Gacha Pity System Explained (Scarborough Fair)

NTE doesn't use a traditional gacha pull screen. Instead, it uses a board-game system called Scarborough Fair — you roll dice, move a piece around a board, and land on tiles that reward characters, weapons, or materials.

The basics

Cost: 160 Annulith per roll, 1,600 Annulith for a 10-roll (regardless of banner).
Two board types: the Limited Board (time-limited featured characters, uses Solid Dice) and the Standard Board (permanent roster, uses Fabricated Dice). Both follow the same underlying rates.

No 50/50 — this is the big one

If you're coming from other gacha games, this is the detail that matters most: there is no 50/50 system. Any S-Class character you pull from a Limited Board is guaranteed to be the featured character. You will never lose your pull to a random standard unit the way you can in some other gacha games.

Pity thresholds

Hard pity: guaranteed S-Class at 90 rolls without one appearing.
Soft pity ("Board Modification"): kicks in around 70 rolls, sharply increasing your S-Class odds for the remaining rolls before hard pity.
Base rate: roughly 1–2% per roll before soft pity (exact published figures vary slightly by source — check the in-game rate disclosure page for the precise current number, since this can shift between patches).

Pity carries over between banners

Your pity counter does not reset when a banner ends. If you're at 65/90 pity when "Character A's" banner closes, you start "Character B's" banner already at 65/90 — not from zero. This makes it much safer to pull on a banner you're unsure about, since unused pity progress is never wasted.

Weapon (Arc) pulls are separate

Arcs — the game's weapon system — have their own dedicated gacha using a different currency, and their own pity track (roughly 60 rolls for soft pity, guaranteed S-Rank Arc by around 80 rolls total). Arc pity is fully separate from character pity, so heavy weapon pulling won't eat into your character pity progress.

Practical budgeting tips

Clear the Standard Board first if you're new — it offers a character selector and is generally the more efficient way to build a first team.
Track your pity count before a new banner drops — if you're already deep into soft pity range, it's often worth finishing that banner out rather than saving into the next one.
Don't convert your premium currency into pulls impulsively — since there's no 50/50 loss risk, a banner you're lukewarm on is a safer speculative pull than in other games, but it still costs the same resources.

Rates and pity thresholds are subject to change between patches. Always check the official in-game rate disclosure for the exact current numbers before making large purchases.