Path of Exile Item Upgrading

In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the most effective ways to upgrade your gear without relying upon big-ticket drops or trade. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your items.

Upgrades to equipment provide an increase in the item's stats. The bonus increases with upgrade component's level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components can make your weapons and armour better. You can find them by destroying enemies, buying them from karma sellers or finding them in the form of item-spheres. They can also be salvaged from equipment that contains them, or through a high-tier salvage kit like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products, upgrade components are not destroyed when they are removed from an item level upgrade.

Upgrade components are mostly used to upgrade an item upgrader kit but they can also be used for other reasons. They can be stacked to boost the level or the amount of experience gained by upgrading weapons or gear. They can also be forged to offer additional benefits. A glyph that has been crafted can increase the chances of upgrading its target, and a boost upgrade increases the attack or defense attributes of the weapon.

By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will show the upgrade components to which the item can be upgraded. You can also use the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either scenario, an item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components have been collected.

Each component is assigned an experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item gains when upgraded using the component. Organic components, like have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. It is recommended to upgrade items the organic components first, until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment and then switch to the mechanical upgrades.

In addition to the multiplier of experience every item also has an maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the type of upgrade they can receive. For instance, the most expensive possible weapon upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and an armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of items that have the benefit of. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once, and the upgrade increases the amount of bonuses that are guaranteed. The first time you upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. After subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be increased even more (for instance the +1 bonus for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats increases randomly.

Upgrades can also boost the base damage of a weapon. This may be important for certain types of builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to a higher defense base than their base. Upgrades can be a great method to increase the value of a set and unique items, but it's important to note that they might not be superior to a high-level runeword in any build.

If you are upgrading an item with a bonus it can be rerolled once and the guarantee will reset back to 0. The same amount of power die is used to reroll an item, just as it would be used to level it up. However the new item comes with different 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 and a power dice of each type. These can be bought by using Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. This reward is rerollable once and will use the same materials used in the original item.

Rerolling

A player is able to roll any item they have acquired during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens to be able to do so. When an upgraded item is to be rerolled, it will be exchanged for an equivalent version that is level 1 of the same item from a different set. Reroll tokens are available at the store for small amounts of in-game currency. However, they are not refundable. The upgraded item will still come with the extra bonuses of the original one, but its stats will differ too.

In addition to rerolling items, players can also change the identity of any equipment by engaging with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identity from an armored weapon to a weapon, or vice versa, all the while retaining its base stats and attributes that are required. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that own the gear in question.

Players can also increase the level of their item on any equipped equipment by acquiring upgrade components and interacting with the upgrader NPC of the item. It will cost a specific amount of crests as well as Valorstones depending on the upgrade track and the item type. Each upgrade will add 5% more damage to weapons.

An upgrade will make it more powerful however, it can also lower its quality. It is therefore essential to find a balance between these two. Certain items aren't worth upgrading, while other items need to be upgraded to reach their full potential. A player may want to upgrade their breakpoint armor using an interesting modifier ( percent block chance or FHR) in order to explore what else it can become.

Rerolling is a popular practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. It is a method used by players to try to obtain the character or weapon they would not otherwise be able to acquire. Getting these items can be expensive and time-consuming and the RNG gods aren't always willing to play ball. The only alternative is to spend real money or grind a lot. This is why rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an Item upgrader Kit you can pick to level up the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I think this feature was intended to add some value to rare and expensive items. However, since most gear is replaced fairly quickly, and it can only be upgraded by one level, you'll typically replace it before it gets too old. It's also not worth it to level items that have gem sockets because the power of the gem will outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

You will be presented with a small box when you click the upgrade option on an item. It will show the template of the item, the crest, and the cost for Valorstone to raise the item level. Weapons and armor will have different prices, with the latter usually being more expensive. The upgrade template shows the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item and also lists its current base ilvl.

The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade template's reduction percentage for lvl. For example an upgrade of 8% will reduce the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 8%.

In addition to the base ilvl boost, the item will also get upgrades in other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage, dodge, block, and parry rating. These increases are also based off the upgrade template.

The amount of defense and damage the item will receive when it is leveled can be observed below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. All weapons and armor apart from practice equipment get these stats when they level up. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a rolled perfect version of a piece of armor or weapon is able to command more in trade value than unupp'd versions. This is also true for other armor pieces, such as tiaras and circlets.