Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The best way to improve your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This lets you improve it without having to depend on costly trades or drops. This article will show you how to upp your items efficiently.

Upgrades to equipment grant an additional bonus to the item's stats. This bonus is based on the upgrade component's level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components are the things that can make your weapons and armor better. They can be found by destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors, or finding them in items-spheres. They can also be salvaged from equipment with them, or by utilizing the highest-quality salvage kits like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when you remove them from an item.

The primary function of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded but they also serve other functions. They can be stacked to boost the level or the amount of experience gained by upgrading equipment or weapons. They can be made for additional benefits. For instance, a created glyph can increase the chance of upgrading its target, while an upgrade boost will boost the defense or attack attribute of a weapon or armor.

You can connect an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will show the list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. Alternately, you can utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either instance, the item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components are gathered.

Each component has its own experience multiplier that affects how much more experience an item will gain when it upgrades with the component. Organic components, like, have an increased 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, and then move on to mechanical upgrades.

Each item comes with a maximum upgrade number that it is possible to receive. The number of upgrades are determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the type of upgrade for the upgradeable item. For instance, the most expensive possible weapon upgrade is a weapon of tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a tier 6 gun and an armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of items which share the benefit of. Each item can be upgraded at the minimum once. The upgrade increases the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades, primary stats are boosted even further (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded one of its additional stats is increased randomly.

Upgrades can also boost a weapon's damage base. This can be crucial for certain types of weapons. However, weapons are not upgraded to a higher maximum defense roll than their regular base. It is possible to increase value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, however they may not always be better than a Runeword with a high level.

If the item you're upgrading comes with a guaranteed bonus it is able to be rerolled only once, and then its guarantee will reset to 0. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as leveling an item up, but the upgraded item will come with various bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require the required amount of Minerals and Erons as well as a power dice of each type. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector and can be purchased using Gold. The NPC will also offer a special reward for each tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled once and the reroll will be made using the same materials as the first item upgrades.

Rerolling

A player can roll any item they have acquired during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced with an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens can be bought from the store for a small amount of in-game currency, but they cannot be refunded. The new item will offer the same bonus features like the first, however the stats will be different.

Players can change the identity of equipment in addition to rerolling it by interacting with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from a weapon to an armor, or reverse it. Its base stats and requirements remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that have the gear in question.

The player can also upgrade their item level for any equipped equipment. This can be done by talking to an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade items. This will cost a certain number of crests and Valorstones depending on the upgrade track and item kind. Each step will give an additional 5% of damage to weapons.

Upgrades can increase the effectiveness of an item, but they can also reduce its quality. It is therefore essential to find a balance between these two. Some items may not be worth upgrading and some will require to be upgraded to realize their potential. A player might want to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modifier (% block chance or FHR) in order to see what else it can become.

Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People use it to try to obtain a character or weapon they would not otherwise be able to acquire. Getting these items can be expensive and time-consuming and the RNG gods don't always want to cooperate. The only options left is to shell out 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 level up the weapon or armor. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe 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 leveled up one level, you will typically replace it before it gets too old. It's not worth it to upgrade items that have gem sockets because the power of the gem will be greater than the increase in ilvl with the upgrade.

If you click the upgrade item option on an item, you will get a small screen with the item upgrader mod's upgrade template and the crest and Valorstone costs to increase the item level. The costs will vary between armor and weapons and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats to be added to an upgraded item and also the current base ilvl.

The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the item's current ilvl and the upgrade template. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For example, an upgrade of 8% will reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 88%.

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 level. Those increases are also built on the upgrade template.

In the upgrade template, you can check the amount of damage or defense an item will be able to sustain after it is leveled up. This is displayed below the cost and upgrade percentages. All weapons and armor, except practice equipment, gain these stats upon leveling up. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly perfectly rolled version of a piece of armor or weapon can command significantly more in trade value than unupp'd versions. Similar is the case for other pieces of armor, like tiaras or circlets.