Path of Exile Item Upgrading
The best method to improve your equipment in Path of Exile is through upgrading your items. This lets you improve it without having to depend on costly drops or trades. This article will teach you how to upgrade your items.
Upgrades in equipment can add an additional bonus to the item's base stats. The bonus is according to the rarity and strength of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components are the parts that improve your armor and weapons better. They can be obtained by fighting off enemies, locating them in item spheres, or buying them from karma merchants. They can also be salvaged from equipment that contains them, or by utilizing an advanced salvage kit such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products upgrades aren't destroyed when removed from an item.
Upgrade components are mostly used to upgrade an item, however, they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked to increase the level of an upgradeable item or they can be used to enhance the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of equipment. They can also be forged to give additional bonuses. A glyph that is crafted can boost the chances of upgrading its target, while an upgrade boosts the defense or attack capabilities of the weapon.
You can bind an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. It will display a list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. You can also use the workbench when selecting an upgrade template. In either scenario the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components have been collected.
Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item will gain when upgraded with that component. Organic components, like, have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. It is therefore recommended to upgrade with organic components until you reach the experience multiplier for the next rank of weapon or gear, then change to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the multiplier for experience, each item also has the maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of upgradeable items is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the kind of upgrade they can receive. The most powerful upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. The most popular weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and a armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a group of items that have the benefit of. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once and the upgrade will increase the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades, primary stats are enhanced even more (for instance the +1 bonus for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded one of its additional stats is increased randomly.
Upgrades can also boost the base damage of a weapon. This may be important for certain builds. Weapons aren't upgraded to give a higher maximum defence roll than their base. Upgrading can be a good option to increase the value of certain sets and unique items, however it is important to keep in mind that they're not necessarily more effective than a high-level raneword in any build.
If you are upgrading an item that has an added bonus it can be rerolled one time, and its guarantee will reset back to zero. The same amount of power die is used to roll an item as it would be used to increase its level. 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 need the appropriate amount Minerals and Erons, as well as a power dice of each type. These can be purchased with Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled once and will be made using the same materials used in the original item.
Rerolling
If players have enough to reroll tokens, they are able to roll any item they have acquired during the game. When an upgraded item gets being rerolled, it can be exchanged for a level 1 version of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens are sold at the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new upgraded item will have the same bonuses of the first however its stats will differ also.
Players can alter the identification of their equipment, in addition to rolling it again by interacting with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identity from an armor to a weapon or vice versa, while retaining its base stats and attributes that are required. The change will be permanent and will affect all characters that own the equipment.
The player can also upgrade the item level for any equipped equipment. This is done by interacting with an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade components. It will cost a specific amount of crests and Valorstones dependent on the upgrade track and type. In the case of weapons, each step will add 5% to its damage.
Upgrading an item can make it more powerful however, it can also decrease its quality. It is therefore important to keep both in check. Some items may not be worth upgrading and some will require to be upgraded to reach their potential. For item upgrading may decide to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to see what it can become.
The main reason people reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game, is because they are trying to get a specific weapon or character that they can't otherwise obtain. These items can be costly and time-consuming to obtain, and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only options left are to invest real money or grind lots. Rerolling is very popular in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item 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 increase the value of rare and expensive items. However, since the majority of equipment is replaced quickly and can only be upgraded by one level, you'll usually replace it before it becomes too old. It's not worth it to upgrade items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will far outweigh the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.
If you click the upgrade button on an item, you'll see a small window with the upgrade template for the item and the crest and Valorstone costs to boost the level of the item. The cost of upgrades will vary based on armor and weapons, with the former usually costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats that can be added to an upgraded item, as well as 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 the new upgraded item will be decreased by the upgrade template's lvl decrease percentage. For example, a weapon with an increase of 8% will reduce its ilvl by 8 - 8%.
The item will get upgrades to other stats, such as critical strike damage, PvE damage and block, parry and dodge rating, in addition to the base ilvl. These upgrades are also based on the upgrade template.
The amount of damage and defense that the item is able to receive as it gets leveled up can be observed below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. All armor and weapons that are not 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 an incredibly higher price than a non-upp’d version. The same is true for other armor pieces such as circlets or tiaras.