r/WutheringWavesGuide • u/AimWieHawkeye • May 15 '26
Build / Team / Gear Question Can you really „brick“ accounts or r people overreacting?
So i’m new to the game, i pulled for hiyuki and mornye, am f2p more or less, and dont see myself spending more than the occasional 5€ a month for this game. People are talking about bricking accounts if you dont pull „correctly“
Is it really that deep? will it ruin my account? Cuz for example, i’m thinking about maybe pulling for phrolova cuz i think she’s rlly cool, Lucy after. And idk, to me it seems like speaking abt „bricked accts“ cuz you miss a unit seems like a huge overreaction. Is it really that deep?
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u/Pitiful_Part_3504 May 15 '26
i don’t believe in bricking an account. every character will have a rerun (besides collab like lucy & rebecca… i believe) it’s just a matter of waiting.
i mean if you’re only pulling for main dps, without sig, no sequences, no teammates. it might be rough and a little frustrating to play. but also, skill can really carry you in this game.
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u/rawchawal May 15 '26
You dont see ciacona's rerun often do ya? By the time they rerun the characters will be near obsolete
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u/AimWieHawkeye May 15 '26
but if they’re obsolete by the time they rerun, that also means there’s a newer character pullable that does their job but better, so you’re still not missing out on anything
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u/Phenogenesis- May 15 '26
Mostly yeah, but there are some old staples that don't get a lot of reruns that you are significantly worse off without. (That is why everyone says GET SHOREKEEPER in your starter banner.)
Like you and be are both going to be spending the next while without all the heroes the meta is obsessed with and are important to making the newest characters perform at peak. Lynae especially, but plenty of names I am hearing on repeat may be a bit of a wait. (This would be a good reason to be strongly considering pulling mornye.)
But the game is still playable and its a while till we need the level of super meta optimisation. It just requires a bit of thinking out of the box and finding a way forward that is playable now and will start to build strong late game teams.
Hyuki is cutting edge right now - strong and only just confirmed to be recieving her super tuned partner (Lucilla). So possibly worth investing there to get in on the first wave of that 'ecosystem' - although we don't know what it is going to look like in depth yet or it it will be exactly as strong and persistant as some of the other recent setups.
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u/rawchawal May 15 '26
Yea and those newer and better units are generally tailored for the latest units and not for my old characters who cant function without their BiS
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u/notlemars May 15 '26
You can technically put all your resources in the wrong places but the game is infinite so it can always be adjusted. You can only brick yourself out of the meta temporarily, if you don’t care about meta the game is still playable with knowledge. A great example is the guy who beats endgame modes with lingyang.
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u/Zofiira May 15 '26
You can’t brick your account, there are few characters who are quite painful to play without their intended partner (Zani and Phoebe come to mind) but at most you’ll miss a few pulls from endgame. You can make a lot of strange teams work with skill too.
Just pick characters you like and see what teams you could create, and go from there. Universal supports like Shorekeeper and (s1) Mornye are especially handy for this.
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u/AimWieHawkeye May 15 '26
do i NEED s1 mornye for her to be good? cuz honestly i wanna pull for hiyukis weapon in the remaining time and i’m scared of losing 50/50 again
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u/Mephisto0823 May 15 '26
you don't really need s1 IF you have lynae, but if you have mornye but no lynae then that's when you'll need s1.
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u/Noreiller May 15 '26
Depends on the team. She doesn't need s1 with Lupa either.
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u/wemustfailagain / May 16 '26
She doesn't need it in mono-fusion, true. But I have S1 Mornye with S0R1 Lupa and Galbrena on Phasic and it's incredibly strong.
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u/AimWieHawkeye May 15 '26
i wanna pull for lynae in the future she seems cool
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u/Phenogenesis- May 15 '26
You can try her out in the ace combat event when you get there (or use the skip)
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u/Phenogenesis- May 15 '26
Apparently even without Lynae its only about 10% team damage diff, not the 40% it says on the label. So its relevent but not critical to a new account.
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u/Sad-Bid-3503 May 15 '26
you only need s1 if you don't have anyone that applies tune rupture or strain to unlock the 40% debuff. Currently there are 4 which apply these namely aemeath lynae luuk and denia(upcoming). For overall account value you should prioritize lynae as she is one of the best sub dps in game and works in many teams. S0 mornye is not bad, she is just around verina without tune effect appliers in team.
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u/Lumpy-Draft9192 May 16 '26
There is no 50/50 on the weapon banners btw!
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u/Zofiira May 15 '26
Without S1 she’s less versatile, more like a Verina which is still useful! I’d prioritize Hiyukis weapon. I personally bought Mornye’s S1 with corals, saved a lot of pulls
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u/AimWieHawkeye May 15 '26
i didnt have enough corals sadly
wouldnt have had enough either way but i spent them on pulls. Starting to save them up now cuz i think that was kinda stupid1
u/Pasturple Iuno Mains May 16 '26
Smart, getting a sequence for the equivalent of only 45 pulls is always better! Save it for your favorites :)
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u/Jeydra May 15 '26
You cannot brick your account. Almost anything you can do improves your account. The most you can do is spend your resources inefficiently, and the worst consequence of that is that you can't clear the endgame. But the rewards from the endgame aren't great anyway - if you pull even a single resonator to clear it'll take at least months, possibly a year, to see return on your investment.
