Sorry for double-posting and somewhat hijacking the thread but this might help to decide.
Does anybody know if purple arms also gain 0.1% of strength with each fail (as it would be for red arms), possibly depending on level (below G12, G12-G20, above G20)?
If the answer is "no", it may be beneficial to keep with red as long as possible since one wouldn't get any additional bonus with purple. To have it all purple from the beginning, this would mean to sacrifice 5-10% of additional armament strength while saving around 500 divinity (assumption: 25 additional arms to upgrade red from lvl 2 to lvl 5, 5 fragments per arm, 25% drop rate when farming).
If the answer is "yes" and this doesn't change with higher armament levels (e.g. past G20), I really couldn't see any reason to not go with 12 purple arms from 0 to 12 instead of spending 2-3 times the effort for getting a lvl 2 red to lvl 5 for recasting. Or even to lvl 6 before recasting. On the road to lvl 50+ purple arms, there will still be so many fails that the few initial fails sub-G12 should be neglectible. And the saved div and gems would significantly help progress...
Does anybody know if purple arms also gain 0.1% of strength with each fail (as it would be for red arms), possibly depending on level (below G12, G12-G20, above G20)?
If the answer is "no", it may be beneficial to keep with red as long as possible since one wouldn't get any additional bonus with purple. To have it all purple from the beginning, this would mean to sacrifice 5-10% of additional armament strength while saving around 500 divinity (assumption: 25 additional arms to upgrade red from lvl 2 to lvl 5, 5 fragments per arm, 25% drop rate when farming).
If the answer is "yes" and this doesn't change with higher armament levels (e.g. past G20), I really couldn't see any reason to not go with 12 purple arms from 0 to 12 instead of spending 2-3 times the effort for getting a lvl 2 red to lvl 5 for recasting. Or even to lvl 6 before recasting. On the road to lvl 50+ purple arms, there will still be so many fails that the few initial fails sub-G12 should be neglectible. And the saved div and gems would significantly help progress...