Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the most effective ways to upgrade your equipment without relying on massive drops or trade. This article will teach you how to upgrade your items effectively.
Upgrading equipment grants an additional bonus to the item's base stats. This bonus scales based on the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components are the things that make your weapons and armor better. You can find them by destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors, or finding them in items-spheres. You can also get them from equipment containing the components or through high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products, upgrade components are not destroyed when they are removed from an item.
Upgrade components are primarily used to improve an item however, they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked to increase the level of an upgradeable item or they can be used to boost the amount of experience gained from upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can also be made to provide extra bonuses. For instance, a specially created glyph can increase the chances of upgrading its target, and an upgrade boost will enhance the defense or attack attribute of a weapon or armor.
By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will show the upgrade components that the item can be updated. You can also make use of the workbench to choose an upgrade template. In either scenario the item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components are gathered.
Each component has a unique experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item will gain when upgraded with that component. For instance, organic components have a an experience multiplier that is higher than mechanical ones. It is therefore recommended to upgrade with organic components until you reach the experience multiplier for the next rank of weapon or gear, and then switch to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the experience multiplier Each item also comes with the maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade they are able to receive. The highest upgrade possible is a weapon that is tier 10. The most popular weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and an armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a set of items that all share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and each upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. Following upgrades, primary stats are enhanced even more (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats increases randomly.
Upgrades to a weapon may increase its damage base, which may be important for some builds. However, weapons are not upgraded to have a greater defense base than their base. It's possible to increase the value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, however they may not always be superior to a higher-level Runeword.
If you are upgrading an item with a bonus, the item can be rerolled a single time and the guarantee will reset back to zero. The same power dies are used to reroll an item as it would be to upgrade it. However the new item comes with different bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will need the appropriate amount Minerals and Erons and a power dice of each type. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector, and can be purchased with Gold. The NPC will also offer a special reward for each tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a single time, using the same materials as original item.
Rerolling
If players have enough tokens for rerolling, they can roll any item they've acquired during the game. If item upgrades upgraded item is rerolled, it will be exchanged for an equivalent version that is level 1 of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens are sold at the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item will have the same bonuses as the previous one, but the stats will also be different.
Players can change the identity of equipment in addition to rolling it again by interacting with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification from an armored weapon to a weapon, or vice versa, all the while keeping its basic stats and attributes that are required. The change will be permanent and affect all characters who own the gear.
The player can also upgrade the level of an item for any equipment equipped. This is done by interacting with an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade components. It will cost a specific amount of crests as well as Valorstones according to the upgrade track and the item kind. Each upgrade will add an additional 5% of damage to weapons.
Upgrades can boost the capability of an item, however they can also reduce its quality. It is therefore important to strike a balance between the two. Some items are not worth upgrading, while others require upgrading to reach their full potential. One player may wish to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modifier ( percent block chance or FHR) in order to see what else it can become.
The main reason people play rerolls in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is that they're trying to acquire a certain weapon or character that they can't otherwise obtain. These items are time-consuming and costly to acquire and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only options left are to spend real cash or grind lots. For this reason, rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can upgrade the weapon or armor. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe it was designed to be a way to increase the value of rare items, but as the majority of gear drops quickly and can only be upgraded one level up it is likely that you will replace the item before it becomes too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.
If you click the upgrade button on an item, you'll see a small window with the upgrade template of the item as well as the crest and Valorstone costs to boost the level of the item. Weapons and armor will have different costs, with the former generally being more expensive. The upgrade template lists the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item. item upgrades lists its current base ilvl.
The cost of the Valorstone and crest is calculated using the current Ilvl of the item as well as the upgrade templates. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade template's lvl reduction percentage. For example, an upgrade of 8% will reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8percent.
The item will get upgrades to other stats, such as critical strike damage, PvE damages and block, parry and dodge rating, in addition to the base level. Those increases are also dependent on the upgrade template.
The amount of damage and defense that the item receives when it is leveled can be observed below the upgrade cost and decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. Aside from equipment for practice, all weapons and armor gain these same stats when leveled up. The market determines the value of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can fetch more than an unupp'd version. The same applies to other armor pieces, like tiaras or circlets.