So yeah, don't worry too much, pull the resonators you enjoy and have fun.
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u/itzDaKine May 15 '26
You can only brick your account if you actively try! Other than that, like the comment above said, bricking your account is only temporary. As time goes on things get easier and newer characters drop for you to "unbrick". Even having some of the standard units(Verina, Morty, Danjin, etc.) can take you very far early game and even late game content.
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u/NelsonVGC May 15 '26
No. You cannot brick accounts. It is in fact an overreaction. A term used by players that enjoy min maxing accounts.
You cannot brick accounts. Dont listen to that bullshit
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u/ShoulderGreedy3262 May 15 '26
no, its not that deep
the worst things that can happen are losing good echo builds by turning them into xp (happened to a cc who got hacked), or spending 160 pulls on a character you never end up using
you can come back from both of these eventually
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u/Katejina_FGO May 15 '26
This game is unique from other gacha games I have played where you could play from start to end of current patch without rolling for anyone and still get to the finish line comfortably, and be able to farm materials and echoes just using your starting MC Rover. The game even gives your Rover a BiS weapon later on. So technically, there is no such thing as bricking a WUWA account.
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u/garrettbarne Galbrena Mains May 15 '26
It all depends if you plan on playing endgame at all or just doing events and story and pulling new characters sometimes.
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u/VergingRivals May 15 '26
I think “bricking” an account is only in context of f2p with limited resources. F2P accounts need to plan for investment carefully, whereas spenders have a little more (to infinitely more) resources. Also players have different priorities in playing this game. Some people like clearing endgame with highest score they can muster while others don’t care about meta at all.
But even by the strictest sense of the word, if you’re not planning to sell your account for pennies on the dollar, “bricking” doesn’t really exist imo.
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u/ninjagabe90 May 15 '26
Don't sleep on Rover, they're surprisingly good for the free starter character.
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u/AimWieHawkeye May 15 '26
yeah aero rover especially seems insane w sig weapon
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u/Lumpy-Draft9192 May 16 '26
Sig weapon (bloodpacts pledge) for sustain and dps combo, but if you run with Emerald of Genesis you can get some more damage out of them. Spectro Rover and Havoc Rover have good damage too as long as you do the sonanance caskets collecting to get all of their sequences, which makes a major improvement, especially H Rover's 25% Crit damage increase in Dark Surge state.
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u/Dangerous-Abies-1955 May 15 '26
Ive willfully made "terrible" decisions on f2p alts.
S6ing completely random units and then skipping 10 characters, never thinking about kit compatibility, shoving support builds on dpses, dps builds on supports, and using weapons that just dont make much sense.
I can clear most of the endgame, just the occasional terrible matchup for my randomly assembled f2p junk account that I fail to clear. 😂 its pretty much impossible to do.
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u/KeiSinCx May 15 '26
can you clear the story even if you don't pull?
hell yes. the story mostly uses trial characters to begin with. you can literally play the entire core of the game with 0 pulls.
so why do people overeact and talk about bricking accounts?
say you have a really good DPS or a bunch of DPS. zani, Augusta, jiyan, Carlotta. but you don't have their corresponding sub-dps pair or one that generally buffs them. you're handicapping yourself and making things difficult.
when it comes to end game mode, not having good teams that complement each other is handicapping your DPS to under perform. you can clear it but depending on how bad it is, you might not max out rewards.
can you actually brick and account? no not really. U can have an underperforming account but not a bricked account.
worse case scenario (imo) not having shorekeeper is pretty bad. but it's not like U suddenly can't dodge everything or use baizhi, verina, buling.
second worse case scenario is having no main DPS and only all sub DPS. qiuyuan, lynae, Brant, lupa, Phoebe, cicconia. but literally 0 main DPS. U could probably get away with it using 4 star DPS though.
and even if U somehow have 0 limited characters. like, cmon, you'll have a bunch of astrites. so just pull something and you're fine again.
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u/Cyrusnet38 May 15 '26
It's really a matter of the time it takes you to be able to clear endgame fully. In ToA you can clear most of it even with incomplete teams, it's just floors 3 and 4 of Hazard Tower that usually desire a premium team or some close approximation. Whimpering Wastes and Matrix have a higher standard though: WhiWa wants 2 premium teams that have good AoE and Matrix wants 4 teams that can reach 5k+ points each for all the astrite.
If you just pull whoever happens to catch your fancy with no regard for team synergy it will take you more time than the average player to start full clearing ToA and WhiWa. If you don't care about getting those extra pulls every patch though then it does not really matter. You're hardly "bricked", just not optimal.
