Path of Exile Item Upgrading
The best way to improve your equipment in Path of Exile is through upgrade of your items. This allows you to improve it without having to rely on expensive drops or trades. This article will show you how to upp your items effectively.
Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus to the item's base stats. The amount of bonus varies depending on the rarity and level of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components can make your armour and weapons stronger. You can acquire them by destroying enemies, finding them in item spheres, or buying them from karma dealers. You can also get them from equipment containing the components, or by utilizing high-end salvage kits like Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Unlike most other items, upgrade components are not destroyed when removed from an item.
Upgrade components are primarily used to improve an item however, they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked to boost the value of an upgradeable item, or they can be used to boost the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can be made for additional bonuses. A glyph that is crafted can boost the chances of upgrading its target while boost upgrades increase the attack or defense attributes of a weapon.
Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will display the upgrade components that the item can be updated. You can also utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components are gathered.
Each component is assigned an experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item gains when upgraded with that component. Organic components, for instance, have more experience multipliers than mechanical components. It is therefore recommended to upgrade using organic components until you reach the experience multiplier of the next rank of the equipment or weapon, and then move to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the multiplier of experience every item also has the maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of upgrades are determined by the upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. The highest upgrade possible is a weapon that is tier 10. The most popular weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and a armor upgrade for tier 5.
Sets
A set is a group of items that have the benefit of. Each item can be upgraded at the least once. The upgrade will increase the amount of bonuses you can expect to receive. When you first upgrade an item or set piece will give it an increase of +1 to its primary stat. After subsequent upgrades, primary stats are 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 to a weapon may increase the damage base, which may be necessary for certain builds. However, weapons cannot be upgraded to a higher maximum defense roll than their base. Upgrading can be a good way to improve the value of some set and unique items, however it's important to note that they may not be better than a high-level runeword in any build.
If an item you're upgrading comes with a guaranteed bonus it is able to be rerolled once and the guarantee will reset to 0. The same power die is used to roll an item, just as it would be 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 proper amount of Minerals and Erons as well as a power dice of each kind. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector and are available for purchase with Gold. NPCs also offer special rewards for each completed level of the upgrade process. This reward is rerollable once and the reroll will be made using the same materials as the original item.
Rerolling
If players have enough tokens for rerolling, they can roll any item they've accumulated during the game. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced with an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens are sold in the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The new upgraded item will still have the extra benefits of the previous one however its stats will be different too.
In addition to rerolling items, players can also alter the identification of any item by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification from an armored weapon to a weapon, or vice versa, all the while maintaining its base stats and attributes that are required. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that have the gear in question.
The player can also upgrade the item level for any equipment equipped. This is done by interacting with an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade item s. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, item type and number of crests. Each step will give 5percent more damage to weapons.
Upgrades can boost the power of an item, but they also decrease the quality of an item. It is therefore essential to find a balance between these two. Some items may not be worth upgrading at all and some will require to be upgraded to reach their potential. For example one player might decide to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to discover what it could be.
The primary reason why people play rerolls in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is because they are trying to get a specific character or weapon that they aren't able to obtain. These items are time-consuming and costly to acquire and the RNG isn't always a good fit. The only options left are to spend real cash or grind lots. Rerolling is extremely popular in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can choose to level up the weapon or armor. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I think this feature was intended to add some value to expensive and rare items. However, since most items are replaced quite quickly, and can only be leveled up to a certain level, you will usually replace it before it gets too old. It's also not worth upgrading items using gem sockets, as the power of the gem will outweigh any increment in the ilvl.
If you click the upgrade button on an item, you will be presented with a small window displaying the upgrade template for the item and the cost of Valorstone and crest to boost the level of the item. The costs will vary between weapons and armor and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines the stats to be added to an upgraded item along with its current ilvl.
The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated by analyzing 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 instance, an upgrade of 8% will reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8percent.
In addition to the base ilvl increase the item will also be upgraded in other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage and 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 leveled up 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 once they've been leveled up. The market will determine the worth of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can fetch a much higher price than an unupp'd version. This is also true for other pieces of armor such as tiaras and circlets.