Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the best ways to improve your equipment without relying on massive drops or trade. This article will show you how to upgrade your items effectively.
Upgrades to equipment grant a bonus on the item's stats. The bonus is based on the rarity and strength of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components can make your armour and weapons stronger. You can find them by destroying enemies, purchasing them from karma vendors, or finding them in items-spheres. You can also salvage them from equipment that has the components or through high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. In contrast to other items upgrades aren't destroyed when removed from an item.
Upgrade components are typically used to upgrade an item, but they can also be used for other reasons. They can be used to boost the value of an item upgrader mod that can be upgraded or they can be used to boost the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of equipment. They can be made for additional bonuses. A glyph that is crafted can boost the chance of upgrading its target, while boost upgrades increase the attack or defense attributes of a weapon.
Selecting an upgrade template in the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will show the upgrade components to which the item can be updated. Alternately, you can make use of the workbench to choose an upgrade template. In either case, 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 the component. Organic components, for instance, have more experience multipliers than mechanical components. Therefore, it is recommended to upgrade using organic components until you reach the experience multiplier for the next rank of the weapon or gear, then move to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the experience multiplier Each item also comes with the maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of upgradeable items is determined by their upgradeable rank and the kind of upgrade they can receive. The most powerful upgrade is a weapon that is the tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a gun with tier 6 and a armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a set of items which all have the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at minimum once. The upgrade increases the amount of bonuses you can expect to receive. When you first upgrade a set piece or weapon, it will receive a +1 increase to its primary stat. Following upgrades, the primary stats are increased even more (for instance +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats is increased randomly.
Upgrades can also increase a weapon's damage base. This could be crucial for certain types of weapons. Weapons cannot be upgraded for a higher maximum defence roll than their base. It is a good way to improve the value of a set and unique items, however it's important to note that they may not be superior to a high-level runeword in any build.
If an item you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus it is able to be rerolled a few times and the guarantee will reset to 0. The same amount of power die is used to roll an Item upgrader kit as it is used to level it up. However the new item comes with different bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll 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. They can be purchased by using Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each 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 can play rerolling any item that they acquire during the game, provided they have enough tokens to be able to do so. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced with an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens can be purchased from the store for small amounts of in-game currency, but they cannot be refunded. The new item will offer the same bonus features like the first, however the stats will also differ.
Players can alter the identification of their equipment, in addition to rerolling it by interacting with an upgrader NPC. The equipment's identification will change as a weapon to armor, or reverse it. Its base stats and requirements will remain the same. The change will be permanent and will affect all characters that own the equipment.
The player can also upgrade the item upgrader mod level for any equipped equipment. This is accomplished by talking to an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade components. The cost will vary depending on the upgrade track, the item type and the number of crests. For weapons, each step will add an additional 5% to its damage.
An upgrade can make it more powerful however it can also decrease its quality. Therefore, it is important to keep both in check. Certain items might not be worth upgrading at all and some will require to be upgraded to reach their potential. For instance, a player might decide to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to explore the possibilities of what it can be.
The primary reason why people play rerolls in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game, is that they're trying to acquire a certain character or weapon that they aren't able to obtain. The process of obtaining these items can be expensive and time-consuming, and the RNG gods do not always want to play ball. The only options are to spend real cash or grind a lot. Rerolling is a popular feature in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can pick to increase the level of the weapon or armor. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe this feature was created to increase the value of rare and expensive items. However, since most equipment is replaced quickly, and can only be leveled up to a certain level, you will usually replace it before it is too old. It's not worth it to upgrade items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will far outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.
You will see 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 cost of Valorstone to increase the item's level. The cost will differ between weapons and armor as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines the stats that will be added to the upgraded item level upgrade and it also lists the current ilvl.
The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated by analyzing the current ilvl of the item and the upgrade template. In addition, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the upgrade template's lvl decrease percentage. For example, an upgrade of 8% can reduce the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 88%.
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 level. The increases are also dependent on the upgrade template.
The amount of defense and damage the item upgrade receives as it gets leveled up can be shown below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. Apart from the practice equipment, all armor and weapons gain the same stats once upgraded. The value of these stats will be dictated by the market, with a perfectly perfectly rolled version of a weapon or piece of armor is able to command more in trade value than unupp'd versions. This is also true for other armor pieces, such as tiaras and circlets.