{
  "slug": "wishes",
  "game": "genshin-impact",
  "url": "https://gachawiki.com/genshin-impact/wiki/wishes",
  "markdownUrl": "https://gachawiki.com/genshin-impact/wiki/wishes.md",
  "type": "game-wiki",
  "title": "Wishes",
  "description": "Genshin Impact's gacha in full. Every banner type, the published rates, hard and soft pity, the 50/50 and Capturing Radiance, Epitomized Path, and how pity carries between banners, with sources.",
  "aliases": [
    "wish system",
    "genshin banners",
    "genshin pity"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "mechanics"
  ],
  "verification": "verified",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
  "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "In-game Wish Details rate disclosure (Character and Weapon Event Wish)",
      "url": "https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/home",
      "publisher": "HoYoverse",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": "Rates appear under the Details tab of each Wish screen."
    },
    {
      "title": "Capturing Radiance mechanic FAQ (Version 5.0)",
      "url": "https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/news/detail/125274",
      "publisher": "HoYoverse",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Lightrace Wish coverage (Version 6.7, July 2026)",
      "url": "https://game8.co/games/Genshin-Impact/archives/605807",
      "publisher": "Game8",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": "Secondary source; transcribe the in-game rules text before promoting these details."
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "genshin-impact/release-history",
    "pity-system",
    "fifty-fifty",
    "rate-up",
    "spark",
    "gacha-probability"
  ],
  "markdown": "Wishes are Genshin Impact's gacha. One wish costs one Fate; Fates cost 160 Primogems each or drop from progression and events. The rules below come from the Wish screen's own Details text unless marked otherwise. [[1]](#ref-1)\n\n## Banner types\n\n| Banner | Featured | 5-star base rate | Hard pity | Featured guarantee |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Character Event Wish | 1 limited 5-star character | 0.6% (1.6% consolidated) | 90 | 50/50, loss guarantees next; 55% consolidated since Capturing Radiance |\n| Weapon Event Wish | 2 limited 5-star weapons | 0.7% (1.85% consolidated) | 80 | 75/25 per 5-star; Epitomized Path guarantees the designated weapon at 1 Fate Point |\n| Wanderlust Invocation (standard) | none, permanent pool | 0.6% (1.6% consolidated) | 90 | none |\n| Chronicled Wish (since 4.5, 2024) | rotating pool of past characters and weapons | 0.6% class rates | 90 | player designates one target |\n| Lightrace Wish (since 6.7, July 2026) | curated pool of returning 5-stars with signature weapons | not yet transcribed | shares pity with Chronicled Wish | designated item, 1 Fate Point [[3]](#ref-3) |\n\nTwo or three Character Event Wishes usually run in parallel with the same rules and a shared pity counter.\n\n## Pity mechanics\n\nThe 90-wish hard pity is published; the consolidated 1.6% rate implies an average of 62.5 wishes per 5-star. A 4-star or better is guaranteed at least once per 10 wishes. [[1]](#ref-1) Community statistical projects consistently measure a steep rate ramp beginning near wish 74 (soft [pity](/wiki/pity-system)); HoYoverse does not publish soft pity values, so treat the 74 figure as a community-documented estimate.\n\nPity and the 50/50 guarantee state persist across banners of the same type and across version updates. Nothing resets when a banner ends.\n\n## The 50/50 and Capturing Radiance\n\nOn the character banner, a 5-star without an active guarantee has a 50% chance of being the featured character; losing sends a standard-pool 5-star and guarantees the featured character on the next 5-star, so 180 wishes is the strict worst case. Since Version 5.0 (August 2024), Capturing Radiance can convert a lost 50/50 into the featured character anyway: HoYoverse publishes a 55% consolidated featured share and states the conversion is guaranteed after three consecutive losses. The per-trigger rate below that ceiling is not published. [[2]](#ref-2)\n\n## Epitomized Path\n\nOn the weapon banner, players designate one of the two featured weapons. Each 5-star that is not the designated weapon adds a Fate Point; at 1 point (reduced from 2 in Version 5.0) the next 5-star is the designated weapon, capping the worst case at 160 wishes. [[1]](#ref-1)\n\n## What this costs\n\nUsing published numbers: a 5-star costs 62.5 wishes on average (1 divided by the 1.6% consolidated rate), and under the 55% consolidated featured share a featured character consumes 1.45 five-stars on average (55% one, 45% two because the loss arms a guarantee). That works out to roughly 91 wishes per featured character on average, with 180 as the strict worst case. The [pull probability article](/wiki/gacha-probability) walks through the method, and the [comparison table](/compare/pity-systems) puts these numbers next to other games.",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
  }
}