Lol, yeah time flies when your repeadtly losing to giant ogres who laugh at your pathetic attempt to protect shiny crystals (I swear that the Ogre challenge is impossible soloing).
Yes you do have quite an epic weapon, my weapon does only like 50 damage a blast. epic fail music plays. But one day I will have enough mana stored to upgrade it to level 10.
Upgrading is key. My "baby" was terrible at first but at level ten she is a beast. Her name is Debra.
What I do is play ogre crush alot then sell sell sell. I end up with about 150,000 mana at the end of a good ogre crush game. 150k is usually enough to go from 1-10