In Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, the Blacksmith is the primary method to upgrade your characters. Here, you can customize your weapons to get different benefits in battle or fuse weapons to increase their stats. This guide details how to unlock the blacksmith, weapon fusion, and dealing with rusty weapons.
How to Unlock the Blacksmith in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
You can unlock the Blacksmith by completing the “Brawny Blacksmiths” quest. This quest becomes available after you finish the second mission in Chapter 1, “Road to the Ancient Lab.”
- Location: Near Hyrule Castle.
- Completion Requirements:
- Turn in 1x Courser Bee Honey and 200x Bokoblin Trophies.
- These items can be obtained by completing missions in the chapter.
Basics of Blacksmithing
At the end of every mission, you will receive many weapons with random properties. You can use these weapons in battle or take them to the Hylian Blacksmith Guild to fuse them with other weapons or sell them. Over time, a new “Octo-Polish” option will be unlocked, allowing you to clean up rusty weapons.
- Go to the Hylian Blacksmith Guild:
- Select Fuse Weapons.
- Choose the weapon you want to enhance.
- The blue highlighted weapon is the one currently equipped.
- Choose Fusing Material:
- You can select up to five other weapons as Fusing Material.
- These weapons will be destroyed, and each weapon fused adds 50 rupees to the cost.
- Add Experience and Increase Stats:
- The most useful part of fusing is transferring the properties of the weapon being fused to another weapon of your choice.
How to Do Weapon Fusing in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Weapons have seals, which are small white icons on the right half of the screen under the item’s level. Seals have different shapes like circles, squares, hexagons, or stars. Matching the seal shape on the Fusion Material with the weapon you want to enhance gives a small bonus to the weapon’s attack power or properties. Matching seal shapes at every milestone fusion results in a powerful weapon.
How to Transfer Weapon Properties
- Upgrade Milestones:
- Every fifth level (levels 5, 10, 15, and 20) is a milestone.
- The fusion process will transfer the properties of the fused weapon to the one being enhanced.
- Weapon Properties:
- Seals represent different properties, such as Special Attack Charge rate, Attack range, Attack Speed, and more.
- The game will display each weapon’s property when you look at them.
Creating Purpose-Built Weapons
- Customize weapons for different purposes, such as stages with more boss fights or making enemies drop more health-restoring items.
- Matching seal shapes at level 5, 10, 15, or 20 milestones increases your weapon’s strength with a seal-matching bonus.
Weapons with a small grey plus sign are ready to receive a weapon property. Some basic weapons have no properties when you get them, but they can take on a weapon’s property during their first fusion.
