Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the best ways to improve your gear without relying upon massive drops or trade. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your gear.
Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus on the item's stats. This bonus scales with the upgrade component's level and rarity.
Components
Upgrade components are the items that can make your weapons and armor more effective. They can be obtained by the destruction of enemies, finding them in item spheres or buying them from karma merchants. They can also be rescued from equipment with them, or by utilizing an advanced salvage kit such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. In contrast to other items upgrade components, upgrade components aren't destroyed when removed from an item.
The main purpose of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded however, they also serve other purposes. They can be used to boost the level or experience gained from upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can be made for additional benefits. For instance, a specially created glyph can increase the chances of upgrading its target, whereas an upgrade boost will boost the defense or attack property of a weapon, or armor.
By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will let you bind it to an item. This will show the upgrade components that the item can be upgraded. You can also use the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded after 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. Organic components, like have more experience multipliers than mechanical components. You should 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 multiplier of experience Each item also comes with a maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of upgrades is determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. For instance, the most expensive possible upgrade for a weapon is a weapon with tier 10. The most popular weapon upgrade is a gun with tier 6 and a armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a group of items that have bonuses. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and each upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade the set piece or weapon, it will receive a +1 increase to its primary stat. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be boosted even further (for instance the +1 bonus for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded one of its additional stats is increased randomly.
The upgrade of a weapon can increase the damage base, which could be crucial for certain builds. However, weapons are not upgraded to have a greater defense level than their regular base. It's possible to increase the value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, however they're not always superior to a higher-level Runeword.
If the item you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus, it can be rerolled once, and then its guarantee will be reset to 0. Rerolling is the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item, however 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 require the required amount of Minerals and Erons, as well as a power dice of each type. These can be purchased with Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs will also provide special rewards for each completed stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a second time, and the reroll will use the same materials as the original item.
Rerolling
If the player has enough tokens for rerolling, they can play rerolling any item they've accumulated during the game. If an upgraded item is rerolled, it will be exchanged for an equivalent level 1 version of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens are available in the store for a small amount of in-game currency. They are non-refundable. The upgraded item will still come with the extra bonuses of the original one however, its stats will be different too.
In addition to rerolling items players can also change the identification of any item by interacting with an upgrader NPC. This will change its identification from a weapon to an armor or reverse it. Its base stats and requirements remain the same. The change will be permanent and will affect all characters that own the equipment.
Players can also boost the level of their item on any equipped device by obtaining upgrade items and conversing with the item's upgrader NPC. item upgrade will cost a certain number of crests and Valorstones dependent on the upgrade track and kind. Each step will add 5% more damage to weapons.
Upgrades can boost the capability of an item, however they can also reduce the quality of an item. Therefore, it is important to keep both in check. Some items aren't worth upgrading, while others require upgrading to maximize their potential. A player might want to upgrade breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier (% block chance or FHR) to explore what else it can be.
The primary reason people are able to reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game, is because they're trying to acquire a certain weapon or character that they wouldn't otherwise be able to acquire. These items can be costly and time-consuming to obtain and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only other options are to invest money or grind for a long time. Rerolling is extremely popular in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor when upgrading an item. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I believe it was intended to to add value to rare items, but as gear in general drops fairly quickly and can only be upgraded one level up it is likely that you will replace the item before it becomes too old. It's not worth it to upgrade items that have gem sockets because the power of the gem will far outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.
When you click the upgrade option on an item, you will get a small screen with the upgrade template for the item and the crest and Valorstone costs to increase the level of the item. The costs will vary between weapons and armor and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item. It also lists its current base ilvl.
The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated by analyzing the current ilvl of the item and the upgrade template. The ilvl will also be reduced by the upgrade template's lvl reduction percentage. For instance, an upgrade of 8% can reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8%.
The item will get upgrades to other stats, such as critical strike damage, PvE damage and block, parry, and dodge rating in addition to the base ilvl. These upgrades are also based on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template you can determine the amount of damage or defense an item will suffer when it is upgraded. This is listed below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. Aside from practice equipment, all armor and weapons gain these same stats when leveled up. The value of these stats will be determined by the market, with a rolled perfect version of a weapon or piece of armor able to command much higher trade values than non-upp'd versions. The same is true for other pieces of armor, such as circlets and Tiaras.