14 Common Misconceptions About Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The best method to improve your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This allows you to enhance your gear without having to rely on expensive drops or trades. This article will show you how to upgrade your items efficiently.

Upgrades in equipment can add an increase to the item's base stats. The bonus increases with upgrade component's level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components make your armour and weapons better. You can locate them by destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors, or finding them in the form of item-spheres. You can also salvage them from equipment containing the components, or by utilizing high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products upgrade components, upgrade components aren't destroyed when they are removed from an item.

Upgrade components are mostly used to upgrade item an item however, they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked in order to increase the level or experience gained from upgrading existing weapons or gear. They can be forged for additional bonuses. A glyph that is crafted can boost the upgrade chances of its target, and boost upgrades increase the defense or attack capabilities of weapons.

You can bind an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will display the upgrade components that the item can be updated. You can also use the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components have been collected.

Each component has a different experience multiplier, which determines the amount of experience an item gets when it upgrades with the component. For instance, organic components give a higher experience multiplier than mechanical ones. It is therefore best to upgrade with organic components until you reach the experience multiplier of the next level of the equipment or weapon, and then move to mechanical upgrades.

Each item comes with an upgrade maximum number that it is possible to receive. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the kind of upgrade they can get. For instance, the highest possible upgrade for a weapon is a tier 10 weapon. The most popular weapon upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and an armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a set of items that all share the same bonus. Each item upgrades can be upgraded at minimum once. The upgrade will increase the amount of bonuses you can expect to receive. The first time you upgrade an item or set piece, it will receive an increase of +1 to its primary stat. On subsequent upgrades, primary stats are boosted even further (for instance the +1 bonus for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded one of its additional stats increases randomly.

The upgrade of a weapon can increase its damage base, which may be important for some builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to a higher defense level than their normal base. It is possible to increase the value of specific sets and unique items by upgrading them, however they may not always be better than a Runeword with a high level.

If you're upgrading an item that comes with a bonus the item can be rerolled one time, and its guarantee will reset to 0. The same power die is used to roll an item as it is used to level it up. However, the new item has different bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will need a power die of each kind (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; dice 7 drops from bosses) and the appropriate amount of Minerals and Erons. These are available at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collector and are available for purchase with Gold. NPCs also offer special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. This reward is rerollable once, and the reroll will be made using the same materials used in the original item.

Rerolling

A player is able to play rerolling any item that they acquire in the game if they have enough tokens. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced by the same level in another set. Reroll tokens can be purchased from the store for an amount of in-game currency, but they are not refundable. The new item will come with the same bonuses like the first, however the stats will also be different.

In addition to rerolling items players can also alter the identity of any equipment by engaging with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identity from an armored weapon to a weapon, or vice versa, all the while retaining its base stats and required attributes. The change will be permanent and affect all characters that own the equipment.

Players can also boost the level of an item equipped device by obtaining upgrade components and communicating with the item's upgrader NPC. This will cost a set amount of crests as well as Valorstones according to the upgrade track and item kind. Each step will give 5percent more damage to weapons.

Upgrading an item will make it more powerful, but it will also decrease its quality. It is therefore essential to find a balance between the two. Some items aren't worth upgrading, while other items require upgrades to reach their full potential. For example one player might decide to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to explore the possibilities of what it can be.

Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. It is a method used by players to gain access to the character or weapon they cannot otherwise get. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire, and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only options is to shell out real money or grind a lot. Rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can select whether to upgrade the weapon or armor after upgrading an item. However, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I think this feature was created to add some value to rare and expensive items. However, as most gear is replaced fairly quickly, and it can only be leveled up one level, you'll generally replace it before it becomes too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items with gem sockets since the value of the gem will far outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

When you click the upgrade item button on an item, you will get a small screen with the item upgrade's upgrade template and the cost of Valorstone and crest to increase 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 outlines the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item. It it also lists the current base ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and the crest is calculated based on the current Ilvl of the item as well as the upgrade templates. The ilvl will also be reduced by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For instance an upgrade of 8% will reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8percent.

In addition to the increase in ilvl base the item will also get upgrades in other stats such as critical strike damage, PvE damage, block, parry and dodge rating. The increases are also based on the upgrade template.

In the upgrade template, you can see the amount of damage or defense the item will suffer when it is upgraded. This is listed below the cost and the upgrade percentages. In addition to equipment for practice, all armor and weapons gain the same stats when they are leveled up. The value of these stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly rolled piece of armor or weapon able to command much more in trade value than unupp'd versions. This is also true for other armor pieces like circlets and tiaras.