20 Things You Should Be Educated About Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The most effective way to upgrade your equipment in Path of Exile is through upgrading your items. This allows you to upgrade your gear without having rely on expensive trades or drops. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your gear.

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 parts that improve your armor and weapons better. You can acquire them by the destruction of enemies, finding them in item spheres, or buying them from karma merchants. They can also be rescued from equipment that has them, or by utilizing the highest-quality salvage kits like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. In contrast to other items, upgrade components are not destroyed when removed from an item.

Upgrade components are mostly used to improve an item however, they can also be used for other purposes. They can be used to boost the value of an item that can be upgraded or they can be used to enhance the experience gained by upgrading an existing weapon or piece of equipment. They can be forged for extra bonuses. For instance, a created glyph can increase the chances of upgrading its target, and the boost upgrade can enhance the defense or attack quality of a weapon or armor.

Selecting an upgrade template in the GUI will allow you to bind it to an item. This will show the upgrade components that the item can be upgraded. You can also use the workbench for selecting an upgrade template. In either scenario, an item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components have been gathered.

Each component has a different experience multiplier, which determines how much more experience an item gets when it upgrades with that component. For instance, organic components have a a higher experience multiplier than mechanical ones. Therefore, it is 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.

Each item has an upgrade limit number that it is possible to receive. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the kind of upgrade they can receive. For instance, the highest possible upgrade for a weapon is a tier 10 weapon. However, the most commonly used weapon upgrades are an tier 6 weapon as well as a tier 5 armor upgrade.

Sets

A set is a collection of items which share bonuses. Each item can be upgraded at the minimum once. The upgrade increases the amount of bonuses you can expect to receive. The first time you upgrade an item or set piece, it will receive an increase of +1 to its primary stat. Following upgrades, the primary stats will be boosted even further (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded one of its additional stats is increased randomly.

Upgrading a weapon can also increase its damage base, which may be important for some builds. Weapons aren't upgraded to give a higher maximum defence roll than their base. It is possible to increase value of certain sets and unique items by upgrading them, but they might not always be superior to a higher-level Runeword.

If the item you're upgrading has a guarantee bonus, it can be rerolled only once, and then its guarantee will reset to 0. The same power dies are used to roll an item as it would be to increase its level. However, the new item has different bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require a power dice of each type (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the proper amount of Minerals and Erons. These can be bought by using Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs also offer special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. The reward can be rerolled a single time, using the same materials as the original item.

Rerolling

If players have enough tokens for rerolling, they can play rerolling any item they have acquired during the game. If an upgraded item is rerolled, it will be exchanged for an equivalent version that is level 1 of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens are available in the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The new item will have the same extra bonuses like the first, however the stats will also be different.

In addition to rerolling items players can also change the identity of any equipment by interacting with an upgrader NPC. The equipment's identification will change as a weapon to armor or vice versa. The base requirements and stats remain the same. The change will be permanent and affect all characters that own the gear.

The player can also upgrade the level of an item for any equipment equipped. This is accomplished by talking to an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade components. It will cost a specific amount of crests and Valorstones dependent on the upgrade track and the item kind. Each step will add an additional 5% of damage to weapons.

Upgrades can boost the capability of an item, however they also decrease its quality. Therefore, it is important to find a balance between these two.  item upgrades  aren't worth upgrading, while other items need to be upgraded to make them more effective. For instance, a player might decide to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to explore the possibilities of what it can be.

Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People use it in order to get the character or weapon they would not otherwise be able to acquire. These items are time-consuming and costly to acquire and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only choices left are to invest real money or grind for a long time. Rerolling is a popular feature in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item, you can choose to increase the level of the weapon or armor. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe this feature was created to give value to rare and expensive items. However, since the majority of equipment is replaced quickly and can only be upgraded by one level, you will typically replace it before it is too old. It's also not worth upgrading items with gem sockets, as the power of the gem will outweigh any increase in the level of.

When you click on the upgrade option on an item, you'll get a small screen with the item's upgrade template and the cost of Valorstone and crest to boost the level of the item. Armor and weapons will have different prices, with the latter generally being more expensive. The upgrade template outlines the stats that will be added to the upgraded item. It will also list its current base ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and Crest is calculated using the item's current Ilvl and the upgrade templates. In addition, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be decreased by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For instance, an upgrade of 8% will reduce the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 8%.

The item will be upgraded to other stats, like 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 shown below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. In addition to practice equipment, all other items and armor get these same stats when upgraded. The market determines the value of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can fetch an incredibly higher price than an unupp'd version. The same applies to other armor pieces, such as circlets and Tiaras.