Ni no Kuni 2 Crafting Guide - How to Craft Weapons and Armor, How to Upgrade Weapons and Armor in Evermore
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Once you’ve completed the third chapter of Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom and established Evermore, the kingdom that Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum rules over, you can upgrade weapons and armor items. In this Ni no Kuni 2 crafting guide, we’ll be walking you through how to craft weapons and armor, as well as how to successfully upgrade every piece of gear that you own.
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Ni no Kuni 2 Crafting Guide
First of all, in order to unlock the ability to craft weapons and armor items in Ni no Kuni 2, you’ll need to successfully establish the kingdom of Evermode—the brand new throne that Evan and his allies found partway through chapter 3 of the game. It should take you roughly eight to ten hours to reach this section of the game, but once you’ve established Evermore, you’ll need to use the new Kingsguilder currency to construct the Evermore Outfitters and Evermore Weapon Workshop buildings, the patches of land for each of which can be found directly in front of the main castle when you’re in the managing overview mode.
How to Forge New Weapons and Armor in Ni no Kuni 2
Spend roughly 240 Kingsguilders to construct each building, and you can get to work forging brand new weapons and armor items for Evan and his allies. Once the buildings are constructed, you can research new weapon and armor items for each, by firstly clicking on the ‘personnel’ tab for each building and assigning three suitable workpeople to each, and then click on the ‘research’ option to unlock brand new items. Once the timer has expired for each research level that you opt for, you can exit out of the overview mode, and head out of the throne room door, where you’ll find yourself in your ‘chibi’ mode in the middle of Evermore town square. You can now hit up each weapon and armor shop as Evan, and forge new weapons and armor for all your characters.
To forge new weapons head to the Weapon Workshop, and to forge new armor head to the Outfitters, where you can select the ‘make armor’ or ‘make weapons’ option, to find yourself with a list of new items that you can create. Press the Options button on the Dualshock 4 controller, and you’ll be able to compare these new items to how they stack up against your currently equipped gear for each character. You can see if the new weapons and armor items will be beneficial for Evan, Roland, Tani, Batu, or any other characters you have in your party, but you’ll only be able to craft them if you have the corresponding materials, which you can see just to the right of each entry.
How to Upgrade Weapons and Armor in Ni no Kuni 2
However the option just below the ‘make armor/weapon’ in each workshop gives you the option to upgrade your existing items. With every weapon that you own for example, you can opt to boost either the base damage that it does with every quick or strong melee attack, or you can choose to boost the skill-based damage that it puts out, whenever you properly execute a special skill attack on the heat of battle.
Once again, you’ll only be able to upgrade weapons and armor items if you have the materials required, and you’ll also only be able to upgrade each weapon and armor item a finite amount of times, before you hit the maximum level for it. Therefore, you’ve got to carefully choose whether you want the base damage, or the special skill damage to be boosted for each weapon, before you run out of opportunities to upgrade that one weapon.
We might be all done with our Ni no Kuni 2 crafting guide, but continue ahead to our Ni no Kuni 2 combat guide, for all you need to know on taking down some of the more powerful enemies in the game.
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