# Honkai: Nexus Anima Gacha Guide: Banners and Pity > How the Honkai: Nexus Anima gacha system works: Standard and Event Bonds, a 5-star Eidos within 50 Bonds, a 4-star every 10, Wish Power and the currencies. Source: https://theanimadex.com/guides/gacha-guide/ Published: 2026-08-16 Updated: 2026-10-16 Honkai: Nexus Anima calls a gacha pull a **Bond**, guarantees a 5-star Eidos within your first 50 Bonds, and guarantees a 4-star or better every 10\. There are two permanent banners: the **Eidos Standard Bond** for characters and the **Anima Standard Bond** for the creatures that fight for you. Limited **Anima Wish** banners add a Wish Power guarantee on top, and the paid currency, **Mintent**, sits above all of it. The short version of where to spend: **Eidos are the banner that matters**. They set and amplify your team Aspect synergies, which is the single biggest lever on how a formation performs. Anima pulls are a convenience, because a lot of the roster can simply be caught out in the world. ## Key takeaways * **Two permanent banners, not one.** The Eidos Standard Bond pulls characters, the Anima Standard Bond pulls creatures, and both are labelled Bond Type: Permanent. * **Limited banners are built in.** The game names an Eidos Event Bond, an Anima Event Bond and Anima Wishes, each with increased drop rates for featured units and its own pull item. * **They use separate tickets.** Nexus Trace pulls Eidos, Nexus Wisp pulls Anima, and the two do not convert into each other. * **Six 5-star Eidos are in the pool**, including Blade, Parayaya, and Olympia, with Kiana and Otto sitting at 4-star. * **The 10-pull guarantee is confirmed.** Both banners state that every 10 Bonds includes at least one 4-star or higher. * **A 5-star Eidos lands within 50 Bonds.** The game’s rules read “A 5-star Eidos is guaranteed within the first 50 Bonds”, with a counter. Limited Anima Wish banners use Wish Power, a lose-then-guaranteed rule. * **Mintent is the paid currency, Aspect Gems the premium one.** Mintent exchanges into Aspect Gems, which also fund the deterministic 5-star picks covered in our [reroll guide](/guides/reroll-guide/). * **A monthly pass exists.** The Joyful Certificate pays 300 Mintent up front and up to 2,700 Aspect Gems over 30 daily logins. * **Prioritise Eidos.** They drive [Aspect synergy](/guides/aspect-synergy-guide/), and many Anima are catchable in the overworld for free. ## How the Nexus Anima gacha system works Every pull in Nexus Anima is a **Bond**, made one at a time (Bond x1) or ten at a time (Bond x10) from the Encounters screen. The game lists five kinds of Bond, split between a permanent pair and three limited formats. | Bond type | Pool | Duration | Featured units | | ------------------- | ----------------------------------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------- | | Eidos Standard Bond | Eidos, plus some 3 and 4-star Anima | Permanent | None | | Anima Standard Bond | Anima only | Permanent | None | | Eidos Event Bond | Eidos | Limited | “Increased Drop Rates for Featured Eidoses” | | Anima Event Bond | Anima | Limited | “Increased Drop Rates for Featured Anima” | | Anima Wish | Anima | Limited | Your chosen Desired Anima, with Wish Power | Results come out of packs with three visible tiers: a **Bronze Pack**, a **Gold Pack** and a **Radiant Pack**. The Radiant Pack is the one the Wish Power rule names, so it is the top tier. Two smaller rules round out the system. **Bond History** shows “the past 6 months”, and the game warns that records “may take around 1 hour to update”. And pulling a new Eidos brings a bonus: “Upon obtaining a new Eidos, you’ll receive an Anima Companion to aid you on your adventure!” ## The two Standard Bonds Open the Encounters screen and you get two tabs down the left side. The top one is the Eidos Standard Bond, presented as **“Those You’ve Met”**, an open notebook of character cards. The lower one is the Anima Standard Bond, presented as **“Anima of the World”**, a boxed creature display on a desk. Both are permanent Encounters features, and the Eidos side is the one people plan around. | | Eidos Standard Bond | Anima Standard Bond | | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | | In-game name | “Those You’ve Met” | “Anima of the World” | | Bond Type | Permanent | Permanent | | What you pull | Eidos, the humanoid characters | Nexus Anima, the creature companions | | Rarities | 4-star and 5-star | 3-star, 4-star, and 5-star | | Pull