7 Things About Item Upgrading You'll Kick Yourself For Not Knowing
Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the most effective ways to upgrade your gear without relying upon large-ticket drops or trade. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your gear.
Upgrades to equipment provide an additional bonus to the item's stats. The amount of bonus varies depending on the rarity and level of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components can make your weapons and armour better. You can acquire them by destroying enemies, finding them in spheres of items or purchasing them from karma sellers. You can also salvage them from equipment that contains the components or by using high-end salvage kits like Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. In item upgrade to other items, upgrade components are not destroyed when removed from an item.
Upgrade components are typically used to upgrade an item, but they can also be used for other purposes. They can be used to boost the value of an item that can be upgraded or they can be used to boost the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of equipment. They can also be forged to provide extra bonuses. For instance, a created glyph can increase the chances of upgrading its target, while a boost upgrade will enhance the defense or attack property of a weapon, or armor.
You can connect 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 for selecting an upgrade template. In either scenario the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components are collected.
Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines the amount of experience an item will gain when upgraded using the component. Organic components, like have more experience multipliers than mechanical components. 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 can be received. The number of upgrades available is determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. For instance, the highest possible upgrade for a weapon is a weapon of tier 10. The most popular weapon upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and a armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a collection of objects that share the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at minimum once. The upgrade increases the bonuses that are guaranteed. The first time you upgrade the set piece or weapon is that it will be given an increase of +1 to its primary stat. After subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be boosted a little more (for instance, +1 to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item it will have one of its additional stats will be increased randomly.
The upgrade of a weapon can increase its damage base, which may be necessary 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 sets and unique items by upgrading them, but they're not always superior to a higher-level Runeword.
If the item you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus, it can be rerolled only once, and then its guarantee will be reset to zero. The same amount of power dies are used to roll an item as it would be to upgrade it. However the new item comes with different bonuses. Upgrades can be made by visiting the NPC [Armor] Boboko in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require a power die of each type (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the appropriate amount of Minerals and Erons. These can be bought 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 one time, using the same materials and components 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 be able to do so. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced by an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens are available at the store for a small amount of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item will offer the same bonuses like the first, however the stats will be different.
Players can change the identification of their equipment as well as rolling it again by interacting with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from an armor to a weapon or vice versa, while retaining its base stats and attributes that are required. The change will be permanent and affect all characters that own the gear.
The player can also upgrade their level of an item for any equipped equipment. This is accomplished by talking to an upgrader NPC, and then obtaining upgrade components. This will cost a set amount of crests as well as Valorstones dependent on the upgrade track and the item kind. Each upgrade will add 5% more damage to weapons.
Upgrades can boost the effectiveness of an item, however they also can decrease the quality of an item. It is therefore important to keep both in check. Certain items might not be worth upgrading at all, while others will need to be upgraded to realize their potential. A player might want to upgrade breakpoint armor with an interesting modification ( percent block chance or FHR) in order to explore what else it can become.
Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. It is a method used by players to try to obtain the character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise have. These items are time-consuming and costly to obtain, and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only alternatives are to spend real money or grind for a long time. Rerolling is a very popular option in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
You can choose whether to upgrade the weapon or armor after upgrading an item. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I believe it was designed to to add value to rare items, but because equipment generally drops quickly and can only be upgraded after a certain amount of levels and you'll typically replace the item before it becomes too old. It is also not worth upgrading items using gem sockets because the power of the stone will outweigh any increment in the ilvl.
You will be presented with a small box when you click on the upgrade option on an item. It will show the template of the item, the crest, and the Valorstone cost to raise the level of the item. Armor and weapons have different costs, with the former generally being more expensive. The upgrade template outlines the stats that can 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. In addition, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For example weapons with an increase of 8% will decrease its count by 8-8%.
In addition to the base ilvl boost, the item will also get upgrades in other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage and dodge, block and parry rating. These increases are dependent on the upgrade template.
The amount of defense and damage the item receives as it gets leveled up can be shown below the upgrade cost and decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. Aside from equipment for practice, all weapons and armor gain these same stats when leveled up. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly perfectly rolled piece of armor or weapon is able to command more in trade value than unupp'd versions. This is also true for other pieces of armor like circlets and Tiaras.