Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the best ways to improve your gear without relying upon big-ticket drops or trade. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your items.
Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus to the item's base stats. The bonus increases with upgrade component's level and rarity.
Components
Upgrade components can make your armour and weapons stronger. They can be found by destroying enemies, buying them from karma sellers or finding them in item-spheres. You can also get them from equipment containing the components, or by utilizing high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components cannot be destroyed by removing them from an item.
Upgrade components are primarily used to upgrade an item however, they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked to increase the level or experience gained by upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can be forged to give additional bonuses. For instance, a designed glyph will increase the chance of upgrading its target, and an upgrade boost will boost the defense or attack property of a weapon, or armor.
Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will let you bind 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 to select an upgrade template. In either instance, the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components are gathered.
Each component has a different experience multiplier, which affects the amount of experience an item gets when it upgrades with that component. For instance, organic components give an experience multiplier that is higher than mechanical ones. It is recommended to upgrade the organic components first, until you reach the next level in the weapon or equipment and then switch to the mechanical upgrades.
Each item comes with a maximum upgrade number that can be received. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the kind of upgrade they can receive. For example, 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 an armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a group of items which share bonuses. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once, and each upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. Following upgrades, the primary stats will be enhanced even more (for instance +1 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 necessary for certain builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to have a higher defense level than their regular base. It's possible to increase the value of specific sets and unique items by upgrading them, but they may not always be superior to a high-level Runeword.
If you're upgrading an item that has bonuses the item can be rerolled a single time and the guarantee will reset back to zero. Rerolling costs the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item, however the upgraded item will come with various bonuses. Upgrades can be made through the NPC [Armor] Boboko in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require a power die of each kind (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the right amount of Minerals and Erons. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector and are available for purchase with Gold. The NPC will also offer a special reward for each completed tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a single time, using the same materials as the original item.
Rerolling
A player is able to roll any item they have acquired during the game, provided they have enough tokens to be able to do so. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced by the same level in another set. item upgrader can be purchased in the shop for a small sum of in-game currency. They are non-refundable. The new item upgraded will still have the extra bonuses of the first however, its stats will differ also.
Players can change the identity of their equipment, in addition to rerolling it by interacting with an NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from a weapon to an armor or reverse the process. The base stats and requirements remain the same. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters who own the gear.
The player can also upgrade the item level for any equipment that is equipped. This is accomplished by talking to an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade items. It will cost a specific amount of crests as well as Valorstones according to the upgrade track and kind. For weapons, each step up will add 5% to its damage.
An upgrade can boost its power however it can also lower its quality. It is therefore important to strike a balance between the two. Some items may not be worth upgrading at all and some will require to be upgraded to realize their potential. A player may want to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modification ( percent block chance or FHR) in order to discover what it could 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 can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only alternatives are to spend real money or grind a lot. For this reason, rerolling is a very popular option in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can pick to increase the level of the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I believe this feature was created to increase the value of expensive and rare items. However, since the majority of gear is replaced fairly quickly, and can only be upgraded one level, you will usually replace it before it is too old. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade items that have gem sockets because the power of the gem will be greater than the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.
When you click the upgrade option on an item, you'll be presented with a small window displaying the item'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 armor and weapons, with the former usually costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats to be added to an upgraded item, as well as its current base ilvl.
The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the current ilvl of the item and the upgrade template. The ilvl will also be reduced by the upgrade templates lvl reduction percentage. For example the weapon that has an upgrade decrease of 8% will reduce its value by 8-8 percent.
In addition to the increase in ilvl base the item will also be upgraded in other stats such as critical strike damage, damage from PvE and dodge, block, and parry rating. The increases are also built on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template, you can check the amount of damage or defense the item will be able to sustain when it is upgraded. This is displayed below the cost and upgrade percentages. All armor and weapons that are not practice equipment gain these stats upon leveling up. The value of these additional stats will be dictated by the market, with a perfectly perfectly rolled version of a weapon or piece of armor can command significantly more trade value than non-upp'd versions. The same applies to other pieces of armor like tiaras or circlets.