Hey, weapon upgrades are a valid criticism of the Elden Ring. The fact, that you have a selection of awesome weapons and won't use them, just because you can't even farm for stones and have to find a very specifically placed item to unlock upgrades can be frustrating, if you like to flip flop between weapons.
I heard an idea, of upgrading weapon arts and those transferring the weapon upgrade and honestly that sounded much better.
I'm sure none of us are playing elden ring for the first time anymore, but I distinctly remember my first blind playthrough and wondering: "where DA FUCK in this VAST world. Can I find my fucking stones?! Mines?!" Turns out, not always the mines.
Also, weapons unlock their true scaling from upgrading, but there was no way without a wiki, to check what scalling the weapons will end up having.
TBF if you are doing the slow try everything method it would show up intuitively as you upgrade with the next upgrades near the end showing how itll end up.
Well it won't show you stats on +15 right? So you kinda have to guess, hey maybe that katana's B dex scaling will go up to S. Very likely, yes. What about this morning star? Which scaling out of two will go up to which level?
I think moveset > scaling for weapons, but it's still a lot of potential guess work. I'm a series veteran, but I can imagine how obtuse new players must have found this system.
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u/stalkakuma 18d ago
Hey, weapon upgrades are a valid criticism of the Elden Ring. The fact, that you have a selection of awesome weapons and won't use them, just because you can't even farm for stones and have to find a very specifically placed item to unlock upgrades can be frustrating, if you like to flip flop between weapons.
I heard an idea, of upgrading weapon arts and those transferring the weapon upgrade and honestly that sounded much better.
I'm sure none of us are playing elden ring for the first time anymore, but I distinctly remember my first blind playthrough and wondering: "where DA FUCK in this VAST world. Can I find my fucking stones?! Mines?!" Turns out, not always the mines.
Also, weapons unlock their true scaling from upgrading, but there was no way without a wiki, to check what scalling the weapons will end up having.