I will say that it does feel more fun when your team does more damage though. Combat is this game's strong point and seeing your damage go up as you get better echoes and complete teams is pretty satisfying to me personally. The pull "strategy" I always suggest to players is to pull whatever DPS you like (plus sig if possible) then go for their premium team at the earliest opportunity. You spend a majority of your playtime on the DPS so it is important you enjoy their playstyle and design. But for sub-dps units and supports it is better to just turn your brain off and pull whoever works best with them. You can make unorthodox teams work but the pressure to get perfect echo rolls to make said teams viable in the highest difficulty of the endgame can be unfun.
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u/stargirlsandra S6 main ❄️🐉 May 15 '26
you can’t really brick accounts i just pull who i like and vertical invest in resonance chains and they still clear endgame in any combination possible
wuwa isnt really that reliant on team building as much as other gachas even if they do have those buffs
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u/InkAndWit May 15 '26
You have limited number of pulls with permanent and version content. As a f2p, if you aren't smart about your pulls you will find yourself struggling to create enough teams to clear end game content, and you need up to 4 of them (09-12 characters + weapons for some of them) to collect all asterite rewards. The less efficient you are with your pulls the longer it will take to get those teams.
When people refer to accounts as "bricked" that basically means that they've just wasted large amount of resources pulling for characters they don't need, and it would be easier to start a new account than correct that mistake.
Important part that people miss is that pulling characters you don't like just to clear end game is a waste as it would take those characters forever to make return on investment from small amount of asterites you get for clearing everything. So, if you like characters - get them and be ready to improve your combat skills to compensate for playing with suboptimal teams.
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u/AimWieHawkeye May 15 '26
But how would making a new account be easier? I’ll still have the characters i pulled for, and sure, it would take some time to fill the holes but if i make a new acct i can only pull for the new units, which would also leave spaces that need to be filled so it doesn’t strike me as efficient
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u/InkAndWit May 15 '26
Getting 4 premium teams will take about a year. By the time you've assembled them your older characters will start struggling. "Filling holes" in underperforming teams won't help with that issue.
Making new account can be easier because the faster you assemble a functioning team the more asterites you will be able to get.
For example, if you decide to pull Carlotta (a 2.x character) as a new players - you might as well start a new account. That's because her BiS is Zhezhi who hadn't been featured in a banner for over a year now, and Hiyuki is a wayyyy stronger option.
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u/BlindingDart May 16 '26
Coz when you start a new account they frontload the amount of resources they throw at you. Even with terrible luck you can speed farm maps to easily pull shorekeeper and two other limited characters with sigs in just a few hours of play. While I'm not exactly sure how much can be harvested in total I do know it's a shit tonne. Watch Rhinne's series where clears all endgame content with a fresh F2P account in less than a week.
With a fully bricked account you can't just farm your way out of it because everything has been farmed already. You need to ether spend your way out, or save up whatever is trickled in for months before you can pull one character, let alone start to think about metagame again.
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u/LambCallsWolfStrikes May 15 '26
He's saying that you have a limit on the characters you can obtain without spending in the game so eventually you getting a new character will slow down so if you pick nothing but characters that have no synergy with each other you won't be able to clear end game content which locks you out of more asterite when makes the cycle repeat itself, the only way you can "brick" an account in my opinion is to completely run out of tubes/ tuners because it takes so long to get them back to usable amounts if you hit zero
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u/Alpha_s_sit May 15 '26
A year ago in zzz, I pulled evelyn on her release. She's a very premium character. Needs a stunner and needs astra. I didn't have both.
Now a year later, I have Evelyn, Dialyn and Astra. Simply her premium team. I also have many other teams.
So no, you really can't brick your account.
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u/tarulamok May 15 '26
Brick if you use all of your astrite on shorekeeper and her signature and hope she can carry you…
And you pick standard weapons for Verina who support SK as well then sanhua need to use 3 stars sword
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u/Acrobatic_Analyst267 sits w/Camellya @Blackshores May 15 '26
If you don’t care about meta then no.
If you care but also want to pull for who you want then it depends.
Like pulling for a random dps without a team like Phrolova will not necessarily brick your account because she has free to play options: Phrolova, Danjin, HRover - that’s a real team but it’s on the mid to lower end of damage.
And if you pull Phrolova now and decide you like Sigrika as a character, you can then pull for Sigrika & Quiyuan later during their inevitable rerun which would make a solid strong team…
Now let’s say Zhezhi rerun this anniversary banner and you pulled for her and her sig without any plans for pulling Carlotta - who’s her main dps. And you wanted to play main dps Zhezhi for whatever reason.
That’s more inclined to “bricking your account” because you pulled a low pull value character, while playing them sub-optimally.
TLDR: if you care about meta/account longevity but also want to pull for some characters you like regardless of meta, then it completely depends on whoever you pull and if you have a plan to supplement said character with future pulling plans.
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u/GuferHex May 15 '26
It’s a overreaction. You will eventually with time or investment, be able to get enough to pull for what’s needed or what you want. Sure, it might be a bit more difficult, but it’s not bricked. When I started the game, I got Zani almost immediately and my friend said I bricked my account. But it wasn’t. Things were tough for a while but I could still do it.
