Weapon Upgrades

General Information

• Upgrades can be made at with Blacksmith Ed or Blacksmith Boldwin.
• Boss Weapons can only be made by Blacksmith Ed after giving him the Red Hot Demon's Soul from defeating the Flamelurker
• Upgrading weapons in Demon's Souls is a bit more complicated than in later souls games. Each weapon has a standard ore that you use for it's improvement, either Hardstone or Sharpstone. For example, the Uchigatana uses Sharpstone. If you want to take a weapon down a specialty path, you may need to upgrade it a short way first. To make a Quality Uchigatana, you need Clearstone and an Uchigatana+3 meaning it has been upgraded with Sharpstone three times.
• Although they are often the same, the number of upgrades you need to complete before for a transition is allowed can different for each weapon and for each path you choose. Additionally, not all weapons can be transitioned to every option. For example, a Short Sword requires +3 to transition to Crushing but the Great Sword requires +0. Both weapons require +6 to transition to Moon and neither weapon allows Tearing (among others).

• Important Note - The number of upgrades required for a transition is exact. If you upgrade a Short Sword to +4, you cannot transition it to Crushing until you use a Meltstone to return it to +0, then re-upgrade to +3.

Icon	Prefix	Stone	Upgrade Start	Max Level	Notes
	N/A	Meltstone	N/A	N/A	Returns upgraded weapons to their original states
	N/A	Hardstone	+0	+10	Basic upgrade path
	N/A	Sharpstone	+0	+10	Basic upgrade path
	Quality	Clearstone	+3	+5	Evens out Strength and Dexterity bonuses
	Crushing	Greystone	+0 or +3	+5	Increases Strength bonus and eliminates Dexterity bonus
	Sharp	Bladestone	+0	+5	Increases Dexterity bonus and lowers Strength bonus
	Dragon	Dragonstone	+3	+5	High base damage, Adds fire damage, removes stat bonuses
	Tearing	Suckerstone	+0 or +3	+5	Boosts bleed damage, increases Dexterity bonus and lowers Strength bonus
	Mercury	Mercurystone	+3	+5	Provides a chance to inflict poison on the target
	Fatal	Marrowstone	+3	+5	Adds critical damage and lowers base damage
	Moon	Moonlightstone	+6	+5	Adds magic damage to the weapon and the weapon scales with Magic
	Crescent	Darkmoonstone	+6	+5	Adds magic damage and MP regen and the weapon scales with Magic
	Blessed	Faintstone	+6	+5	Adds magic damage and HP regen and the weapon scales with Faith. Dexterity and Strength bonuses are lowered but not eliminated
	Sticky	Spiderstone	+3	+5	Bows only. Greatly increases Dexterity bonus and lowers Strength bonus. Increases range of bow by 5 at +1
	Dark	Cloudstone	+6	+5	Shields only. Raises Magic Damage Reduction %. Resets Guard Break Reduction to default
	N/A	Colorless Demon's Souls	+0	+5	Special weapons only. Blacksmith Ed can only perform these after receiving a Red Hot Demon's Soul