Monthly Free Draws Income

There are always at least 2 costume banners and 2 associated exclusive banners running at a time, each offering 1 free draw per day. There are a few sources of deferrable draws that can be saved for spending on a specific banner you want to invest more into.

If you're able to consistently clear level 10 Fiend Hunt and finish Mirror Wars in rank Dia I every season, you should be able to accumulate almost 250 draws per month. That translates to getting 1 costume to +3 every month, depending on luck. Add in your Selective Costume Enhancement from the Thread Shop as well as grabbing a copy from the powder shop and you've got a +5.

Selective or Regular Costume Draw

One of the most frequently asked questions is whether it's worth drawing on the selective or regular costume draw. There's three main reasons why you shouldn't do it.

• There's no draw point exchange, so no guaranteed costume after 200 draws
• There's no pick-up event giving you tickets back
• It takes longer to get a single costume maxed out, due to the rate-up bonus being distributed across 12 costumes

As a free to play player, it makes more sense to stick to the featured banners. That's not a problem when there's good costumes on banner. When there's a drought, that's when the selective banner starts to get tempting.

As long as you have at least 12 costumes you don't mind raising slowly, there are a few good reasons to do it.

• The costumes you're drawing for are useful at +0 or with minimal upgrades
• You're missing key costumes for upgrading via the selective upgrade ticket
• You're in desperate need of Powder of Hope and none of the current banners are worth drawing on
• Unless you hit the 100 draw point 5* pity, only the selected 5* costumes can appear
• If you're buying draws, selective draw tickets are cheaper per dollar than regular draw tickets because they can only be used on this banner.

There is also a single costume selective draw, but it's only available for a limited time. It essentially lets you put 1 costume on banner: 1.5% chance to get your chosen costume, 1.5% chance of getting any other 5* costume. It does have an exchange just like a regular pick-up banner, but no pick-up event to grant you tickets back.

List of recommended costumes for new accounts.

Exclusives

Generally speaking, drawing on exclusive gear banners is not recommended. They're a smaller upgrade than what a costume duplicate would give you. So if you're going to draw, only do it for a damage character if you're going to take their costume to +4 or +5. Do not waste draws on exclusives for supports, since they do not help those characters do their jobs better. The exception is for accessories belonging to magic characters (Eclipse, Celia, Morpeah): unless you use them for PvP, they're worse than a Venomous Touch because they can't roll crit damage.

By the time I reached my 300th login (2025-01-27), I had 25 unique UR pieces out of 44 (56.8%) and 8 SR (18.2%). I only spent draws on two exclusive banners. I have multiple duplicate URs as well. Of the 19 URs I was missing, 10 are weapons and one is limited (Eris). One of the exclusives I had was for a character I wouldn't own until later (Michaela).

Of the exclusives I was missing on day 300 (2025-01-27), these were the most critical for my roster:

• Venaka (2025-01-28, free draw)
• Sacred Justia (2025-04-16, free draw)

I was tempted to draw on Venaka's when she was on banner the month before, but decided the draws were better spent on the Winter limiteds. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't.

Property Selective Draw

Most people recommend not purchasing this ticket from the thread shop because the other choices are of higher value. However, you can get one every month from clearing level 4 of the Tower of Salvation. There's also a one-time reward from clearing floor 50 and floor 100 of the Tower of Wrath and the Tower of Jealousy (4 total).

Wind has the best odds of getting a high-value costume. The weakest options are for Olstein and Lecliss, 2 costumes each. Gray's not unwelcome since he's strong in high level FH favoring wind, but he takes a lot of investment.

• Diana (Adventurer of the Unknown)
• Diana (Anti-dystopia)
• Venaka (DJ)
• Venaka (Wind Dancer)
• Zenith (Robin Hood)
• Zenith (Poolside Guardian)
• Nebris (Labyrinth Gatekeeper)
• Nebris (Laid-back Lifeguard)
• Nebris (New Hire)
• Tyr (Starlight Guardian)

Dark has the smallest costume pool. Fire and Light have the largest costume pools, dominated by Lathel and Justia respectively.

Powder of Hope

It isn't immediately obvious, but Powder of Hope is one of the most precious currencies in the game. It's limited by the number of draws you do: one draw = 1 powder. Unlike golden threads, you don't get a varying amount based on the rarity of the costume you get. However, it's always better to spend draws because 200 draws guarantees you a minimum of 3 costumes (2 from 100 point pity and 200 from the exchange) and at least 10 tickets back from the pick-up event. If you opt to spend powder instead after the banner ends, you're missing out on the tickets and the other two costumes. Because the draw point exchange is a better deal than converting to powder, you'll accumulate powder very slowly.

I prefer to buy costumes that haven't been on banner recently, since that might be the only way I'll be able to guarantee a copy. If I want one of the banner costumes, I'll draw on it while it's on banner.

Costume Selective Enhancement (Selective Upgrade)

For the first 10 months, the costumes I chose to upgrade were on banner or were known to go on banner in the near future at the time I upgraded them. I shifted to using them as an emergency upgrade for a better FH score or to upgrade some of the mid-tier support costumes that have eluded me.