currency | Nexus Trace | Nexus Wisp | | Stated guarantee | At least one 4-star or higher every 10 Bonds | At least one 4-star or higher every 10 Bonds | | Duplicates | Convert to Eidothread | Stack as extra copies | | Pull options | Bond x1, Bond x10 | Bond x1, Bond x10 | Both screens also carry a **Bond History** button and a **Preview** button, so the full pool is inspectable in game rather than being a black box. That is a small thing, but it means the odds and contents are checkable by players once the game publishes them. _The Eidos Standard Bond presents its character pool as an open notebook, with Blade, Parayaya, and Hungrille among the featured 5-stars._ ![Honkai Nexus Anima Eidos Standard Bond character banner showing Blade, Parayaya, and Hungrille as 5-star cards](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-eidos-standard-bond-character-banner.webp) ### The full Eidos Standard Bond pool The banner’s details panel lists the whole pool, so there is no guesswork about who you can hit. | Rarity | Eidos in the pool | | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **5-star** | [Olympia](/eidos/olympia/), [Herocrates](/eidos/herocrates/), [Bai Mei](/eidos/bai-mei/), [Blade](/eidos/blade/), [Parayaya](/eidos/parayaya/), [Hungrille](/eidos/hungrille/) | | **4-star** | [Breadhead](/eidos/breadhead/), [Nanafey](/eidos/nanafey/), [Hua](/eidos/hua/), [Kiana](/eidos/kiana/), [Maple Manybell](/eidos/maple-manybell/), [Shilian](/eidos/shilian/), [Otto](/eidos/otto/) | Honkai Impact 3rd players tend to do a double take at that second row: **Kiana and Otto are both 4-star here**, not 5-star. Familiar name recognition is not a rarity signal in this game. One quirk worth knowing before you spend: the Eidos banner can also hand you 3-star and 4-star Anima, so it is not a pure character banner. The Anima Standard Bond does not work in reverse, and yields only Anima. _The Eidos Standard Bond details panel lists the full pool and the 10-Bond guarantee in plain text._ ![Honkai Nexus Anima Eidos Standard Bond details panel listing the 5-star and 4-star Eidos pool and the 10-Bond guarantee](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-eidos-standard-bond-pool-details.jpg) ### Eidos and Anima: getting the terms straight Two words, two very different things, and mixing them up is the most common mistake new players make. | Term | What it means | | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Eidos** | The humanoid characters you pull and build. They buff your squad, cast active skills, level their own skill trees, and set your Aspect synergies. The game names them possessively, as “Blade’s Eidos” or “Olympia’s Eidos.” | | **Anima** | The creature companions, full name Nexus Anima. These are the units that do the actual fighting on the board. | The rarity spread is the quickest way to keep them apart. Eidos come at 4-star and 5-star only, while Anima run 3-star, 4-star, and 5-star. You can browse both on our [character roster](/eidos/) and in the [Anima dex](/anima/). One correction worth making: we previously described Eidos as a system for letting a friend’s Anima assist you in battle. That was incomplete. Eidos are playable characters with their own banner. ### Why Eidos matter more than Anima Aspect synergy is the mechanic that decides whether a formation works. Anima that share an Aspect buff each other, and your Eidos amplifies units matching its own Aspect on top of that. Pulling an Eidos therefore does not just add one unit, it changes which of your existing Anima are worth fielding. Anima pulls are softer. The Anima Standard Bond currently holds 19 5-star Anima, but plenty of the roster, 5-stars included, is catchable during [exploration](/guides/exploration-guide/) or handed out through events and progression rewards. That banner mostly accelerates a collection you can build for free. Eidos skills are the part you cannot farm. They are gacha-exclusive, they carry the passives and actives that swing a fight, and the characters you pull are the ones you get to run around the overworld as. If you are choosing where a limited budget goes, the Eidos side compounds and the Anima side does not. ## The currencies: Mintent, Aspect Gems and the pull tickets Four currencies matter here: a paid currency, a premium currency above both banners, and one pull ticket per banner. Conflating them is the easiest mistake to make. | Currency | What it is | How you get it | | --------------- | ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | | **Mintent** | Paid top-up currency | Bought in packs, from the monthly pass | | **Aspect Gems** | Premium currency, exchanged into tickets | Play, events, monthly pass, Mintent | | **Nexus Trace** | Eidos Standard Bond ticket | Play, Aspect Gems | | **Nexus Wisp** | Anima Standard Bond ticket | Play, Aspect Gems, limited store stock | ### Mintent, the paid currency **Mintent** is the currency you buy with real money. The in-game top-up lists packs of 60, 300, 980, 1,980, 3,280 and 6,480 Mintents, a **Mintent Shop**, and a prompt to set the “Amount of Mintents to Exchange for Aspect Gems”. It is the layer above everything else: you buy Mintent, convert it to Aspect Gems, and spend those. The item itself is a 5-star blue crystal whose flavour text ends on wishes being “minted into that which is intended to be”, which is where the name comes from. Real-money prices vary by region and store, so we do not print any. _The Mintent item panel. It is a 5-star item and, like the other currencies, carries flavour text rather than a usage line._ ![Honkai Nexus Anima Mintent item panel, the 5-star paid currency crystal with its flavour text about wishes](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-mintent-paid-currency-item.webp) ### Aspect Gems, the premium currency **Aspect Gems** are the premium hard currency. The item description reads that it is a gem which hastens the birth of Nexus Anima and is accepted as hard currency across the Planes, with a second line about the Nexus crystallising and the light and shadow of Aspects converging. It is a 5-star item, and its detail panel routes onward to three destinations: the **Apex Club**, the **Infinite Vortex**, and **Thesophool’s Riddles**. That last one is worth noting, because Riddles is also the endgame content players report clearing without a full 5-star roster. Aspect Gems are not purely a gacha currency, they are the general spending currency the game funnels you toward. _Aspect Gem is the premium hard currency, and its detail panel routes to the Apex Club, the Infinite Vortex, and Thesophool’s Riddles._ ![Honkai Nexus Anima Aspect Gem item panel describing it as hard currency accepted across the Planes](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-aspect-gem-premium-gacha-currency.webp) Aspect Gems also fund the milestone 5-star picks at account Levels 18, 21, and 24\. Those picks are deterministic: you choose the unit rather than rolling for it. That system is a separate track from the banners and it is covered in full in our [reroll guide](/guides/reroll-guide/). ### Nexus Wisp, the Anima Bond ticket **Nexus Wisp** is the pull ticket for the Anima Standard Bond, and the item text says exactly that. It describes them as tiny wisps of fate collected via sundry actions in the current version of the universe, which is a florid way of saying you accumulate them from ordinary play. They are also buyable. A Nexus Wisp costs **80 coins** with a purchase cap on the transaction, so the store route is a top-up rather than an unlimited faucet. _Nexus Wisp is the Anima Standard Bond ticket, earned through ordinary play and also purchasable in limited quantity._ ![Honkai Nexus Anima Nexus Wisp item panel describing it as the currency for the Anima Standard Bond](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-nexus-wisp-standard-bond-currency.webp) ### Nexus Trace, the Eidos Bond ticket The Eidos Standard Bond runs on its own ticket, **Nexus Trace**. The banner’s own details panel spells it out: it is a permanent Encounters feature where you use Nexus Traces to Bond. That is why you can be flush on one banner and empty on the other, and tickets do not convert between the two, so hoarding on the Anima side does nothing for your Eidos pulls. _Nexus Trace, the gold four-pointed star that funds Eidos pulls. Easy to mistake for a Nexus Wisp at a glance, so check the colour before you spend._ ![Honkai Nexus Anima Nexus Trace item icon, a gold and prismatic four-pointed star used for Eidos Standard Bond pulls](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-nexus-trace-eidos-bond-currency.webp) Aspect Gems sit above both. They are the currency you redeem downward into either ticket, which is why the gem balance shows in the top bar of both Bond screens regardless of which banner you have open. The game also names **Bonds That Tie**, described as “a universal item used for the Standard Bond”. Spending a