Sword x Staff Relic Banner Pull Guide: How to Target New Sets

To maximize your Combat Power (CP) when a new relic set releases in Sword x Staff, commit your relic summon vouchers only if you have enough currency to reach guarantee milestones and activate set resonance bonuses. Unlocking individual items grants permanent account bonuses through the codex, but fielding an incomplete set without its resonance passives often yields worse results than keeping an older, fully upgraded set equipped.

How Relic Banners and Set Resonance Work

Relic banners operate separately from standard character, skill, and pet gacha pools, requiring dedicated relic vouchers. When a new relic set enters the game, its rate-up banner increases the drop rates for pieces belonging to that specific set.

Relic sets function through three distinct progression layers:

Codex Unlocks: Registering a relic piece for the first time unlocks a permanent passive stat injection across your account. This bonus applies whether or not you equip the relic.
Component Attributes: Each relic supplies base stats, dividing focus between offensive attributes like attack, critical rate, or penetration, and defensive stats like health or resilience.
Set Resonance Tiers: Equipping multiple relics from the same family unlocks active set traits. These traits deliver percentage-based scaling and trigger effects, such as damage amplification on critical strikes or defensive shields at low health.

Because set passives provide multiplicative scaling, securing the full set bonus provides far greater performance gains than equipping mismatched or partial pieces for flat stats alone.

Spending small amounts of relic vouchers as you acquire them is inefficient. The banner relies on pity thresholds and milestone rewards that award guaranteed relic boxes or shards after a designated number of pulls. Set your banner target based on your current voucher reserves before spending.

Pull Goal	Resource Requirement	Expected Outcome	Strategic Recommendation
Single Copy Unlock	Moderate voucher reserve	Base stats and codex bonus	Safe stopping point if the set bonuses do not fit your class build
Set Resonance Tier 1	Full banner cycle (pity threshold)	Active 2-piece or 3-piece set trait	Primary investment target for classes matching the set's scaling
High-Star Duplicates	Multi-cycle stockpile	Tier multipliers and amplified skill modifiers	Reserve for dedicated carry builds or specialized endgame progression

If you cannot reach the first guaranteed pity milestone, save your vouchers. Unused relic summon vouchers carry forward without expiring, allowing you to hoard tickets until you can complete a full cycle on a banner that directly supports your character's combat role.

Upgrade Priority for New Relic Pieces

Once you acquire pieces from a featured banner, allocate your enhancement materials to optimize stat gains before spreading resources evenly:

Level the Primary Offensive Piece: Use relic dust and gold to raise the level of the set's main damage-scaling piece up to its initial soft cap.
Activate Set Resonance: Equip the remaining matching pieces to trigger the active 2-piece or 3-piece trait.
Promote Stars with Duplicate Shards: Spend duplicate fragments on the primary offensive relic first to reach higher star promotion tiers.
Advance Secondary Pieces: Once your primary piece reaches its star promotion threshold, level and promote auxiliary defensive pieces to increase the total resonance rank of the set.

Deciding Between Pulling and Saving

Evaluate the featured set against your primary character build before spending currency:

Pull on the banner if the set provides stat scaling directly aligned with your class—such as penetration and critical bonuses for damage dealers, or damage reduction for frontline archetypes—and you have enough vouchers to hit the resonance pity target.
Skip the banner if the set provides utility or stats irrelevant to your main specialization, or if your voucher inventory cannot guarantee the minimum pieces required to trigger the first resonance tier. Keep your vouchers saved for a future banner cycle that matches your build archetype.