All Sephiria Weapons

The six, and what each costs

TEAM HORAY’s own description is “6 distinct weapons, each with over 50 unique upgrades”, and the 1.0 announcement puts the total at over 200 upgrades across the six branches.

The unlock costs below are Communityfrom the community compendium, not from TEAM HORAY. The patch changes further down are official.

Weapon	How you get it	Tier	Sapphires
Sword and Shield	Starting weapon — you already have it
Greatsword	Heavy Weapon Training	2	2
Dagger	Nimble Weapon Training	6	8
Crossbow	Ranged Weapon Training	7	10
Blade	Sharp Weapon Training	8	10
Staff	Graceful Weapon Training	9	10

Each unlock is a training quest with Moro rather than an instant purchase: you buy the node, then go and do the tutorial in the village.

The Greatsword is the outlier and it is not close. It sits four tiers earlier than anything else and costs a small fraction of what the late weapons do. If you are early in the Destiny Inscription and want a second way to play, it is the only one priced like an experiment.

What has actually changed since launch

This is the part other weapon pages tend to skip, and it is the part that decides whether a build you read about last week still works. Every entry below is from TEAM HORAY’s own notes:

Version	Weapon	Change
1.0.26	Dagger	Dash Attack now chains into Special Attack: Parry and Special Attack: Fury
1.0.26	Black Iron Halberd	Tier 2 upgrade effect was not being applied at all — fixed
1.0.26	Lightning Flash	Special Attack: Issen now grants invincibility while sheathing
1.0.26	Superconductor	Co-op now tells you when Storm Clouds are too low to use the special
1.0.23	Solis Iubar	Wrong Special Attack fired at 150 MP or above — fixed
1.0.23	Minigun	MP cost now applies correctly in decimals below 1
1.0.22	Breath of Ice	“Dash Attack Damage +40%” was only giving 30%. Now gives 40%
1.0.21	Sword and Shield	Cleave base cost cut from 20 to 15, and guard frames now start from the beginning of the Cleave animation
1.0.21	Guillotine of Bitter Cold	Skill name was displayed as “Blizzard Hammer” — cosmetic fix
1.0.19	Greatsword, Dagger, Crossbow, Staff	1 new upgrade for the Greatsword; 4 each for the Dagger, Crossbow and Staff

The Breath of Ice entry is worth reading twice: for the first day of 1.0 that upgrade was quietly delivering three-quarters of what its own text promised. If you tested a build against it before 1 August, you tested it against a weaker weapon than the one you have now.

The upgrade trees

Every documented Tier 2 and Tier 3 upgrade for all six weapons — 50 branches and 101 upgrades — is in the Weapon Upgrade Explorer, arranged as the tree it actually is rather than a flat list, with a badge on every upgrade an official patch has changed.

Related

• Weapon Upgrade Explorer — every branch, with patch badges
• Destiny Inscription Planner — work out when you can afford which weapon
• How the Destiny Inscription works — why the weapon nodes are priced so unevenly
• Sephiria Patch Notes — where the changes above come from