5 Things That Everyone Is Misinformed About About Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the best ways to upgrade your gear without relying upon massive drops or trade. This article will show you how to upgrade your items effectively.

Upgrades in equipment can add a bonus to the item's base stats. This bonus is based on the upgrade component level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components are the parts that can make your weapons and armor more effective. You can find them by destroying enemies, buying them from karma sellers or finding them in item-spheres. They can also be rescued from equipment that contains them, or through an advanced salvage kit such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed by removing them from an item.

Upgrade components are mostly used to improve an item but they can also be used for other reasons. They can be stacked to increase the level of the amount of experience gained by upgrading weapons or gear. They can also be forged to give additional bonuses. For example, a created glyph can increase the upgrade chance of its target, while the boost upgrade can increase the attack or defense quality of a weapon or armor.

Selecting an upgrade template in the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will show the list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. You can also use the workbench when selecting an upgrade template. In either instance, the item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components are gathered.

Each component has a distinct experience multiplier, which determines the amount of experience an item upgrades will gain when it is upgraded by the component. For instance, organic components offer more experience multipliers than mechanical ones. You should upgrade your organic components first until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment and then switch to the mechanical upgrades.

Each item comes with an upgrade limit number that is available for. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the kind of Upgrade Item they can get. The highest upgrade possible is a weapon of tier 10. However, the most popular upgrade for weapons is a tier 6 weapon and an armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of items that have bonuses. Each item can be upgraded at minimum once. The upgrade will increase the bonuses that are guaranteed. When you first upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. After subsequent upgrades, primary stats are increased 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 increase a weapon's damage base. This could be crucial for certain types of weapons. Weapons aren't upgraded to give greater maximum defence rolls than their base. It is possible to increase value of certain sets 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 guaranteed bonus it is able to be rerolled only once and the guarantee will be reset to zero. The same amount of power dies are used to roll an item, just as it would be used to upgrade it. However the new item upgrade comes with different bonuses. Upgrades can be completed through the NPC [Armor] Boboko in the Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll need a power die of each type (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the right amount of Minerals and Erons. These can be purchased with Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs will also provide special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled once, and the reroll will be made using the same materials as the first item.

Rerolling

A player can play rerolling any item that they acquire in the game if they have enough reroll tokens to do so. When an upgraded item gets being rerolled, it can be exchanged for an equivalent version that is level 1 of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens are available at the store for an amount of in-game currency, however they cannot be refunded. The new item will offer the same extra bonuses as the original, but the statistics will also be different.

In addition to rerolling items players can also change the identity of any equipment by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. The equipment's identification will change from a weapons to armor or reverse it. The basic requirements and stats remain the same. The change will be permanent and will affect all characters who own the equipment.

Players can also increase the item upgrade level of any equipped device by obtaining upgrade components and interacting with the upgrader NPC of the item. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, item type, and the number of crests. Each step will give an additional 5% of damage to weapons.

Upgrades can boost the power of an item, but they can also reduce the quality of an item. It is therefore essential to find a balance between these two. Certain items might not be worth upgrading at all however, others will need to be upgraded to realize their potential. A player may want to upgrade their breakpoint armor using an interesting modification (% block chance or FHR) to see what else it can become.

The primary reason people play rerolls in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game, is that they're trying to get a specific character or weapon that they aren't able to obtain. The process of obtaining these items can be expensive and time-consuming, and the RNG gods aren't always willing to play ball. The only alternatives are to spend money or grind a lot. For this reason, rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item you can upgrade the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I think this feature was designed to give value to expensive and rare items. However, since the majority of gear is replaced fairly quickly and can only be upgraded to a certain level, you will usually replace it before it is too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items with gem sockets since the value of the gem will be greater than the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

When you click the upgrade button on an item, you will be presented with a small window displaying the item's upgrade template and the cost of crest and Valorstone to increase the level of the item. Armor and weapons have different costs, with the latter typically being more costly. The upgrade template lists the stats that will be added to an upgraded item, along with its current ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and crest is calculated using the current Ilvl of the item and the upgrade templates. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For instance weapons with an upgrade decrease of 8% will reduce its ilvl by 8 - 8%.

In addition to the increase in ilvl base it will also get upgrades in other stats such as critical strike damage, PvE damage and dodge, block and parry rating. These upgrades are also based on the upgrade template.

The amount of defense and damage the item will receive when leveled up can be shown below the upgrade cost and decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. All weapons and armor apart from practice equipment gain these stats upon leveling up. The market will determine the value of these stats. A weapon or armor with perfect rolls can fetch an incredibly higher price than an unupp'd version. The same is true for other armor pieces such as circlets or Tiaras.