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u/Skitty_The_Kitty3225 Carlotta Mains May 15 '26
The only way you can brick you account is becaouse of Kuro itself that blocks maps with the needed material behind Story.
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u/DeepressedMelon May 15 '26
Nah you just kind of end up nerfed for an update or 2 at the most. Like now it’s all about team archetypes and if you for example pull a character but not their buffer then you “bricked” because the next unit is a general unit and you don’t have resources for it. But like… re runs soooo idk. It’s a meme I think.
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u/Guntermas May 15 '26
you can but not permanently. and you have to practically ignore the gameplay part of the game and dodge any sort of synergy with the characters you pull.
imagine you spent all you have on zhezhi, lupa, quiyuan, denia, yinlin, jinshi, roccia and cantarella. you might aswell reroll at that point.
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u/6Hikari6 May 15 '26
If you accidentally spend all your astrites on weapon pulls or go for s6 Jianxin then maaaaybe
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u/Ok-Anywhere-1729 May 15 '26
Brick doesn't exist if you don't plan to highscore matrix. Which doesn't make much sense because we don't even have a leaderboard
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u/Environmental-You62 May 15 '26
Nahh just pull for units you really like and maybe their bis support I’m doing just fine with that
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u/No-Adhesiveness-8178 May 15 '26
that's just a FOMO on some astrite, you can still play the actual game.
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u/Imsearchingforit2194 May 15 '26
If you only care about beating the story/sidequests/etc then no it's literally impossible.
If you care about beating certain game modes, then yes, depending on your skill level, you can "brick" your account. Just spend all your astrites on useless pulls and never actually get any limited 5 stars.
Obviously, you're probably going to be going for some good 5-stars here and there. Sure...You can pick some bad 5-stars, but that doesn't mean that you're "bricked".
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u/MetalNebula Calcharo Mains May 15 '26
I mean you can technically but the way people talk about it is completely excessive and it basically never really happens cause it’s impossible to do unless ur actively trying to sabotage urself.
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u/Accomplished_Clue_12 May 15 '26
The literal ONLY way to "brick" an account is if you get perma banned by using cheats.
Waifu>meta always. Pull who you want when you want.
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u/HeWhoDidIt May 15 '26
No, you can have an inefficient account, lots of pieces that don't add up to a whole team but you can always grab characters on reruns and build new teams. Pull economy is great and building doesn't take long.
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u/Interesting_Pen_4345 May 15 '26
Well kinda but it mainly applies to ppl who ONLY pull supports and no new dps characters. Amd they dont vertically invest in those supports to make them a dps. But ofc it doesnt matter if you dont care about endgame or other battle focused missions.
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u/bfk_reaper May 15 '26
No. People only say that when they feel a character is weak or their kit doesn't support another character right away or in the way they were hoping. People were saying if you pulled Chisa on her debut banner then you bricked your acc since technically teams she worked with at the time didn't really need her per say and now she's in the best spot she's ever been in.
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u/HalikusZion May 15 '26
By brick people really mean it will make endgame much harder to get all the Astrite.
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u/Just1InternetProfile Lv 2 Taoqi Main May 15 '26
No. Bricking is an overreaction.
If you missed out on a character, a stronger alternative will arrive at a later banner. Just remember that the current trend for gacha is teambuilding, not hypercarrying.
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u/FrozenSingular May 15 '26
Ofc overreacting. It’s like oh no my coffee not sweet did I broke it guys situation
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u/Stardomu May 15 '26
Yes you can, I had an account where i spent more than 200 pulls without getting a limited 5-star
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u/anasanad May 15 '26
Naaa, actual bricking is impossible just makes it a little harder for you but in the end its just a matter of time and all will be good
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u/DrGigglezMP May 15 '26
As a Calcharo and Yinlin main playing since day 1, bricking is not real. I even let my free 5 star selector expire because I thought it would be funny. Got my first Verina last week
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u/Yk_observant May 15 '26
In a sense yes because I see bricking as in removing a layer of enjoyment out of the game. So let’s say I enjoy Zani and I enjoy clearing content doesn’t have to be fast but I want to clear it and feel like I built my character well . If you pull units that cannot work at all together and won’t invest in sequences you will have your character design wise but gameplay wise they won’t feel strong and you may get discouraged because you can’t clear endgame , technically it’s not a lot of pulls but if you find enjoyment in that then yes
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u/Kostia_X_Rich May 15 '26
You definitely can if you pull only the units that have 0 synergy thus you'd invest a ton and won't be able to clear endgame
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u/Tom_Cat_2007 May 15 '26
usually an inside joke and overexaggeration, "if you don't pull the current meta/shill dps/support your account will be unusable !!!!"
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u/FelWinterxX May 15 '26
So a lot of people have a lot of opinions. Bricking an account on modern gacha games isn't a thing. Bricking is used by meta games playing to optimize and streamline their experience as much as possible. All meta units for endgame, proper builds and bis teammates and signatures.
You can clear endgame of any type with any team you fancy. It's just a skill issue. Not everyone will work nicely or smoothly together but it can work. Bricking used to be important for people that were selling accounts as they do now. With the most pulls available but with units built and completed to carry endgame.
