Best spender event in season 1

Why Season 1 Players Should Prioritize the Stardust Wheel Over All Other Spender Events

In Infinity Kingdom, every dollar you spend should push your account toward long-term growth and power. For Season 1 players, however, that’s easier said than done. The event options available are few, and most offer relatively poor returns compared to what becomes available later in the game. But there is one exception: the Stardust Wheel (Primal Pinball event). If you’re considering spending during Season 1, this is where you get the best value—and here’s why.

The Key Problem: Season 1 Has Poor Spending Options

Let’s face it:

We don’t have access to chaos immortals in seasonal events.
We don’t have Sparks of Galaxy, which provides high-value holy/shadow immortal fragments.
Even the most common seasonal spending events yield less value per dollar than what later seasons enjoy.

What we are left with are spender events like Theias Roulette costing thousands of dollars for a holy or shadow immortal which will cost hundres instead a couple months later!

But there’s one crucial upgrade system that is available in Season 1: Immortal Portrait Levels. And to max just one Immortal’s portrait, you’ll need a staggering 6,341 Stardust.

Stardust upgrade costs, read more.

Multiply that by 4 immortals across your main marches—and you quickly realize that Stardust is your biggest bottleneck to power in the early game.

This is why the Stardust Wheel is so important.

Why the Stardust Wheel Is Better in Season 1

In Season 1, the Stardust Wheel offers pure Stardust rewards—and nothing else. That’s not a downside. In fact, it’s the reason this event is so valuable for us.

Starting from Season 2 and in Conquest, the wheel gets diluted with Crimson Crystals, a new resource required for chaos immortals. These are incredibly rare, incredibly expensive, and almost completely useless unless you’re spending $5,000+ to unlock and max Chaos immortals. That means that later versions of this wheel are far less efficient unless you’re a high spender chasing chaos.

In Season 1, though?

Every Pearl you spend goes toward Stardust.
You can stockpile it efficiently while avoiding future event dilution.

Efficiency Confirmed: Real Drop Rates and Value

According to extensive data testing from the IK-Wiki Stardust Wheel guide and the Stardust Wheel drop rate breakdown, the drop rates for Stardust are solid:

Jackpot: 400 Stardust (0.3% chance)
250–200 Stardust prizes (combined ~1.3% chance)
Remaining prizes: 5 Stardust with decent probability

On top of that, bonus milestone rewards from the event add another layer of return for committed spenders.

Compared to Other Season 1 Events

Other spender events in Season 1 generally provide:

Poor value per dollar
Randomized or diluted rewards
No Crimson Crystals (which are irrelevant anyway pre-Chaos)
Few ways to directly improve portrait levels, which are your most powerful long-term boosts

The Stardust Wheel, on the other hand, gives you:

A straightforward path to portrait power
Value that remains useful even into Conquest seasons
One of the only events that gets worse over time (due to Crimson dilution)

So instead of saving your budget for Sparks of Galaxy or Chaos unlocks you can’t even access yet, invest in the only system that scales with your power and will never go to waste: Stardust.

Final Recommendation: Go All-In While It’s Clean

If you’re a spender in Season 1—even a modest one—the Stardust Wheel should be your top priority.

Why?

It’s the only event where later versions are less efficient.
It solves your biggest early-game bottleneck.
It boosts a system (portrait levels) that provides power long-term.

Build smart. Spend smart. If you’re in Season 1, this is your moment to build power before Crimson clutter hits the event wheel. Once it’s gone, it’s not coming back until next season cycle.

So get spinning.

Published: 24-06-2025

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