Weapons and Power Ups upgrade path

Item combinations to evolve your weapons and Power Up optimal upgrade path

Weapon Combinations

To upgrade a weapon you must have both the weapon and have picked up a level of corresponding item. When the weapon is level 8 and you have the item it will be upgraded when you open a chest that drops when you kill a high level evemy.
Currently you can only evolve a weapon after the 10 minute mark, and the chest you open must also have dropped after the 10 minute mark.

 Axe + Candelabrador                                 -> Death Spiral
 Cross + Clover                                      -> Heaven Sword
 Fire Wand + Spinach                                 -> Hellfire
 King Bible + Spellbinder                            -> Unholy Vespers
 Knife + Bracer                                      -> Thousand Edge
 Magic Wand + Empty Tome                             -> Holy Wand
 Whip + Hollow Heart                                 -> Bloody Tear
 Garlic + Pummarola                                  -> Soul Eater
 Santa water + Attractorb                            -> La Borra
 Lighting Ring + Duplicator                          -> Thunder Loop
 Song of Mana + Skull O'Maniac                       -> Mannajja
 Pentagram +  Crown                                  -> Gorgeous Moon
 Runetracer +  Armor                                 -> No Future
 Peachone + Ebony wings (both at level 8)            -> Vandalier
 Phiera Der Tuphello + Eight The Sparrow + Tiragisu  -> Phieraggi

Vandalier can then be upgraded to level 8. When Peachone and Ebony wings are combined you get a weapon slot back
Phieraggi will have extra rays for each level of Tiragisu you have including the extra levels the character Krochi gains

As of version 0.4 these are the only weapons that can be evolved

Some items will only appear when you unlock the related achievement:

Candelabra - Get Santa water to Level 4
Spellbinder - Get Runetracer to Level 7
Empty Tome - Hold 6 different weapons at once
Fire wand - Destroy 20 light sources
Clover - Find a clover
Cross - Find a rosary
Peachone - Survive 10 minutes with any character
Ebony Wings - Get Peachone to Level 7

Power up upgrades

You can buy Power ups with coins gathered during runs. At any point in time you can refund all coins and reallocate them to choose different power ups.

For every power up chosen the cost will go up for the next level and for every other different power up, this makes it that you have to be careful in the order of the upgrades to optimize your coins

Upgrade path on a single skill
Level 0 - base cost
Level 1 - base cost * 2.2
Level 2 - base cost * 3.6
Level 3 - base cost * 5.2
Level 4 - base cost * 7.0

For each level upgraded all other skills will increase the cost by 10% of their base cost * number of levels +1.
Example: Greed at level 2 -> 3 costs 720, if there are three other upgraded power ups then its cost to upgrade to level 3 is:
(200 * (number of levels + 1) * 0.1) * (number of levels in other power ups) + base cost * 3.6
= (200 * 3 * 0.1) * 3 + 720 = 900

This causes that to get better use out of your coins you should upgrade starting with the most expensive cost downwards since the 10% increase in cost is higher in power ups with higher base cost. Since there is no penalty to refunding you can try it for yourself

[janwillem.aikens]

This is so helpful. Thank you very much!
Now find a way to get this glued to my screen somewhere ;)

Jan-WIllem

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Thanks ExoCube

[zgieR]

nice

[ExoCube]

Evolve pentagram with crown

[FRD]

does anyone know how to evolve the pentagram?

[Tyrax Lightning]

Update: It does indeed look like Duplicator's effect works on Lightning Ring! :D

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Thanks Falconone

[Falconone]

Song of Mana + Skull O'Maniac evovles into Mannajja

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@lycoris03radiata with 0.2.12 released I added your info. Thanks

[Tyrax Lightning]

Does Duplicator's effect even work on Lightning Ring? (I'd love it if it did... Lightning's my fav Element...)

Thank you so much for this Guide! :)