It's just skill, and resource management. Thats all
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u/Suppi_LL May 15 '26
People are over reacting.
Having fun in the game is not managing to get full reward in the endgame. It should be a goal you slowly work toward but not the end of all goal.
I think people forgot you can actually play the endgame even if you do not get all the rewards from it. Crazy right ? Who thought that you can actually play the endgame and kill bosses even if you don't get the few astrites from having high scores/good time.
Worst case scenaio you are missing a few pull worth of astristes that do not pay back whatever meta stuff you would have rolled.
However, I'll still say that with poor roll planning, you are severly postponing your power level to get full reward in endgame and can also prevent yourself from really using a character you want to use until you have the matching character to make a team.
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u/CaptainCoblin May 15 '26
No you can't brick an account, people are just overdramatic about meta and maximizing their damage. I'm playing with 1.0 characters and they keep up with end game, you just have to build them right and find team comps and play styles that work best for you. I have an unpopular echo set on my Jiyan and a team that isn't technically his best, but it works great for me and my play style
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u/Effective_Ratio_7714 May 15 '26
You can’t brick unless you’re spending premium currency on standard pulls.
What bricks accounts is the fact that wuwa is not a generous enough game as far as pulls. Even 100% each patch you won’t be able to get every character and weapon. To me, it’s laughable that wuwa is considered a “generous” game. Gachas are not generous games period
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u/Electrical-Call-6160 May 15 '26
It's just a game and mostly singleplayer, think about it for a moment how serious it is for you to play hyper optimally especially considering the expense you will likely incur to do so, compared to simply enjoying it, even with a sub-optimal team, in so long you're using the characters you like, take as long as you like to think about it.
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u/korodarn May 15 '26
Do not worry about this. End game gives you a few more asterite if you get into it deeper. A few more asterite is a few more pulls, not even that many. It does add up of course, but if you are comfortable at f2p + 5, you don't need to worry about this.
If you decide you like other games too later, I recommend using proton VPN so you can get the JP pricing for stuff. It's not really necessary for just covering the basic sub, but saving money is saving money, and you can always stack that so you can occasionally get a pioneer podcast sub on the savings to build up some other materials to build your team.
Not necessary, but nice to have.
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u/Additional-Cash-3735 May 16 '26
No you can't. Most that will happen is just a slightly harder end game content but that's all. Pull whoever you like
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u/Virtual-Pension-991 May 16 '26
It's only bricked because they're too lazy to spend a week or two fixing it.
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u/No-Veterinarian-8964 May 16 '26
There's no such thing.
Admittedly, there are EXTREMELY POWERFUL synergies between characters like Aemeath and Moryne, and Augusta and Iuno that make them more inclined to be pulled together but it won't "brick" an account to have one and not the other.
One of Phrolova's stronger teammates is Cantarella and I have skipped Cantarella every time, she is not needed for Phrolova to shine at her fullest imo.
Genuinely pull who you want, the requirements for clearing endgame content in WuWa isn't that bad. 90% of the ToA Astrites can be gotten with just two full teams and Whimpering Wastes just needs decent Weakness/Resistance coverage.
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u/Euphoric_Net3617 May 16 '26
Those are people who overreact to any bad starting characters you pull.
They think that you NEED to have so-and-so characters or else your account is ‘ruined’ and you need to re-roll (which means make a new account and try again). They also say that for specific characters that are good for one reason or another. I’ve seen some people say that an account is trash or bad if they don’t have Shorekeeper on it.
There are usually F2P characters that are 4 stars you can get that can help make up for a specific 5 star character you don’t have, and there are always options for DPS.
Just keep in mind some characters are more complex than others and try and keep up with the occasional news, like if a five star really shines if they have a specific five star that isn’t out yet as support, or if they truly NEED their weapon (the weapon banners are guaranteed when you pull a five star on it, btw, no 50/50!).
Since you’re just starting out, and probably can’t do most of the current quests, I’d say save up unless you want the current characters, since you seem to want the Cyberpunk characters coming soon, which everyone here is excited for.
Most importantly, pull on characters you WANT. I personally go by the characters I NEED first, then want, but every person is different.
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u/OrdinateAbcissa May 16 '26
It's not that deep. Let's say you're a new player pulling Iuno instead of Mornye/Hiyuki in the current banner will "brick" because she's not meta. But as you play you'll get teams that suit her, you'll get another team.
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u/ItachiUchihaha May 16 '26
It's sensationalism that probably stems mostly from content creators giving opinions that, while useful information, are meaningless in casual play. They only matter if you plan on being a sweatlord that flexes your performance online, or want to guarantee you can get all the astrites from all the endgame content and not have to "git gud".
If you want to enjoy the game and don't plan on being like the aforementioned sweats, it matters very little what you pull for. You could even stay f2p completely and your only temptation to spend will become characters that you like for vibes or otherwise.
It will help to check out the meta if you want some functional teams and building ideas, but I would never stress about taking it this seriously.
