Neo Artifacts Currency Guide: Premium Gems, Tickets, And What To Spend First
Neo Artifacts uses a multi-currency economy where every type of resource has a specific purpose, and spending the wrong currency in the wrong place is the single fastest way to stall your account progression.
All Neo Artifacts currencies explained
Neo Artifacts runs on several distinct currencies that each serve different functions in the economy. Understanding exactly what each one does before you spend anything prevents the most common mistakes new players make in the first week.
Complete Neo Artifacts currency list
| Currency | Type | Primary use | How to earn | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radiant Opal | Premium (paid/earned) | Top-up store; converts to pull tickets at 150 per pull | Top-up purchases, events, achievements, pre-reg rewards | Official recharge page |
| Pull currency (premium) | Premium pull resource | Limited (rate-up) banner pulls only; costs 150 per single pull | Events, top-up conversions, some mission rewards | Beta confirmation |
| Standard tickets | Free pull resource | Standard banner only; cannot be used on limited banners | Daily missions, login rewards, weekly missions, events | Beta gacha thread |
| Multi-Faceted Gray Amber | Pre-reg reward currency | Converted into premium pull currency or resources | Pre-registration milestone reward (×200 at 100k milestone) | Pre-reg rewards guide |
| Winter Valley Coins | Shop currency | Resource shop purchases and upgrade materials | Pre-registration milestone reward (×100,000 at 50k milestone), events | Pre-reg rewards guide |
| Deep Sociology | Experience resource | Levelling up Artifacters | Pre-registration participation reward, missions, stages | Pre-reg rewards guide |
| Stamina / energy | Action currency | Entering stages, farming resource dungeons | Natural regeneration over time, stamina items, top-up refreshes | General gacha pattern |
The most important currency distinction: premium vs. standard tickets
The single most critical currency rule in Neo Artifacts is that standard tickets cannot be used on limited banners. Beta testers flagged this repeatedly as the biggest F2P trap in the game: players who accumulate large stacks of standard tickets feel resource-rich but are actually unable to spend those tickets on the characters they most want.
Think of it this way — Neo Artifacts effectively runs two completely separate economies in parallel:
- The free economy: Standard tickets, earned freely through dailies and events, which only access the permanent standard banner pool.
- The premium economy: Pull currency earned from Radiant Opal, top-ups, and select event rewards, which is the only resource that unlocks limited banner access.
Never conflate your standard ticket count with your limited banner budget. They are separate resources with no overlap.
What to spend first: a priority framework
The order in which you spend different currencies at launch determines how strong your early account looks and how well-positioned you are for the first major limited banner.
Currency spending priority at launch
| Priority | Currency | Where to spend it | Why | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Multi-Faceted Gray Amber (×200 pre-reg reward) | Convert and apply to premium pull pool immediately | One-time pre-reg reward; delays converting it gains nothing | Pre-reg rewards guide |
| 2 | Premium pull currency from Cumulus Collection and codes | Limited banner only — spend on the launch rate-up banner if targeting the featured character | Maximises your day-one 50/50 shot at the launch limited Artifacter | Gacha system guide |
| 3 | Standard tickets | Standard banner only — pull freely here with no premium cost | No reason to hoard standard tickets; they cannot access limited content anyway | Beta currency breakdown |
| 4 | Winter Valley Coins | Resource shop — buy upgrade materials and XP items | Accelerates early Artifacter levelling; higher-value than cosmetic shop items at launch | Pre-reg rewards guide |
| 5 | Deep Sociology (XP resource) | Apply directly to your priority SSR | Fastest way to unlock that unit’s full kit and get them combat-ready | Pre-reg rewards guide |
| 6 | Stamina | Story chapters and resource dungeons first | Story clears earn more premium pull currency; resource dungeons feed Artifacter upgrades | General gacha priority |
How Radiant Opal converts to pulls
Understanding the Radiant Opal conversion rate lets you calculate exactly how many pulls any top-up purchase or reward yields.
Radiant Opal top-up and pull conversion
| Radiant Opal amount | USD cost | Pulls (at 150 per pull) | Double bonus available? | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ×1 | $0.99 | — (fraction of a pull) | Yes — first purchase | Recharge page |
| ×5 | $4.99 | — (fraction of a pull) | Yes — first purchase | Recharge page |
| ×10 | $9.99 | — (fraction of a pull) | Yes — first purchase | Recharge page |
| ×20 | $19.99 | — (fraction of a pull) | Yes — first purchase | Recharge page |
| ×33 | $32.99 | — (fraction of a pull) | Yes — first purchase | Recharge page |
| ×65 | $64.99 | — (fraction of a pull) | Yes — first purchase | Recharge page |
(Exact Radiant Opal-to-pull conversion will be clarified in-game once the global client is fully live — the beta confirmed 150 pull currency per single pull. Update this table with confirmed totals as they are verified in the global version.)
What never to spend premium currency on
Spending discipline in Neo Artifacts is just as important as knowing where to spend. These are the confirmed currency traps to avoid entirely.
- Standard banner with premium tickets: The standard banner is exclusively for free standard tickets. Every premium pull spent here is a wasted resource that should have gone toward a limited banner.
- Equipment banner before securing the character: Equipment banner currency is a separate spend on top of the character banner. Never pull on an equipment banner for an Artifacter you do not already own.
- Stamina refreshes early in the game: Early-game content is generous enough that natural stamina regeneration covers your daily needs. Premium-currency stamina refreshes only become worthwhile in late-game farming when every stamina point has a specific high-value destination.
- Cosmetic or blind-box shops with Radiant Opal: Shop cosmetics and random boxes return the worst pull-equivalent value in the entire economy. Every Radiant Opal spent on cosmetics is Radiant Opal not converting into limited banner pulls.
Long-term currency management tips
- Track your premium currency total against the 70-pull and 160-pull thresholds before committing to any limited banner — if you cannot reach at least hard pity, consider saving for the next banner instead.
- Redeem gift codes the moment they are published — codes expire and can represent 5–10 pulls of free premium currency each.
- Treat Winter Valley Coins as a secondary priority — they are useful for accelerating upgrades but do not directly affect your ability to pull on banners, so they should never take resources away from your premium pull stockpile.
- Note your 50/50 status before spending — if you have a guaranteed win banked from a previous 50/50 loss, you need approximately half the pulls to secure the next limited character compared to starting a fresh 50/50 cycle.
- Do not convert standard tickets into any other currency if such an option exists — standard tickets are most valuable when used directly on the standard banner for free SSR chances, not exchanged into lower-value resources.
