Quote Originally Posted by gottesurteil View Post
What he said is totally correct, if a bit confusing if you don't know what he's talking about lol. The N weapons are worthless - the rare weapons are used to upgrade skills. If you're not sure how to do that efficiently, there's quite a few posts, and perhaps far more relevantly lol, Sanahtlig has a lot of info in his toolbox (see his sig).

As for the original question, is there any easier way than just doing the 10x pulls... no. You'll be doing that a lot. Over the past 2 days I've dropped maybe 130k in gems, and got 2 full assault weapons from skill 0 to skill 20. Kind of tedious, but hey, the results are totally worth it.
Yeah, for sure. I'm just wondering if there's a reason I shouldn't be dumping like... the 14 rare weapons I get from 4 10x pulls to level a SR assault weapon from 16 to 17? I know it's not the -most- efficient usage, but I'm getting Rs up the ass and incoming SRs are far fewer. It seems like just saving them in my vault for the most -optimum- usage is kinda... inefficient in and of itself. Wouldn't it just be better to burn them up and fully upgrade my SRs?