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Pickup Recruitment (ピックアップ募集) or universally known as Gacha (ガチャ), is the Gacha system in Blue Archive.
Where Teachers spent their hard-earned Pyroxenes to obtain new Students.
General Information[]
There are two types of pulling methods: Single pull (120 Pyroxenes), or ten pulls (1200 Pyroxenes).
There are 2 types of animation shown when pulling; If the overall background is:
- Blue
If the background and the stripes of the letter is in blue: it's an indication of no 3★. - Purple
If the background and the stripes of the letter is in purple, then a 3★ is present.
It's possible to receive more than one 3★ in a single 10-pull.
There might be a bug, where the animation background is blue, even though a 3★ is pulled.
Recruit Points and Spark System[]
Recruitment points are given on a 1:1 ratio per pull. (1 pull = 1 recruitment point.)
The recruitment points can be exchanged for the featured Student on the specific banner:
- You need at least 200 recruitment points to exchange. (which is 200 pulls or 24,000 Pyroxenes)
- It expires once the banner ends. (It doesn't get carried over the new banner.)
- Unused recruitment points are converted into crafting materials upon expiration.
Divine Fragments[]
Divine Fragment and Student Fragment are given for every duplicate pull. The amount given varies by rarity. In addition, rate-up characters receive more student fragments.
Probability Table[]
| Rarity | Rates | Reward for duplicate pull |
| Any 1★ Character | 78.5% | 1 Divine Fragment + 1 Student Fragment |
| Any 2★ Character | 18.5% | 10 Divine Fragment + 5 Student Fragment |
| Any 3★ Character | 3% | 50 Divine Fragment + 30 Student Fragment |
| Rate-Up 2★ | 3% | 10 Divine Fragment + 20 Student Fragment |
| Rate-Up 3★ | 0.7% | 50 Divine Fragment + 100 Student Fragment |
Gacha Recruitment[]
Regular Recruitment[]
The Regular Recruitment is always available. All non-limited Students are featured and can be pulled here.
Tutorial Recruitment[]
Tutorial Recruitment is a type of Regular Recruitment available by default for new players starting the game. As like the normal type, all non-limited students are available to pull, but as this would be the first pull attempt by new players, it costs no pyroxene at all.
Tutorial Recruitment uses Selector type of recruitment, where teachers may make maximum 10 attempts of 10-pull gacha before picking any of the best pulls to be saved in the game.
Pickup Recruitment[]
The Pickup Recruitment increases the rate temporarily of the featured Student.
Limited Pickup Recruitment[]
Students that are featured as Limited:
- Can be temporarily recruited from Regular Recruitment, if their banner is live.
- Cannot be recruited on Regular Recruitment
- Cannot be recruited by using Elephs, even if their banner is live.
Fest Recruitment[]
Students that are featured as Limited during special anniversary recruitment events. The conditions for these students are similar to Limited Pickup Recruitment. However, any students that was offered in any Fest Recruitment before can be recruited again in any other Fest recruitment, but they do not enjoy the same rate up like pick-up Fest Recruitment students and any other non-limited students, which also enjoys higher rate up during the recruitment.
Students under Fest Recruitment are as follows:
- Kosaka Wakamo
- Takanashi Hoshino (Swimsuit ver.)
- Misono Mika
- Urawa Hanako (Swimsuit ver.)
- Sorasaki Hina (Dress ver.)
- Takanashi Hoshino (Armed ver.)
- Shiroko Terror
Special Recruitments[]
There are also special recruitments that offers features such as 3-star guaranteed, recruitments only for students in a certain schools, allows selective requirements and so on. These are recruitment section that is offered only for Guaranteed Recruitment Ticket owners, which are offered as a paid consumable in-game.
Pickup Recruitment reruns[]
Usually, after a character received their own recruitment banners, the banner will be put up for rerun around a year after their original run. However there exist special cases where a banner might not receive their banners exactly on the normal cycles like others, like:
- Collaboration characters like Hatsune Miku never received their own rerun. While it is confirmed that those from Railgun series may receive a rerun, it is not certain if they will abide to the 1-year rule.
- Off-event banners that involves early playable characters are subjected to random scheduled reruns.
- Fest Recruitment banners will receive their banner reruns around 1 and a half year after their first run or after 3 Fest recruitment period.
Event-based banners from the events original run and rerun will also receive another rerun when the event reached the first week of immortalisation in Event Recap. However, there are no confirmation yet about how would a new event-based banners implemented during that period will have their rerun in the game later.
Special Features[]
Recruitment Ticket[]
Other than pyroxenes, there are also special tickets only used for student recruitment purposes. It is commonly divided into 1x Recruitment Ticket and 10x Recruitment Ticket which are usually either distributed during events and occasions.
1x Recruitment Ticket allows players to only recruit 1 players at a time, while 10x Recruitment Ticket allows players to recruit only 10 students at a time. Any 1x Recruitment Tickets cannot be exchanged to 10x tickets and vice versa.
Each recruitment tickets does not bear any expiry date except any tickets obtained as a Great Decisive Battle (Grand Assault) reward, which has a 30-days usage limit.
Guaranteed Recruitment Tickets[]
Special types of recruitment ticket are offered as an in-game purchase, which offers benefits such as 3-star guaranteed recruitment in a 10x pulls. These tickets are used only in their special recruitment segments.
These tickets are deemed valid for use as long as their campaign are ongoing.
Free Pulls[]
Free pulls is a special feature offered in some recruitment events of the game, where the game distributed a certain amount of pulls to players for a certain period. Rather than any consumables like tickets or pyroxenes it is present in points, and can be used either in 10x pulls or 1x pull methods.
However, these pulls are usually limited to any recruitment banners associated in a certain period, and will expire when a new banner period comes, which means the points cannot be carried forward.
Trivia[]
- On April 23rd, 2021, the official BA Twitter announced that the Recruit Points needed will be reduced from 300 to 200 starting on the next banner and onwards.
- The Global Server debuts with 200 Recruit Points.
- Some groups of students are not available to be recruited from any types of banner available in the game and their elephs is not obtainable here too.
- Welfare characters can be only obtained by completing their respective event stories (Episode 1 for normal runs, last episode for immortalized events). Their elephs can only be obtained either via event-specific activities or Eligma Shop.
- Izayoi Nonomi can only be obtained from the New Teacher Guide daily mission. Her eleph also is only exclusively obtained from the guide mission, the Eligma Shop and the Expert Permit Shop only.
- Tutorial Recruitment works like normal recruitments before it is changed to Selector-type recruitment in 2023 for both Global and JP, to adjust to the new method adopted in CN version to overcome their account ownership limitation that blocks teachers from rerolling.