Anyone able to explain the weapon upgrade system in simple terms?

[ChubbiChibbai]

I'm fairly new to the hunter style games. I have loosely played Rise, World and Toukiden so i get the very basics but i'm struggling to fully understand the weapon upgrade system in this game.

I'm not clear on how inherited traits work - where they come from and what it means when it tells me i have slots available before i make an upgrade.

I'm guessing its like other games where i have to farm specific body parts / resources to build out certain weapons and im assuming the locked parts of the tree are from creatures i haven't yet discovered or unlocked.

[Dregora]

I haven't played much, but from what i'm getting, every path is just a different weapon with different properties. But I agree it's a little odd considering it looks like a skill tree.

[ChubbiChibbai]

I'm trying to understand where the inherited skills come from though and how to add more into the slots - because it implies that you can.

I haven't played too much either - just got to the main town finally so i'm hoping they explain it a bit better once i'm further in.

[CapnSquiggles]

Just keep playing. Weapons as far as I can tell have a certain number of skill slots and you can take them from the previous weapon if it has one. The trees branch and touch to different builds for the purpose of skill movement. Such as you can build down the ragetail weapon and then transfer to the beeg pig weapon and take the critical or thread skills you got from the ragetail. Its a pretty free system.

[Indure]

You pretty much have evrything right. You choose a path to upgrade the weapon through although to reset the weapon I think it just cost you gold. Nodes you can't see are from creatures you haven't encountered.

The paths seem to loosely be tied to elemental damage types.

Inherited skills are carried from previous nodes, but not all weapons have the same number of skill slots so you will definitely lose skills along the way.

I can't remember what the other skill type is, maybe innate, but that is only active when on the current node and can't be Inherited by other nodes.