Preparation for Punishing Gray Raven x DMC V Collaboration Event

Hey, gamers! The Punishing Gray Raven x Devil May Cry collaboration is arriving soon. You’ll get to roll for and try out Vergil and Dante, as well as their signature weapons and CUBS.

In this guide, we’ll break down how much gacha currency or black cards you need to save for a solid build for Vergil and Dante. We’ll cover their gacha banners, weapon banners, and CUB banners.

Follow this guide to plan your savings and make the most of the collaboration event. Let’s get into it!

Punishing Gray Raven x Devil May Cry V Collaboration Limited Banner

Before diving into the crucial calculations for how many black cards you need to save for the full collaboration gacha banner experience, let's cover some key points about the collaboration banner and its mechanics:

Special Tickets Only Collaboration Banners

When rolling on the Punishing Gray Raven x Devil May Cry Collaboration banners, including the Vergil and Dante Character Rate Up Banners, their signature 6* weapons banners and their signature CUBs rate up banners, players will ONLY be able to use Special Collaboration Tickets.

This means that other types of tickets, such as Limited Character Rate Up Tickets (Yellow Tickets), Limited Weapon Rate Up Tickets (Red Tickets), and CUB Rate Up Tickets (Blue Tickets), cannot be used in any of the collaboration banners. Players will need to convert their Black Cards into Special Collaboration Rate UP Tickets to roll on these banners.

Moreover, the pity and pulls spent on these special collaboration banners will not carry over to other banners in the future, even if the collaboration event is rerun later.

Therefore, if you're aiming to roll for the collaboration characters, it's crucial to save your Black Cards specifically for that purpose. Meanwhile, if you possess other types of tickets, feel free to spend them on upcoming rate-up character banners, such as Selena: Pianissimo or Vera: Geiravor, as long as you keep your Black Cards untouched.

Discounted Collaboration Banner Pulls

Due to the exclusivity of the event, the game has generously provided players with benefits when exchanging their Black Cards for Limited Collaboration Character Tickets. This helps reduce the number of Black Cards you need to spend to obtain Vergil and Dante.

Thanks to this, unlike the usual 250 Black Cards for 1 pull exchange ratio, when rolling on the character banners for Vergil and Dante specifically, the exchange rate will be 175 Black Cards For 1 Pull, reducing the amount of Black Cards needed to get a guaranteed copy of Vergil or Dante from 15000 Black Cards to 10500 Black Cards.

Please note that this discount only applies to the character banners for Vergil and Dante and DOES NOT apply to their signature weapons and CUBs banners. This means that their signature weapons and CUBs banners will still cost 250 Black Cards per pull, or 7500 Black Cards For Each Weapon Pity and 5000 Black Cards For Each CUB.

 

Special Pull 1 Get 1 Free Promotion

To further encourage you to roll on the Vergil and Dante banner, the game has also provided all players with a limited time special pull 1 get 1 free character promotion event.

During the collaboration period, when you roll a copy of either Dante or Vergil, you will get an extra copy FOR FREE (up to 2 times per character). This means that you can get up to 2 free copies of Vergil and 2 free copies of Dante as long as you pull 2 copies of Vergil and 2 copies of Dante from their respective banners.

How Many Black Cards Do You Need To Save For the Collaboration Banner

Now that we have gone over the important mechanics regarding the collaboration banner, let's address the most important question for players: How many Black Cards do you need to save for the collaboration banner?

The answer to this question depends on how far you are willing to invest in both Vergil and Dante:

If You Only Want To Obtain The Characters for collection purpose, the amount of black cards you need is as followed:

Banner	Required Black Cards (Winning Both Weapon Pity)	Required Black Cards (Losing Both Weapon Pity)
SS Vergil (1 Copy + 1 Free Copy)	10500	10500
S Dante (1 Free Copy)	Free	Free
Dante’s and Vergil’s Signature weapons	15000 (7500 for 1)	30000 (15000 for 1)
Dante’s and Vergil’s signature CUBs	10000 (5000 for 1)	10000 (5000 for 1)
Total	35500	50500