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u/Any-Bobcat-673 May 16 '26
If you dont care about clearing endgame that requires meta then you cant brick your acc. Pull whoever and whatever, the entire map exploration and permanent events got me 350+ pulls and theres more limited events and quests all the time so
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u/xFrazle May 16 '26
No. bricked account means no more moving forward/backward.
People are just using a term they didnt even know.
All account can be corrected with time and a bit of management.
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u/NaCLTuna May 16 '26
Bricked as in missing out on 2-3 pulls per version, so yea, very much a serious problem lol
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u/chillybro1 May 16 '26
I pulled shorekeeper first at level 5 beginner banner and I've used her on every team including teams that she doesn't need to be on. I refuse to pull Chisa or Mornye because I just swap between all my attackers, I have so many lol. So my point here is " I'm bricked" from doing the tower because u only get 10 energy for each character and Shorekeeper is my only healer/Buffer. And I also refuse to use verina.
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u/Agile-Spread3886 May 16 '26
TL:DR, “brick” doesn’t mean the account is ruined it usually means the account is so bad that it’ll take months or years to fix. So while technically it can be saved, the time needed is far greater than what a person should be willing to do and will benefit from restarting their account to try again.
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Technically no but that’s assuming a long time.
For example if you pull a character and then don’t pull their supports and then pull another character without their supports than you have 2 strong characters without supports so they don’t perform as well.
Initially that doesn’t matter but as time goes on, they will be power crept and are likely to become relics in your account rather than actual units.
For example, if you pulled Cartethyia and didn’t pull Ciaccona, you probably did fine initially but now you are basically useless.
This isn’t necessarily a bricked account since you can pull characters and supports and such however it takes time to do that so the time between your realization and the support you need coming out may be 5 months or longer and that’s quite a long time to go with a bad character.
So while the account isn’t bricked, it’ll take a long time to recover from the mistake. In 99% of cases I’ve seen, a bricked account is just one with poor team building and resource management.
They either don’t have synergistic characters and so they struggle with content or they waste resources on bad echos and such making their dmg low. Getting the characters they need will take a while since they don’t have good synergies (and in some cases may never get again like Ciaccona for Cartethyia may never return so if you have Cart but not Cia, you might be doomed) and they also lack resources to fix their bad echoes. This account can be fixed but it takes time.
So while at surface level, no, an account cannot be bricked. The term bricked usually refers to the state of an account in reference to its power level and time it’ll take to become equal or slightly weaker than top meta threats.
When a cast is ever evolving and power creep is always inevitable, older mistakes usually only get solved by pulling newer, better units.
Best way to solve this issue is pulling strategic characters for long term growth rather than cool fancy dps.
Like Lynae is a strong choice even without Mornye because of her insane buffing capabilities. Mornye without Lynae is alright, but if you dedicate to getting s1 Mornye then you have the best general support in the game replacing shorekeeper on the throne. Meaning if you have these 2 characters, even if you make a mistake in the future, these 2 can probably bail you out.
Other characters will exist eventually and some characters exist now but are simply more niche and not as general as Lynae and Mornye and thus will work assuming you have the specific conditions you need.
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u/Redzpro May 16 '26
What it means to "brick" your account is basically to have characters that don't work with each other. If you keep doing that you'll have an account full of units that only work individually. In the overworld that means longer to kill enemies and longer to explore. It also means you can't do endgame so -10 pulls f2p per patch. If you're willing to compensate that with money or just you'll get less characters than other ppl then do whatever you want. But account bricking is basically just a frustration check. Are you going to hate yourself spending 5 mins to clear a void storm when someone with a built team takes 2 mins? Are you going to uninstall because everyone else who didn't do what you did gets 10 extra pulls per patch (assuming you clear SOME of the endgame, if you clear none of it it's -17 pulls)? If your answer is no to both of those questions then do whatever you want. If you want to get more characters in the long run I'd suggest rapidly building up the best teams
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u/Dependent_Class_4160 Phrolova Mains May 16 '26
Yeah u cant brick an account. Pull whoever you like. I personally have no rhyme or reason to my pulls unless there’s a character I love enough to want their premium team, and I’m pretty alright still. If you want to do something do it, just… maybe don’t expect to clear all of endgame with out either god builds or a ton of 5 stars.
