Evolving Weapons?

I was just curious, how do evolutions work with the new update?

Can anyone, with enough duplicates, evolve a weapon to t5 now, or do you need a certain Captain Level?

 

I managed to do both a mine to t3 and blast cannon to t5 that I was unable to before as I had not unlocked the talents in the crew
I am captain 47 though.

 

Yes, now you can evolve to t5 at captain lvl 1 if you have the duplicates

 

Yup no more tier 2-5 evolution talents just need duplicates and gold

 

This was a very nice change. I had 5 items stuck at Level 40 with the required dupes, just waiting for crew training. Managed to evolve them and cleared up 10 inventory slots ... heheheheh.

Not to mention that I would have been waiting at least another 3-4 months based on the required training in v3.2

 

Interesting. I wonder if that will change the dynamic between Common and Rare weapons?

For years, we’ve been telling new players to focus on Rares. But if you’re now able to push a Common or Ucommon to t5 in a fraction of the time, maybe we’ll need to reconsider.

I was looking in my shop today, and a lvl 1 Common Blast does over 500 damage out the box. Obviously, a good portion of that is my training, but it’s still a huge buff over what it did before.

 

Lvl 40 big torpedo does 1500