Weapon Awakening Introduction
New Major update will be released on 27th of March. Another way to get stronger is to Awakened your weapon. There are several requirements needed to have your weapon awakened, you need materials like shards. dust, max tempered weapon and an ancient sealed familiar (maxed level). Once awakened, you will get an additional Ancient Skill to use and additional stats to have if you re-awakened your weapon.
Details can be found here: Weapon Awakening Patch Notes