Conquest of Nine Kingdoms: How to Manage Jade for Hero Banners

In Conquest of Nine Kingdoms, save your Jade for limited-time hero banners rather than spending it on standard, non-event recruitment pools. Standard banners lack featured drop-rate boosts, making them an inefficient use of premium currency. To ensure you recruit core units like the Three Emperors, calculate the exact number of pulls needed for hard pity and accumulate sufficient reserves before pulling.

When to Spend Jade on Recruitment

Standard recruitment pools dilute your chance of acquiring elite commanders. Limited-time banners feature specific high-tier heroes that establish core team synergies for mid-to-late game progression and competitive player-versus-player warfare.

Before committing currency to a banner:

Exhaust free resources first: Use all event recruitment tickets and earned partial currencies before converting Jade into pulls.
Calculate pity requirements: Check the banner rules to confirm the hard pity threshold. If your Jade balance cannot guarantee reaching pity, hold your currency for a future run.
Check pity carry-over: Confirm whether your server version carries pity progress forward to the next banner event. If pity carries over, partial investments retain value; if it resets, incomplete banner pulls are lost.

Aggressive vs. Conservative Spending Strategy

Choosing when to spend Jade depends on your immediate server goals and current account strength.

Strategy	Recommended Situation	Main Advantage	Strategic Trade-off
Aggressive Spending	Early progression walls or urgent alliance recruitment requirements	Provides immediate troop power to capture early resource nodes	Depletes Jade reserves, risking missed pulls on seasonal limited banners
Conservative Saving	Stable resource farming and long-term roster development	Guarantees acquisition of meta-defining heroes like the Three Emperors	Delays short-term power spikes during initial server expansion

If you can reliably clear daily objectives and hold resource nodes, adopt a conservative saving approach. If your squad cannot clear basic content or meet alliance activity milestones, make moderate investments on high-value banners to stabilize your account.

Pre-Summon Execution Checklist

To maximize recruitment value, follow this sequence before spending Jade on any banner:

Collect all login bonuses, maintenance rewards, and event task tickets.
Open the banner details menu to inspect drop rates and confirm featured unit roles.
Subtract free pull items from the hard pity requirement to find the net Jade cost.
Verify that your current Jade balance covers the full remaining pity cost.
Execute pulls on the limited banner until you secure the target hero or hit the pity milestone.