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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The best way to upgrade your gear in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This lets you enhance your gear without having to rely on expensive trades or drops. This article will show you how to upp your gear effectively.

Upgrades to equipment grant an additional bonus to the item's stats. This bonus scales with the upgrade component's level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components make your weapons and armour better. They can be obtained by fighting off enemies, locating them in item spheres or buying them from karma dealers. You can also get them from equipment containing the components, or by utilizing salvage kits of high-end quality, such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when they are removed from an item.

Upgrade components are mostly used to upgrade an item however, they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked to boost the level or experience gained from upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can also be forged to give additional bonuses. For example, a designed glyph will increase the chance of upgrading its target, while an upgrade boost will increase the attack or defense attribute of a weapon or armor.

By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will let you bind it to an item. This will show the upgrade components to which the item upgrade 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 have been collected.

Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item can gain when upgraded using that component. Organic components, like, have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. Therefore, it is recommended to upgrade using organic components until you reach the multiplier of experience for the next rank of the equipment or weapon, and then switch to mechanical upgrades.

Each item has a maximum upgrade number that it is possible to receive. The number of items that are upgradeable is determined by their upgradeable rank and the kind of upgrade they can receive. For instance, the highest possible weapon upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a tier 6 gun and a armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of items that share a bonus. Each item can be upgraded at minimum once. The upgrade increases the bonuses that are guaranteed. When you first upgrade an item upgrade or set piece is that it will be given a +1 increase to its primary stat. On subsequent upgrades the stats of the primary one will be boosted a little more (for example, +1 up to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item with an additional stats is boosted randomly.

Upgrades can also increase a weapon's damage base. This may be important for certain builds. Weapons cannot be upgraded for a higher maximum defence roll than their base. It's possible to increase the value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, but they may not always be better than a Runeword with a high level.

If you are upgrading an item that has an added bonus the item can be rerolled a single time, and its guarantee will reset to 0. The same power die is used to roll an item as it is used to increase its level. However, the new item has different bonuses. The NPC [Armor] 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. NPCs will also provide special rewards for each completed stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled once, and the reroll will use the same materials as the first item.

Rerolling

A player is able to reroll any item upgrader mod acquired in the game provided they have enough tokens. When an upgraded item is being rerolled, it can be exchanged for the version at a level 1 of the same item in another set. Reroll tokens are available from the store for a small amount of in-game currency, but they cannot be refunded. The new item upgraded will have the same benefits of the previous one however its stats will be different too.

Players can change the identification of their equipment, in addition to rolling it again by interacting with a NPC upgrader. This will change its identification as a weapon to armor or vice versa. The basic requirements and stats will remain the same. The change will be permanent and affect all characters who have the gear.

The player can also upgrade the level of an item for any equipped equipment. This is accomplished by engaging with an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade components. This will cost a certain amount of crests and Valorstones dependent on the upgrade track and type. For weapons, each step will add an additional 5percent to the damage.

Upgrades can increase the effectiveness of an item, but they also decrease the quality of an item. Therefore, it is important to find a balance between the two. Certain items might not be worth upgrading and some will require to be upgraded in order to reach their potential. One player may wish to upgrade breakpoint armor with an interesting modification ( percent block chance, or FHR) to see what else it can become.

Rerolling is a popular practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. It is a method used by players to gain access to a character or weapon they would not otherwise be able to acquire. These items are time-consuming and costly to acquire, and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only options is to shell out real money or grind a lot. This is why rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item you can choose to upgrade the weapon or armor. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe it was intended to to increase the value of rare items, but because equipment generally drops quickly and can only be upgraded one level up it is likely that you will replace the item before it becomes old enough. It's not worth it to upgrade items that have gem sockets as the power of the gem will outweigh the increase in ilvl with the upgrade.

You will be presented with a small box when you click on the upgrade option for an item. It will display the template of the item upgrader mod, the crest, and the cost for Valorstone to raise the level of the item. The cost of upgrades will vary based on the armor and weapons, with the former usually costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats that will be added to the upgraded item and also lists its current ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and crest is calculated using the item's current Ilvl and the upgrade templates. Additionally, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For instance an upgrade of 8% will reduce the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 88%.

In addition to the base ilvl boost it will also receive upgrades in other stats, such as critical strike damage, damage from PvE and dodge, block, and parry rating. These upgrades are also based on the upgrade template.

In the upgrade template you can see the amount of damage or defense an item will receive after it is leveled up. This is displayed below the cost as well as the 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 perfectly perfectly rolled version of a piece of armor or weapon is able to command higher trade values than non-upp'd versions. The same applies to other armor pieces, such as circlets and Tiaras.