Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile,
item upgrading is among the most effective ways to upgrade your gear without relying on large-ticket drops or trade. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your gear.
Upgrades in equipment can add a bonus to the
item upgrades's base stats. The amount of bonus varies depending on the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components make your armour and weapons better. You can locate them through destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors, or finding them in the form of item-spheres. You can also get them from equipment that has the components or through high-end salvage kits like Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when they are removed from an item.
Upgrade components are primarily used to improve an item but they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked to increase the level of the amount of experience gained by upgrading weapons or gear. They can be forged to give additional benefits. For instance, a designed glyph will increase the chances of upgrading its target, while an upgrade boost will increase the attack or defense property of a weapon, or armor.
Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will let you bind it to an item. This will show the upgrade components that the item can be updated. You can also utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, an item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components have been gathered.
Each component has a different experience multiplier, which affects how much more experience an item gets when it is upgraded by that component. For instance, organic components give a higher experience multiplier than mechanical ones. Therefore, it is recommended to upgrade using organic components until you reach the experience multiplier of the next rank of weapon or gear, and then move to mechanical upgrades.
Each item has a maximum upgrade number that it is possible to receive. The number of upgradeable items is determined by their upgradeable rank and the kind of upgrade they can receive. For example, the highest possible weapon upgrade is a tier 10 weapon. The most commonly used upgrade is a tier 6 gun and an armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a collection of items that have the benefit of. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once, and each upgrade boosts its guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade a set piece or weapon will give it a +1 increase to its primary stat. Following upgrades, the primary stats are boosted even further (for instance +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats increases randomly.
Upgrades can also boost the damage base of a weapon. This may be important for certain builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to a higher defense level than their regular base. Upgrades can be a great way to improve the value of some set and unique items, however it's important to note that they're not necessarily superior to a high-level runeword in any build.
If an item you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus that is guaranteed, it can be rerolled once, and then its guarantee will be reset to 0. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as bringing an item, however the new item will have additional bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll require a power die of each type (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the right amount of Minerals and Erons. These can be bought with Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs also offer special rewards for each completed stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled one time using the same materials as original item.
Rerolling
If players have enough to reroll tokens, they are able to reroll any item that they've accumulated during the game. When an upgraded
item level upgrade is rerolled, it will be exchanged for an equivalent version at a level 1 of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens are available from the store for an amount of in-game currency, but they are not refundable. The new item upgraded will still come with the extra bonuses of the original one however, its stats will differ also.
Players can change the identity of equipment in addition to rolling it again by interacting with an NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from a weapon to an armor, or reverse it. Its base stats and requirements remain the same. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters who own the equipment.
The player can also upgrade the level of the item for any equipped equipment. This can be done by interacting with an upgrader NPC, and then obtaining upgrade components. It will cost a specific amount of crests as well as Valorstones depending on the upgrade track and the item type. For weapons, each step will add 5percent to the damage.
Upgrading an item can make it more powerful however, it can reduce its effectiveness. Therefore, it is important to strike a balance between the two. Certain items might not be worth upgrading and some will require to be upgraded in order to realize their potential. For example, a player might want to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that has an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to explore the possibilities of what it can be.
The main reason people reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is because they are trying to acquire a certain weapon or character that they can't otherwise obtain. Getting these items can be expensive and time-consuming and the RNG gods do not always want to play. The only choices left are to spend real cash or grind lots. Rerolling is a popular feature in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can pick to increase the level of the weapon or armor. However, this feature is absolutely nothing in the current game. I think it was meant to to add value to rare items, but since gear in general drops fairly quickly and can only be upgraded one level up and you'll typically replace the item before it becomes old enough. It's also not worth it to level items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will be greater than the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.
If you click the upgrade button on an item, you'll be presented with a small window displaying the upgrade template of the item as well as the cost of crest and Valorstone to boost the level of the item. Armor and weapons have different prices, with the latter generally being more expensive. The
upgrade item template outlines the statistics that will be added to the upgraded
item upgrades. It will also list its current base ilvl.
The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated by analyzing the current ilvl of the item and the upgrade template. Additionally the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl decrease percentage. For example, a weapon with an increase of 8% will decrease its ilvl by 8 - 8%.
The item will receive upgrades to other stats, like 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.
In the upgrade template, you can determine the amount of damage or defense the item will receive after it is leveled up. This is listed below the cost and upgrade percentages. Aside from practice equipment, all items and armor get these same stats when leveled up. The market will determine the worth of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can command an incredibly higher price than a non-upp’d version. Similar is the case for other pieces of armor like tiaras and circlets.
