Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the best ways to improve your equipment without relying on big-ticket drops or trade. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your items.
Upgrades to equipment provide an increase in the item's stats. The amount of bonus varies according to the rarity and level of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components can make your weapons and armour better. You can locate them by destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors or finding them in the form of item-spheres. They can also be rescued from equipment that contains them, or through the highest-quality salvage kits like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components are not destroyed when they are removed from an item.
Upgrade components are typically used to upgrade an item but they can also be used for other reasons. They can be stacked to boost the level or the amount of experience gained by upgrading equipment or weapons. They can also be made to give additional bonuses. For instance, a crafted glyph will boost the chance of upgrading its target, whereas a boost upgrade will enhance the defense or attack quality of a weapon or armor.
You can connect an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will display the upgrade components that the item can be updated. Alternately, you can use the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either scenario the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been collected.
Each component has a distinct experience multiplier that affects the amount of experience an item will gain when it is upgraded by that component. Organic components, for instance, have more experience multipliers than mechanical components. It is recommended to upgrade the organic components first, until you reach the next level in the weapon or equipment, and then move on to mechanical upgrades.
Each item has an upgrade limit number that is available for. The number of items that are upgradeable is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the type of upgrade they can receive. For instance, the most expensive possible weapon upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and a armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a group of items that share the benefit of. Each item can be upgraded at the minimum once. The upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. When item upgrader upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. After subsequent upgrades, the primary stats are boosted even further (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded one of its additional stats is increased randomly.
Upgrades to a weapon may increase the damage base, which may be crucial for certain builds. Weapons cannot be upgraded for an increased maximum defence roll than their base. It's possible to increase the value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, but they might not always be superior to a higher-level Runeword.
If the item you're upgrading has a guarantee bonus it is able to be rerolled only once and the guarantee will be reset to zero. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item, but the new item will have additional bonuses. Upgrades can be completed through the NPC [ArmorBoboko. Boboko in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item you will require the required amount of Minerals and Erons, as well as a power dice of each kind. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector and are available for purchase with Gold. NPCs also offer special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a second time and will be made using the same materials as the original item.
Rerolling
If a player has enough rerolling tokens, they can reroll any item that they've acquired during the game. If an upgraded item is to be rerolled, it will be exchanged for an equivalent version at a level 1 of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens are sold in the store for a small amount of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item will offer the same extra bonuses as the previous one, but the stats will also be different.
In addition to rerolling items players can also alter the identification of any equipment by engaging with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identity from an armored weapon to a weapon, or vice versa, while keeping its basic stats and the attributes it requires. The change is permanent and will affect all characters who own the gear in question.
The player can also upgrade the item level for any equipped equipment. This is accomplished by talking to an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade components. The cost will vary depending on the upgrade track, the item type, and the number of crests. In the case of weapons, each upgrade will add 5% to its damage.
The upgrade of an item will make it more powerful, but it will also lower its quality. Therefore, it is important to keep both in check. Some items may not be worth upgrading at all and some will require to be upgraded in order to reach their potential. A player may want to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modifier (% block chance or FHR) in order to explore what else it can be.
Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it to gain access to the character or weapon they would not otherwise be able to acquire. Getting these items can be costly and time-consuming and the RNG gods do not always want to play ball. The only options are to invest real money or grind lots. This is why rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor when you upgrade an item. However, this feature is absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe it was intended to to increase the value of rare items, but because equipment generally drops quickly and is only upgraded one level up and you'll typically replace the item before it becomes old enough. It's not worth it to level items that have gem sockets because the power of the gem will be greater than the increase in ilvl with the upgrade.
When you click the upgrade button on an item, you will see a small window with the upgrade template for the item and the cost of Valorstone and crest to increase the item level. The costs will vary between armor and weapons and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item and also lists its current base ilvl.
The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated by analyzing the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. In addition the ilvl of a new upgraded item will be decreased by the upgrade template's lvl decrease percentage. For instance, an upgrade of 8% will reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8percent.
In addition to the base ilvl boost the item will also receive upgrades in other stats like critical strike damage, damage from PvE and dodge, block and parry rating. These increases are also based off the upgrade template.
The amount of defense and damage the item will receive when leveled up can be observed below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. In addition to practice equipment, all other weapons and armor gain these same stats when upgraded. The market will determine the worth of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can command a much higher price than an unupp'd version. The same applies to other pieces of armor, such as tiaras and circlets.