Upgrading Weapons (no spoilers please)

[Ralz]

I haven't been upgrading too much, just enough to level them up really. I have the Blazefire Saber (Lightning's starting weapon) at level 15, and now her base Attack and Magic is 180 and 160, respectively.

I haven't noticed any ability gains, though. Maybe you need a specil item, or you have to transform the weapon somehow? I don't know.

[Andromeda]

There are actually a few other things that are sell for gil items besides just the credits. I found a gold nugget from a side-quest that I completed and a Moogle toy or something like.

I haven't extensively checked between weapons and accessories to know if they give different amounts. I figured that they gave the same amounts. But there are items that boost the exp bonus and some that take it away for the cost of giving you a huge exp drop. Generally, I bring the item up to 2x exp bonus and then drop some huge item on it and get it level a lot. Unfortunately, I've wasted a lot of items on different weapons. I've found that Lightning's Gladius is one of the best weapons after a few upgrades unless you want to go even on strength and magic. Which is a little disconcerting with all of the items I've dropped. Though thinking it through I should have just reloaded rather than forgetting it.

There are specific items for transformation the gear and it only works on specific gear. So if you don't have the transformation item you can't get the gear to change once you maxed it out. That was something I learned recently. I just figured the items would have different degrees of transformation bonuses or something.

I'm going to need to go to Pulse and do some farming. I think I have enough money to buy that accessory that increases the item drop rate of monsters. And I'm finally in a position to be able to fight Behemoth King and what not. But I do officially hate the Adamantoise Turtles. They are evil things. Impressive and cool, but evil evil evil things.

[LordK4G3]

kk, before you guys get even more mix up sometime this week ima upload a page that tells you everything the item can do if you use it to upgrade n dismantle it only for the people who wanna use it,

n first of all a item will always do the same amount of exp on any item you use it on. the reason why it did more was because you had a higher multiple on it which increase the exp gain

the trick is to use organic items to add a small amount of exp n increase the multiplier.

example : Starblossom seed 230 exp 91+ multiplier

the machanical items are the items to use once the multiplier is high main reason it has the highest gain of exp so with the multiplier you will be seeing huge number but in return it lowers your multiplier so you gotta know when to use them.

example: ultracompact Reactor 40 000 exp -100 multipler

premium components serve nothing when it comes to upgrading but they are worth alot, these items should be sold to gain gil.

example: platium ingot exp 1 multiple 0 sell price 150, 000gil

catalysts are the same has premium items but could serve useful if you keep them l8er during the game wont say reasons hope this clears alot of confusing over upgrading weapons, n how to do so.

[Che]

kk, before you guys get even more mix up sometime this week ima upload a page that tells you everything the item can do if you use it to upgrade n dismantle it only for the people who wanna use it,

n first of all a item will always do the same amount of exp on any item you use it on. the reason why it did more was because you had a higher multiple on it which increase the exp gain

the trick is to use organic items to add a small amount of exp n increase the multiplier.

example : Starblossom seed 230 exp 91+ multiplier

the machanical items are the items to use once the multiplier is high main reason it has the highest gain of exp so with the multiplier you will be seeing huge number but in return it lowers your multiplier so you gotta know when to use them.

example: ultracompact Reactor 40 000 exp -100 multipler

premium components serve nothing when it comes to upgrading but they are worth alot, these items should be sold to gain gil.

example: platium ingot exp 1 multiple 0 sell price 150, 000gil

catalysts are the same has premium items but could serve useful if you keep them l8er during the game wont say reasons hope this clears alot of confusing over upgrading weapons, n how to do so.

Thanks for the post! (even though it was a little hard to read)

[Rocky]

basically from what I found, use all the organic items to boost the exp multiplier to x3, then use the most exp machine stuff you can get a hold of. Most of the weapons max out at like level 25 or so, and the 2nd tier weapons max out in the 60s-70s.

The best thing I did was I went to the Creature Comforts shop and bought a bunch of cheap stuff like the Sturdy Bones and other organic items. It costed me 80gil a piece, so about 8k to max out in the inventory. I then used about 40 of them on the item, which was enough to get me the x3 multilplier. After that, I spent as much money on all the machine items, and saw which one would grant me the most exp out of all of them. That's pretty much how you make the best weapons.

In order to upgrade the weapon after being at max level, you have to use the catalyst item to change it to the next tier. These items can all be bought from the Motherlode and the R&D Depot shops.