So you want to raise your relationship with your student?

Okay, listen up! I'll share with you all the knowledge I have and my experience about bond leveling.

Just a (not so) quick introduction about who I am. *(feel free to skip to the next section if you're only here for the guide)*.

My name is SwitBitz, or you can call me Switz for short. Back in 2021, I already stopped playing gacha games altogether. But because of my pesky friends telling me to play Blue Archive Global on its launch and bribing me about the game having lolis in it, I gave in. When I first opened Blue Archive back on November 8, 2021. One of the first students I met was Hina. She's a cute petite girl with an intimidating aura (but her cuteness aura is stronger), has white hair and a soothing voice which is my type. There were other students too, like Mutsuki, Aru, Iori, Hoshino, Shiroko, and more. But out of all of them, Hina strikes me the most, so I decided that I want her to be my first student in my BA journey.

After being tired from rerolling on November 8, 2021, I stopped caring about the META students and only cared if Hina showed up.



A few days had passed, and I was casually checking each of the students' info out of boredom. When I saw Hina's student details, it surprised me. She and I share the same birthdate, February 19, which made me like her more on a personal level.



Months had passed, and I didn't bother with anything much. I haven't started my bond grinding around those days, and I casually open the café whenever I need the extra AP (Action Points/Energy). Also, back then, Crafting Chamber still sucks, and no one bothered doing any crafting that much. Fast forward to 2022, crafting became better, and the Japanese players in the JP server were grinding bond levels, which amazed me, and so I tried to do it too. But I lack the knowledge on how to properly do it, so it took me a while to learn the efficient methods for bond grinding. Fast forward to February 19, 2025, I finally bond 100 Hina on our birthday. It wasn't intentional, the timing was just right and I by chance have the right amount of gifts to do it.

Here's a link to a YouTube video for proof that I really did Bond 100 Hina ← click this

First, I'll share with you what the Relationship Rank can do. By raising your relationship with your students, you'll obtain perks like MomoTalk relationship stories, free pyroxenes, Unique Items enhancement, Stat Bonuses, and finally, Emblems. (for bragging rights and proof of your love)

MomoTalk offers you additional story content about your students. Raising your relationship rank with them unlocks new stories about them. So, if you want to know more about their personality and what they do outside of the Main Story and Event Stories, raise their relationship rank. Raising it to rank 9 is enough since that will unlock most of their stories in one go.

You'll also receive some pyroxenes if you finish a story. (I hope you do read their stories)

Before you start raising your students' relationship rank, you must unlock their mystic first in the "Students" menu.



You'll see what max relationship rank will be unlocked after unlocking/raising a student's Mystic.



Table of Max Relationship Rank by Mystic level.

Some students have a unique item. Unique item increases a student's stats and upgrade their Basic Skill. Increasing a unique item's level to tier 2 requires a relationship rank 20. Here's a sample of Kaho's unique item.

Voice lines can be played in the "Students" menu. You can access them by clicking a student and then clicking the voice button below. Most voice lines are locked by relationship rank. So, to unlock them, you need to raise your student's relationship rank level and reach the rank requirement.





I wanna die just by reading and listening to Hina's voice line. 😔😔😔

Raising your students' relationship rank grants them bonus stats. Each rank gives a stat increase, and stat types vary with each student. It also shares into their different versions.

You mostly want to raise your student's relationship rank up to Rank 50 since it stops there. Raising it further would be pointless and resource-consuming. Unless...

Emblems or Titles are one of the reasons why we pursue Relationship Rank 100, the ultimate form of showcasing your love to other Senseis. As I said earlier, raising the relationship beyond rank 50 is pointless and resource-consuming, but if you're willing to do for your student, then DO IT, IT'S A MUST.

The grind here will be tedious and long, and only a few dedicated Senseis have the guts to do this. Some quit the game first before reaching bond 100. But if you're at the point of yearning for it, then I can guarantee you won't be leaving Blue Archive any time soon.

Relationship Rank Emblems has 3 tiers depending on your student's relationship rank. To obtain this, you must raise their relationship rank to its respective rank requirement.



Once you achieve the rank requirement, a reward pop-up will show that you got it.



You can set the emblem in the "Account Info" menu under "Profile Settings". To access Account Info, click your "Level" in the Lobby/Home Screen.



Now we'll talk about how to get relationship/affection points in-game.

We'll start with Lessons.
Doing lessons is one of the easiest ways
to get relationship points and growth materials.

