Post-Game Content
Congratulations, Sensei! Clearing the main story of Blue Archive is just the beginning. The world of Kivotos offers a wealth of challenges, rewards, and opportunities to deepen your bonds with your students. This detailed guide will walk you through the essential post-game activities, ensuring you maximize your progression and enjoyment.
Unlocking New Challenges
Upon completing the final chapter of the main story, several new features and difficulties become available. Prioritize these to quickly boost your students' power and acquire rare resources.
- Hard Mode Story Stages: Revisit previous story chapters on Hard difficulty. These stages offer significantly better rewards, including rare character Eleph for specific students, and are crucial for unlocking their 5-star potential. Focus on stages that drop Eleph for your core team members first.
- Ex-Difficulty Raids: The highest difficulty tier for Total Assault (Raid) bosses. These require meticulously optimized teams and strategies. Successfully clearing Ex-difficulty grants the most valuable Total Assault Coins and high-tier equipment.
- Tactical Challenge (PvP) Tier Advancement: With a stronger roster, push further in the Tactical Challenge. Higher ranks yield more Pyroxene and Tactical Challenge Coins daily, which can be exchanged for valuable items like Skill Materials and unique equipment.
Essential Daily & Weekly Activities
Consistency is key in the post-game. Integrate these activities into your routine for steady growth.
- Bounty Missions (Higher Difficulties): Tackle the highest available difficulty for Bounty Missions. These are your primary source of Skill Materials (e.g., Advanced Tactical Training Blu-ray, Secret Tech Notes) needed to level up your students' EX, Basic, Enhanced, and Sub skills. Prioritize the skill materials for your strongest students first.
- Commissions (Higher Difficulties): Similar to Bounty Missions, higher difficulty Commissions provide more Credit Points and Report items (e.g., Superior Activity Report). These are vital for leveling up students and purchasing items from the General Store.
- Total Assault (Raid) Participation: Even if you can't clear Ex-difficulty, participate in Total Assault regularly. The Total Assault Shop offers unique gear, Eleph, and other rare items. Aim to at least clear the highest difficulty you can consistently, then sweep lower difficulties for additional coins.
- Joint Firing Range (New Content): This post-game feature, unlocked after clearing specific story chapters, allows you to train students in specialized environments to earn unique equipment and materials. Focus on the ranges that drop gear relevant to your main DPS and tanks.
Character Progression & Optimization
Your goal now is to refine your existing students and prepare for future content.
Star-Up & Eleph Farming
Increasing a student's star rarity significantly boosts their base stats. This is primarily done through collecting their Eleph.
- Hard Mode Story Stages: As mentioned, these are a consistent source of Eleph. Identify which students you want to prioritize for 5-star or even Unique Weapon unlocks.
- Eligma Exchange: Use excess Eleph from students you don't use or have already maxed out to convert into Eligma. Eligma can then be used to purchase Eleph for other students in the Eligma Shop. This is particularly useful for limited-time students or those whose Eleph are not farmable.
- Total Assault Shop: Often features Eleph for specific students, especially those useful in current or upcoming raids.
Equipment Enhancement & Tiering
High-tier equipment with strong sub-stats can make a massive difference.
- Equipment Farming: Focus on farming equipment from Hard Mode stages and specific event stages. Prioritize Tier 5 and Tier 6 equipment.
- Enhancement: Use Enhancement Stones and lower-tier equipment to enhance your best gear. Aim for +7 on all pieces for your main team.
- Sub-Stat Rerolling: For critical pieces of equipment, consider using Option Stones to reroll sub-stats for optimal performance (e.g., Crit Rate, Crit Damage, Attack).
Skill Leveling
Maxing out key skills for your students is crucial for maximizing their combat effectiveness.
- Bounty Missions: Your primary source for Skill Materials. Target the specific materials needed for your priority students.
- Lesson (Cafe): Ensure your Cafe is upgraded to maximize the inflow of Activity Reports and Credit Points, which indirectly support skill leveling by allowing you to level students faster.
- Tactical Challenge Shop: Offers a rotating selection of Skill Materials.
New Game+ (NG+) Considerations
While Blue Archive doesn't have a traditional NG+ in the sense of restarting the story with all your progress, the game continuously adds new story chapters and event reruns. Think of "NG+" as the ongoing cycle of new content.
- Event Reruns: Participate in reruns of past events. These are excellent opportunities to acquire students you missed, farm event-exclusive equipment, and gather valuable resources.
- New Story Chapters: Always prioritize new main story chapters as they release. These often unlock new areas, students, and increase your overall Sensei level cap, which in turn boosts your students' potential.
- Affection & Relationship Stories: Continue to raise student affection through gifts in the Cafe and participating in events. Unlocking Relationship Stories grants Pyroxene and insight into your students' personalities.
By diligently following these steps, you'll find yourself well-equipped to tackle any challenge Kivotos throws your way, strengthen your bonds with your students, and truly master Blue Archive's rich post-game experience.