Upgrading Weapons (no spoilers please)

[DragonHeart]

I...haven't figured it out either. I have Lightning and Fang's weapons to level 17 each but I haven't found any hidden abilities on either. Actually I didn't know they had hidden abilities. >_> First FF where I didn't read the manual first lol. But eh, I'm still curious as to where this upgrade stuff is going. I was just trying to see what level they upgraded to. XD

~DragonHeart~

[Che]

Okay, I just figured this out this morning.

Say you have a certain item called "Silicone Oil". If you try to upgrade a sword with it, it only gives you 32 exp each. However, if you try to use the Silicone Oil on an accessory, it gives you 232 exp each.

So apparently, the items you use to upgrade give you different value based on what you're upgrading. Wish I had known this a long time ago, instead of leveling my items up using horrible upgrade exp. I'd seriously buy 20 of something just to get 640 exp, instead of using those on something else that probably would have gotten me 4640 exp.

Still haven't found any hidden abilities yet, though. On page 39 of the instruction booklet it talks about Synthesized Abilities.

When equipping weapons and accessories, take note of the passive abilities they bestow, displayed in the passive abilities tab in the "Equipment" menu. Synthesized abilities occur when certain combinations of equipment link to unlock previously hidden abilities. There is a wide range of these abilities to discover, so be sure to experiment with various equipment combinations to take advantage of their considerable power.