NTE (Neverness to Everness) Beginner's Guide: Espers, Team Building, Reroll & Progression

Neverness to Everness (NTE) is an open-world urban supernatural action RPG from Hotta Studio, published by Perfect World and set in the modern metropolis of Hethereau, where supernatural anomalies and everyday city life sit side by side. You play an Appraiser investigating those anomalies, fighting through fast hack-and-slash combat built around dodging, perfect dodges and parries, while progression runs on a gacha system for new characters. The game is available on PC through Windows, macOS and storefronts like Steam, alongside console and mobile. This guide is for new players on Windows who want a strong, efficient start. Play NTE free on PC and learn the core systems before you spend a single pull.

Getting started

• You fight with a team of four. Characters are switchable mid-combat, each with unique Esper abilities that chain and synergize, so team composition matters as much as individual power.
• Master defensive timing. Perfect dodges and parries open big damage windows; learning enemy tells is the single biggest early skill jump.
• Understand the two systems that define characters: six Esper attributes (Lakshana, Cosmos, Anima, Incantation, Chaos and Psyche) and five class types (gas, solid, liquid, plasma and synthesis) that shape how abilities interact.
• Explore the city. Stamina-based traversal and drivable, upgradable vehicles make Hethereau a genuine open world, and exploration hands out useful early resources.

Team building and reroll advice

Because you always field four characters, aim for a balanced core rather than four damage dealers.

• Build around roles. A main damage dealer, a sub-damage or off-field attacker, and a support or healer covers most early content comfortably.
• Match Esper attributes to enemy weaknesses. Bringing the right attribute damage into a fight dramatically shortens tough battles.
• Should you reroll? As a launch-window gacha, NTE is reroll-friendly: use the generous starter pulls to chase a strong limited or high-rarity character, and restart on a fresh account if your first summons are weak. Lock in a reliable main damage dealer before you settle.
• Do not over-invest in a placeholder. Spread just enough resources to clear content until you secure a character you plan to keep long term.

Progression and free-to-play tips

• Spend your stamina/energy every day. Daily clears of farmable stages are the backbone of free progression.
• Save premium currency for a featured banner you actually want, rather than pulling on the first shiny character you see.
• Level a small core team first. Ability materials and upgrade resources are limited early, so concentrate them.
• Complete the main story and side anomalies for the biggest lumps of pull currency, upgrade materials and account rewards.
• Claim every daily, weekly and login reward. These small, reliable trickles of pull currency add up to full summons over time and cost you nothing.
• Upgrade your vehicles and traversal to open the map faster and reach more resource nodes.
• Learn each character's Esper class. Understanding how gas, solid, liquid, plasma and synthesis types interact helps you pair characters whose abilities amplify one another instead of clashing.

Mistakes to avoid

• Ignoring dodge and parry timing. Trying to tank hits wastes potential and gets you killed in harder fights.
• Building four glass cannons. Without support or sustain, tougher anomalies become brutal.
• Blowing your pulls immediately. Hoarding for a strong featured banner beats scattering summons at launch.
• Spreading upgrade materials thin. A half-built roster clears less than one fully invested core team.
• Skipping attribute matchups. Ignoring Esper weaknesses turns quick fights into long grinds.

Learn the dodge-and-parry rhythm, build a balanced four-character team around a solid main damage dealer, and save your pulls for a banner you truly want. Do that and NTE's supernatural city opens up fast. Suit up as an Appraiser and start investigating Hethereau today.