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Two questions:
1. How do you get a weapon past skill level 20? Does it need some special reagent? Or are only 4-star-able weapons (i.e. weapons that I assume go past level 125) eligible for that?
Correct. Only FLB weapons (4-Stars) are able to go from slvl 20 -> 30. Well, outside of exploits.
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2. Perhaps I'm just thick (entirely possible), but I can't seem to get any sort of reliable damage out of Full Break. I understand I'm supposed to use it when the boss has self buffs and that ideally, those buffs should not be defensive. But even with debuffs, I can't seem to get more than 250k out of it. Seeing everybody else regularly tossing out a casual 600k+ is making my peepee sad
You seem to misunderstand something. Full Break scales with Herc's buffs, not the boss'

In other words, buff up with skills 2 and 3, debuff the boss, and BLAMMO. Big damage. 600k is easy for veterans, but if you're new, don't expect that much. Still, you should expect like a full round of damage of it in a single skill. So 250k is fine if Herc is doing ~40k per attack (veterans are doing 100k+ per hit).

EDIT: Goddamn it Kitty, stop beating me by a minute.