Probably it does carry over, but don't use any crafted technic without paying attention to its effects.Really? Because i'm not seeing them. I use a controller, so i'm assuming your talking about palletes. When i go to customize, i see everything except shifta & deband. Although your probably right because Lisa just cast it when i had her as a partner.
One last question. As part of my arks road, i crafted a tech upgrade. Currently the tech is level 4. If i use the upgrade, will it carry over if i level up the tech? I assume so i just wanted to double check.
Glad to know the game gets harder. It already seemed like kind of easy mode before extension.
Every crafted technic has both a positive and a negative aspect, like, increasing power but also increasing PP consumption, decreasing charge time but also decreasing status effect rate, and so on.
Also the values for crafted technics are random, so you can get something with a bigger negative aspect than the positive one.
About crafted weapons and the game being too easy, I recommend not using crafted weapons until you reach very hard or super hard mode (or even not using crafted weapons at all, they have higher damage variation than 7* or higher weapons).