Path of Exile Item Upgrading
The best way to upgrade your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades . This allows you to improve it without having to depend on costly trades or drops. This article will show you how to upgrade your items.
Upgrading equipment grants an increase to the item's base stats. This bonus is based on the upgrade component level and rarity.
Components
Upgrade components are the things that can make your weapons and armor more effective. You can get them from the destruction of enemies, finding them in item spheres, or buying them from karma merchants. They can also be rescued from equipment that contains them, or by utilizing the highest-quality salvage kits like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components cannot be destroyed when they are removed from an item.
The main function of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded, but they also serve other functions. They can be stacked in order to increase the level of the amount of experience gained by upgrading weapons or gear. They can also be made to offer additional benefits. For instance, a specially crafted glyph will boost the chances of upgrading its target, and an upgrade boost will increase the attack or defense quality of a weapon or armor.
By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will let you bind it to an item. This will display the upgrade components that the item can be upgraded. Alternatively, you can use the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components have been gathered.
Each component has a unique experience multiplier. This determines the amount of experience an item gains when upgraded with that component. For instance, organic components give a higher experience multiplier than mechanical ones. You should upgrade your organic components first until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment, and then switch to the mechanical upgrades.
Each item has a maximum upgrade number that is available for. The number of upgrades is determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the upgrade type of the upgradeable item. For example, the highest possible weapon upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. However, the most common upgrades for weapons are a tier 6 weapon and an armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a group of items that share the benefit of. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once and each upgrade boosts its guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item or set piece, it will receive a +1 increase to its primary stat. After subsequent upgrades, primary stats are increased even more (for instance the +1 bonus for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats is increased randomly.
Upgrades can also boost the base damage of a weapon. This may be important for certain types of weapons. However, weapons can't be upgraded to a higher defense base than their regular base. Upgrading can be a good method to increase the value of certain sets and unique items, however it's important to note that they might not be better than a high-level runeword in any build.
If an item you're upgrading has a guarantee bonus, it can be rerolled only once, and then its guarantee will be reset to zero. The same power die is used to reroll an item, just as it is used to upgrade it. However the new item comes with different bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will need a power die of each type (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; dice 7 drops from bosses) and the proper amount of Minerals and Erons. These can be bought with Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each completed stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a second time and will use the same materials as the original item.
Rerolling
A player can reroll any item acquired during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens to be able to do so. When an upgraded item gets being rerolled, it can be exchanged for a version that is level 1 of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens can be purchased from the store for small amounts of in-game currency, however they aren't refundable. The new item will have the same bonus features like the first, however the stats will differ.
In addition to rerolling items, players can also change the identification of any item by engaging with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification from a weapon to armor or vice versa, while maintaining its base stats and required attributes. The change is permanent and will affect all characters who own the gear in question.
Players can also boost the level of an item equipped equipment by acquiring upgrade components and communicating with the upgrader NPC of the item. The cost will vary depending on the upgrade track, item type and number of crests. In the case of weapons, each step up will add an additional 5percent to the damage.
Upgrades can boost the capability of an item, but they can also reduce its quality. Therefore, it is important to balance the two. Certain items aren't worth upgrading, while other items need to be upgraded to make them more effective. A player may want to upgrade their breakpoint armor using an interesting modifier (% block chance or FHR) to explore what else it can become.
Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it to gain access to the character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise have. The process of obtaining these items can be costly and time-consuming, and the RNG gods do not always want to play. The only options left are to spend real cash or grind lots. Rerolling is extremely popular in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can level up the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I think this feature was intended to increase the value of expensive and rare items. However, as most items are replaced quite quickly, and it can only be upgraded to a certain level, you will generally replace it before it is too old. It's not worth upgrading items using gem sockets, as the power of the gem will outweigh any increase in the level of.
When you click the upgrade button on an item, you will get a small screen with the upgrade template for the item and the cost of crest and Valorstone to increase the item level. The cost will differ between the armor and weapons, with the former usually costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines the stats that will be added to an upgraded item, along with its current ilvl.
The cost of the Valorstone and the crest is calculated based on the current Ilvl of the item and the upgrade templates. In addition, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be decreased by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For example an upgrade of 8% will reduce the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 8%.
In addition to the base ilvl boost it will also get upgrades in other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage and dodge, block, and parry rating. These upgrades are also based on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template, you can check the amount of damage or defense the item will be able to sustain when it is upgraded. This is shown below the cost and upgrade percentages. All weapons and armor that are not practice equipment gain these stats upon leveling up. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a rolled perfect version of a weapon or piece of armor able to command much higher trade values than non-upp'd versions. The same applies to other pieces of armor like tiaras or circlets.