I wasted so many resources!

[Xodan Rot]

By building the same thing (weapon forge) in the same province again and again and expecting it to have it higher level that way...

[Age]

You only need about 6 Forges to get the highest level weapons. Those weapons with six abilities on it are the last.
Also a real sucker punch is that your allies doesnt seem to do stronger damage with these.

[ShadowDragon_79]

Originally posted by Age:

Also a real sucker punch is that your allies doesnt seem to do stronger damage with these.

I wonder - did you equip the weapon on that officer?

Admittedly I never examined it in-dephth (and didn't yet get to in DW8E), but in the older parts of the series, I sometimes played one mission with some of the side-characters, only so I could set their weapons right... Not examined in-dephth as I didn't too closely watch the damage they did afterwards, but I *did* have the impression they were causing more damage that way.


Ofcourse, even if it works, it's sort of annoying that there isn't a more direct way to do this - would be nice to see a patch for this, or at least have them add this in the next installment of the series...

[Age]

Nah, you can change officer when you assign someone different, and when you control them, you can change weapons of the officer that you control, otherwise it sticks to default favorite with Lv2 / Lv3 weapon.

Also, steam mobile sucks.

[ShadowDragon_79]

Originally posted by Age:

... and when you control them, you can change weapons of the officer that you control, ...

Exactly my point - but what I'm wondering about is if they'll keep what you had it changed to, once they'll be controlled by AI again next time...

Well, just now an idea popped into my head as to how to test this ( I never set it to something completely different before, just better versions of the same; but that's obviously harder to discern... ) - will have to try that next time.

[Age]

Trust me, they dont. They switch to their favorite weapon Lv2/3 and thats it.

[Melphiz]

Even in the new Samurai Warriors titles, you can equip them all the way you want only to notice there is no profit, no increase of health, damage, defense ...

[Noodles]

Originally posted by Agean's Homecoming over skies:

Trust me, they dont. They switch to their favorite weapon Lv2/3 and thats it.

Actually, they can equip up to Lv6. It scales based on level. I've seen generic officers with WIng of Mortality, and Xiahou Dun with Frozen Fang.

[Age]

Originally posted by WuYiXiang:

Originally posted by Agean's Homecoming over skies:

Trust me, they dont. They switch to their favorite weapon Lv2/3 and thats it.

Actually, they can equip up to Lv6. It scales based on level. I've seen generic officers with WIng of Mortality, and Xiahou Dun with Frozen Fang.

lsnt this likely happen around Chaos mode?

[Chronos Notashi]

Originally posted by Agean's Homecoming over skies:

Originally posted by WuYiXiang:

Actually, they can equip up to Lv6. It scales based on level. I've seen generic officers with WIng of Mortality, and Xiahou Dun with Frozen Fang.

lsnt this likely happen around Chaos mode?

No, NPC weapon upgrades can occur on any difficulty, but only when they reach certain levels, though I can't really remember which levels those were (ex. for one of my playthroughs with my brother, we got to a point where my custom character (I was player 2, so I had to change equipment every time I joined in as any officer) started using level 4 weapons by default). If you're clearing scenarios quickly on easier difficulty levels, you're likely to finish the scenario before they reach the point where they start using weapons past level 4. It only seems like it occurs more often on Chaos simply because of how long you'll likely spend trying to clear a scenario on that difficulty, meaning that NPCs have more time to build levels if they can stay alive.

[Algester]

weapon upgrades are by level low level = 1 star now I'm not sure how it is exactly divided maybe for every 10 levels you get 1 star upgrade? so you get to use 6 star weapon at level 70 or so?