If You Want To Invest In SSS Vergil and SSS Dante for gameplay and meta purposes, the amount of black cards you will need are:

Banner	Required Black Cards (Winning Both Weapon Pity)	Required Black Cards (Losing Both Weapon Pity)
SSS Vergil (3 Copies + 2 Free Copies)	31500	31500
SSS Dante (2 Copies + 3 Free Copies)	21000	21000
Dante’s and Vergil’s Signature weapons	15000 (7500 for 1)	30000 (15000 for 1)
Dante’s and Vergil’s signature CUBs	10000 (5000 for 1)	10000 (5000 for 1)
Total	56500	71500

How Much Black Cards Can You Save

With the question of how much black cards you will need to invest in Vergil and Dante answered, here are a generalized calculations of how much Black Cards you should be able to save for the Limited Collaboration banner starting from the Integrated Update Patch - Dream till the Timeless End until the end of the Punishing Gray Raven x Devil May Cry V Collaboration Update Patch (12 Weeks)

During this time, we will go over the amount of Black Cards you can get from 2 different update patches:

- Dream till the Timeless End (6 Weeks): Triple Reward Integrated Patch Update.

- Devil May Cry Collaboration Update Patch (6 Weeks): Single Reward Collaboration Patch Update.

Please note: It is not confirmed if the Punishing Gray Raven x Devil May Cry Collaboration Update Patch will be an integrated patch (double patch contents), therefore, all calculations will treat the patch as a separate patch update. If the global Devil May Cry Collaboration patch is announced as an integrated patch update, simply double the reward calculations for the Devil May Cry Collaboration Update Patch.

 

Daily & Weekly Rewards

The main source of Black Cards and Currencies players will be able to obtain during this time will rely entirely on the daily and weekly missions during this time, with the calculations as followed:

Patch	Daily	Weekly	Total For 1 Week	Total For The Patch
Dream till the Timeless End	90	3000	3630 (7 Dailies + 1 Weekly)	21780 (6 Weeks)
Devil May Cry Collaboration Update Patch	30	1000	1210 (7 Dailies + 1 Weekly)	7260 (6 Weeks)
Total				29040

So after 12 weeks, at the end of the Devil May Cry Collaboration Update Patch, simply by doing all Daily and Weekly Missions, players will be able to obtain up to 29040 Black Cards.

Special Rotation & Limited Events

Aside from the daily and weekly events that will give players a large amount of Black Cards, there will be special rotating and limited time events that players can participate in to obtain a large amount of black cards as well.

Please note that the event calculation may be very different from reality since this data is based on CN server data:

Patch	Event	Rewards	Total
Dream till the Timeless End	Norman Revival Plan (Every 2 Weeks)	1500	4500 (6 Weeks)
	Dream Till The Timeless End	1520	1520
	Begin Anew	570	570
	Spark To Wildfire	660	660
Devil May Cry Collaboration Update Patch	Norman Revival Plan (Every 2 Weeks)	500	1500 (6 Weeks)
	Lamento Di Phantasma	2160	2160
Total			10910

How Much Can You Save For The Devil May Cry Collaboration Banners

To summarize all of the calculations above, by doing daily, weekly, rotating events and limited time events from the start of the Integrated Update Patch - Dream till the Timeless End until the end of the Punishing Gray Raven x Devil May Cry V Collaboration Update Patch, after 12 weeks, players will be able to obtain a total of at least 40000 Black Cards.

Please note that this amount only takes into account limited time events and DOES NOT take into account Black Cards from Permanent game modes like main story, side story, golden vortex, etc. So the amount of Black Cards you can save will be higher if you will have permanent contents left to clear. Additionally, the amount of Black Cards gained from limited events might be slightly different from CN and Global patches, but they shouldn’t fluctuate too greatly.

 

Conclusion

To wrap things up, we've covered the essential calculations for the number of Black Cards you'll need to save to pull for the highly anticipated collaboration characters, Dante and Vergil. We hope this guide serves as a valuable resource to boost your gameplay and optimize your character builds.

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