Sword x Staff: How to Unlock Your First Immortal Skill

To unlock your first Immortal Skill in Sword x Staff, hoard enough summoning currency to guarantee a banner pity threshold before you spend a single ticket. Base drop rates for Immortal abilities sit below one percent, meaning unassisted pulls rarely succeed. Treating summons as a milestone purchase prevents running out of currency mid-rotation.

Currency Reserves and Pity Requirements

Immortal banners feature milestone guarantees that award the featured skill once you complete a fixed number of pulls. Initiating summons without sufficient resources risks leaving you stranded short of the guarantee before the banner expires.

Save until your inventory meets the following targets before rolling on a targeted rate-up banner:

Resource Type	Primary Acquisition Source	Recommended Reserve Before Pulling	Purpose
Skill Summon Tickets	Guild rewards, seasonal milestones, event shops	300–500+ tickets	Primary pull currency to reach banner pity
Bound Gems	Daily quests, boss first-clears, arena ranks	30,000–50,000 gems	Secondary currency to complete shortfalls
Skill Essence / Shards	Dismantling duplicate lower-tier skills	Stored passively	Immediate post-pull skill level upgrades

Avoid general summoning pools that lack featured rate-ups. A diluted pool distributes rolls across outdated skills rather than focusing progress toward a specific Immortal ability for your build. If the active rate-up banner features a skill that does not match your class archetype, hold your reserves until your core skill enters rotation.

Managing Duplicate Skills During Summons

A full summon rotation produces hundreds of low-rarity abilities. Use these duplicates systematically to strengthen your secondary loadout:

Promote slotted skills: If a duplicate matches a skill currently in your build, trigger its star ascension immediately. Higher star tiers grant passive stat increases that improve combat power while you pull.
Keep utility abilities: Maximize the star ratings of crowd-control and defensive skills even if they are lower rarity. Specific boss encounters demand utility over pure damage.
Convert excess fodder: Dismantle non-essential Rare and Epic duplicates into skill upgrade dust. Save this currency to immediately scale the base damage coefficients of your new Immortal Skill.
Preserve secondary builds: Do not dismantle off-spec active skills merely to rush experience into a newly acquired ability.

Equipping and Synergizing an Immortal Skill

Immortal skills carry wide area-of-effect coverage and high damage multipliers, making them the central focus of your active loadout.

Place the skill in your primary rotation slot: Position the Immortal ability where cooldown reduction buffs and energy regeneration mechanics can trigger it as frequently as possible.
Align complementary passives: Pair the active skill with passives that amplify elemental status effects, raise critical damage, or refund cooldown timers upon activation.
Adjust auto-cast timing: Turn off auto-cast on low-damage utility skills if their casting animations delay your Immortal Skill. Grouping enemies before detonating the Immortal active ensures you extract maximum damage from its cooldown.

If your summon session leaves you within 30 to 40 pulls of the guarantee, convert arena shop tokens and complete pending event milestones to finish the milestone before the banner resets. Never abandon an active rotation after investing the majority of your saved tickets.