Why Item Upgrade Should Be Your Next Big Obsession
Throne and Liberty Gear Upgrades
Upgrades can boost the power of a piece and sometimes even its extras. The value of these upgrades is determined by their tiers, requirements and the amount of random augmentations used.
The racial Shield elite Razortail For instance, it is often upgraded to increase its lightning absorption capability in PvP, and/or to add additional defenses to missile-based designs in the PvM. This makes it more exchangeable than the un-upgraded version.
Reroll Tokens
Reroll tokens allow you to roll a purchased item such as an armor, weapon or ring. The item is swapped for another of the same type and comes with a different set of extra bonuses. Reroll tokens can be an efficient method of upgrading equipment. They don't keep the original equipment's condition, and any resources wasted aren't rewarded.
Reroll tokens can be obtained by survivors by a variety of means such as the Mistery Box or as rare drops from skulled creatures. You can also find them in chests and crates or buy them from the stores for $150 each. Reroll tokens can be used to alter an attribute of a piece of equipment that could include increasing its damage or giving it a new stat.
Players can roll equipment with three attributes, physical power, spell power, and health. Physical power upgrades increase the damage caused by weapons and melee attacks while spell power improves mage attacks and rings. Health upgrades provide the player with an extra health.
There are three kinds of reroll tokens: upgrade, rare and legendary. Each upgrade elevates an item to a higher-quality, with the requirement of an upgraded reroll token in order to create it. Upgrades require a standard item. Rare upgrades require an item that is exclusive or legendary. Legendary upgrades require three legendary pieces.
Unlike other special tokens and markers that are placed on Action spaces, the reroll marker remains on the spot until the next Success result is repeated. This is a way to ensure that upgrades are not wasted.
Blueprints appear as envelopes at the start of each Preparation Phase and can be opened by grabbing them using Interact. When they are opened, they show an image and description of the Ingredient or Appliance. Blueprints can be exchanged for a new Appliance or Ingredient in the restaurant's shop for a small amount of money.
During the course of a game, blueprints can be moved between the Staple Pool and the Non-staple pool as a result of selected Franchise Cards. This alters the kind of blueprints that a restaurant's shop has available to reroll and which are available in the Non-droppable Pool.
Growthstones
Weapons, armor, and accessories can be upgraded in Throne and Liberty using Growth Stones. These are special stones that can increase an item's level by increasing its stats and attributes. These items can be found by visiting Equipment Enchanting NPCs in the major towns. They can also purchase them from Contract Coin Merchants for a cost. In addition, players can get these stones by signing daily contracts.
To upgrade equipment players first need to identify the appropriate item, and then click the "level up" button. The menu will be displayed showing the item's current level and what it will be after being leveled up and the required amount of Growth Stones to do so. The amount of Growth Stones needed to upgrade a piece depends on its rarity. Typically, rare (blue) weapons require more than one green Growth Stone to reach their next level, whereas rare armor requires only one green or blue Growth Stone.
After deciding on the item to upgrade, the player has to select the number of Growth Stones that they want to purchase and pay the cost. After the player has met the requirements, he can click the upgrade button and apply the Growth Stones. The item will be upgraded in level by a certain percentage. The upgrade process can last from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on the rarity of the item.
The upgrade process is risk-free and does not impact the longevity of the item. This is an excellent choice for those who want to get an edge in combat but don't want spend a lot of money. Clicking on the "transfer tab", players can also transfer the experience and progress of an upgraded piece of gear onto a new piece of gear.
New players may find it difficult to obtain Growth Stones. However, there are numerous ways to obtain them, including signing contracts and buying them from the Contract Coin Merchant, defeating Abyssal Contract enemies, collecting them from the Equipment Stone Seal Book, or obtaining them from reward chests that are available during the Ancient Arena season. Additionally players can also break down higher-level Growth Stones to create multiple lower-level ones.
Leveling
Leveling is a feature that lets players boost the stats of their weapons armor, helms and trinkets. The Upgrade Station allows you to combine an item with upgrade materials and then pay a fee in Happy Tickets or Happy Stars. The process will consume the upgrade materials and give the item an increased level, which gives the item a boost in that particular area. This process can be repeated until the highest level for an item has been attained.
Items that have upgraded base stats display an icon of blue in their slot. Contrary to enchantments upgrade components do not stack with each other, but can only be added to one item at one time. Each upgrade component also requires an amount of items and a minimum equipment level.
The Upgrade Station features two slots: the left one is where players can place a piece of equipment to be upgraded, and the right side shows a glimpse of what the equipment will look like when it reaches its next level. Pressing the yellow arrow when a player has sufficient materials will begin the upgrade process.
A piece of equipment may be upgraded up to five times. Each time it is upgraded the base stats of the item will be increased by only a tiny amount. The highest level for an item is 19.
Once an item has reached its highest level, upgrades will no longer be available for it. When an item is upgraded to a certain track (e.g. Upgrades for the Veteran or Explorer track ) they will be discounted.
Upgrade components are a form of equipment that can slot into weapons, armors trinkets, gathering tools and other trinkets to give an additional effect or benefit while the equipment is being used. They can be purchased from vendors, looted, obtained by completing quests or exchanged between players. Upgrade components can be replaced with new ones, however doing so will destroy the previous upgrade, with the exception of for glyphs, which can be removed and replaced at will.
Requirements
The upgrades to items allow players the ability to boost certain stats on weapons and armor that they currently have. The requirements for upgrading an item vary depending on its type however, you'll generally require Dilithium as well as a number Upgrade Tokens.
The upgrade items can be incorporated into equipment set pieces and weapons for additional effects or to increase the quality item. Home can be acquired from various sources in the game, such as crafting, bought at the Trading Post or karma vendors or looted from bosses and raids, or retrieved from dungeons. Once an upgrade component has been added to an object it cannot be removed or replaced. However the glyphs can be swapped freely.
Upgrades can boost the Mark Level of an item or Rarity. In addition, some upgrade components come with additional modifiers which can further improve the item's stats.
For instance, the helm upgrade "Foundation of the Sun" improves base defense, and provides an additional 20% chance to block. The dps "Wildfire", on the other hand increases damage to weapons.
Some items are better off being upgraded less for their increased stats, but for the fact that it allows players to get the most value from a perfect roll on the item. A perfect-rolled 200/6 500 armor set piece, for instance is highly sought-after by melee PvP communities and can be worth 20-50 times the value of an unupp'd counterpart.
When you choose an upgrade component that you want to put into an item, the game will display a pop-up window that shows the required requirements. The game will show the requirements required when you select an upgrade component to slot into an item.
If you've fulfilled the conditions for upgrading the game will put the item in your inventory and the progress bar will be updated to indicate how close to completing it. You can also verify the status of an upgrade by visiting any upgrader NPC for the item you want to upgrade.