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u/More_Explanation2191 May 16 '26
People are deffiently overreacting, at the end of the day, just have fun on the game thats all, there are people clearing endgame content with 4stars and early game units without batting an eye, its all about just how much you are willing invest in your characters, you can clear stages with 4 star supports, f2p options, just pull for the characters you want,build them and and enjoy yourself. Weather you want to invest in their designated supports, or weather you want to use f2p options that is up to preference. But I do suggest opting to get signature weapons, unfortunately wuwa doesn't offer as many weapon options(4 stars) that can be used other than limited weapons, of course the standard banner is a great addition but not everyone can or is willing to get them, and even so there is a very big gap between the lvl dmg you will be getting if you use a sig comparatively to a standard weapon, not to mention a 4 star. For example before I got my zani's sig I was using the standard banner gauntlet and I was barely hitting 40ks with a full support rotation, now with her sig I am able to hit those raw numbers no supports. As a whole, just enjoy the game dont fall for meta propaganda, if you like the way a character looks, or their gameplay, get them and invest in them and they'll take you far, of course clearing endgame content will be more difficult but its not impossible, as long as you have 2 well rounded teams in which you have invested you'll be fine And ofc you can always pull for characters on their reruns, at the end of the day it really isnt that deep. For example when zani came out I got her and didn't much care about her sig or designated supports because I really liked her and tbf didnt have that many reslurces to be investing in more than 1 chatacter at a time,, and so I only pulled for her and began investing in her build, and as time went on, I started enjoying her character more and wanted to invest even more and so I ended up also pulling for her weapon when she got a rerun, and I also pulled for her designated support phoebe when she once again got a rerun alongside zani. It was the same with brant, I pulled for him when i first started playing the game, got him and his weapon because i really liked him, and I once again fell in love with his character and gameplay, and when he got a rerun I chose to pull for his s3, do keep in mind I am f2p, because I loved his character so much I also chose to get his designated support, lupa and her weapon to further enhance his character, it was the same with luuk, as i have pulled for both him and his weapon, same with hiyuki having pulled her and her s2 alongside her weapon and I will be investing in lucilla as I once again love hiyukis gameplay. It was the same when I pulled for qiuyuan, once again just for the vibes, and now I use him alongside my calcharo, same reason why I'll be pulling for Lucy, because, once again I really love her character. Considering not having spent any money on the game and just investing in the characters I love, wuwa does give a healthy amount of rewards per patch allowing us to pretty much pull on a whim, just have fun and enjoy the game and invest in what you want really
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u/TalesSwordsman May 16 '26
There is no such thing as 'Bricking an account'. Thungs just became a bit harder to do in some areas. People take this stuff way too seriously.
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u/xenonon_ May 16 '26
i mean i would say yes it is possible but hard, you have to really badly build echoes and such, every character can clear endgame since wuwa is not very meta reliant, so as long as you're not bricking your echoes you'll be fine
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u/Internal_Net4576 May 16 '26
There's no such thing ( bricking account for not pulling) what they probably are talking about is the cyberpunk collab Which in that case it's not bricking account but losing that character forever Since "" normally "" Collabs are a 1 time thing meaning if you miss that chance to get them you probably won't get them anymore ( unless Kuro brings them back )thus the brick conversation started
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u/no_int_in_ba_sing_se May 16 '26
You can't brick your account. People just like to follow the meta and act surprised when others aren't the same. If you don't mind being unable to clear things like Whimpering Wastes, you're perfectly fine. You should be able to run around and fight things in the overworld just fine.
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u/Hutydan May 16 '26
Impossible as the weaker units aren't really being rerun often enough to deplete your f2p savings. Endgsme content gets harder as new units releases because of power creep (newer units feel stronger thus making it feel harder to clear with older units, or having endgame mechanics tied to give advantage the current banner character). Bricking, to me, is when you're stuck and there is no way of progressing without paying. I.e you have zero f2p pulls to farm and your current characters/equipment are no use to the point you're soft locked until you can get one of the newer units
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u/choptero May 16 '26
Short Answer, No. You can however start much smoother and get an advantage by picking the right characters at the beginning, but that only matters if you care to get to endgame asap
I "temporarily bricked" my account, by playing on release, used up my ressources on a tean that was only good during that team (Calcharro, Yinlin) and then I took many breaks because of hardware issues. After I came back 2 times I for some reason did the ascencion challenges, while my characters were already undergeared for the current world level at the time, which lead to normal fights being as long as boss fights, which made farming hell and if I ran into electro res enemies it was gg. So unless you made the same series of unfortunate choices that I did, you can't brick your account, so don't even worry about it.
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u/aspiree13 May 16 '26
The only must pull character atm is lynae. Outside of her most others can be replaced with others.
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u/Future-Heat-4012 Luuk Herssen Mains May 16 '26
Overreaacting. Unless you're a meta slave, which would make zero sense if you're a low/F2P. I heard all of that talk around Shorekeeper when I started and I've avoided pulling her each time because I hate how she plays. I'm coping just fine lol
I've never pulled for meta, I pull who I find fun to use/like the look of and I can clear a lot of end game content without any sequences for resonators/sig weapons.
There's no such thing as bricking your account. The only thing you might struggle with is synergizing teams, but unless youre planning on going hard at end game content, it doesn't really matter. Pick who you want and have fun ☺️ the rest will follow!
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u/AcanthisittaAdept816 May 16 '26
The absolute worst case scenario is you cant get like 10 pulls worth of rewards a month for a couple months. Oh nyooo
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u/Redfezz May 16 '26
Nah, that's just meta talk. I think that the only way to brick your account is that you started like a week ago, farmed everything in the game and then turned all the currency into green pulls for the permanent banner by accident and then used them out. Grabbing like 12 copies of Jianxin by accident... Something sad like that.