set number of them across the two Standard Bonds unlocks one-time bonus reward tiers, and Path of Legends point rewards pay out in them. How Bonds That Tie relates to Nexus Trace and Nexus Wisp is not spelled out in game, so check your inventory before you plan around it. ### Event Bond and Anima Wish items The limited banners do not run on the standard tickets. The game describes “a special item used for Eidos Event Bonds”, “a special item used for Anima Event Bonds” and “a limited item used for Anima Wishes”. A second named item, **Threads That Bind**, sits next to Bonds That Tie in the item list, but the game does not pair it with a description, so we will not guess which banner it feeds. The practical point holds either way: a stockpile of Nexus Trace will not pay for an Event Bond. Each limited format draws on its own item. ### Shops and choice packs Bond items also turn up through the shop tabs. The game names **Gem Purchase**, **Pack Center**, **Fate Exchange**, **Prismatic Shop**, **Syndicate Anima Shop**, **Unbreakable Ties**, **Good Company Goods** (paid in Respect from Guild Boost), the **Arena Shop** (paid in Arena Stars, and it “stays open after the season ends”), and a tab called **Redeem a Gacha Ticket**. What each shop stocks is not described in the text, so we are not listing contents. Beyond the Standard Eidos Choice Pack covered below, the game has a **5-Star Eidos Choice Pack**, a **5-Star Anima Choice Pack**, an **Anima Choice Pack**, an **Anima Companion Choice Pack** and a **5-Star Combo Choice Pack**, which lets you “choose an Eidos and Anima set from the available choices”. How each one is obtained is not stated. ## The Joyful Certificate monthly pass Nexus Anima has the standard HoYoverse monthly pass, here called the **Joyful Certificate**. The in-game rule text is specific: * **On purchase:** 300 Mintent, delivered immediately. * **Daily:** 90 Aspect Gems for each day you log in and claim, for 30 days. Claims reset at 04:00 server time. * **Total:** up to 2,700 Aspect Gems over the 30 days, as the store card puts it. * **Missed days are lost.** “Aspect Gems missed because you did not log in will not be refunded.” * **Stacking cap:** you can only buy another while fewer than 179 days remain. _The Joyful Certificate store card: 300 Mintent on purchase, 90 Aspect Gems a day for 30 days._ ![Honkai Nexus Anima Joyful Certificate monthly pass store card showing 300 Mintent on purchase and 90 daily Aspect Gems for 30 days](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-joyful-certificate-monthly-pass.webp) If you plan to spend at all, this is where to start, as it is in every HoYoverse game. The value comes almost entirely from the daily drip, so it is only worth it if you log in most days. A player who drops in twice a week gets the 300 Mintent and a fraction of the gems. ### The other paid tracks: Special Boost and Guild Boost The game has two more paid layers, both battle-pass shaped. **Special Boost** levels up from Weekly and Period Tasks, and buying **Journey to Joy** or **Joyful Iia’s Companions** unlocks more of its rewards. **Guild Boost** runs on Guild Tasks with a weekly experience cap, and its paid tiers are **Association’s Approval** and **Syndicate’s Friend**, which also grant Respect for a shop called Good Company Goods. Refund lines in the rules show their prices in Mintent: 1,080 for Journey to Joy, and 750 or 1,410 for the two Guild Boost tiers. Our [battle pass guide](/guides/battle-pass-guide/) walks through both tracks screen by screen, including the Respect exchange for 5-star Anima and which tier earns enough Respect to use it. ## Pity and guarantees: what is confirmed and what is not This is where most gacha guides start inventing things, so we will be blunt about the line between the two. Our first pass at this page, written from the Evolution Test screens, found no 5-star pity at all. The game’s own rules text has since shown three more guarantee rules. **The 10-Bond floor.** Both Standard Bonds display the same guarantee: every 10 Bonds is guaranteed to include at least one 4-star or higher. On the Anima banner that reads as 4-star or higher Anima, on the Eidos banner as 4-star or higher Eidos. **The 50-Bond Eidos guarantee.** The game’s rules read “A 5-star Eidos is guaranteed within the first 50 Bonds”, paired with a “Bonds made: 0/50” counter. The word “first” matters: it reads as a one-time beginner guarantee rather than a repeating pity, and the rules do not say what happens after it fires. **Wish Power on limited Anima banners.