What exactly are the friendship gift + friendship gift adjustment given by the cards?

[Sawt0othGrin]

Okay so the frienship gifts are leveled buffs, leveled by reaching certain regard stages with certain characters? And the "friendship gift adjustment" on the hero cards further adds to the level of the buff?

Can it go above the threshold? Like if I have maxed out "Speed up" but Speed Up +3 on a card, does Speed Up go above the otherwise max level?

[m0xxy]

Sorry if you have already found an answer, but for future readers; The only time friendship gift affects you is when it is displayed on your equipped card. The friendship gifts that you gradually level up and unlock are only "possibilities" of a future card. Friendship gifts are added to cards completely random. You also can't add or remove them from a card, so it's kind of stupid.

[RiO]

Originally posted by Riku:

Sorry if you have already found an answer, but for future readers; The only time friendship gift affects you is when it is displayed on your equipped card. The friendship gifts that you gradually level up and unlock are only "possibilities" of a future card. Friendship gifts are added to cards completely random. You also can't add or remove them from a card, so it's kind of stupid.

"So it's kind of stupid" is basically the summary of every system incorporated in the game.
It has some great ideas consistently marred by bad execution or pairing with similarly bad ideas.

Friendship gifts are just one example of that. A great way to encourage use of different characters and team compositions to grind out relation score and activating bonus skills, but then it was ruined by having them not permanently activate as passive bonuses, but having them only become active through 100% randomly generated weapon cards.