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On your first playthrough ofDynasty Warriors: Origins, the weapons that you get will be mostly up to chance. There will be plenty of drops as you fight your way across the battlefields of China, but you won’t have any way of upgrading or altering your gear besides hoping for a good roll.
That changes once you reach the postgame and unlock weapon reforging. By combining weapons of the same type, you’re able to slowly but surely create a legendary blade capable of shaping the destiny of the entire realm. Here’s how to make it happen.
How To Unlock Weapon Reforging
Once you’ve completed the main storyline for any of the game’s three factions,create an load a postgame save file.You’ll be returned to the World Map. The option toReforge Weaponswill be unlocked at every city from that point forward.
Reforging a weapon has a gold cost based on the tier of the weapon and trait(s) being affected; it’s not usually much, but if you’re reforging a lot of weapons at once or working to upgrade some gear fully it can get expensive.
How To Reforge A Weapon
You can reforgeany weapon in your inventory, but you need another copy of it to use as a crafting material. The materialmust have the same name as the weapon being reforged, but it can have a different modifier number. For example, you can use a base-level Sky Splitter to upgrade a Sky Splitter +2, but any weapon not named Sky Splitter can’t be used for that purpose.
The weapon used as a crafting material is destroyed and cannot be recovered. Remember, youchoose the weapon to be reforged first, and the weapon to be sacrificed second.
Once you’ve selected a weapon to reforge, you have two options;Reforge PowerandReforge Traits.
Reforge Power
Reforge Powerincreases the weapon’s level, slightly boosting its Attack Power. Each +1 added to the weapon’s name adds about 3 points of Attack Power, so by the time you unlock reforging this is avery inefficient method of growth.On the other hand, it’s also one of the few progression options left to you, so once you have all the traits you want on your favorite weapon, you may as well sacrifice any extras that you find to keep buffing your damage.
Reforge Traits
Reforge Traits allows you toreplace one trait on the reforged weapon with one trait from the sacrificed weapon.The gold cost is higher for rarer traits, but otherwise you can choose whichever one you like. All the unchosen traits on the sacrificed weapon are lost along with it, however.
It’s important to note thatyou cannot add trait slots to an existing weapon.For this reason, if you find a weapon with lots of bad traits, it can be better in the long run totake time reforging it. Eventually, you can fill all those slots with good traits. A weapon with only three or four traits, all of which are good, isbetter used as a crafting materialsince its overall potential is limited.
