I feel like I struck gold

[SHINRA-CORP]

Im on the last boss of chapter 4 and just saw a Youtube shorts about the blacksmith which I completely missed. So I went back and got that opened up and went to his area.

There I found the monkey from near the beginning the one that can help you upgrade your gourd. I forgot about this guy once I hit chapter 2.

Now my gourd is upgraded with more heals and I have now got upgraded armour. I feel like I just found a cheat code.

[Shadowlet]

Upgrading armor is a waste of mats.

[SHINRA-CORP]

Originally posted by Shadowlet:

Upgrading armor is a waste of mats.

Upgrading armour to have better stats is a waste?

Wut?

[BlueJaei]

Originally posted by SHINRA-CORP:

Originally posted by Shadowlet:

Upgrading armor is a waste of mats.

Upgrading armour to have better stats is a waste?

Wut?

You'll be getting better armor eventually, and you'd be better off saving mats for those

[Dev]

Tip if you choose the upgrade armour route. You only get limited golden threads and even less celestial crafting items. Essentially if you’re on your first play through; DO NOT upgrade more than 1-2 armour sets as you will not have enough to take it to mythical stage (the ultimate upgraded tier).

So advice for new 1st timers (not NG/NG+) is hold off on upgrading any armour items/sets until at least end of Chapter 4 so you get a feel for what your preferred stats/style/build is. If you must upgrade in Chapter 4 but definitely not before as you are more likely to regret your choice with so many more different and better armour pieces to come. And you would’ve wasted a whole bunch of crafting items into abandoned sets.

I hope the devs will eventually implement a refund system for armour upgrades as well similar to celestial medicine etc.

E.g. If you challenge the Blacksmith and win, you’ll also get a armour unique to that challenge.