Spiral Knights - Which weapon would get the most benefits from being upgraded to 5*?

Which weapon would get the most benefits from being upgraded to 5*?

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Sun, 10/05/2014 - 17:35

Dead-Bard

Long story short, since now getting a lvl 10 5* item is pretty hard I've been amassing a huge amount of 4* lvl 10 weapons ready to be upgraded, and now that I have enough radiants to upgrade one I'd like some opinions on which one I should upgrade.

Keep in mind that I'm not going for the absolute best and most useful in every situation but rather I'm going for "which of these would get the most benefit from an upgrade" and in minor part "from which weapon would I gain the most benefit"

The weapons are:

-Vile Striker
-Gigawatt Pulsar
-Radiant Sun Shards UV Fiend: Low
-Toxic Atomizer
-Fiery Atomizer
-Graviton Bomb (waiting on going for obsidian crusher so I won't upgrade to Vortex, still want some opinions in case we get an obsidian event soon)

Possible other candidates (not yet 4*/fully lvl'd):

-Crystal Bomb UV CTR:med
-Electron Charge UV CTR:low (also need to farm the krogmo coins for the recipe)
-Haze Bomb MK II (Same as above)
-Blackhawk

Thanks for your answers.

Sun, 10/05/2014 - 17:47

Flowchart

out of those, Electron Vortex (or Obsidian Crusher). Otherwise one of the haze bombs.
The swords and guns you listed, not so much.
Shard bombs are always going to be lame, unfortunately.

Sun, 10/05/2014 - 18:06

Holy-Nightmare

You bombs, and the Blackhawk

You bombs, and the Blackhawk if you take it to Obsidian carbine....

Sun, 10/05/2014 - 23:41

Fehzor

Your haze bombs would get a larger radius, and your vortex would become more effective all around. The obsidian weapons would take priority, as they gain the poison status and have a window of opportunity, but obviously those will be upgraded when they can be. All of your other weapons would become a bit stronger all around, but would not become very much functionally better at all. Upgrade them later.

I would go electron vortex, then venom veilor, then ash of agni. Electron is probably the best support bomb in the game, and venom veilor would really work to complete it but benefits from the larger radius more, as ash of agni just has to get in a single hit to deal its damage while veilor really needs to keep them poisoned forever to negate the healing.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 03:56

Holy-Nightmare

The best candidate is a

The best candidate is a weapon you don't have but definitely should get. The Voltaic Tempest really makes running around in the Apocrean event super easy.

It wrecks scarabs and slows down lost souls, your SS and AOA could work but not as well as the VT. The electron vortex is the next best thing though you have to be ready in case something doesn't die and you have to chase those soul/scarabs down.

You can get the 2 star version as a Roarmulus reward.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 14:18

Dead-Bard

Thanks for the suggestions, I

Thanks for the suggestions, I guess I should have said sooner what are my current 5* weapons to give you a better understanding of my situation.

5* Swords:
-DA
-Rocket Hammer
-CIV
-Lionheart Blade (Levi reskin)
-BTB
-FoV

5* Guns:
-Blitz

5* Bombs:
-DBB
-Shiver
-VT
-DR
-Nitro (lvl 5, couldn't lvl it further before the crystal update came)

Also I mainly like to play bomber.

I'm taking you guys on your suggestion, bought 3 krogmo coin boosters and bored myself to death in LD until I got enough coins to get an Elec Vortex and Elec Bomb recipes, I guess I'll keep going and try to get Haze recipes too before the boosters expire.

So if I understand correctly the best course of action would be:

1) Obsidian Crusher & Carabine whenever obsidian event is back
2) Electron Vortex
3) Venom Veiler
4) AoA
5) doesn't matter never gonna upgrade so much stuff anw.

Right?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:31

Fehzor

Yeah, that about sums it up.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:30

Holy-Nightmare

One thing you can get if you

One thing you can get if you want some high power and range for a bomb is the 4 star Iron tech. It's movement speed reduction should help you with footwork with slow bombs (something that vortexes have). It also has a blast radius of a 5star bomb. Even though it is slow in the charge and fuse it is still more viable in comparison than the BAB which is basically the best normal damage bomb for single spot area denial (good in T3 wolver dens).

I mean I just beat down a compound easy with that bomb and a fast sword

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 04:49

Dead-Bard

Irontech is on my list of

Irontech is on my list of future bombs, looked kinda cool.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 06:34

Fehzor

Eh, you already have nitronome at level 5. Would be cheaper and better to just roll ctr onto that or even heat it to ten.

Irontech would had been better if you had no five star weapons.

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Which weapon would get the most benefits from being upgraded to 5*?