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World of Warcraft Upgrades and Item Upgrading

Upgrades can boost the value of armors, weapons and rings. They also increase bonuses such as PvE damage and crit chance.

If the template for upgrading a weapon is in %, the weapon will gain 3% of its previous damage each time it is upgraded.

Item upgrading costs crests and the current level of the item. The cost rises with item's level.

Components

Upgrade components can be added to trinkets, armor, and weapons in order to provide them with a boost in stats or an extra effect. These can be obtained through crafting, buying from vendors, trading or looting. Certain upgrades come with special cosmetic effects.

Upgrade components are only available to devices that have slots. The item must be at least upgraded to a blue level before a component can be used. In contrast to other mods components can only be used once; they can't be used multiple times or replaced with new upgrades. Infusions and enrichments are a special kind of upgrade component that is used for non-amulet ascended and legendary equipment, as well as some of the back items that are not ascending. Infusions and enrichments can be retrieved by salvaging ascended gear or by completing an elite mission in the Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall campaigns.

A prefix or suffix can be added to an upgrade, thereby changing the name of the item it's applied to (for example 'Canthan Armor Insignia,' becomes Canthan Armor Minor Vigor). Certain upgrades boost the Mark Level or Rarity, which allows players to create stronger versions of the equipment with fewer Upgrade Crystals than would be required to achieve the same upgrade level through normal methods.

A 'boost upgrade' can alter the defense or attack properties of a weapon, or armor. Once the player has completed the cutscene and defeated the Crazed Mechanist, these upgrades can be created at the Portative Forging Station. They can also be dropped by enemies when upgrading other gear, or by buying them from the cash store for 500 upgrade crystals each.

The player can have a maximum of five boost upgrades at one time; each upgrade increases the likelihood that a better-quality version of the item will be available during the next reset. This gives players the opportunity to upgrade their equipment even in the event that they don't know how much it will be improved after the reset.

If a boost upgrade is successful or not, the process may be costly, and there is a significant chance that the item could be obsolete or even break when it fails. A failed upgrade will ruin Upgrade Crystals and Assist Powder as well as the upgraded item. This is alleviated by the availability cash shop items that increase or even eliminate the chance of failure, as well as some upgrades that provide an additional benefit when they are inserted into an item.

Glyphs

Glyphs can be used to improve the Paragon Board by placing them in sockets with special functions. Glyphs can boost the performance of nodes within a radius, which includes any existing attaches. Glyphs are upgraded in many ways. We recommend upgrading them as quickly as possible up to 15 levels.

You'll often see in the endgame that placing Glyphs is the most effective method to upgrade your gear. They are the only upgrade components that can be upgraded directly to level 15 and offer an enormous boost to your power and radius on the Paragon Board, enabling you to get higher nodes faster.

Glyphs, which is the only upgrade component that can be removed without restriction and then replaced again, are the most common. Only legendary equipment can be salvaged and replaced by using the aid of a Black Lion Salvage Kit.

Each Glyph has a specific range of values that it can improve a statistic by. The value is displayed when you choose the Glyph in your inventory. You can replace it with an Glyph that is the same or higher rank to boost the value of the Glyph.

There are Glyphs in the Black Lion Trading Post, as part of a Gem Store purchase or bundle with certain tools for gathering unlimited use and also through Faction Crypt raids. Every Faction Crypt could drop one of these Glyphs. There are also some rare glyphs you can find in any of the Faction Crypts.

Once you have gotten the desired Glyphs you'll require them to be placed on your gear. Each Glyph unlocks a unique bonus which will boost a specific set of stat nodes that are within the radius of the Glyph. Depending on the Glyph, this will either be +40 to one of your primary stats or +25 to two of your secondary stats.

Glyphs will boost all nodes that are connected to them, which is why it is best to place Glyphs in the most important locations on the Graph. This will maximize the impact. For example that a Druid should try to position their Glyphs near their primary damage nodes, but also think about placing them near crucial damage nodes too.

Leveling

The upgrade system for items allows players to boost the stats of specific items by inserting upgraded components. This is referred to as "upping". Each upgradeable item is assigned a level which determines the final stats. Upgraded items can be upgraded up to a maximum of 385. Each level of an item requires various components, and upgrade costs increase with each level.

Certain upgrades require an ingredient to be activated. This ingredient can be obtained by making Upgrade Recipes. These recipes can be bought from NPCs, or on the upgrade tab in a crafting table. Each completed Upgrade Recipe yields several Technology Points. These points can be used to upgrade the item. Once enough points have been earned, the upgrade can be claimed and any additional bonuses will be added to the item.

When an item is upgraded by a player, the base item is replaced with a new item of the same type. This means that the same armor piece will become a weapon or shield when upgraded. The new item will also come with a bonus of its own. This could be a drawback in that it could make the item more expensive if you don't require it.

Item upgrades can sometimes be rerolled if the player has enough tokens to be able to do this. This causes the item to be exchanged for a new one, which will come with a level 1 base and a completely different set of bonus bonuses. This can be useful for certain items, but it shouldn't be repeated often, as it can waste many resources.

Certain upgrades can boost their value and allow players to modify their gear. Dolphin's Gift is a good example, since it grants an increase in power if the player continuously enters or exits water. The item can be upgraded several times, increasing the maximum roll every time by 10 increments. This item upgrader kit is extremely important in PvP. A perfectly rolled version could be worth 50 times the value of a non-upgraded counterpart.

Requirements

The ability to upgrade items allows players to boost the level of their available gear--armor, weapons and trinkets that are above ilvl 385 by presenting the appropriate items and currencies to an NPC who upgrades items. Upgrades to armor set pieces increase its base defense and upgrades to weapon items increase the damage they deal as well as the required strength and dexterity.

All items are upgradeable up to five times, with the exception for hero equipment, which is able to be upgraded eight times. Each each time you upgrade an item it has the chance to fail. The failure rate increases the farther you go over the maximum amount of upgrades. Failures will cause the item to revert to its initial state, requiring the player to spend more money on materials than they would had they stopped upgrading at the maximum amount of upgrades.

If an item does not upgrade, the amount of accumulated experience in its growth bar is reset to zero. In addition the item will lose any bonus it earned such as crit chance, attack damage, as well as all additional effects associated with that effect (for instance, an increase in heal over time or speed of reload). The player will be able to use their weapon or armor after the failure.

If an item upgrader mod is upgraded the upgrades are applied in order from the lowest to the highest. This means that, if a weapon gains an increase in crit chance the increase is applied before any increase in attack damage. A new attribute called Slots is now added to the definition of the item and the value is recomputed every time an upgrade is applied.

The amount of resources required to upgrade an item is based on the rarity rating and the number of upgrade slots. The cost of upgrading non-premium products is equal to the base value of the upgrade. For instance, a standard equipment item could have five upgrades with a cost of 25,600 Technology Points and 4x Quality Improvement Chance. Hero quality items will have the lowest cost for each upgrade.

Premium items could have different upgrade requirements from normal equipment. For example they may require less sowels, but they will require more minerals and orons. The player will need to bring every piece of equipment they wish to upgrade to the NPC [Armor] Boboko located in Central Flarine. In addition to the upgrade costs mentioned above, each equipment upgrade will require a different amount of the ingredients needed to upgrade.