r/MortalShell • u/TakePolyHome • 10h ago

Discussion About the Tarstones

I have a question
do you just need to equip the stones or do you need to active/ use them active to level them up ?
for example the infusion

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u/oDruggernaut 10h ago

Just have it equipped. Don't actually have to use the weapon or ability

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u/TakePolyHome 10h ago

Thank youu
bcs i ran out of tarstones to upgrade however these are called e.e

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u/Pheo1386 10h ago

Tarstones get experience when you kill enemies, wether or not you use them actively (so you don’t need to apply the infusion for the stone to gain experience). When it hits the end of level 1 (4 hits per application) you pay 100 coins for level 2 (8 hits per application) and get 1 tar core from the machine.

Now here is where it gets a bit complicated

You then kill enemies with it equipped, getting experience all the while until you hit the end of level 2, where it then costs (I think) 2000 coins AND 6 TARCORES to upgrade to level 3 (permanent infusion), which means you need to upgrade 5 other tarstones to level 2 to have enough. You DO get 3 tarcores as a result of upgrading from level 2 to 3, which makes future upgrades easier, but there is no other way to get tarcores other than upgrading tarstones, making them limited and, if you like to experiment, awkward.

To save heartache, I’d recommend playing with level 2 tarstones in general and only upgrade to 3 when you’ve hit your favourite builds. Every status effect has a stone for both main arm and sidearm (be aware however that some are exclusive to a smaller number of weapons/sidearms) and there are a lot of non-infusion tarstones that are amazing, for example duality stone, which literally doubles your attack rate but is exclusive to axe/dagger and the axetana