My Draw Strategy

Whether you spend or rely completely on free draws, it's essential to pick and choose the banners you draw on carefully. This means skipping costumes that aren't going to improve your roster. This also means being willing to commit enough resources to make that costume worth using. If you keep drawing for single copies of costumes, you might not have enough resources to fully invest in the ones that will help you meet your content goals.

I tend to budget for spending 200 draws on one banner per month. This typically yields a +2 or +3 costume. My core supports are all at +4 or +5, depending on what the most important break point is for the costume in question. Unless the costume is limited, I'm pretty comfortable stopping at +3 or +4 when investing into a damage costume, since it's good enough for most content and that last copy will come eventually.

• Decide what my goals are for that costume. Track and Field Captian Levia's best upgrade levels are +2 and +4, while +3 and +5 is best for her Overheat costume. Sometimes there's a minimum upgrade needed to make it effective in the current Fiend Hunter, which can be as low as +1 for SP reduction.
• Draw until I've reached my minimum goal (usually +2 or +3) or 200 draws minus the days remaining on the banner, whichever comes first. This leaves plenty of room to get copies from free draws without risking getting threads. Unless I had really bad luck and needed to do an exchange for that first copy, I save exchanges until the end of the banner.
• On the last day of the banner, evaluate how important it is to reach my final goal. There are 3 ways to avoid spending extra draws: Selective Costume Enhancement from the thread shop, 200 draw point exchange, and buy from the next powder shop (note: only the exchange is available for limited costumes). If it's really important to reach my final goal for that costume and I won't reach it without spending more draws, then I'll do that before I use the exchange.

If there are limiteds on the horizon, then I'll spend a little more conservatively leading up to them to try and save up some extra draws to ensure I can max them out.

My Draw History

They say that hindsight is 20/20. I'm going to share my roster progression as someone who is F2P. My first time spending on selective draw wasn't until June 2025 (Goblin Slayer collab/2nd Anniversary), over a year after I started playing.

• I had no idea what I was doing during my first FH, and I didn't have any max leveled characters yet
• I didn't have a single copy of H.Lathel or B.Helena for the first 3 months I'd been playing, and it took another month before the later was usable
• It's not a coincidence that Diana going on banner in June (1st Anniversary) dramatically improved my FH results
• There were times where I was unable to clear level 10 because I lacked the ability to survive, not because I didn't do enough damage

My goal here isn't to show off. If anything, my account development probably was stunted due to a lack of good costumes early on and my overly concervative draw strategy. I missed several good banners by about 2 months: Maid Liatris, Diana, GC Rafina, and MC Teresse. As a result, I relied heavily on PP Angelica (+4), GC Rafina (+0), and Maid Liatris (+0) for a long time. However, if I'd spent what little draws I had on the selective banner to get the old meta (ie. before I started playing) costumes, I wouldn't have had enough to get the new meta or limited costumes when they were on banner.

• My 300th login was on 2025-01-27
• I made 2 purchases during the 2nd Anniversary (2025-06-19): 3-day mega sale and the infinite roll
• My 500th login was on 2025-08-15
• My 600th login was on 2025-11-23

1st Year Anniversary

1.5 Year Anniversary

2nd Year Anniversary

2.5 Year Anniversary

Costumes added before I started playing where I've never received from an off-banner draw:

• +0 White Reaper Justia (free from story)
• +0 White Cat Rou (contract)
• +5 Neon Stalker Liatris (+4 on Pick 1, powder)
• +1 Killer Doll Lecliss (contract, property ticket)
• +5 Pool Party Angelica (+4 on banner, property ticket)
• +2 The Void Granhildr (contract, character pass, property ticket)

Costumes added after I started playing with no off-banner draws:

• +1 Beachside Justice Michaela (Pick 1, property ticket)
• +5 Wind Dancer Venaka (contract, selective upgrade, property ticket x2, powder shop, Recommended 5* ticket)
• +5 New Hire Nebris (+2 on banner, property ticket x2, selective upgrade)

Costumes less than 6 months old with no off-banner draws:

• +5 Iron Monarch Wilhelmina (+4 on banner, powder)
• +5 Apostle Morpeah (+4 on banner, contract)
• +5 Fallen Wings Olivier (+4 on banner, powder)
• +5 Apostle Olivier (+5 on banner)
• +5 Maid Bikini Rubia (+4 on banner, powder)
• +5 Starlight Guardian Tyr (+4 on banner, powder)
• +5 Prophetic Dream Darian (+5 on banner)
• +5 Boo Ghost Granhildr (+5 on banner)

Loen felt like a disappointing investment for a long time. Up until this point, everything I had was geared towards physical characters. The first fire FH after her release (Berserker) only gave physical buffs. The new story pack after her release (Song of Snow) was full of water enemies, so I didn't get to use her there either. In fact, it took a couple more months before I'd have enough other supporting costumes to really make her shine (B Helena, Levia). Today I'm quite happy that I have her because of all of the content she's allowed me to do. I guess the point I'm trying to make here is: don't skip genuinely good banners just because they don't fit into what you currently have. You want to fill in the areas where you're weak.