Path of Exile Item Upgrading
The best method to upgrade your gear in Path of Exile is through upgrading your items. This allows you to upgrade your gear without having rely on expensive drops or trades. This article will show you how to upp your gear effectively.
Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus to the item's base 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 locate them through destroying enemies, buying them from karma sellers or finding them in the form of item-spheres. They can also be salvaged from equipment with them, or by utilizing the highest-quality salvage kits such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when they are removed from an item.
Upgrade components are mostly used to improve an item but they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked in order to boost the level or experience gained from upgrading existing weapons or gear. They can be made for additional benefits. For example, a created glyph can increase the chance of upgrading its target, and a boost upgrade will increase the attack or defense property of a weapon, or armor.
You can bind an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will display the upgrade components to which the item can be updated. You can also use the workbench to selecting an upgrade template. In either scenario, an item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components have been gathered.
Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item gains when upgraded using the component. For instance, organic components have a an experience multiplier that is higher than mechanical ones. It is recommended to upgrade organic components first until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment, then switch to mechanical upgrades.
Each item has an upgrade maximum number that is available for. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the type of upgrade they are able to receive. For instance, the most expensive possible upgrade for a weapon is a weapon of tier 10. However, the most popular upgrades for weapons are an tier 6 weapon as well as a tier 5 armor upgrade.
Sets
A set is a set of items that all share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once, and each upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade an item or set piece, it will receive a +1 increase to its primary stat. After subsequent upgrades, the primary stats are boosted even further (for instance the +1 bonus 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 crucial for certain builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to have a higher defense level than their base. It is possible to increase the value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, however they may not always be better than a Runeword with a high level.
If an item you're upgrading has a guarantee bonus, it can be rerolled only once, and then its guarantee will be reset to 0. Rerolling is the same amount of power dice as leveling an item, however the new item will have different extra bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will need the appropriate amount Minerals and Erons, as well as a power dice of each kind. They can be purchased by using Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. The NPC will also give an additional reward for each tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled once and 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 reroll tokens to be able to do so. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced by an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens are available in the shop for a small sum of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The new item upgraded will still have the extra benefits of the previous one however, its stats will differ too.
In addition to rerolling items players can also change the identification of any item by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. The equipment's identification will change as a weapon to armor, or reverse it. The basic requirements and stats will remain the same. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters who own the gear.
Players can also boost the level of an item equipped equipment by obtaining upgrade components and interacting with the NPC who upgrades the item. This will cost a certain number of crests and Valorstones according to the upgrade track and item kind. In the case of weapons, each upgrade will add an additional five percent to the damage.
Upgrades can boost the power of an item, however they also decrease its quality. Therefore, it is crucial to keep both in check. Certain items might not be worth upgrading and some will require to be upgraded in order to reach their potential. For example one player might decide to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to discover what it could be.
Cases gg reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is that they're trying to get a specific weapon or character that they aren't able to obtain. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only options left are to invest real money or grind a lot. Rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item you can choose to upgrade the weapon or armor. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe it was designed to to add value to rare items, but since equipment generally drops quickly and is only upgraded one level up and you'll typically replace the item before it becomes too old. It's also not worth upgrading items using gem sockets since the power of the stone will outweigh any increase in the ilvl.
If you click on 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 boost the level of the item. Armor and weapons have different costs, with the latter usually being more expensive. The upgrade template lists the stats that will be added to an upgraded item along with its current base ilvl.
The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the item's current ilvl and the upgrade template. The ilvl will also be reduced by the upgrade template's reduction percentage of lvl. For instance an upgrade of 8% will decrease the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8percent.
In addition to the base ilvl boost the item will also receive upgrades 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.
The amount of defense and damage the item is able to receive when leveled up can be observed below the upgrade cost and decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. Aside from practice equipment, all other items and armor get these same stats when upgraded. The market will determine the worth of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can fetch an incredibly higher price than a non-upp’d version. This is also true for other armor pieces, such as circlets and Tiaras.