Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the most effective ways to upgrade your gear without relying on big-ticket drops or trade. This article will show you how to upp your items effectively.
Upgrades to equipment give a bonus on the item's stats. The bonus increases with upgrade component's level and rarity.
Components
Upgrade components make your armour and weapons better. You can acquire them by the destruction of enemies, finding them in Best item upgrader spheres, or buying them from karma dealers. They can also be salvaged from equipment that has them, or by utilizing a high-tier salvage kit like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. In contrast to other items upgrade components, 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 increase the quality of an item that can be upgraded or they can be used to increase the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can be forged for additional bonuses. For instance, a specially created glyph can increase the chances of upgrading its target, and a boost upgrade will increase the attack or defense property of a weapon, or armor.
By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to bind it to an item. This will show the upgrade components to which the item can be upgraded. Alternatively, you can utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either instance the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components are gathered.
Each component has a unique experience multiplier. This determines the amount of experience an item can gain when upgraded with that component. Organic components, for instance, have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. You should upgrade your organic components first until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment, then switch to mechanical upgrades.
Each item comes with an upgrade maximum number that it is possible to receive. The number of upgrades are determined by the upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade for the upgradeable item. For instance, the most expensive possible upgrade for a weapon is a weapon of tier 10. However, the most popular weapon upgrades are an tier 6 weapon as well as a tier 5 armor upgrade.
Sets
A set is a collection of items which share bonuses. Each item level upgrade can be upgraded at the least once. The upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item or set piece will give it a +1 increase to its primary stat. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be increased even more (for instance the +1 bonus for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded, one of its stats will increase randomly.
Upgrades to a weapon may increase its damage base, which may be necessary for certain builds. Weapons can't be upgraded for greater maximum defence rolls than their base. Upgrading can be a good way to improve the value of certain sets and unique items, but it's important to remember that they might not be better than a high-level runeword in any build.
If the item you're upgrading comes with a guaranteed bonus, it can be rerolled once and the guarantee will be reset to zero. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item, however the upgraded item will come with additional bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item you will require the proper amount of Minerals and Erons, as well as a power dice of each kind. These can be purchased by using Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. The NPC will also offer a special reward for every tier that is completed of the upgrade process. The reward can be rerolled a single time using the same materials and components as the first item.
Rerolling
If a player has enough tokens for rerolling, they can play rerolling any item they have acquired during the game. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced with a level 1 version in another set. Reroll tokens can be bought at the store for a small amount of in-game currency, but they aren't refundable. The new upgraded item will still come with the extra bonuses of the original one, but its stats will differ also.
In addition to rerolling items, players can also change the identity of any equipment by engaging with an upgrader NPC. This will change its identification from a weapons to armor, or vice versa. The base requirements and stats will remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that are wearing the gear.
The player can also upgrade the level of the item for any equipped equipment. This is accomplished by interacting with an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade items. This will cost a certain number of crests and Valorstones depending on the upgrade track and item type. Each step will give 5% more damage to weapons.
Upgrades can increase the capability of an item, however they also decrease the quality of an item. Therefore, it is important to strike a balance between the two. Certain items aren't worth upgrading, while others need to be upgraded to make them more effective. One player may wish to upgrade their breakpoint armor using an interesting modifier ( percent block chance or FHR) to discover what it could be.
Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People use it in order to get a character or weapon 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 alternative is to spend money or grind a lot. For this reason, rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item upgrader you can choose to increase the level of the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I believe it was intended to be a way to add value to rare items, but because the majority of gear 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 old enough. It's also not worth upgrading items using gem sockets since the power of the gemstone will outweigh any increase in the ilvl.
When you click the upgrade option on an item, you'll be presented with a small window displaying the upgrade template of the item as well as the cost of Valorstone and crest to increase the level of the item. The cost will differ between weapons and armor, with the former usually costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines the stats that can be added to an upgraded item, as well as its current base ilvl.
The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated based on the item's current ilvl and the upgrade template. In addition the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For example an upgrade item of 8% will reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8%.
In addition to the increase in ilvl base the item upgrader kit will also receive upgrades in other stats, such as critical strike damage, damage from PvE and dodge, block and parry rating. These enhancements are also based on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template, you can determine the amount of damage or defense that the item will receive after being leveled up. This is listed below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. All armor and weapons, except practice equipment, get these stats once they've been leveled up. The market will determine the worth of these stats. A weapon or armor with perfect rolls can command a much higher price than a non-upp’d version. This is also true for other armor pieces such as circlets or Tiaras.