Simple question, I just don't know the answer to it.
Just wondering if there's any advantage in leveling up your weapon/armor before upgrading it to the next series. Like, is there a higher chance of receiving a UV, or having a higher attack/defense. I'm assuming the answer is 'no', but I just want to make sure. And I know that some series require the level of the item to be level 10, but not all. I'm just asking because I think it would be pretty cool if that was the case!
Technically everything Paska says is true - items do get more powerful when they level up - but it's misleading because it's not answering the question. The answer to the question is "not as far as we know" - there is no (publicly known) advantage to using a higher-level item for crafting. An item with a UV will transfer its UV to the upgraded weapon, but that's it.
To be fair the question was "Just wondering if there's any advantage in leveling up your weapon/armor before upgrading it to the next series?" Which I did answer - His example was UV advantage. That I forgot to answer and as Joydmn pointed out, there is no known advantage or disadvantage as far as UV.
Theres about a 10% chance of getting a UV on any item you craft as for what that UV is or the effectiveness (low, med, high etc..) That we do not know. I supposed it is completely random, which would make the most sense.
It's rumored that higher-level items have a better chance to yield UVs. There is, however, no evidence.
Thanks guys, this helped out a lot.
"To be fair the question was "Just wondering if there's any advantage in leveling up your weapon/armor before upgrading it to the next series?""
I think you misunderstood his question. He wanted to know if leveling up the item before upgrading it had any effect on the upgraded item, to which the answer is no, or "not as far as we know".
He did mention UVs but he also mentioned higher attack, meaning on the upgraded item. Your answer, was misleading on that front, because you were answering the question "does leveling an item have any effect on it" which is not exactly what was asked.
Basically, to combine paskas answer with what was originally asked, Leveling up an item increases the stats for that item, but has no effect once it is upgraded, as far as we know.
Of course some items need to be leveled to 5 or 10 before they can be upgraded at all.
Depending on the item it has higher attack / defense / charge reduction etc.
Also depending on the star level to craft to the next star level you need your previous weapon to be a certain lvl. Lvl 5 to craft to 4 star and lvl 10 to craft a 5 star.
I hope this made sense.
ex: a lvl 5 sword receives a charge time reduction low, and a lvl 10 receives a charge time reduction medium. Also each lvl 1 - 10 grants the sword greater attack power.