Path of Exile Item Upgrading
The most effective way to improve your gear in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This allows you to improve it without having to rely on expensive trades or drops. This article will show you how to upgrade your items.
Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus on the item's stats. This bonus scales depending on the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components can make your weapons and armour better. You can acquire them by destroying enemies, finding them in spheres of items or buying them from karma dealers. They can also be salvaged from equipment with them, or by utilizing a high-tier salvage kit such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when you remove them from an item.
The main function of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded, however, they also serve other functions. They can be used to increase the level or experience gained from upgrading existing weapons or gear. They can also be forged to give additional bonuses. For instance, a crafted glyph will boost the chances of upgrading its target, whereas 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 upgraded. Alternately, you can use the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components are gathered.
Each component is assigned an experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item gains when upgraded using the component. Organic components, for instance have a higher multiplier of experience than mechanical components. It is therefore recommended to upgrade with organic components until you reach the experience multiplier of the next level of the weapon or gear, then move to mechanical upgrades.
Each item comes with a maximum upgrade number that can be received. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank and the kind of upgrade they can get. The highest upgrade possible is a weapon with the tier 10. However, the most popular upgrades for weapons are the tier 6 weapon and a tier 5 armor upgrade.
Sets
A set is a set of items that all share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once, and each upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade a set piece or weapon is that it will be given a +1 increase to its primary stat. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats are enhanced even more (for instance the +1 bonus 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 its damage base, which may be necessary for certain builds. Weapons can't be upgraded for a higher maximum defence roll than their base. It is possible to increase value of certain sets and unique items by upgrading them, however they're not always better than a Runeword with a high level.
If an item you're upgrading comes with a guaranteed bonus, it can be rerolled only once and the guarantee will be reset to 0. Rerolling is the same amount of power dice as bringing an item, however the new item will offer different extra 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 as well as a power dice of each kind. 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 second time, and the reroll will use the same materials used in the original item.
Rerolling
If players have enough to reroll tokens, they are able to play rerolling any item they've acquired during the game. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced with a level 1 version in another set. Reroll tokens are available in the shop for a small sum of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The new item will have the same bonus features like the first, however the stats will be different.
Players can change the identification of their equipment as well as rerolling it by interacting with an NPC upgrader. item upgrading will change the identity from a weapon to armor or vice versa, while retaining its base stats and required attributes. The change will be permanent and affect all characters who have the gear.
The player can also upgrade their level of the item for any equipment equipped. This is accomplished by talking to an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade items. It will cost a specific amount of crests as well as Valorstones dependent on the upgrade track and item type. Each step will add 5percent more damage to weapons.
Upgrading an item can boost its power however it can also lower its quality. Therefore, it is crucial to keep both in check. Some items are not worth upgrading, whereas others need to be upgraded to make them more effective. A player may want to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modifier (% block chance or FHR) in order to discover what it could become.
Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People use it to gain access to an item or character that they wouldn't otherwise have. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire, and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only choices left are to invest real money or grind lots. Rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item you can choose to level up the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I believe it was intended to to increase the value of rare items, but since equipment generally drops quickly and is only upgraded once you've reached a certain level it is likely that you will replace the item before it becomes too old. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade items that have gem sockets because the power of the gem will far outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.
You will be presented with a small box when you click on the upgrade option for an item. It will show the template for the item, its Crest, as well as the Valorstone cost to raise the level of the item. The costs will vary between armor and weapons as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats that can be added to an upgraded item, and also the current base ilvl.
The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated based on the item's current ilvl and the upgrade template. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade templates reduction percentage for lvl. For example the weapon that has an upgrade decrease of 8% will reduce its count by 8-8%.
The item will be upgraded to other stats, like critical strike damage, PvE damages, and block, parry, and dodge rating in addition to the base level. These increases are based on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template you can see the amount of damage or defense an item will suffer after it is leveled up. This is listed below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. All armor and weapons, except practice equipment, get these stats when they level up. The value of these stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly rolled version of a weapon or piece of armor is able to command more in trade value than unupp'd versions. The same applies to other pieces of armor, such as circlets and Tiaras.