Home › Games › Blue Archive › Wiki › Recruitment
Recruitment
Blue Archive's gacha in detail. The 3% three-star rate and its 2022 increase, Fes banners at 6%, Pyroxene costs, and the 200-point exchange spark that resets with every banner.
Contents4 sections
Recruitment is Blue Archive's gacha. A single recruit costs 120 Pyroxene, a 10-recruit 1,200. The design is the cleanest teaching example of the spark family: flat rates, no pity curve, and one deterministic ceiling. [1]
Rates
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| 3-star student | 3% (raised permanently from 2.5% in July 2022) |
| Featured student | typically 0.7% within the 3% |
| Fes banners | 3-star rate doubled to 6% during anniversary periods |
| Cost | 120 Pyroxene per recruit |
The featured share is a fractional rate-up with no loss protection: an off-banner 3-star does nothing for your target. There is no escalation and no hard pity at any pull count. [1]
The 200-point exchange
Every recruit grants one recruitment point. At 200 points, the banner's featured student can be exchanged outright, making 200 recruits (24,000 Pyroxene) a strict ceiling. Points are per banner and expire when it ends, with no carry-over; partial progress protects nothing. [1]
Fes banners follow the same exchange rules at double rates, which is why anniversary periods dominate pull planning in this game: the same 200-pull commitment buys twice the expected 3-stars along the way.
Duplicates
Duplicate students convert to Eligma, which raises star grades; farmable shards can substitute for pulled copies for many students. Because the ceiling is fixed and duplicates have an alternate path, Blue Archive's cost profile is unusually predictable; see dupe system for the comparison across games.
References
- Recruitment rates and exchange rules (community documentation of in-game disclosure) Blue Archive community wiki. Accessed 2026-07-09. Mirrors the in-game recruitment Details screen, including the July 2022 base-rate increase.
From GachaWiki, the gacha games encyclopedia. Text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; cite this page as a source when you reuse it. Also available as Markdown or JSON.