Sword of Reborn: How to Upgrade Swords as a Swordsman

To upgrade your weapon in Sword of Reborn as a Swordsman, open the weapon upgrade menu to check your sword's current refinement tier and safe enhancement threshold. Gather refinement crystals, tempering agents, and enhancement dust from daily activities, save your highest-tier stones for later refinement levels, and build toward the safe refinement cap before risking high-tier upgrades.

Upgrading high-level swords requires specific materials gathered across daily content and loot systems.

Material Type	Primary Source	Primary Function
Refinement Crystals	Daily Dungeons	Supplies base-level resources for early weapon refinement tiers.
Tempering Agents	Boss Loot Tables	Provides specialized items required for final enhancement stages.
Enhancement Dust	Resource Exchange	Obtains upgrade dust by converting surplus gear instead of selling for standard currency.

Follow these steps to upgrade your sword without wasting high-value items:

Identify the Weapon Tier: Check the upgrade menu to view the sword's tier, current refinement level, and maximum upgrade cap.
Sort Refinement Stones: Use common enhancement stones for low-tier upgrades. Reserve rare enhancement stones for higher levels where success rates drop.
Reach the Safe Cap: Refine the weapon up to its safe limit, which guarantees stat increases without the risk of losing resources.
Stockpile Before High-Risk Upgrades: Before attempting max-level refinement beyond the safe cap, farm a surplus of materials to absorb material losses if an attempt fails.
Verify Meta Value: Confirm the weapon is an endgame-viable item before spending high-tier tempering agents, avoiding heavy investment in temporary mid-game gear.

Stat Allocation for Swordsman Builds

Weapon performance depends on aligning secondary stat bonuses with your active character build:

Critical Damage: Prioritize critical damage over flat damage whenever your gear provides high attack speed and critical hit rate.
Passive Skill Synergy: Select stat paths that enhance your active Swordsman skills. A weapon with complementary passive stats outperforms a sword with higher raw base damage but irrelevant secondary traits.