Originally Posted by Unregistered

If I understand this correctly, it looks like the only way to get 2nd affection gifts is by forging. The forging conversation rate is, essentially 1/20. That is, you can get 20 girls to full normal affection with the amount it takes to get 1 girl to full second affection. Maybe the long-time players have all their girls at full affection but for now, the 20 flower gems for getting a girl to full affection seem far more useful than burning gifts in a forge in an attempt to get a girl to full second affection.

Are the extra stats on the one girl really worth the loss of 18 flower gems?

Am I mistaken?

Cute Cake - Saki, Expensive Stuffed Toy - Saki, Quality Book - Saki, and Superior Sapphire - Saki will raise a character's second affection. These were obtained via Ficara's event during the bouquet gacha. There's a glitch where you can use them to raise a character's first affection due to how second affection wasn't added during the event. After the September 19th Patch, it was fixed so you can now use those gifts for second affection only.

For the foraging, it's a gift dump if you happen to have RNGesus trolling you with gifts you don't need. For my case, it's jewels. I already maxed out all the Flower Girls that like jewels and have 200 pearls from gatherings/dailies/etc...

There will be more ways to obtain Saki gifts to raise your girl's second affection later.