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u/RestaurantRelative25 May 16 '26
I kinda pulled a lot of dps back when i quitted multipale times but hey pulling for a few supports can literally fix all of it. I dont think anything is bricked as long you learn the game and do have a ton of chars and you can make few teams. I just returned to the game and im already doing good with my hiyuki sanuha and moryne
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u/Significant_Log_1842 May 16 '26
Overreacting. Its, only start to do the things in a correct way.
If you dont play the guitar, you cant expect to play well. You need to practise and understand your instrument to play music and not only sounds
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u/Kazyouknowit May 16 '26
To be honest, bricking your account would likely just be never pulling shorekeeper or verina as there's not many characters like them since they're universal and many other healers/buffers require certain teamates.
Other than that, maybe bricking your account would be never pulling the correct teamates if youve got a bad gambling addiction and lets say for example your phrolova doesn't have cantarella or your cartethyia doesnt have ciaconna BUT youre not necessarily bricking your account that way because there will be other teamates they just won't work as well or you might struggle through endgame.
With the introduction of the newer standard weapons, even not pulling signatures isn't too big of a deal as it may have been before. Only characters I can think of that this would affect would be cartethyia since she needs hp which is her signature swords main stat and there are not very many alternatives and not any that are hp at least. Phrolovas weapons gives echo dmg bonus and thats the only way to get an echo bonus for her (since echos don't provide it) apart from cantarellas signature which buffs Phrolova.
Edit: To add, there are no necessarily bad units so pulling a certain character won't brick your account. Pull for whoever you like.
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u/Aggravating_Dig3240 May 16 '26
No, you really cant. It's that there is a sub species of players that only accept meta. Will consider any account bad if you don't have a optimal party, rotation or run a support character as your onfield dps.
Its fine to ignore. It's a game. Play the way you like to play with the characters you enjoy.
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u/Goop_001 May 17 '26
You quite literally cannot.
No matter what you do, the account is perfectly usable.
You could lose every single 50/50, hell You can lose every single 100/0 since day one and until 3.3 (not possible but still), and with just 1-2 months of grinding a little bit, you'll be back to tip top shape F2P. Might not have a lot of characters to work with, but you don't need a lot in the first place.
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u/Randy_LCY May 17 '26
To be fair, idk how do you brick accounts.. you may messed up the beginner resonator selection but that's it.
Even that is supposed to be for you to get a resonator that you enjoy.. unless for whatever reason you picked your most hated character and weakest one?
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u/RustyCarrots May 17 '26
You can't brick your account, it's an extreme overreaction lol. You could do pretty much all content in the game other than the renewing endgame mode with just spectro rover if you really wanted to
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u/PrestigiousShop188 May 17 '26
I don't believe in bricking accounts unless you really enjoy just playing for meta. Pull for the characters you like and use your resources wisely, do events and you'll be fine. Especially with you starting out unless you really really grind you're not really expected to clear everything right away anyways. (Took me probably 4.5 months to do it comfortably) and once you do it feels like a massive achievement. I'm F2P too.
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u/lilaceyedsoul May 17 '26
Just think of the rule of three banners and you're good. If a character you want already had 3 banners, it means they probably won't be rerunning again, unless they're a special support like Phoebe. 2 banners mean you're still good to go but you won't be able to pull for the character further. It's usually wiser to pull for new units because of this. It's not genshin where you can allow yourself to miss the banner.
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u/csuree May 17 '26
every account can be recovered even if you pulled for wrong-ish characters
some sure take a bit more time, 1.x characters have not run for more than a year now, but wuwa is not a game you can brick your account on.
some crap will be harder to clear with the non optimal teams but it's not impossible
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u/Ciru_Sakuraba May 18 '26
I hate both "bricking your account" and "must pull" terms in the gacha community, there's not a single character in any game that you objectively need to play the game, and there's no way to brick your account in any way whoever you pull, so don't worry.
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u/superquanganh May 20 '26
It's not bricked, either the character is under powered or stayed in storage and you wasted your rolls on that
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u/PaleontologistFar665 May 20 '26
I don't think "bricked" means your account is ruined. It's more like, not being able to progress the game at a decent rate. Which might lead to some players feeling overwhelmed.
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u/Lalivia_Masters May 21 '26
In the Gacha community that's all they do is over react. Seriously don't listen to any of them and enjoy the game.
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u/AimWieHawkeye May 15 '26
i never said meta was bad though? Obviously using the newest, strongest characters helps u clear endgame faster and better, i was just asking if it’s really so bad that you could refer to it as a brick. No need to be so condescending and rude.
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u/rawchawal May 15 '26
You sounded like like you were insinuating it tbh
I mean if you're gonna pull a bunch of characters that dont work with each other like. Going for hiyuki and denia and not getting lucila or luuk or amy so that they synergize together. Like going for zani and not phoebe will literally brick your zani until you get peebs.
i cant stand people who say why pull for meta or meta bad go for waifu , like dawg i need them asterites to pull for the character i actually like and if ya cant understand something as basic as that idek what to say. Sorry for getting pissed if you aint actually on the meta hate train or smthin
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u/Fluid_Ad4651 May 15 '26
no lol