14 Common Misconceptions About Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the most effective ways to upgrade your gear without relying on large-ticket drops or trade. This article will teach you how to upp your items efficiently.

Upgrades to equipment grant a bonus on the item upgrades's stats. This bonus scales with the upgrade component's level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components make your armour and weapons better. They can be obtained by fighting off enemies, locating them in item upgrade spheres or buying them from karma merchants. You can also get them from equipment containing the components or by using high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. In contrast to other items, upgrade components are not destroyed when they are removed from an item.

The primary function of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded, however, they also serve other purposes. They can be stacked to increase the level of an upgradeable item, or they can be used to boost the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can also be made to offer additional benefits. For instance, a specially designed glyph will increase the upgrade chance of its target, and the boost upgrade can increase the attack or defense property of a weapon, or armor.

Selecting an upgrade template in the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. It will display a list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. You can also use the workbench for selecting an upgrade template. In either scenario, the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components are collected.

Each component has a distinct experience multiplier, which determines how much more experience an item will gain when it upgrades with 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 multiplier of experience for the next rank of the weapon or gear, and then change to mechanical upgrades.

In addition to the multiplier of experience Each item also comes with an maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of upgradeable items is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the kind of upgrade they are able to receive. For instance, the highest possible upgrade for a weapon is a weapon with tier 10. The most popular weapon upgrade is a gun with tier 6 and a armor upgrade for tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of items that have bonuses. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and each upgrade boosts the amount of bonuses that are guaranteed. When you first upgrade a set piece or weapon will give it a +1 increase to its primary stat. After subsequent upgrades, the primary stats are increased 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 can also boost a weapon's damage base. This can be crucial for certain builds. Weapons can't be upgraded for greater maximum defence rolls than their base. It is possible to increase value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, however they're not always superior to a high-level Runeword.

If you're upgrading an item that has a bonus, the item can be rerolled one time, and its guarantee will reset back to 0. Rerolling is the same amount of power dice as bringing an item upgrader mod, but the upgraded item will come with additional bonuses. Upgrades can be made through the NPC [Armor] Boboko 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 are available at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collector and can be purchased using Gold. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each completed level of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled one time with the same materials as the original item.

Rerolling

If a player has enough tokens for rerolling, they can play rerolling any item they've accumulated during the game. When an upgraded item is being rerolled, it can be exchanged for the version that is level 1 of the same item in another set. Reroll tokens are available in the shop for a small amount of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item will offer the same extra bonuses as the previous one, but the stats will be different.

Players can change the identity of their equipment as well as rolling it again by interacting with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identity from an armor to a weapon or vice versa, while keeping its basic stats and the attributes it requires. The change will be permanent and will affect all characters who have the gear.

The player can also upgrade the level of the item for any equipment that is equipped. This is done by talking to an upgrader NPC, and then obtaining upgrade items. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, the item type, and the number of crests. Each step will give an additional 5% of damage to weapons.

Upgrades can increase the capability of an item, however they also decrease its quality. It is therefore important to find a balance between these two. Some items aren't worth upgrading, while others require upgrades to maximize their potential. For instance one player might decide to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to explore the possibilities of what it can become.

The primary reason people play rerolls in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is that they're trying to obtain a particular weapon or character that they wouldn't otherwise be able to acquire. These items can be costly and time-consuming to obtain and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only alternative is to spend real money or grind a lot. Rerolling is very popular in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item, you can increase the level of the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I think it was meant to to give some value to rare items, but since gear in general drops fairly quickly and can only be upgraded once you've reached a certain level and you'll typically replace the item before it becomes old enough. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade items (Championsleage's website) with gem sockets as the power of the gem will be greater than the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

If you click the upgrade option on an item level upgrade, you will get a small screen with the item's upgrade template and the cost of crest and Valorstone to boost the level of the item. Armor and weapons have different prices, with the latter usually being more expensive. The upgrade template outlines the stats that can be added to an upgraded item, as well as its current ilvl.

The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated based on the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. The ilvl will also be decreased by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For instance weapons with an upgrade decrease of 8% will reduce its count by 8-8 percent.

The item will be upgraded to other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage and block, parry and dodge rating, in addition to the base ilvl. Those increases are also built on the upgrade template.

The amount of damage and defense that the item is able to receive as it gets leveled up can be shown below the upgrade cost and decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. 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 perfectly rolled version of a weapon or piece of armor able to command much more in trade value than unupp'd versions. Similar is the case for other pieces of armor, like tiaras and circlets.