Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the best ways to improve your equipment without relying on big-ticket drops or trade. This article will teach you how to upp your items efficiently.
Upgrades to equipment provide an additional bonus to the item's base stats. The bonus is depending on the rarity and level of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components can make your weapons and armour better. They can be found through destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors or finding them in the form of item-spheres. You can also salvage them from equipment that contains the components or through salvage kits of high-end quality, such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Unlike most other items upgrade components, upgrade components aren't destroyed when removed from an item.
Upgrade components are typically used to upgrade an item but they can also be used for other reasons. They can be stacked to boost the value of an upgradeable item or they can be used to enhance the experience gained by upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can also be made to give additional bonuses. A glyph that is crafted can boost the chances of upgrading its target, while a boost upgrade increases the defense or attack capabilities of a weapon.
Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will display the list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. You can also utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either scenario, an item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been gathered.
Each component has a different experience multiplier, which determines the amount of experience an item will gain when it is upgraded by that component. Organic components, like have a higher multiplier of experience than mechanical components. Therefore, it is recommended to upgrade using organic components until you reach the experience multiplier of the next rank of the weapon or gear, then switch to mechanical upgrades.
Each item comes with an upgrade limit number that is available for. The number of upgrades is determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the upgrade type of the upgradeable item. The highest upgrade possible is a weapon that is tier 10. However, the most popular upgrade for weapons is an tier 6 weapon as well as an armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a group of items which share a bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once and the upgrade increases its guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. After subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be boosted a bit more (for example, +1 to 12+/13+/14+) Each time you upgrade the item, one of its extra stats is boosted randomly.
The upgrade of a weapon can increase its damage base, which can be necessary for certain builds. Weapons can't be upgraded for greater maximum defence rolls than their base. Upgrades can be a great way to improve the value of certain sets and unique items, however it is important to keep in mind that they're not necessarily superior to a high-level runeword in any build.
If item upgrades comes with a guaranteed bonus it is able to be rerolled once and its guarantee will be reset to zero. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item up, but the new item will have various bonuses. Upgrades can be made through the NPC [ArmorBoboko. Boboko in the Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll require a power dice of each kind (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the proper amount of Minerals and Erons. These are available at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collector and can be purchased with Gold. The NPC will also offer a special reward for each tier of the upgrade process. This reward is rerollable once and the reroll will be made using the same materials as the original item.
Rerolling
A player is able to reroll any item acquired during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens to be able to do so. If item upgrades upgraded item is being rerolled, it can be exchanged for a version at a level 1 of the same item from a different set. Reroll tokens are sold at the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They are non-refundable. The new upgraded item will still come with the extra benefits of the previous one however, its stats will be different too.
In addition to rerolling items players can also change the identification of any item by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. This will change its identification from a weapon to an armor, or reverse the process. Its base requirements and stats will remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters who own the gear in question.
The player can also upgrade the level of an item for any equipment equipped. This is done by talking to an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade components. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, the item type and the number of crests. In the case of weapons, each upgrade will add an additional 5% to its damage.
Upgrades can increase the power of an item, but they also decrease the quality of an item. Therefore, it is important to keep both in check. Some items aren't worth upgrading, whereas others require upgrading to reach their full potential. One player may wish to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modifier ( percent block chance, or FHR) in order to discover what it could become.
Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it to try to obtain the character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise have. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire, and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only alternatives are to spend money or grind a lot. Rerolling is very popular in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can pick to upgrade the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I think this feature was created to increase the value of rare and expensive items. However, as most items are replaced quite quickly and can only be upgraded by one level, you will usually replace it before it is too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items that have gem sockets as the power of the gem will outweigh the increase in ilvl with the upgrade.
When you click on the upgrade option on an item, you'll be presented with a small window displaying the item's upgrade template and the crest and Valorstone costs to increase the item level. Armor and weapons will have different costs, with the latter usually being more expensive. The upgrade template lists the stats that can be added to an upgraded item along with its current ilvl.
The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated based on the current ilvl of the item and the upgrade template. In addition the ilvl of a new upgraded item will be decreased by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For instance, an upgrade of 8% will decrease the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 8%.
In addition to the base ilvl boost it will also receive upgrades in other stats, such as critical strike damage, PvE damage, block, parry and dodge rating. These increases are also based off the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template, you can check the amount of damage or defense an item will suffer after it is leveled up. This is listed below the cost and the upgrade percentages. All armor and weapons that are not practice equipment get these stats once they've been leveled up. The value of these stats will be dictated by the market, with a rolled perfect version of a piece of armor or weapon able to command much more in trade value than unupp'd versions. The same applies to other pieces of armor, such as circlets and tiaras.