Girls Frontline 2: Exilium – How Does the Gacha Work?

Quick Guide to Gacha System

By dillionmcrich.

Straight out of the gate, GFL 2 is absurdly friendly to players who do not spend any money on the game. You will get tons of pulls without spending a cent. The game can be fully completed with free units anyway. And banner reruns are common, so you can get anything you missed.

The Standard Banner is the gacha containing all the Dolls and Weapons available when the game launched. To pull from it, you spend Standard Banner Tickets.

Don’t spend Collapse Pieces buying Standard Banner Tickets. You’ll get a lot of Standard Banner Tickets as you play. You’ll have plenty enough to get everything good from the Standard Banner over time.

Limited Banners are temporary events where you can spend Limited Banner Tickets (and Collapse Pieces) attempting to get a newly released character. The Chinese servers can give us some hint of what order characters will be released in, but we already know the order if confirmed not to be the same for the global release, so don’t rely on that too much.

Collapse Pieces and Limited Banner Tickets should be saved for Limited Banners. You’ll want to have as many Collapse Pieces and Limited Banner Tickets as possible when a really desirable Limited Banner comes along. Consider skipping certain Limited Banners in order to save up Collapse Pieces and Limited Banner Tickets for more desirable banners.

Items are separated into three rarity levels: Blue, Purple, and Gold, which can be thought of as common, uncommon, and rare, respectively.

Mercy / Pity Mechanics

As with most modern Gacha games, GFL 2 has Pity Mechanics. This means that if you don’t get a rare thing after so many pulls from the banners, you get one guaranteed.

• You are guaranteed one item of at least Purple rarity every 10 pulls.
• You are guaranteed one item of at least Gold rarity every 80 pulls.

The banner will tell you how many pulls you have left until your guaranteed Gold rarity, as shown below.

Note: There is NO functional difference between doing 10 pulls in one click and doing 10 single pulls individually.

After 58 pulls without getting a Gold rarity, the odds of getting one begin gradually increasing.

If the banner you’re pulling from has a “rate-up” (which is true for every Limited Banner), every gold rarity you receive from it has a 50% chance to be the featured doll / weapon. If it turns out NOT to be the featured doll / weapon, then the next Gold rarity you get WILL BE the featured doll / weapon.

Pity is tracked separately between the Standard Banner and Limited Banners. However, the Pity carries over between Limited Banners.

An example:

• You have 0 Limited Banner Pity. The Limited Banner for the doll Lenna begins. You start doing pulls, and at pull 13, you luck into a gold rarity. It has a 50% chance to be Lenna. You lose out on the 50% luck, and get a different doll. You do 10 more pulls and then decide to stop there.
• A month goes by, and the Jiangyu banner comes along. You are guaranteed to get a gold rarity in 70 pulls or less, since you’ve done 10 Limited Banner pulls since your last gold. Also, your next gold is guaranteed to be Jiangyu, because the last time you got a gold from a Limited Banner, it wasn’t the rate-up character.

Because of the Pity Mechanics, 160 pulls will ALWAYS be enough to guarantee a rate-up character.

Limited Banners so far have had reruns after 3 months, which is super generous by Gacha game standards. So if you miss a character that you really really want, you’ll have another shot.

After your first 260 pulls on the Standard Banner, you get to pick any Standard Banner Gold doll you want from it for free. (Qiongjiu would be the ideal pick for this, if you haven’t gotten her already. She’s considered by some to STILL BE the best character in the game a year after the Chinese release.) AFTER THIS, you’ll have a new button on the Standard Banner where you can choose any of the Gold dolls in it to be “rate-up”, making it subject to the 50% chance mechanics described before.

The below table shows what you can expect to be getting each month depending on whether you are purchasing the battle pass and / or the monthly card. The battle pass is considered to be the first thing you should go to if you’re considering spending any money. In addition to the extra pulls, it will also give you tons of helpful resources, as well as free copies of top-tier weapons. This table is assuming you are collecting regular rewards from a variety of things.

Below is the same table, but assuming all Collapse Pieces are spent on Limited Pulls, just for reference.

Duplicates

Dolls and weapons can both be powered up with duplicates. This powers up the skills of the dolls and the passive effects of the weapons.

Getting 7 copies of a doll is enough to max her out, and getting 6 copies of a weapon is enough to max it out. (That is, the first copy unlocks the doll, and then 6 more copies maxes her abilities).

Generally, this is not very important. It’s mostly just to make you feel like getting duplicates is not a waste. However, there are some dolls that get significantly better with one or two copies.