** Time-limited **Anima Wish** banners use a rule called Wish Power. You pick a Desired Anima. If you pull a 5-star that is not your Desired one, Wish Power fully charges, and the next **Radiant Pack** you open on that Wish is guaranteed to hold the Desired Anima. Changing your Desired Anima keeps the charge, but it clears when the Wish ends, so it does not carry to the next banner. A separate line reads “Every round of Wish guarantees one 5-star Anima”, and the Desired Anima itself gets a boost: “The drop rate for your Desired Anima will be significantly increased.” **Featured rate-ups on Event Bonds.** The Event Bond screens carry “Increased Drop Rates for Featured Eidoses” and “Increased Drop Rates for Featured Anima”, with “Rate-Up Eidoses”, “Rate-Up Anima” and “Guaranteed” labels. The text never says how much the rate rises, or whether losing a rate-up guarantees the next one. **Still missing.** No numeric drop rate appears anywhere in the game, and neither does a repeating 5-star hard pity number for the Standard Bonds. No one has demonstrated soft pity either. > These rules come from the game’s own rules text, not from a published rate page. Gacha rules are the part of any HoYoverse game most likely to change between versions. | Detail | Status | | ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | | Banners are permanent | Confirmed in game (Bond Type: Permanent) | | 4-star or higher every 10 Bonds | Confirmed in game | | Separate ticket per banner | Confirmed in game | | Nexus Wisp store price of 80 | Confirmed in game, subject to change | | Eidos pool contents | Confirmed in the banner details panel | | 5-star Eidos within first 50 | In-game rules | | Anima Wish Wish Power guarantee | In-game rules | | Event Bonds with featured units | In-game text | | Joyful Certificate amounts | In-game rules and store screen | | Repeating 5-star hard pity | **Not found** | | Published pull rates | **Unknown** | You will see a figure of roughly 80 pulls for a guaranteed 5-star quoted in community discussion. That number is an extrapolation from how Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, and Zenless Zone Zero settled, and it is a reasonable guess about a studio that has been consistent. It is **not** a Nexus Anima measurement, and we are not going to print it as one. Treat it as a planning assumption, not a fact. ## What a 5-star pull looks like Every Bond plays the same opening: a shooting star crosses the night sky and lands in a crowded street in Iia. The colour of that streak as it reaches the character is your tell. In the two pulls we recorded on the **“Those You’ve Met”** Eidos Standard Bond, it turned **gold** on the way to a 5-star and stayed **blue** on the way to a 4-star. ![Honkai Nexus Anima 5-star pull animation with the shooting star turning gold as it reaches the character in the street](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-5-star-pull-gold-shooting-star.webp) _The 5-star tell: the streak flares gold just before Juelle, a 5-star Love Eidos, is revealed._ ![Honkai Nexus Anima 4-star pull animation with the shooting star staying blue as it reaches the character](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-4-star-pull-blue-shooting-star.webp) _The same moment on a 4-star pull: the streak stays blue and white._ After the gold flash, the 5-star pull cut to a close-up, then a five-star crest, then the character card with their Anima companion behind them. The 4-star pull skipped the crest. Two pulls are a small sample, so treat the colour rule as what we saw, not a confirmed system; we will update this if a 4-star ever shows gold. ### Reading the 10-Bond results screen A 10-Bond ends on a grid of ten cards. Eidos cards show the character with a star rating and their Aspect icon. Most of the other cards are materials and Anima Energy rather than whole Anima, each with its own count. One 10-Bond we recorded held a single 4-star Eidos and nine item cards, which satisfies the “4-star or higher every 10 Bonds” floor and nothing more. ![Honkai Nexus Anima 10-Bond results screen with one 4-star Eidos card and nine material and Anima Energy cards](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-10-pull-bond-results-screen.webp) _A 10-Bond results grid: one 4-star Eidos, nine item cards._ ### Where the Nexus Leads: the Standard Bond milestone The Eidos Standard Bond screen also