>The unlocking of weapons is still a crap shoot to me. I've
>looked on the Dead Cells wiki and reddit pages, and they all
>point to "___ weapon can be found ___", but I never find it.
>THEN I realized that if you're not unlocking things (cause I
>had been avoiding unlocking boots and shields), new weapon
>plans won't pop up. As soon as I started unlocking stuff, I'd
>get new plans all the time.

the key to unlocking more blueprints is to buy the hunter's grenade in the first biome. it's in the area with the 3 doors that cost gold to open. the door holding the grenade costs 7500 gold. equip the grenade as a skill then throw it at an enemy who holds a blueprint that you don't have. they can be identified with a symbol over their head that kind of looks like the grenade. hit them with the grenade and an elite will spawn, along with another skill. pick up the dropped skill, get the elite to < 40% health, then use the new skill on them to extract the blueprint. i'm making runs now trying to collect every blueprint