Warhammer Survivors Upgrades and Gold: Run Power vs Progression

Weapon upgrades during a run and gold-funded growth between runs are different parts of Warhammer Survivors. The official store describes collecting gold to improve future attempts; it also describes weapon/passive combinations evolving attacks within a run.

Identify what you are spending

Do not assume champion level automatically increases a weapon to the same number. An evolution condition stating level 8 concerns that base weapon, while a named exception such as Fidelis has its own level requirement.

Choose a purpose for the next attempt

A useful editorial approach is to target one clear improvement: finish an available objective, test an unlocked weapon pair or save toward a menu upgrade you understand. Spreading effort across unknown objectives can make a failed run harder to learn from. This is planning advice, not a claimed optimal purchase order.

Patch-sensitive counters

Steam v2.1.6 reduced kill requirements involving D6 Dice and Nuln Oil for two paint pots. Old numeric advice may no longer match. The announcement does not publish replacement thresholds, so this guide does not invent them. Read paint pots and the current hotfix scope before treating a different counter as save corruption.