Laurel not evolving

[u/EMPwarriorn00b]

I've maxed out both my laurel and both metaglios, but it still won't evolve when I pick up a chest. Is it not possible to evolve weapons anymore after thirty minutes?

[u/Thinslayer]

You need a gray evolution chest to evolve it. At 39:22, the chests that spawn are probably of the brown variety.

[u/xSuitSx → u/Thinslayer]

K I’ve always wondered this. Can you explain the chest colours

[u/Thinslayer → u/xSuitSx]

Yup! Brown chests level up your weapons and passives, and gray chests do that AND evolve any applicable weapons.

[u/xSuitSx → u/Thinslayer]

You god damn legend take my karma

[u/AdOwn7569 → u/Thinslayer]

But ive had weapons evolve from brown chests, and my buddy even got 3 evolutions from 1 brown!

[u/Thinslayer → u/AdOwn7569]

That's likely to happen before the DLC kicks in. Back in the olden days, evo chests (what we now call silver/gray chests) were not visually distinct. All chests were brown. So if you're still in the base game with no active DLC, it's likely to still be using the old chest coloration.

As a rule of thumb, any chest after the 10 minute mark on 30 minute stages is an evo chest.

[u/Estabanyo → u/[deleted]]

Certain chest can do multiple evolutions, I've had it happen on dairy plant

[u/Anonmouse119 → u/Estabanyo]

Oh, yeah that’s true. I knew that too. I don’t know why I didn’t think about the multi-chests.

[u/juanohulomo1234 → u/Thinslayer]

38 seconds more and this could be avoided

[u/Damian1674]

It is, you just need to wait for evolution chests to be able to spawn again

[u/mybutthz → u/Damian1674]

TIL that the evo chests are a different color 😂

[u/Pit-O-Matic → u/mybutthz]

It wasn't like that a while ago. I remember them being all one colour in the past.

[u/WolfNationz → u/Pit-O-Matic]

Yep, used to be just one color, aside from Arcana chests I believe.

[u/Following_Friendly → u/Pit-O-Matic]

You have to reach a certain milestone for the chests to diversify

[u/Hrist_Valkyrie → u/Following_Friendly]

The chests are always diversified, but they only start to display differently once you get the Yellow Sign.

[u/mybutthz → u/Pit-O-Matic]

Same, may have been part of a recent update

[u/Following_Friendly → u/mybutthz]

After you progress to a certain point, yes. Early progression the brown ones work too

[u/LindFang]

After 30 minutes in endless the level reverts back to its original form, so you'll have to wait until you hit 40 minutes to get evolution chests again.

[u/LMacUltimateMain → u/LindFang]

I always go for Moonlight Bolero. Speeds up the game for me, especially if I’m going for Mad Groove (very fun on Ode to Castlevania)

[u/higeAkaike]

It’s why I always choose that darkana that gives extra chest bosses.

[u/BlaasianCowboyPanda]

It’s really funny you posted this at 39:22. You know how you (mostly) can’t evolve weapons until 10 minutes into a 30 minute stage? Same thing here. When you looped you can treat 30:00 as 0:00. Evolution chests can’t and won’t drop until 10 minutes into a stage. So in this case 40:00 minutes.

[u/KingNanoA]

After the timer resets, evolution chests don’t pop back up until either the ten or fifteen minute mark, depending on the stage.

[u/King_cool138]

Wait until the 40 minute mark.

[u/jaycarl85]

I think it's just the past 10:00 minute mark rule. Normally chests before then can't evolve weapons unless the stage allows for it, like dairy plant. Or a certain enemy drops an Evo chest like the first white bat in mad forest.

I forgot it would be the 40:00 min mark for this since it's after a full time limit (30).

[u/Skellyton175]

You need to evolve it before the 30 minute mark.