Path of Exile Item Upgrading
The best method to upgrade your gear in Path of Exile is through upgrading your items. This lets you upgrade your gear without having depend on costly trades or drops. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your items.
Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus on the item's stats. The amount of bonus varies depending on the rarity and strength of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components can make your armour and weapons better. You can acquire them by destroying enemies, finding them in item spheres, or buying them from karma merchants. They can also be rescued from equipment with them, or through a high-tier salvage kit such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when you remove them from an item.
Upgrade components are mostly used to improve an item however, they can also be used for other reasons. They can be stacked to increase the level of an upgradeable item, or they can be used to boost the experience gained by upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can also be forged to provide extra bonuses. A glyph that has been crafted can increase the upgrade chances of its target, while boost upgrades increase the attack or defense capabilities of a weapon.
You can bind an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will show the upgrade components that the item can be upgraded. Alternatively, you can utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components are gathered.
Each component has a distinct experience multiplier, which affects the amount of experience an item receives when it is upgraded with that component. Organic components, for instance, have more experience multipliers than mechanical components. It is recommended to upgrade the organic components first, until you reach the next level in the weapon or equipment, then switch to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the experience multiplier every item also has an maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of upgrades available is determined by its upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. For instance, the most expensive possible weapon upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and an armor upgrade for tier 5.
Sets
A set is a set of items which all have the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at least once. The upgrade increases the bonuses that are guaranteed. The first time you upgrade the set piece or weapon will give it a +1 increase to its primary stat. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be enhanced even more (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats increases randomly.
Upgrades can also boost a weapon's damage base. This may be important for certain types of builds. Weapons can't be upgraded for greater maximum defence rolls than their base. Upgrades can be a great method to increase the value of some set and unique items, but it's important to remember 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 can be rerolled once and the guarantee will be reset to 0. The same amount of power die is used to roll an item as it is used to increase its level. However the new item comes with different bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require the required amount of Minerals and Erons and a power dice of each type. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector and are available for purchase with Gold. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each completed stage of the upgrade process. The reward can be rerolled a single time, using the same materials as original item.
Rerolling
If the player has enough tokens for rerolling, they can reroll any item that they have acquired during the game. When item upgrade is rerolled it will be replaced by an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens are available from the store for small amounts of in-game currency. However, they cannot be refunded. The new item will come with the same bonuses as the original, but the stats will also be different.
In addition to rerolling objects, players can also change the identity of any equipment by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. The equipment's identification will change from a weapon to an armor, or reverse the process. Its base stats and requirements will remain the same. The change will be permanent and affect all characters that own the equipment.
Players can also increase the level of their item on any equipped equipment by acquiring upgrade components and communicating with the upgrader NPC of the item. It will cost a specific amount of crests as well as Valorstones according to the upgrade track and item type. Each upgrade will add 5percent more damage to weapons.
Upgrading an item will make it more powerful, but it will also lower its quality. It is therefore important to strike a balance between the two. Certain items aren't worth upgrading, while others require upgrading to make them more effective. A player may want to upgrade their breakpoint armor using an interesting modifier ( percent block chance, or FHR) to explore what else it can be.
Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it in order to get a character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise have. Getting these items can be costly and time-consuming and the RNG gods do not always want to play. The only alternatives are to invest money or grind a lot. Rerolling is a popular feature in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item you can choose to level up the weapon or armor. However, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe that this feature was designed to give value to expensive and rare items. However, as most items are replaced quite quickly, and it can only be upgraded by one level, you'll usually replace it before it is too old. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade item s 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 window when you click the upgrade option on an item. It will display the item's template, the crest, and the cost for Valorstone to raise the item's level. The cost will differ between the armor and weapons as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines the stats to be added to an upgraded item as well as its current ilvl.
The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the item's current ilvl and the upgrade template. Additionally the ilvl of a new upgraded item will be decreased by the upgrade template's lvl decrease percentage. For instance, a weapon with an increase of 8% will decrease its value by 8-8 percent.
The item will get upgrades to other stats, like critical strike damage, PvE damages and block, parry and dodge rating, in addition to the base ilvl. Those increases are also dependent on the upgrade template.
The amount of damage and defense that the item will receive as it gets leveled up can be seen below the upgrade cost and decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. All armor and weapons, except practice equipment, get these stats once they've been leveled up. The value of these stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly rolled version of a piece of armor or weapon able to command much higher trade values than non-upp'd versions. The same applies to other armor pieces, such as circlets and tiaras.