Every day lesson resets and you're given "Lesson Tickets".
For starters, if you're a beginner, the maximum tickets you can get in a single day would be 3, but if you're willing to spend your pyroxenes you can buy more tickets for x30 pyroxene each. The maximum tickets you can purchase per day is 4 (120 pyroxenes in total).

Here's the in-game table on how to obtain more tickets in a day. Just do your daily lessons and level up those locations so you can achieve up to 7 tickets per day, which is currently the maximum you can have as of July 4, 2025.

Each lesson you do with a student earns her relationship points. Relationship points vary depending on the rank of the location where you perform a lesson. Let's say if the location you choose is at the Schale Office and its area rank is 12, each lesson you do with a student in that location can earn them 25 relationship points.



There's also a chance that in a lesson you might trigger a *"Bonus Relationship Points"* which will double the amount of points your students can earn. You will see the word *"BONUS"* if that happens.





Here's a table of relationship points you can earn with each lesson. source[bluearchive.wiki]

To maximize your ticket's usage efficiency, always choose the student you want to raise a relationship rank with. As for me, that is Hina, and here's a sample of my daily lesson from May 5, 2025. Fun fact, I record them every day.


There will be times when your favorite student isn't available for a lesson. She might be taking a rest day or a holiday (This is mostly my head-canon and not a piece of lore). In my case, back in May 18, 2025, Hina wasn't around, so I used the lesson tickets on tech notes, Blu-ray discs, and to other students that I am also raising a relationship with.

The Cafe is a good place to gain relationship points
and the place where you can give gifts to your students.
It is also a good source of energy and credits.

The cafe resets every day at 7 am-UTC and 7 pm-UTC, making each reset have an interval of 12 hours in between. Each time a cafe resets, a set of students will visit the cafe.

The first cafe can be unlocked after clearing normal mission 2-1, and the second cafe can be unlocked after clearing normal mission 12-5. These two cafes are vital for managing your cafe invitations if you want to be as efficient as possible in increasing your students' relationship rank.



Cafe invitation is a feature where you can invite a student who is not present in the cafe.
Invitations have a 20-hour cooldown after use.

Since we have two cafes and each have their own invitation ticket, and adding that the cafe has two resets every day. To maximize these two features, you can use the invitation on the first cafe once the first reset hits, and use the second invitation on the second reset. That way, if you're focusing on leveling up the student you like, she can be in the cafe for the whole 24 hours of the day.

One of the Cafe's main features is the ability to head pat your students. A head pat gives your student 15 relationship points. It also has a 3-hour cooldown after performing it. Within a day, it is guaranteed to head pat a student 8 times if you sacrifice your sleep and gain 120 affection points, which is equivalent to a purple "Like" gift.



Some furniture can be interacted with by a student. It is not confirmed (as far as I know) that furniture can increase a student's possibility of visiting the cafe. But based on the years I have played, special furniture can increase the student's chances of visiting.



This is the part where you sacrifice most of your sleep and make head patting your student a daily habit. I still suggest just casually raising your student's affection rather than taking this super seriously. But if you're willing to do it, then welcome to the no-sleep club.

Cafe resets... Yes, we'll begin with resets. Every time a day resets, the cafe also resets. Visit the cafe as early as possible and pat every student who visits. If you're lucky enough, your favorite student might visit your cafe.

If your only plan is to raise affection with a single student. Remember these details:

• Cafe resets 2 times within a day.
  
• The 1st cafe reset is 7 pm-UCT/4 am-JST, while the 2nd cafe reset is 7 am-UCT/4 pm-JST (Japanese Standard Time)
  
• Each cafe has an invitation ticket with a cooldown of 20 hours after use.
  
• Head pat has a cooldown of 3 hours after performing it.

We'll make two scenarios based on my own experience. I'll use Hina as the example student that I want to raise affection with.



As you can see, this is the maximum *"guaranteed"* head pats you can give to a student within a day. You can earn 120 affection points, which is equivalent to 1 purple "Like" gift or 2 gold "Favorite" gifts. In the next scenario is an example of a "lucky day" where Hina shows up in both resets and didn't visit the cafe that has an invitation.



This scenario shows that if the favor of probability is with you, you can pat your student 10 times within a day and earn up to 150 affection points.

Gifting is the main way to get affection points. By giving gifts, you can raise and increase your student's bond/affection. Students also have gift preferences that match their personalities and traits.

