NTE Affinity System Guide: Gifting Tips and Bond Reward Breakdown

Quick answer: You can give 10 gifts a day, up to 3 per character. Bond 10 takes about 56,000 Affection. Gifts come in three tiers: 100-point gifts cost the fewest Fons, 400-point gifts are the fastest, and 200-point gifts sit in between. Rewards top out at 80 Annulith per character, about half a pull, so raise bonds for the Bond 10 stat boost, outfits and features rather than for pulls.

Affinity is shown in-game as Affection. When it reaches a set amount, that character’s Bond Level goes up, to a maximum of 10. This guide covers how to raise it efficiently, which gifts to buy and what the rewards are actually worth.

How to give a gift

1. Open the menu and select Bond.
2. Tap the Gift tab in the top right.
3. Pick a gift and tap Gift.

A character’s preferred gifts have a red icon in the top-right corner and appear first in the list, so you never need to guess. Tapping a gift also shows where to buy it.

How much Affection you need

Only the character you choose as a new player starts at 0. Characters you pull arrive at Bond 1, so most need about 56,000.

Which gifts to buy

With 3 gifts a day, choose a route based on your Fons:

The cheapest route costs far less per point: a 300-Fons gift gives 100, while a 3,000-Fons gift gives 200. Use it for most characters, and buy pricier gifts only for characters you want at Bond 10 soon, since upgrades need Fons too.

Recommended gift by character

These are mostly 200-point gifts. For Zankou, Blackbird and Elyms, look for the red icon in-game, because we have not confirmed their English gift names.

“Florist” and “Bookstore” with no district means several districts stock it.

Special gifts

• Handwritten Letter: +2,000 and no daily limit, more than 3 days of 200-point gifts. It comes from the Warp Exchange and Circle Bounty, and is worth about 2.5 pulls, so save it for a character you actually want at Bond 10.
• Fluffy Cotton: +400 for every character, and it still counts toward the daily limit. The Compressed Boom Boom Cloud anomaly furniture in your home produces it, which makes it the best free gift.
• Floe Cinema Ticket: +400 for characters who prefer it, from events and maintenance compensation.
• Gacha machine figures: a gold figure costs about 300,000 to 600,000 Fons for only +400, so they are not worth pulling for affinity.
• Paid gifts: the Unknown Mystery Box gives +1,200 to characters who prefer it.

Other ways to raise affinity

• Fortune Shades is on Yuanmu Hill in New Herland District. Buy the Wish Plaque from Zhilan, the NPC next to the tree.
• Zankou’s duel is at the cherry tree in the northeast of Miguel District.
• Esper Zero’s Life Skills add Affection from gifts. Each level adds +5% for characters at or below a Bond threshold: Bond 4 at level 1, rising one per level to Bond 8 at level 5.

What bond levels unlock

• Stat boost at Bond 10: permanent ATK, Crit Rate, DEF or HP, depending on the character. It only applies at Bond 10.
• Annulith: up to 80 per character. A pull costs 160, so this is about half a pull per character and not a reason to raise bonds on its own. See the F2P Free Resources Guide for bigger sources.
• Materials: items such as Beetle Coins, Elite Hunter Guides and Dreamless Seed.
• Features: Passenger Seat, basic actions, Home Invitation and special interactions. Some characters also unlock City Hangouts.
• Cosmetics: outfits, stickers, icons, icon frames and profile themes.

Who to raise first

1. Your main team: they are the ones who benefit in battle from the Bond 10 stat boost.
2. Characters you like: outfits, hangouts and My Room interactions are the main reward for everyone else.
3. Everyone else, slowly: the Annulith is small, so use cheap gifts or free sources only.

Spread your 10 daily gifts over at least 4 characters, since each one can take only 3. For the rest of your daily routine, see the Daily and Weekly Checklist.

FAQ

Compiled from GameWith’s English and Japanese guides (updated July 29, August 6, October 22 and November 6), Enjoygm (June 7, level costs and special gifts), OSLink (May 18, character quests) and Icy Veins (May 6). None of these is official. Icy Veins writes the limit as 10 gifts per character, but GameWith and Enjoygm say 3 per character, and the time estimates only work at 3. Refer to the in-game Bond screen for final values.