose” Drifting Mist gifts.

Misconceptions That Waste Event Tides

One 7-day gift set isn't a forever skip of the paid shop. It's ~10 pulls, historically identical to Solsworn-style logins. Spending limited Tides on the standard pool, converting Astrite into Lustrous Tide during a featured banner, or topping up before counting gifts all inflate cost.

Treating one event as a full skip-the-shop pass

Lunite Subscription (17 pulls) plus gifts (10) is still ~27 pulls—about one-third of first hard pity. Paid Lunite vs free Astrite isn't 1:1 in value after the first-purchase double is gone.

Spending limited Tides on the standard pool

Hold Radiant Tide for the featured Resonator. Check leftover pity carry and the banner end countdown. If the timer dies before you can finish 70–80, don't convert more Astrite and don't top up.

Practical Plan After You Claim the Gifts

Claim path: event hub → mail → Convene inventory. Then run this checklist and a hard stop at the timer.

Screenshot checklist

• Radiant / Lustrous / Forging Tide counts
• Astrite on hand
• Afterglow Coral and Oscillated Coral
• Convene history pity and 50/50 or guarantee
• Banner end countdown and shop reset
• Subscription days left (if any)

Decision tree: hold, convert, or top up

Hold if gifts plus pity already reach the 5-star you want. Convert Astrite to Radiant Tide only if the math closes the gap before the timer. Top up only the remaining pulls after gifts are counted. Gifting Lunite requires UID top-up: friend’s UID, correct server, chosen package; there's no direct in-game gifting or trading.

Pro tip: Count Gifts of Drifting Mist Tides and leftover pity first. What works: fill only the remaining Lunite shortfall, then pull with a hard stop at the banner timer.

When a Remaining Pity Gap Makes a Top Up Rational

A top up is rational when (a) you'll finish the banner, (b) gifts and F2P are already counted, and (c) the remaining gap is a first 80 or a live guarantee—not a vague “maybe 160 later.” Avoid topping up for a banner you won't finish. Map remaining gap to buffget only after event gifts are fully counted; buffget’s fast delivery and secure transactions fit a last-window fill, not a panic buy on day one.

And if the first gap is closed but the featured guarantee isn't, fill only the remaining Lunite shortfall with buffget.

FAQ: Gifts of Drifting Mist Tides and the First Pity Gap

Do Gifts of Drifting Mist Tides replace a Lunite top up? No. They're event Tides worth about 10 pulls and don't convert into Lunite or refill first-purchase packs.

Do Gifts of Drifting Mist Tides only cover the first pity gap? They cover under 15% of a 70–80 pull first gap. They cannot cover 160 guaranteed featured pity.

How many pulls do Gifts of Drifting Mist Tides usually provide? About 10 pulls, in line with 1,600 Astrite over 7 days on comparable login events.

What is the first pity gap on a limited Convene? From zero, 70–80 pulls (11,200–12,800 Astrite) for the first 5-star; 50/50 then applies.

Should I still top up Lunite after claiming Mist Tides gifts? Only if leftover pity, Tides, and Astrite still miss the 5-star you will actually pull before the banner ends.

Do unused event tides carry to the next banner? Yes. Tides stay in inventory. Limited character pity and 50/50 also carry until any 5-star pull resets the counter.