Path of Exile Item Upgrading

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

Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus on the item's stats. This bonus scales based on the rarity and strength of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components are the parts that make your weapons and armor more effective. You can find them by destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors or finding them in items-spheres. They can also be salvaged from equipment that has them, or by utilizing the highest-quality salvage kits such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components cannot be destroyed when you remove them from an item.

The main purpose of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded, but they also serve other functions. They can be stacked to increase the level of experience gained from upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can be forged to give additional benefits. A crafted glyph can increase the upgrade chances of its target, while boost upgrades increase the attack or defense attributes of a weapon.

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 for selecting an upgrade template. In either scenario the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been collected.

Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines the amount of experience an item upgrade can gain when upgraded with that component. For instance, organic components offer more experience multipliers than mechanical ones. You should upgrade organic components first until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment and then move on to mechanical upgrades.

Each item has a maximum upgrade number that it is possible to receive. The number of upgrades is determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the upgrade type of the upgradeable Best item upgrade. The highest upgrade possible is a weapon with 10th level. However, the most common upgrade for weapons is the tier 6 weapon and an armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of objects that share the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at minimum once. The upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. In subsequent upgrades the primary stats will be boosted a little more (for instance, +1 to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item it will have one of its additional stats is boosted randomly.

The upgrade of a weapon can increase its damage base, which could be crucial for certain builds. Weapons can't be upgraded for greater maximum defence rolls than their base. Upgrading can be a good option to increase the value of a set and unique items, but it's important to note that they may not be better than a high-level runeword in any build.

If you are upgrading an item that has bonuses the item can be rerolled one time and the guarantee will reset to zero. Rerolling costs the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item, however the new item will have 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 and a power dice of each type. These can be purchased with Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. The NPC will also provide a special reward for each tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a single time with the same materials as original item.

Rerolling

A player is able to reroll any item acquired during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens to do so. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced with the same level in another set. Reroll tokens are sold in the shop for a small sum of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item will offer the same extra bonuses like the first, however the stats will also differ.

In addition to rerolling items players can also alter the identity of any equipment by interacting with an upgrader NPC. This will change its identification as a weapon to armor, or vice versa. Its base requirements and stats remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that are wearing the gear.

The player can also upgrade their level of an item upgrades for any equipment that is equipped. This is accomplished by interacting with an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade items. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, the item type and the number of crests. For weapons, each step will add an additional 5% to its damage.

The upgrade of an item can boost its power, but it will also decrease its quality. Therefore, it is important to balance the two. Some items may not be worth upgrading, while others will need to be upgraded to reach their potential. One player may wish to upgrade their breakpoint armor using an interesting modification ( percent block chance, or FHR) in order to see what else it can be.

Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it in order to get the character or weapon they cannot otherwise get. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire, and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only other options are to spend money or grind for a long time. For this reason, rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item you can pick to increase the level of the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I believe that this feature was created to add some value to expensive and rare items. However, as most gear is replaced fairly quickly, and it can only be upgraded by to a certain level, you will generally replace it before it gets too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items with gem sockets as the power of the gem will be greater than the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

If you click on the upgrade option on an Item Upgrader Kit, you'll see a small window with the upgrade template of the item as well as the cost of Valorstone and crest to increase the level of the item. Armor and weapons will have different costs, with the latter usually being more expensive. The upgrade template lists the stats that will be added to the upgraded item and it also lists the current ilvl.

The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated by analyzing the current ilvl of the item and the upgrade template. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade templates lvl reduction percentage. For instance the weapon that has an upgrade decrease of 8% will decrease its ilvl by 8 - 8%.

In addition to the base ilvl boost, the item will also be upgraded in other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage and block, parry and dodge rating. These upgrades are also based on the upgrade template.

The amount of defense and damage the item receives as it gets leveled up can be seen below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. All armor and weapons, except practice equipment, get these stats once they've been leveled up. The market will determine the value of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can command more than an unupp'd version. The same applies to other pieces of armor such as circlets or Tiaras.