You can visit Schale DB[schaledb.com] and check the student's profile to see their preferred gifts.



Gift preferences modifies the amount of affection points a student can earn from a gift. The higher the modifier a gift has the more points a student can earn.



If you're only raising a single student or only focusing on raising one, fuse the "Normal" gifts that aren't "Liked" by that student. Because Normal gifts only grant them 20 XP, and if you use 2 of them, it will only grant them 40 XP, which is a waste. But if you fuse the 2 gifts in the Crafting Chamber's Material Fusion, it can become a Gift Choice Box/Gift Selector. You can select the "Favorite" gift of the student you're raising, which will grant them 60 XP instead at the cost of an Advanced Fusion Keystone, which we'll talk about later in the Crafting section.


Also, if you're only raising a single student like me. Feel free to give all of your purple gifts to them, since purple rarity gifts that are "craftable" in the Crafting Chamber have no major demerits. Because all of them are "Liked" by students and will grant them 120 XP by default. It would be nice to save it for your other students, too, if you have multiple students you want to raise a relationship with.

Gift boxes has three different types:


You can obtain gifts through Crafting, from Events, and Monthly Raids like Total Assault, Grand Assault, and Final Restriction Release. You can also purchase them at the Pyroxene Shop at the Packs Tab. Sometimes, there are special events where they sell Beautiful Bouquets at the Special Sale tab.

Crafting is the place where you can craft gifts and gift boxes.
You can access the crafting menu in the Crafting Chamber.

There are two types of crafting:

• Material Synthesis
  
• Material Fusion

Material synthesis is the normal crafting method of obtaining items like artifacts, tech notes, Blu-ray discs, furniture, and especially gifts.

Keystone is a crafting material mainly used in material synthesis. There are two types of keystones:

Nodes have many different types you can create, but you'll be wanting the gift nodes most of the time since we'll be focusing on raising a student's relationship.


There are other more nodes, but I don't want to talk about them since they're not related to raising a student's relationship rank.

Once you start crafting using a keystone, you will have to choose what type of node you want to craft. Crafting has 3 sub-nodes, and each of them gives different node types.



In node 1, the only material you need to use is a keystone to start crafting.


In node 2, you can choose most of the materials in here to craft, but I suggest NOT using keystones since they are VERY important to start a crafting order, DON'T use gold or purple rarity items too, since they're most likely to be used in node 3. Use white and blue rarity items in here instead. If you don't know what item types you need to use, use the items that you have an abundance of or the items that you least care about.

If you have crafting materials that you bought from the pyroxene shop, I highly suggest you use those instead, since their sole purpose is to be used only in the Crafting Chamber.


In node 3, the only materials you can choose here are gold and purple rarity items and the crafting materials I mentioned above. Don't use keystones, please!

Material Fusion is quite different from material synthesis. You can fuse multiple items of the same type to create a material box, secret tech notes, gift boxes, or a trophy cabinet. But in this guide, I will only talk about crafting gift selectors.

Fusion Keystone is a crafting material mainly used in material fusion. There are 4 different rarities, but we'll only talk about the Advance Fusion Keystone since that's used for crafting gift selectors.





You can obtain Advance Fusion Keystones from the Angel 24/Sora's Shop, Final Restriction Release, and Pyroxene Shop.

Gift Selector or Gift Choice Box
lets you pick what gold tier gift you want
rather than getting it randomly.






In this image I am selecting Hina's favorite gift, "World's Most Useless Gadget".

Yes, you can get them from Monthly Raids like Total Assault, Grand Assault, and Final Restriction Release.

When using the material fusion, you need to have a fusion keystone and credits. Gift choice box requires 1 Advance Fusion Keystone, 12,000 credits, and 2 gold-tier gifts of your choice. You can craft up to 5 items within a single slot.




Here's the total cost of a gift selector per count.

Lesson about raids will be a bit short. I'll only tell you about where to get gifts and crafting materials in each raid's content.

In total assault, you can get 1 gift choice box in the "Total Point Rewards" tab. You need about 310,000,000 points to get the gift choice box. If you can do Insane difficulty consistently, then you're guaranteed to get it.

After the Lunatic difficulty update, they added a 2nd Gift Choice Box for 620,000,000 reward points.

Grand Assault is quite similar to Total Assault, but in terms of rewards, it has a bit more gifts than Total Assault. In terms of difficulty, as long as you can finish Insane for all three armor types, then you're guaranteed to get all of the gift box rewards.

