For Free-to-Play (F2P) players in Blue Archive, success doesn’t come from grinding endlessly—it’s about smart time management. The key is to distribute your farming efforts based on your daily energy needs. If you’re unsure how many events to tackle, a solid benchmark is 160 mission rounds. This number will help you gauge how many events to prioritize each day.
If you're new to Blue Archive or want to sharpen your skills, make sure to explore a variety of game guides and tutorials that can help you progress more efficiently.
Event Shop Efficiency: What's Worth Your Time?
Not all items are created equal when it comes to spending your event points, and some offer great value while others can be safely skipped or saved for later. Let's start by analyzing the core categories of items available in the event shop and their efficiency.Items to be excluded from the calculation
Certain items, although enticing, do not come into our calculations since their value is either intangible or fluctuating. These comprise:Five-Star Runes: Their value depends heavily on your character roster and is often better used when you've established a core team.
Summoning Tickets: too random to judge on an efficiency scale, but important for unlocking new characters.
Titles: Mainly for cosmetic purposes, so we won’t consider them in this analysis.
Grinding Agents: These are quite rare and usually attached to in-game purchases, so we won't be counting those either.
Affinity Gifts: These are great to improve relationships but are less crucial than core materials when it comes to character or rune upgrades.
Elevator Tickets: Nice to have, but the use highly depends on personal playstyle and timing.
Event Item Breakdown: What's Most Efficient to Farm?
Here's a breakdown of the most efficient items to farm, based on drop rates and in-game usability:Character Skill Upgrade Materials (Boss Type):
Those are more important for progressing your character skills and are more challenging to get. The drop rate on these materials is around the same as 4-week weekly dungeon difficulty 3, but some materials can take up to 8 weeks or more to acquire.Efficiency: The drop rate is low, but these materials are highly valuable for character progression, especially if you're focused on boss-type skills.
Character/Rune EXP:
EXP items are vital for leveling up both your characters and runes—key components of progression in Blue Archive.Efficiency: Since daily dungeons have a drop rate of 3.55x, these are priorities for any player, especially in the early stages.
Character Skill Upgrade Materials (General Type):
Slightly less important than the boss-type materials, these still offer a decent return. You’ll typically find them more commonly in dungeons.Efficiency: With a drop rate of 3.06x, the mentioned materials are best used to boost characters quickly during early parts of the game.
Character/Rune Advancement Materials:
These are crucial to advance your character’s abilities and unlock new power levels.Efficiency: These have a 2.26x drop rate so are somewhat common but still highly valuable.
Money:
While sometimes necessary for upgrades, money isn't always urgent early on but becomes much more important as you get ready to start higher-level skill training.Efficiency: With the 1.6x drop rate, money becomes a significant, but not a top priority early in the game.
Data Source and Drop Rates
Daily Dungeons: The rate for both money, character EXP, and rune EXP is 1:2500. The expected drop rate for Ascension Daily Dungeons would be 30 stamina for 32 Green materials or 16 Green for specific materials selected at a 50% chance. For Skill Daily Dungeons, it's 30 stamina for 23-24 Green.Weekly Dungeons: For boss materials, difficulty 2 drops 2 materials while difficulty 3 offers 3 materials. All boss material drop rates are 50% to drop one type or another of the two material types.
Recommended Exchange Priority
Now that we know what is most efficient to farm, let's look at how to prioritize your exchanges within the event shop. It's very important to spend wisely to not waste your resources on unimportant items.Highest Priority Items:
Five-Star Rune:This is your number one priority. After getting one, continue exchanging for the full breakthrough in the following days. Make sure to set aside 48,000 event points as a safety net for these exchanges.
Badge Grinding Agent (WD40 1):
These are pretty essential and start to become thin on the ground a bit later on, so when the opportunity to swap them arises, you should grab it.Gifts:
Universal gifts which greatly increase character stats: These are important to pick up early because they are an investment in your overall character strength.Draw Tickets:
No explanation needed here. These tickets are what one needs to pull new characters, and progression-wise, they are not optional.Secondary Priority Items:
Rare Material - Gold/Blue: These are your next priority after the basics. They're the most efficient early on, especially if you're focusing on training a specific team, such as your Water or Chitoge team.Gold/Blue Rune Upgrade Materials: These are key to rune progression, so snatch them up once the characters are fully trained.
Gold/Blue Character Upgrade Materials: These should come in closely after rune upgrades in terms of priority.
Boss Skill Materials: Only pick these up if you’re focusing on teams like Sia or Light, as they are both rare and expensive.
Rune EXP: Because it's a rare material, use it only for the most important characters-core ones. Never waste it for less important units unless you have to.
Character EXP: Well, arenas and early stages are full of character EXP, so don't hurry to grab this from the event shop.
Money: If you have a lot of money early, don’t focus on that. Spend your points elsewhere, on upgrades.
Optional Items
Event Title:These are cosmetic and don't provide gameplay benefits; hence, unless you need them for personal satisfaction, it's best to skip these.
Elevator Tickets: These are situational tickets: if you like to manually grind for high scores, you might find these useful. However, with time limits and potential bugs with day counts, it's often better to pass on them unless you know you'll use them before they expire. Final Thoughts Maximizing your event shop exchanges will significantly speed up your progression. Focus mainly on five-star runes, badge grinding agents, gifts, and draw tickets, adding skill and rune upgrade materials to your list as your team gets stronger. You can skip less important stuff like event titles or elevator tickets unless you are going for certain cosmetic rewards or just like a bit of extra challenge. In this way, you will be able to farm effectively and take full advantage of every event. Happy farming!