thx for the help
is it better to lv the gear to lv 10 before upgrade or it will be the same to upgrade at lv5?
If a recipe calls for a level 5+ equipment, it doesn't matter if you use a level 5, 6, 100 (doesn't exist) equipment. It'll still produce the same equip and will restart at level 1 heat.
What Griffin said. UV possibilities aside (random, not influenced by level) you will get the same item whether you upgrade it at level 1 or level 10, or anywhere between.
I prefer to level mine only to where they need to be to upgrade them, but I'm usually leveling a few different items at once and don't want to waste the heat on levels that won't matter.
~Gwen
IMO, craft it at Lvl 5. You get time to heat the upgrade up. I recently crafted my Master Blast bomb yesterday, an it just needs one more level. It would be heat 10 but I think SK crashed again as for when I sided there was no "You are dead" screen, and when I did revive it didn't even Rez me. Anyway, craft ASAP.
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