The Ultimate Reverse: 1999 Reroll and Starter Guide for the 3rd Anniversary

The best time to start Reverse: 1999 is during the lead-up to its 3rd Anniversary. With significant rewards, login bonuses, and high-impact banner cycles arriving, new players have a unique opportunity to build a top-tier roster from day one. By executing a strategic reroll and focusing your initial resources on a single "carry" Arcanist, you can bypass the early-game hurdles that typically slow down new accounts.

Why the 3rd Anniversary is the Perfect Starting Point

For any live-service RPG, anniversary events represent the most generous period for both veterans and newcomers. In Reverse: 1999, this window is critical because:

• Currency Influx: Anniversary celebrations usually include "Gift of the Storm" events, providing substantial Clear Drops and summon materials that would otherwise take weeks to accumulate.
• Meta-Defining Banners: Anniversary banners typically feature limited or highly powerful Arcanists who are designed to remain relevant in the end-game meta for months, if not years.
• New Player Catch-up: These events often feature reduced energy costs or increased drop rates for essential leveling materials, allowing you to "power-level" your team far faster than during a standard patch cycle.

By starting now, you clear the tutorial and early story chapters just in time to participate in the anniversary festivities, ensuring you don't miss out on time-limited event shop rewards.

Executing a High-Efficiency Reroll

Rerolling is the process of resetting your account until you pull a specific, high-tier unit during your initial summons. In Reverse: 1999, this is highly recommended for players who want to minimize the difficulty of the main campaign.

The Reroll Workflow:

1. Create an Account: Use a guest account or a burner email address that allows for quick resets.
2. Clear the Prologue: Skip dialogue if you are familiar with the story; focus strictly on reaching the "Summon" function.
3. Claim Everything: Collect all anniversary login rewards, pre-registration bonuses (if applicable), and mail items.
4. Target the Featured Banner: Spend your currency on the current high-value banner. Prioritize units that provide either massive Area-of-Effect (AoE) damage or essential team sustainability.
5. Reset if Necessary: If your pulls don't yield a top-tier carry, clear the game cache (or use a different login method) and repeat.

Expert Tip: Once you pull a "Tier 0" character, stop pulling. Save your remaining Clear Drops for upcoming anniversary banners to ensure you have enough for "Hard Pity," which guarantees the featured unit.

Strategic Resource Allocation: The "Solo Carry" Doctrine

One of the most common mistakes in Reverse: 1999 is spreading your experience materials (Dust) and currency (Sharpodonty) across a full team of four. Early in the game, this is a recipe for stagnation.

The 1-3-0 Progression Rule

• Focus on the Carry: Pour 80% of your resources into your best damage dealer. A single unit at Insight 2 or 3 is significantly more impactful than four units stuck at level 10.
• Support Units: Your secondary units only need enough investment to survive long enough to buff your carry or provide utility.
• Insight Priority: Insights are your biggest power spikes. They unlock new passives and significantly raise level caps. Always prioritize farming the materials for your main carry’s next Insight level above all other tasks.

Understanding Pity and Banner Mechanics

Reverse: 1999 features a "soft" and "hard" pity system. Understanding this is vital for managing your anniversary budget.

• Pity Carryover: If you pull on a limited banner and fail to get the featured Arcanist, your pull count carries over to the next limited banner.
• Focus, Don't Scatter: Because of the pity system, it is mathematically better to dump all your currency into one banner until you hit the guaranteed unit, rather than doing 10-pulls across three different banners.
• The "Yellow Certificate" Shop: As you pull, you will accumulate currency from duplicate 3-star and 4-star units. Save this for purchasing high-value upgrade materials or specific Arcanist fragments in the shop.

Avoiding Common New-Player Traps

To maintain your momentum, avoid these pitfalls:

1. Over-investing in low-tier units: Do not waste rare upgrade materials on 2-star or 3-star characters unless absolutely necessary for a specific niche. Focus your limited resources on 5-star and 6-star units.
2. Ignoring Wilderness: While it seems like a side-game, the Wilderness provides passive income for Dust and Sharpodonty. Build it out early to ensure your account generates resources even when you are offline.
3. Wasting Stamina on Non-Essential Stages: Only farm stages that provide materials for your current character's Insight upgrade. Avoid farming "general" levels that don't contribute to immediate character power.

Preparing for the Long Term

Once the 3rd Anniversary excitement concludes, you will need a stable income of resources. Use the final days of the event to "over-farm" basic materials like pages and scrolls. These are the building blocks of every character upgrade.

By the time the event ends, your goal should be a primary team with at least one Insight 2 level 40+ unit. This threshold allows you to tackle the majority of "Artificial Somnambulism"—the game's primary end-game challenge mode—which provides a recurring monthly income of premium currency. By starting now and following this disciplined approach, you set yourself up to be a competitive player for the entire third year of Reverse: 1999.