carries a reward box called **Where the Nexus Leads**, with a progress bar and a line reading “Available after 107 Bonds” on one account. On another account, recorded with the game set to Russian, the same counter read 70 more Bonds and later 30, so it counts down with every Bond: a reward for a fixed number of Bonds, not a random drop. The box art shows several Eidos, which fits a choose-one reward, but the game does not say what is inside. We will add it once someone claims one. ### Is there a 50/50 in Honkai: Nexus Anima? Not one the game describes. A 50/50 means losing a featured 5-star to an off-banner one guarantees the featured unit next time. The Event Bond screens show featured rate-ups and a “Guaranteed” label, but the text never states that rule or any odds. The one loss-protection rule that is spelled out is **Wish Power** on Anima Wish banners, covered above: losing to a non-Desired 5-star charges it, and your next Radiant Pack holds the Desired Anima. ## Standard now, limited later Every character in the Evolution Test pool was standard, meaning permanently available. Both banners say Permanent on the tin. The game shows that limited banners are coming: it names the Eidos Event Bond, the Anima Event Bond and the Anima Wish system, and four banner titles, “Plum Accord Mirrored in Snow”, “Of Right and Wrong, Self and Others”, “Plum Scent Lingering in Snow’s Wake” and “As Shape Casts Shadow”. Which unit each one features is not stated. ### The Standard Eidos Choice Pack There is also a free pick. The **Standard Eidos Choice Pack** lets you “choose 1 Eidos from a specified pool”, and the rules add that claiming it “will not affect your current guarantee count”. The selector we saw offered six 5-stars, Blade among them, all at zero copies. _The Standard Eidos Choice Pack selector, captured with the game set to Russian, with Blade highlighted among six 5-star picks._ ![Honkai Nexus Anima Standard Eidos Choice Pack selector showing six 5-star Eidos with Blade selected](/images/honkai-nexus-anima-standard-eidos-choice-pack-selector.webp) Use it on the Eidos whose Aspect your team is built around. Since it does not touch your pity count, there is no reason to hold it while you pull. ### Expect a patch cycle Every other HoYoverse title runs time-limited character banners on a patch cycle, with reruns arriving months later if at all. If that pattern holds, the current standard pool is the floor of what will always be available, and new arrivals will be the ones that pressure your savings. Plan for that rather than around it. Resources spent on a permanent pool are resources you cannot spend on a limited unit you actually want, and a permanent pool is the one thing that will still be there when you get back to it. ## Duplicate copies Duplicates are not dead pulls, but they are also not gates. The two banners handle them differently. Duplicate Eidos convert into **Eidothread**, which runs in six ranks, Eidothread I to VI. That sits alongside **Eidognosis**, each Eidos having its own node tree to level. Duplicate Anima are not wasted either. The game says “Repeatedly Bonding will grant Energy for the corresponding Anima, which can be used to enhance Rapport”, and **Rapport** is the Anima equivalent of Eidothread. Our [bond guide](/guides/bond-guide/) covers how Energy, Rapport and Nexus Energy Gathering fit together. * **Extra copies unlock bonus abilities.** Community reporting describes effects such as crowd control, anti-heal, and stronger area damage unlocking at the second or third copy. * **The base copy is complete.** A single copy is fully functional for clearing content. Duplicates improve a unit rather than finishing it. * **Low rarity units want stacking more.** 3-star and 4-star units benefit from multiple copies, and conveniently they are the easiest to accumulate, both from pulls and from catching more Anima in the overworld. * **Mixed rarity is fine.** Because synergy keys off Aspect rather than rarity, a team blending 3, 4, and 5-star units is often better than an unsynergised board of 5-stars. That last point is the one that saves people money. Check the [Aspect synergy guide](/guides/aspect-synergy-guide/) before assuming you need a rarity upgrade, because the fix is frequently a cheaper unit that shares an Aspect. ## Is it free to play friendly? On the evidence so far, yes, with the usual caveat that monetisation is the part of any gacha most likely to tighten between versions. Endgame content, Thesophool’s Riddles included, is reported as clearable without a complete 5-star roster. A small, well-constructed team is enough. Several 5-star Anima are obtainable free through overworld exploration, events, and progression rewards, which is a meaningful difference from a game where every top-rarity unit sits behind a banner. Damage dealers also exist at every rarity. 