Do I need to upgrade all the weapons in order to get all endings?

[Damyel]

What does upgrading them get me besides better stats and weapon story unlocks?
Please say no i'm already getting flashbacks to Nier 1 and Drakengard....
THANKS!

[Aemony]

Yes.

[devSin]

You only need to acquire and upgrade weapons if you want to do the secret boss.

All the real endings have no requirements beyond simply playing through the game.

[Damyel]

Originally posted by devSin:

You only need to acquire and upgrade weapons if you want to do the secret boss.

All the real endings have no requirements beyond simply playing through the game.

Thanks. do you know if upgrading them all is a super grind fest?

[devSin]

Not really super, since you can buy a lot of the materials, and chapter select lets you go anywhere in the story that you need in order to quickly farm certain drops.

It's not much like the past games. Drop rates are generous, and items stick around for a long time. (Now chip farming is another story entirely, but you're not required to do that for anything.)

[NyxCrab]

You only need to upgrade all weapons for Ending Y, if you want the true ending which is E gear doesn't matter.

[Rin]

Ending E is the real ending, but Ending Y is certainly worthwhile considering the amount of content went into it (unlike all the other joke endings in the game).

Later on you can also equip +100% Drop Rate chips, allowing you to gather most materials with ease.

[Shichiya]

There's a particular side quest where you must gather 95% of the unit data
If you are really a quest maniac then go ahead to do it,it's super grindy cuz you might be getting like 85%-90% after you've cleared the whole game,and the rest is super rare
And welp,only ending Y requires all weapon to be upgraded in order to get that ending

[Saiful]

Originally posted by Damyel:

Originally posted by devSin:

You only need to acquire and upgrade weapons if you want to do the secret boss.

All the real endings have no requirements beyond simply playing through the game.

Thanks. do you know if upgrading them all is a super grind fest?

Not grindy, theres a way to triple your money unless they patched it.

After you unlock chapter select simply load up the level after you beat the boss in the theme park, run over to the clown vendor buy the books for like 3.5k.

run to a saving station,save the game and load up chapter select again and pick a chapter in route C, run back to the vendor and sell them back for like 12k. Also machine cores sells for 25k a pop in route c so sell them if u have leftovers.

Now you should have alot of money and all you need now is the materials which can be bought off emil.

To get emil selling you the right stuff run to the bridge by the mall, open up the map if hes not where you want him to be (his store changes on his route) Simply run over the bridge into the mall then run back unto the bridge and 3-5 steps before you're on the other side by the save station open up the map and see where he spawned this time.

Keep doing this till he spawns where you want him. For high tier expensive upgrade materials and the 2 other weapons you want to stopp him on the road outside rebel camp.

[Void#151625]

good info for this game:
http://nierautomata.wiki.fextralife.com/Nier+Automata+Wiki
where you find what materials
what enemy drops
it where you can gather it
quest and faq and walkthrews
character details and item details and more
ps yes this game incldue a ingame bot grinder
if you want to level up
chips have both common and epic verison
common chip have random high cost
epic chip have fix low cost
chips max fusion depends on its type

max vaule per fused chip:

drop bonus max limit is 90% overall once reached
all kills have chance to drop epic chips

evade range bonus max at 200% overall

speed walk bonus max at 20% overall

attack bonus max 200% overall for both weapon attack and range attack

critical rate bonus max at 10% for chip
heal per damage done overall max at 200%
heal per enemy killed overall max 200%
health regeneration per second roudn 10% per chip

taunt: high damage bonus for you and enemies easier one hit you, but also lets you easier one hit enemies!
taunt chip stacks with range damage and weapon damage!


for auto grind: combine damage bonus with drop rate, heal on damage, heal on kill and auto skills


fuse chip max is reached when you no longer get from highest chip verion the option to fuse them!
chip fusion max is diffrent per type

[DJukor]

All the real endings can be aquired by simly Playng the main story of the game regardless of any side quests.
Evrithing else is jsut extra lore character devlopment and story.
You can even buy achivments in the game (using in game money wich is easy to obtain wo grinding) so its posible to even get a platinum on PS4 for instance wo having plaeyd it 100%.