Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the best ways to upgrade your gear without relying upon large-ticket drops or trade. This article will teach you how to upp your items effectively.
Upgrades to equipment give an increase in the item's stats. This bonus is based on the upgrade component level and rarity.
Components
Upgrade components are the things that can make your weapons and armor more effective. You can get them from the destruction of enemies, finding them in spheres of items or buying them from karma dealers. You can also salvage them from equipment that contains the components, or by utilizing high-end salvage kits like Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when you remove them from an item.
Upgrade components are primarily used to upgrade an item, but they can also be used for other purposes. They can be used to increase the level of experience gained from upgrading existing weapons or gear. They can also be forged to give additional bonuses. For instance, a designed glyph will increase the chance of upgrading its target, and a boost upgrade will boost the defense or attack quality of a weapon or armor.
Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will show the upgrade components that the item can be updated. You can also use the workbench for selecting an upgrade template. In either scenario the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components are collected.
Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item gains when upgraded with that component. For instance, organic components have a more experience multipliers than mechanical ones. Therefore, it is recommended to upgrade with organic components until you reach the experience multiplier for the next rank of weapon or gear, then switch to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the experience multiplier, each item also has a maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of upgradeable items is determined by their upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade they can get. The highest level of upgrade is a weapon that is the tier 10. However, the most popular weapon upgrades are the tier 6 weapon and a tier 5 armor upgrade.
Sets
A set is a collection of items that all share the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at the minimum once. The upgrade boosts the bonuses that are guaranteed. The first time you upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades, primary stats are boosted even further (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats increases randomly.
Upgrades can also increase the base damage of a weapon. This can be crucial for certain types of builds. Weapons can't be upgraded for greater maximum defence rolls than their base. Upgrading can be a good method to increase the value of a set and unique items, but it's important to remember that they might not be more effective than a high-level raneword in any build.
If you're upgrading an item that has bonuses it can be rerolled once and the guarantee will reset to 0. Rerolling costs the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item, but 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 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. These can be bought by using Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. The reward can be rerolled one time with the same materials as original item.
Rerolling
If a player has enough rerolling tokens, they can play rerolling any item they have acquired during the game. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced by an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens can be purchased at the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They are non-refundable. The new upgraded item will have the same bonuses of the first however its stats will differ too.
Players can alter the identification of their equipment as well as rerolling it by interacting with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from a weapon to an armor, or vice versa. The base requirements and stats remain the same. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters who have the equipment.
Players can also increase the item level of any equipped equipment by acquiring upgrade components and communicating with the NPC who upgrades the item. This will cost a set amount of crests as well as Valorstones according to the upgrade track and kind. For weapons, each upgrade will add an additional 5% to its damage.
Upgrades can increase the capability of an item, however they also decrease its quality. It is therefore important to find a balance between these 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) to discover what it could be.
Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. It is a method used by players to try to obtain the character or weapon they cannot otherwise get. The process of obtaining these items can be costly and time-consuming, and the RNG gods don't always want to play. The only alternative is to invest money or grind a lot. Rerolling is very popular in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can level up the weapon or armor. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe it was intended to to increase the value of rare items, but since equipment generally drops quickly and can only be upgraded once you've reached a certain level and you'll typically replace the item before it becomes too old. It's not worth upgrading items with gem sockets since the power of the stone will outweigh any increase in the level of.
You will see a small window when you click the upgrade option on an item. It will display the template of the item, the crest, and the cost of Valorstone to increase 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 lists the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item and will also list its current ilvl.
item upgrades and Valorstone costs are calculated based on the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade templates lvl reduction percentage. For instance the weapon that has an 8% upgrade decrease will reduce its count by 8-8%.
The item will receive 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 built on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template you can determine the amount of damage or defense that the item will be able to sustain after it is leveled up. This is shown below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. Apart from the practice equipment, all weapons and armor gain these same stats when leveled up. The value of these stats will be dictated by the market, with a rolled perfect version of a weapon or piece of armor able to command much more trade value than non-upp'd versions. Similar is the case for other armor pieces, like tiaras and circlets.