In Joint Firing Drill,
the only rewards you can get are Credit Points
and Joint Firing Drill Coins. You can use the coins in the
Shop to buy Advance Fusion Keystones.


As you can see here, I already bought mine. (Sora's smile here is very cute!)

Final Restriction is one of the best places to get gift boxes and fusion keystones. Here's a shortened list of all of the gift-related rewards by stage.

I suggest you finish at least stage 60 if you can, since advanced fusion keystones are quite rare to get. If you can finish up to floor 99, that would be better. If you can finish floor 106, then that would be great because beyond floor 100 is very difficult to finish without a proper team. Above floor 110 is quite impossible as of today, I am writing this, maybe in the future, our students could become stronger and defeat floor 100+ with ease.


Juicy stage 105 and 106 Rewards.

Shops also sell gifts and keystones like the Angel 24, event shops, and the pyroxene shop.

In Sora's shop, there's only one item that matters when crafting gifts, and it's the Advance Fusion Keystone. You can buy it for 8 JFD coins per piece, and there are 50 pieces of it in total (400 JFD coins). It restocks every 1st day of the month, so be sure to buy them before the monthly reset.

Event shops nowadays sell gifts. You can buy gifts from the event shops using the tokens from the event. Most of the available gifts are preferred by the students in the current banner. Like right now,
it's Seia and Asuna (Uniform)'s banner is live, so their favorite and like gifts are the ones being sold.




Here are Asuna (Uniform)'s preferred gifts, in contrast to the image above.
(The image below is from SchaleDB[schaledb.com])

This part will be Whales 🐳🐳🐳 territory. If you plan on spending real-world money on some virtual gifts for your students, then these are my recommendations.

I have set of online tools that I use most of the time when calculating and planning my gifts.

• SchaleDB[schaledb.com] - A good site to check the students' preferred gifts.
  
• arona icu[arona.icu] - Use the "Search Friend" page to track down your relationship exp.
  
• arona ai[arona.ai] - I use this when calculating my total gifts. It's a good combination with arona.icu when calculating relationship exp.
  
• Simple Relationship Exp Calculator[sensei.lol] - A simple and effective relationship exp calculator.
  
• Blue Archive Wikia[bluearchive.fandom.com] - I use this to check preferred gifts before I learn of SchaleDB.
  
• Blue Archive Wiki[bluearchive.wiki] - The other wiki site for Blue Archive stuff.
  
• Midokuni's Website[hina.loves.midokuni.com] - It has lots of useful tools. It has a more detailed gift calculator combining arona.ai and Simple Relationship Exp Calculator websites.

Dunno if I will make my website in the future that focuses on calculating relationships. Who knows.

Well, these are the things I know about student bonding after years of playing this game. I'll just give you a summary of important things to do when bond grinding:

• ★★★★★ 5 Star your student to unlock Max Relationship Rank 100.
  
• Spend your Lesson Tickets on your favorite student/s daily.
  
• Rank up your Lesson Area to obtain more relationship points each lesson.
  
• There are 2 Cafes. Unlock it!
  
• Cafe resets 2 times a day. First at 7 pm UCT and 2nd at 7 am UCT.
  
• Head pats have a 3-hour cooldown after performing it.
  
• Cafe invitation has a 20-hour cooldown after using it.
  
• Fuse the unwanted gifts in the Crafting Chamber's Material Fusion and select the preferred gift in the gift choice box.
  
• Finish your dailies and weeklies to gain 17 Keystones a week.
  
• Don't use "keystones" as crafting fodder. Use materials you have in abundance.
  
• By doing Insane consistently in raids grants you some gifts as a reward.
  
• Final Restriction Release has 20 Advance Fusion Keystone if you finish up to floor 60.
  
• Do the Joint Firing Drill and gain at least 400 coins a month if you're lazy.
  
• Always check the shop and buy the 50 Advance Fusion Keystone every 1st day of the month.
  
• Buy all the gifts in the event shop.
  
• Only buy packs if you have the money for them. DON'T SPEND YOUR SAVINGS!!

Thank you for taking the time to read this guide, and I hope you max out your relationship with your students in the future. Now go, Sensei, and bond with them.

I think I made a monster of a guide... I hope I didn't.

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This is what peak gameplay looks like. Better than the casino's slot machine.

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