5-stars have stronger base stats and richer kits, but the role is not locked to them, so a free account is not structurally short of a win condition. Browse the [Anima dex](/anima/) and the [tier list](/tier-list/) and you will find capable units well below the top rarity. The paid side is now visible too: a Mintent top-up shop, the Joyful Certificate, and two battle-pass style Boosts. That is the standard HoYoverse menu and nothing in it is a content gate. The honest caveat: the economy is not finished, and generosity is the easiest thing for a gacha to tighten later. Take the above as a signal about design intent rather than a promise. ## How to spend your pulls 1. **Favour the Eidos Standard Bond.** It is the banner that changes how your whole roster performs, because Eidos drive Aspect synergy. 2. **Hold a reserve.** Both current banners are permanent and will still be there later. Anything time-limited that arrives will not be, so a stockpile is worth more than a full collection of units you could have pulled at any time. 3. **Pull in tens, not singles.** The only confirmed guarantee triggers on a 10-Bond, so single pulls give up the one piece of certainty the system offers. 4. **Do not spend Aspect Gems before Level 18.** The milestone picks are deterministic 5-stars, and gems spent early are picks forfeited. Our [reroll guide](/guides/reroll-guide/) covers which unit to take. 5. **Catch before you pull.** If an Anima you want is available in the overworld, the [exploration guide](/guides/exploration-guide/) is a cheaper route than the banner. 6. **Decide your Aspect first.** Work out the formation you are building in the [formation planner](/team-builder/), then pull toward it rather than pulling and rebuilding afterwards. ## Frequently asked questions ### Does Honkai: Nexus Anima have a gacha system, and how does it work? Yes. A pull is called a Bond. Two permanent Standard Bonds, one for Eidos and one for Anima, sit alongside limited Eidos Event Bonds, Anima Event Bonds and Anima Wishes, which raise the drop rate for featured units. Every 10 Bonds includes a 4-star or better, and a 5-star Eidos is guaranteed within your first 50\. Anima are also caught in the overworld, so the gacha sits alongside exploration rather than replacing it. ### What is the difference between the Eidos and Anima Standard Bonds? The Eidos Standard Bond pulls Eidos, the humanoid characters, using Nexus Trace. The Anima Standard Bond pulls Nexus Anima, the creature companions, using Nexus Wisp. Eidos matter more because they set and boost your team Aspect synergies, while many Anima can simply be caught in the overworld instead of pulled. ### Which 5-star Eidos can you pull from the Eidos Standard Bond? Six: Olympia, Herocrates, Bai Mei, Blade, Parayaya, and Hungrille. The 4-star pool includes Breadhead, Nanafey, Hua, Kiana, Maple Manybell, Shilian, and Otto. Honkai Impact 3rd players should note that Kiana and Otto both sit at 4-star rather than 5-star. ### What is the difference between Mintent and Aspect Gems? Mintent is the paid top-up currency, sold in packs from 60 to 6,480, and it exchanges into Aspect Gems. Aspect Gems are the premium currency you also earn through play. The gem’s description calls it hard currency accepted across the Planes, and it also funds the deterministic 5-star picks at account Levels 18, 21, and 24. ### Does Honkai: Nexus Anima have a monthly pass? Yes. The Joyful Certificate grants 300 Mintent on purchase, then 90 Aspect Gems for every daily login over 30 days, which is up to 2,700 Aspect Gems. Days you miss are not refunded, and you can only extend it when fewer than 179 days remain. Prices and amounts can change between versions. ### Does Honkai: Nexus Anima have a pity system? Yes, in pieces. The rules guarantee a 5-star Eidos within the first 50 Bonds, and every 10 Bonds includes at least one 4-star or higher on both Standard Bonds. Limited Anima Wish banners use Wish Power instead: losing to a non-Desired 5-star fully charges it, and the next Radiant Pack is guaranteed to hold your Desired Anima. The 80-pull figure