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This would be nice for when upgrades are few and far between or when upgrades are in extremely expensive and/or difficult to obtain.

A good example might be: prior to crimson finger gauntlets or seiryu's kote the next best thing would be deadeye gloves as far as I can tell. If you could add on a lil extra STR, AGI or R.atk they would certainly hold up in power until you're able to obtain the good stuff.