NTE 1.2 Phase 2: Iroi release time, The Lifeline banner and the five-hour maintenance gap

Iroi has been live on The Lifeline Limited Board since July 29, 2026 at 11:00 UTC+8, not 05:59. The five-hour gap between those two timestamps is a full server maintenance, and most of the release-time coverage published before the swap missed it. The board runs to August 19, 2026 at 05:59 UTC+8, alongside her signature Arc, The Wrong Gate.

The exact clock, including the dead zone

Phase 2 was not a rotation in place. Four separate timestamps sit inside a single morning, and only the last one puts Iroi on your screen.

Between 05:59 and 11:00 no limited board was live at all. Anyone who logged in during that window to spend leftover Solid Dice on Shinku found the board already gone, then found the client locked five minutes later.

Converted out of the publisher's timezone, the 11:00 UTC+8 open lands on July 28 across the Americas and on July 29 everywhere from Europe eastward.

Compensation for the downtime is Annulith x300, sent in-game.

What actually changed at the swap

Phase 1's pair left together. Shinku's Before the Dawn board and the Blushing Mirage Arc both expired at 05:59 UTC+8 on July 29. Phase 2's pair replaced them five hours later.

The Lifeline is the character board: Iroi as the featured S-Class, with Haniel, Aurelia and Skia as the A-Class rate-ups. That trio is the detail nobody else prints, and it matters if you are short on A-Class dupes for module levels.

The Wrong Gate is the Arc board, running the same July 29 to August 19 window through the Arc Research Program, paid with Tri-Keys or the version's themed Dreamgate Keys. It is an S-Class Liquid Arc and it is Iroi's signature: ATK +32%, and on a healing trigger it grants Anima DMG +60% for 20 seconds plus a 30% all-damage bonus to the team.

Iroi's kit, by its real skill names

Iroi is an S-Class Anima Esper built as a Universal Support. Her whole kit runs on one resource, Imagination, which her basic attacks, Skill and Support Skill all feed.

Collaboration is the Basic Attack, a five-hit Anima combo that summons lambs and accumulates Imagination. Its charged variants, Daydream and Lucid Dream, spend Imagination back for personal damage.

Future Self Continuity is the Skill and it is two skills wearing one button. Tapped, it heals the team, grants an ATK buff scaled off Iroi's own base ATK, pulls enemies together and builds Imagination. Held, it puts three teammates into the Regression state and summons dream clones.

Bang! is the Support Skill: Anima damage, a team heal, more Imagination.

3.8-Billion-Year Mirage is the Ultimate, and it has two versions of itself depending on where your Imagination bar sits.

The ATK buff scaling off her own base ATK is the practical build note. It means her stat sheet is not decoration on a healer: her offensive stats feed the team's damage, which is why she keeps a slot after the content she was pulled for is cleared. The reference team in circulation pairs Shinku as main DPS with Iroi, Hathor and Jiuyuan, on a Street Brawler four-piece cartridge set for the Crit Rate +14%.

The revive is not a free undo

This is the first revive in Neverness to Everness, and it is the reason the pull discussion exists. It is also narrower than the headline suggests. Three conditions stack before anyone stands back up.

First, Imagination. Below the threshold, 3.8-Billion-Year Mirage is a sustained team heal and nothing else. At the threshold it becomes Dream of Ivory Gate, which heals, deals AoE Anima damage, and only then revives.

Second, Regression. The Ultimate does not resurrect any dead ally. It resurrects a Regressed one, and Regression is a state you have to have applied in advance with the held version of Future Self Continuity. It also clears the moment you leave combat, so it cannot be pre-loaded outside a fight.

Third, the cap. One ally per cast. A wipe is still a wipe. A revived teammate re-enters Regression, so they stay eligible, but you are paying a full Ultimate for each recovery.

Her awakenings sharpen the same loop rather than removing its conditions: A1 regenerates Imagination while she is off-field, A4 boosts ATK on Regressed teammates, A6 has revived teammates recover extra HP and energy. Read together, the design intent is clear. The revive is a planned rotation, not an insurance policy.

Pull maths: what 90 pulls actually costs you

Neverness to Everness is friendlier here than most of its peers, and the numbers are worth having straight before you commit.

There is no 50/50. Any S-Class you pull off a Limited Board is that board's featured character. Losing a coinflip is not a failure state this game has.

Character hard pity is 90, with soft pity ramping from roughly 70. Arc pity splits in two: a guaranteed S-Class Arc within 60 pulls, and a guaranteed featured S-Class Arc within 80. That last figure is the one to weigh if you skipped Shinku's Blushing Mirage and are wondering whether signature Arcs are worth chasing. At 80 for the featured piece, The Wrong Gate is a cheaper guarantee than Iroi herself.