quoted online comes from other HoYoverse games. ### Is Honkai: Nexus Anima free to play friendly? It looks that way so far. Endgame content is reportedly clearable without a full 5-star roster, a number of 5-star Anima come free from exploration, events, and progression rewards, and damage dealers exist at 3, 4, and 5 stars. Duplicates unlock extra effects but do not gate content behind them. ## Bottom line Nexus Anima runs a conventional two-banner gacha wrapped in unusually pleasant presentation, and the important structural detail is that both Standard banners are permanent with independent tickets, while Event Bonds and Anima Wishes bring featured units on their own items. The game guarantees a 4-star or better every 10 pulls and a 5-star Eidos within your first 50, and limited Anima Wishes add a Wish Power guarantee. A repeating hard pity number and published rates are still missing. What to do with that: pull tens rather than singles, weight the Eidos banner over the Anima banner, hold your Aspect Gems until the Level 18 milestone, buy the Joyful Certificate only if you log in daily, and remember that catching Anima in the world costs nothing. Since both banners are permanent, there is no clock forcing you to spend today. The most useful preparation is roster knowledge rather than currency. Work out which Aspect you want to commit to with the [Aspect synergy guide](/guides/aspect-synergy-guide/), test formations in the [planner](/team-builder/), read up on how [bonding and evolution](/guides/bond-guide/) turn a pulled unit into a finished one, and check the [beginner progression guide](/guides/beginner-progression-guide/) for the order it all unlocks in. We will update this page with real rates the moment HoYoverse publishes them. ## Frequently asked questions Does Honkai: Nexus Anima have a gacha system, and how does it work? Yes. A pull is called a Bond. Two permanent Standard Bonds, one for Eidos and one for Anima, sit alongside limited Eidos Event Bonds, Anima Event Bonds and Anima Wishes, which raise the drop rate for featured units. Every 10 Bonds includes a 4-star or better, and a 5-star Eidos is guaranteed within your first 50\. Anima are also caught in the overworld, so the gacha sits alongside exploration rather than replacing it. What is the difference between the Eidos and Anima Standard Bonds? The Eidos Standard Bond pulls Eidos, the humanoid characters, using Nexus Trace. The Anima Standard Bond pulls Nexus Anima, the creature companions, using Nexus Wisp. Eidos matter more because they set and boost your team Aspect synergies, while many Anima can simply be caught in the overworld instead of pulled. Which 5-star Eidos can you pull from the Eidos Standard Bond? Six: Olympia, Herocrates, Bai Mei, Blade, Parayaya, and Hungrille. The 4-star pool includes Breadhead, Nanafey, Hua, Kiana, Maple Manybell, Shilian, and Otto. Honkai Impact 3rd players should note that Kiana and Otto both sit at 4-star rather than 5-star. What is the difference between Mintent and Aspect Gems? Mintent is the paid top-up currency, sold in packs from 60 to 6,480, and it exchanges into Aspect Gems. Aspect Gems are the premium currency you also earn through play. The gem's description calls it hard currency accepted across the Planes, and it also funds the deterministic 5-star picks at account Levels 18, 21, and 24. Does Honkai: Nexus Anima have a monthly pass? Yes. The Joyful Certificate grants 300 Mintent on purchase, then 90 Aspect Gems for every daily login over 30 days, which is up to 2,700 Aspect Gems. Days you miss are not refunded, and you can only extend it when fewer than 179 days remain. Prices and amounts can change between versions. Does Honkai: Nexus Anima have a pity system? Yes, in pieces. The rules guarantee a 5-star Eidos within the first 50 Bonds, and every 10 Bonds includes at least one 4-star or higher on both Standard Bonds. Limited Anima Wish banners use Wish Power instead: losing to a non-Desired 5-star fully charges it, and the next Radiant Pack is guaranteed to hold your Desired Anima. The 80-pull figure quoted online comes from other HoYoverse games. Is Honkai: Nexus Anima free to play friendly? It looks that way so far. Endgame content is reportedly clearable without a full 5-star roster, a number of 5-star Anima come free from exploration, events, and progression rewards, and damage dealers exist at 3, 4, and 5 stars. Duplicates unlock extra effects but do not gate content behind them.