Should i upgrade gladius ff13

You know how the organic and synthetic components work now. You know how to squeeze every last drop of exp out of each component if you so desire. You know what catalysts you need and where to find them. So what do you do now? They will give you all the information you need for each character and each weapon. It will tell you the weapon name and where to buy it, if you can. It will tell you the experience needed to level it to Star, and then it will tell you what catalyst transforms it.

Finally, it lists what it turns into, so you can reference the higher tier chart. However they also take a vastly higher amount of exp to level. Every Tier 2 weapon requires a Trapezohedron to evolve into Tier 3. Check out the picture to the right to see what each of them looks like… and then just go with the Malboro wand, because the debuff enhancement is excellent.

Each Nirvana takes a different amount of EXP to max. Fang uses perhaps the most straightforward weapon in the game; a spear. Except her spear can break into three sections, and has blades on both ends. Originally posted by talgaby :. Last edited by tiornys ; 24 Nov, pm. Originally posted by tiornys :.

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Some geospatial data on this website is provided by geonames. View mobile website. Originally posted by Maechen :. I cant remember what his original is, but i believe you can buy it from a shop, most weapons you find can be purchased from a shop at one point or another. Aku View Profile View Posts. Last edited by Aku ; 14 Oct, am.

Upgrading anything isn't really required until post game. Odin is a rough fight your first time through, it's intended to force you into playing the medic role on your controlled character. Ideally Light will end up on the opposite side of him as Hope, so she doesn't get caught in the cleave. I started to upgrade Vanille's Belladonna Wand Improved debuff chance , since I think this is the only weapon before Pulse that is worth to keep all the way.

For the others, I'd wait until the large-large chapter, or post-game. None of the weapons they get are that useful, unless you are going for some non-conventional builds. Here's the thing. The crystarium upgrades tend to offer very small bonuses on the early levels and a weapon upgrade will provide a huge boost. It doesn't make a huge difference even though it doubles the stat, but certianly cuts down on combat time.

The "Catalyst Cost" column will be left blank for accessories that can be both bought and obtained via upgrade of other items this, again, is because buying from a Shop is always cheaper than getting items via upgrade of their lower version. In case there is no Shop name, it's implied that the cost refers to the Materials necessary to get that item via Upgrade. In the next tables, the item you have to upgrade to get a certain item is always the one before the item you're looking at except the Twenty-sided Die, which is obtained by upgrading any of the six "charm" items before it, and not just by upgrading the one immediately before it , provided that the items belong to the same "family" HP Bangles, Strength Wristbands, etc.

I've grouped "families" of accessories together with the background color of the table. The cost of Catalysts is not factored in the Cost column, but it's added separately in the third column. Note that the Catalyst that will be factored is obviously the Catalyst required to upgrade the lower-version of that X item into its superior version which is the X item itself.

In the case of the Tier-3 weapons, which can be acquired from different Tier-2 weapons which have different costs of upgrade , the minimum cost i. In other words, it's a guide that tells you what to buy and how many items in total you will need if Treasure Hunter required only the objects that in the Checklist are a "No" Free Supply, which is the actual case if you've got the rest for free.

If that's not your case say you've missed a weapon in a treasure somewhere where you can't go back , then it should be simple enough for you to act accordingly and use the Shop page info and the previous EXP tables to find, get, and upgrade whatever you've missed. So, you've reached the end of the game, looted every possible treasure, dug up 20x treasures with the Chocobo, finished all the Cie'th Missions, and you're set and ready to farm Gil and Catalysts to complete Treasure Hunter.

Items from shop. This will cost a total of 1,, Gil. Titanium Bangle and Nimbletoe Boots could be obtained via upgrade, but it would cost more than buying them from the shop. The expensive weapons from Gilgamesh, Inc. Survivalist Catalog and a zero-stars rating in battle could earn you one of these weapons about every five attempts against those targets, but farming Platinum Ingots to buy them new is clearly a better option: the time it takes to even just reach the enemies that can drop those weapons is almost the time that, statistically speaking, would take you to get a Platinum Ingot.

The low drop rate of these weapons, and the fact that you have to deliberately fight those battles slowly to ensure a zero-stars rating for higher drop chances, since it's a Party Drop , ultimatey make the "drop method" of acquiring them a slower and therefore worse option.

Just for curiosity, these are the missions:. Shrouding Talisman and Sprint Shoes. Upgrading a Tetradic Tiara which you already have from Chocobo treasures, and you are more than likely to never use it as an accessory since it's pretty useless when you can buy Aegisol for 12, Gil to max level costs only 4, Gil.

Now get all of the following Accessories via Upgrade. Refer to the first tables of this page to know how to upgrade them efficiently and as cheaply as possible. Just leave the base accessory at max level; then, when you'll spawn Shaolong Gui in the Steppe, you'll farm Dark Matter off of him and add the final Catalyst. The Materials to upgrade these items will cost a total of , Gil. Chances are that when you're getting Treasure Hunter you have at least upgraded Fang and Lightning's weapons to maxed-out Tier-2 or higher, and you've probably also upgraded a weapon for each other characters.

For simplicity here I'll pretend that you didn't do so, theorizing the max cost it would take you to upgrade all weapons from Tier-1 to Tier-2, and one the cheapest possible weapon for every character from Tier-2 to Tier Weapons are much easier to track than accessories, so I won't be listing the ones you need below: just take evey Tier-1 weapon and upgrade it to Tier Then pick the cheapest ones indicated in the Weapons Checklist table and take them to Tier Note that if you made the maxed-out Tier-2 weapons suggested in the Story Walkthrough pages you can detract from that sum:.

During the course of the story you can have acquired from fixed treasures, fixed drops, and Cie'th Missions rewards these Catalysts: 5x Rhodochrosite, 4x Cobaltite, 2x Perovskite, 7x Uraninite, 3x Scarletite, 5x Mnar Stone. Assuming that you wisely decide to farm Scarletite against the Sacrifice enemies of Orphan's Cradle and Eden either area is ok , Dark Matter against Shaolong Gui, and Trapezohedron against Long Gui, you'll still need to buy:. Grand Total and Achievement. The grand total for a diligent player that will only have to farm the least possible is 6,, Gil.

If you got all the Tier-2 maxed-out weapons suggested for farming, you "only" have 5,, more Gil to get. These amounts translate respectively to x and x Platinum Ingots. Remember that the achievement will not unlock immediately after you get the last piece of equipment in your inventory, but you have to go talk to Bhakti in Oerba!

After doing so, he will finally unlock this achievement for you:. Treasure Hunter Held every weapon and accessory. Introduction In this page we're going to focus on everything related to the Equipment Upgrading mechanics and the most time consuming achievement of the game, Treasure Hunter. Hide ads. Shops 6.