Path of Exile Item Upgrading
The best method to improve your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This lets you improve it without having to depend on costly drops or trades. This article will teach you how to upp your items effectively.
Upgrades in equipment can add an additional bonus to the item's base stats. The amount of bonus varies depending on the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components are the items that improve your armor and weapons better. You can find them through destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors or finding them in 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 are not destroyed when they are removed from an item.
Upgrade components are mostly used to upgrade an item, but they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked to increase the level of experience gained from upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can also be made to provide extra bonuses. For instance, a specially crafted glyph will boost the chance of upgrading its target, and a boost upgrade will increase the attack or defense quality of a weapon or armor.
You can bind an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will show an upgrade component list that the item can be upgraded to. You can also use the workbench when selecting an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components have been gathered.
Each component is assigned an experience multiplier. This determines the amount of experience an item gains when upgraded using that component. Organic components, for instance have a higher multiplier of experience than mechanical components. It is recommended to upgrade your organic components first until you reach the next level in the weapon or equipment then switch to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the experience multiplier, each item also has the maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of upgrades is determined by its upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. The highest upgrade possible is a weapon with 10th level. 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 set of items that share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once, and the upgrade increases its guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade an item or set piece, it will receive an increase of +1 to its primary stat. After subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be increased even more (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats is increased randomly.
Upgrades can also boost a weapon's damage base. This could be crucial for certain types of weapons. However, weapons are not upgraded to have a greater defense base than their regular base. It is possible to increase the value of specific sets and unique items by upgrading them, however they're not always better than a Runeword with a high level.
If you are upgrading an item with bonuses it can be rerolled once and the guarantee will reset to 0. The same amount of power dies are used to roll an item, just as it is used to level it up. However the new item comes with different bonuses. Upgrading can be done through the NPC [ArmorBoboko. Boboko in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require a power dice of each kind (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the right amount of Minerals and Erons. These are available at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collector and are available for purchase with Gold. NPCs also offer special rewards for each completed level of the upgrade process. The reward can be rerolled one time, using the same materials and components as the first item.
Rerolling
A player is able to play rerolling any item that they acquire during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens to be able to do so. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced with an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens can be purchased at the store for small amounts of in-game currency, however they are not refundable. The new item will offer the same bonuses as the previous one, but the statistics will also differ.
In addition to rerolling objects, players can also alter the identification of any equipment by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. This will change its identification from a weapons to armor, or reverse the process. The base requirements and stats remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that own the gear in question.
The player can also upgrade their item level for any equipment equipped. This is accomplished by engaging with an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade items. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, the item type and number of crests. In the case of weapons, each upgrade will add an additional 5percent to the damage.
The upgrade of an item can boost its power however, it can also decrease its quality. Therefore, it is important to find a balance between these two. Certain items might not be worth upgrading and some will require to be upgraded in order to reach their potential. For instance an individual player may wish to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that has an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to explore the possibilities of what it can become.
Rerolling is a popular practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it to gain access to an item or character they cannot otherwise get. These items can be expensive and time-consuming and the RNG gods don't always want to cooperate. The only alternatives are to spend money or grind a lot. For this reason, rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item you can pick to upgrade the weapon or armor. However, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe it was intended to to give some value to rare items, but because gear in general drops fairly quickly and is only upgraded after a certain amount of levels it is likely that you will replace the item before it gets old enough. It's also not worth it to upgrade item s that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will be greater than the increase in ilvl with the upgrade.
You will be presented with a small box when you click on the upgrade option on an item. It will show the item's template, the crest, and the Valorstone cost to raise the level of the item. Armor and weapons have different prices, with the latter usually being more expensive. The upgrade template lists the stats that will be added to an upgraded item along with 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 will also be decreased by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For example the weapon that has an increase of 8% will reduce its value by 8-8%.
In addition to the increase in ilvl base it will also receive upgrades in other stats, such as critical strike damage, damage from PvE and dodge, block and parry rating. The increases are also dependent on the upgrade template.
The amount of damage and defense that the item receives when it is leveled can be observed below the upgrade cost and decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. All weapons and armor, except practice equipment, get these stats once they've been leveled up. The value of these stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly rolled version of a weapon or piece of armor can command significantly higher trade values than non-upp'd versions. The same is true for other armor pieces such as circlets or tiaras.