The currencies do not mix. Solid Dice pull the Limited Board, Fabricated Dice pull the Standard Board, Tri-Keys and Dreamgate Keys pull Arcs, and Annulith converts into whichever you need.

Version 1.2 has been generous enough to move that calculation. Before Phase 2 it handed out 2,200 Annulith across three drops: 300 for launch maintenance, 300 for a bug fix, 1,600 as an appreciation gift. The July 29 maintenance adds another 300. Circle Gifts, the version-long login track, pays out Solid Dice x10 on its own, and the Summer Special Gift included an S-Class Standard Character Selection Box.

The awkward seat is anyone who spent to floor on Shinku three weeks ago. Version 1.2 ran two limited S-Class debuts back to back on one currency pool, which is a deliberate squeeze, and no rerun date has been announced for either.

Version 1.2 Phase 2 event calendar

Five events opened or are still opening inside Phase 2, and four long-running ones from launch have not gone anywhere. The correction worth making: 999 Nights, Circle Gifts, Shadow-n-Seek and the Neon Rift Mystery Box are not Phase 1 content. They run the whole version, to August 19.

Note the 04:59 endings on Pixel Surge, Warren Lucky Flip and Fons Rush. They close an hour before the version does, not with it.

What comes after Iroi

Version 1.3 has two revealed characters and zero announced dates. Both came through official drip marketing, so the reveal itself is not a leak.

Zankou is an S-Class Incantation Esper, the Scarlet Letter story antagonist, with family ties to Daffodil and Poinsette, and he carries a large katana-style blade. His kit is unrevealed. Expected: Phase 1, from August 19, 2026, the day Version 1.2 closes. That date is a T3 estimate off the three-week cycle, not an announcement.

Linko is an S-Class Anima Esper from ETD-6, the Bureau of Anomaly Control, and a teammate of Chaos. She is partnered with a ghost anomaly named Xiaozhen, which lives in a TV she wears as a backpack. Her reveal slogan ran "Bzzt, bzzt! Appraiser, do you copy? This is Linko from ETD-6, executing Operation Play Date!" Expected: Phase 2, from roughly September 9, 2026, again on the cycle rather than on a notice.

Three things will tell you where this lands. Whether the August 19 maintenance repeats the five-hour Phase 2 pattern or reverts to a shorter window. Whether Hotta tunes 1.3 endgame around a revive existing, which would move Iroi's value up rather than down. And whether Linko, the second Anima S-Class in two versions, arrives as a support or as the damage dealer that Anima teams currently borrow from elsewhere.

FAQ

What time did Iroi release in Neverness to Everness?

July 29, 2026 at 11:00 UTC+8, after maintenance, not 05:59. That is July 28 at 20:00 in Los Angeles, 23:00 in New York and July 29 at 04:00 in London.

Was there maintenance for NTE 1.2 Phase 2?

Yes. Servers were down from 06:00 to 11:00 UTC+8 on July 29, 2026, with login unavailable for the full five hours. Compensation is Annulith x300.

What is Iroi's banner called?

The Lifeline, a Limited Board running July 29 to August 19, 2026 at 05:59 UTC+8. Her signature Arc, The Wrong Gate, runs on the Arc Research Program over the same window.

Which A-Class characters are on Iroi's banner?

Haniel, Aurelia and Skia are the A-Class rate-ups on The Lifeline.

Does Iroi's revive work on any dead ally?

No. Her Ultimate, 3.8-Billion-Year Mirage, only revives while her Imagination is above the threshold that turns it into Dream of Ivory Gate, the target has to already be in the Regression state applied by holding Future Self Continuity, and it brings back one ally per cast.

Is there a 50/50 in Neverness to Everness?

No. Any S-Class pulled from a Limited Board is the featured character. Hard pity for characters is 90 pulls, and soft pity ramps from around 70.

How many pulls guarantee The Wrong Gate?

80. Arc pity guarantees an S-Class Arc within 60 pulls and the featured S-Class Arc within 80, which makes the signature Arc a cheaper guarantee than the character.

Who is in NTE 1.3?

Zankou, an S-Class Incantation Esper, and Linko, an S-Class Anima Esper. Both are officially revealed through drip marketing. Neither has an announced release date: the T3 estimates from the three-week phase cycle put Zankou around August 19 and Linko around September 9, 2026.

Sources

• Neverness to Everness Version 1.2 Phase 2 maintenance and banner notice, Perfect World, consulted 1 August 2026
• Neverness to Everness Version 1.2 official patch notes, Perfect World, consulted 1 August 2026
• When Does Iroi Release in NTE Version 1.2?, Icy Veins, consulted 1 August 2026
• Neverness to Everness Iroi Banner Release Date and 1.2 Phase 2 Events, AllThings.how, consulted 1 August 2026

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Lorenzo Bruno signs this article and takes editorial responsibility for it. Published 26 July 2026, last updated 1 August 2026.