Traits, and knowing when to stop rerolling

A trait is a modifier that sits on a unit. It arrives by roll. You can replace it by rerolling, which costs a Trait Reroll token. That is the system. There is no deterministic path, no crafting, and no targeted selection that we have been able to confirm.

Everything that makes traits interesting is therefore economic rather than mechanical. The question is never "how does this work", it is "how many tokens am I willing to feed this before I admit the roll is fine".

The reroll economy has at least two currencies: Trait Rerolls for the trait side, and Stat Rerolls, sometimes written as Relic Rerolls, for the stat and relic side. They do not share a pool.

The practical consequence is that emptying one stock does not stall your account. If you have burned every trait token on a unit, you can still work the relic side of the same unit, or of a different one. Players who assume a single shared currency tend to stop playing with the systems entirely once they hit zero on one of them, which is a self-inflicted wall.

It also means the two systems compete for your attention but not for your resources, so the "which first" question is about time and focus, not budget. More on that below.

Rerolling is designed to be frictionless. The button is right there, the animation is quick, and there is always one more roll. Nothing in the game will tell you that you have spent forty tokens on a unit you are going to bench. So decide in advance.

• Name the budget out loud. "Ten tokens on this unit, then I stop." If you cannot say a number, you are not rerolling with a plan, you are pulling a lever.
• Only reroll a unit that is in your six. Not a unit you might field. Not a unit a tier list likes. A unit that is on your board right now and stays there when you are not thinking about it.
• Accept the adequate roll. Chasing perfection on one good unit is worth less than an adequate roll on the five others you actually play, because those five are on the board every run.
• Stop entirely when a banner is close. Tokens keep. Your roster is about to change. Rolling right before your team shifts is how tokens vanish with nothing to show.

What we will do instead is log the traits we see as we roll them, on units we actually own, and publish that with the sample size attached. A short list with a number next to it beats a long list with nothing behind it.

Since the two token stocks are separate, there is no budget trade-off between them. What there is, is an attention trade-off, and the answer follows the same logic as the rest of the upgrade stack: do the cheap reversible thing before the expensive permanent one.

Both reroll systems are cheap and repeatable. Neither is permanent the way an Etherealize is. So the real ordering advice is not "traits before relics", it is both of them after levelling and before shards. If you are rerolling a unit you have not levelled, the order is already wrong regardless of which token you picked up first. The relics page covers the stat side in its own right.