Upgrading weapons is chance-based, but a pity system ensures you'll eventually succeed after repeated attempts. Evolving can also unlock additional features such as BnS NEO Classic Divine Gems a Soul Core slot or Mantra slot, as well as secondary stat lines like evasion or critical rate. These bonuses are not usually game-changing but can give you small boosts.

Soul Cores: Adding Extra Power

Soul Cores drop from heroic bosses like Exile or Blackram Narrow. If you don't get a core directly, you can gather Soul Core Crystals and transmute them. Each Soul Core can be slotted into your weapon, providing unique effects and the ability to summon extra attacks.

Prioritize the following stats:

Critical Rate (aim for ~50–55%)

Critical Damage

Piercing

Accuracy (for consistent damage output)

Accuracy ensures every hit lands, while piercing becomes more valuable as enemies with higher defense appear in later patches. Critical rate and damage remain your core focus for maximizing DPS.

Mantra Stones: Minor Additions

Weapons and accessories can contain Mantra Stone slots, allowing you to insert different stone combinations for small passive effects. Bonuses might include energy recovery or skill interactions, but most effects are minor. Think of Mantra Stones as optional enhancements rather than must-have upgrades.

Accessories and Skill Trees

Accessories evolve the same way as weapons, but instead focus on Skill Slots. By attaching Skill Books to accessories, you unlock skill trees that provide mastery bonuses. For example, stacking multiple books for the same skill can reduce cooldowns or boost damage as you increase mastery levels.

This system allows for deeper customization of your character's abilities, letting you shape your build toward specific combat styles.

Soul Shields: Core Stat System

Soul Shields work similarly to artifacts in games like Genshin Impact. Each shield piece provides HP and random secondary stats, with set bonuses activated at 3, 5, or 8 pieces.

Soul Shields can be fused with duplicates to enhance stats, and Primers can add a third stat line. Importantly, there are no critical damage primers-making critical damage the most important base stat to seek when selecting shields.

Start Soul Warden crafting early to gather materials for fusions and primers, as this system is essential to long-term stat optimization.

Augments and Psyches

Augments add another layer of customization. By applying psyches to weapons, accessories, or Soul Shields, you unlock additional random stats. After applying a psyche, you'll be offered new random augment options, and you can choose to keep or reroll.

This system functions similarly to MapleStory's cubing system, giving you control over how to BnS Classic Divine Gems refine your stats.