What Freud Can Teach Us About Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The best method to upgrade your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This allows you to enhance your gear without having to depend on costly drops or trades. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your gear.

Upgrades to equipment grant an increase in the item's stats. The bonus increases with upgrade component's level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components are the parts that can make your weapons and armor better. They can be found through destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors, or finding them in item-spheres. You can also get them from equipment that contains the components or by using salvage kits of high-end quality, such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when they are removed from an item.

The main purpose of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded however, they also serve other functions. They can be stacked to increase the quality of an upgradeable item or they can be used to increase the experience gained by upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can be made for additional bonuses. For example, a designed glyph will increase the chances of upgrading its target, while a boost upgrade will increase the attack or defense quality of a weapon or armor.

Selecting an upgrade template in the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will display the upgrade components that the item can be upgraded. You can also use the workbench for selecting an upgrade template. In either case, an item upgrader will be upgraded after enough upgrade components have been gathered.

Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines the amount of experience an item can gain when upgraded using the component. Organic components, like, have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. It is therefore recommended to upgrade using organic components until you have reached the experience multiplier of the next rank of equipment or weapon, and then switch to mechanical upgrades.

In addition to the multiplier of experience every item also has a maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of upgrades available is determined by the upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade for the upgradeable item. For instance, the highest possible weapon upgrade is a tier 10 weapon. However, the most common weapon upgrades are the tier 6 weapon and a tier 5 armor upgrade.

Sets

A set is a collection of items that share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once and the upgrade increases the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. After subsequent upgrades the stats of the primary one will be increased a bit more (for example, +1 to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item with an additional stats will be increased randomly.

Upgrading a weapon can also increase its damage base, which can be important for some builds. However, weapons are not upgraded to have a greater maximum defense roll than their regular base. It's possible to increase the value of certain sets and unique items by upgrading them, but they may not always be superior to a high-level Runeword.

If the item level upgrade you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus it is able to be rerolled a few times and its guarantee will be reset to zero. The same power dies are used to roll an item upgrades, just as it would be to upgrade it. However the new item comes with different bonuses. Upgrades can be made at the NPC [ArmorBoboko. Boboko in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll 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 with Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs also offer special rewards for each completed stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a second time and the reroll will use the same materials used in the original item.

Rerolling

A player is able to reroll any item acquired during the game, provided they have enough tokens to be able to do so. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced by the same level in another set. Reroll tokens can be purchased at the store for a small amount of in-game currency. However, they aren't refundable. The new item will come with the same extra bonuses as the original, but the statistics will also be different.

Players can change the identification of their equipment, in addition to changing it's roll by interfacing with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from an armored weapon to a weapon, or vice versa, all the while retaining its base stats and the attributes it requires. The change will be permanent and will affect all characters who have the equipment.

The player can also upgrade the level of the item for any equipment equipped. This can be done by talking to an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade components. This will cost a set amount of crests and Valorstones according to the upgrade track and item kind. For weapons, each step up will add 5% to its damage.

Upgrades can boost the capability of an item, however they also can decrease the quality of an item. It is therefore essential to strike a balance between the two. Some items are not worth upgrading, whereas others require upgrading to reach their full potential. A player might want to upgrade breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier (% block chance or FHR) to discover what it could become.

Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. It is a method used by players to try to obtain the character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise have. Getting these items can be costly and time-consuming and the RNG gods don't always want to cooperate. The only alternatives are to spend real money or grind a lot. Rerolling is very popular in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item, you can pick to increase the level of the weapon or armor. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe it was designed to to give some value to rare items, but because the majority of gear drops quickly and can only be upgraded once you've reached a certain level, you'll usually replace the item before it gets too old. It is also not worth upgrading items with gem sockets because the power of the gem will outweigh any increment in ilvl.

If you click the upgrade option on an item, you will see a small window with the upgrade template for the item and the cost of Valorstone and crest to increase the item upgrader level. The cost will differ between armor and weapons as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item and it also lists the current base ilvl.

The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated by analyzing the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. Additionally, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the upgrade template's lvl decrease percentage. For instance an upgrade of 8% will reduce the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 8%.

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

The amount of damage and defense that the item will receive when leveled up can be shown below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. All armor and weapons apart from practice equipment get these stats when they level up. The value of these stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly rolled version of a piece of armor or weapon is able to command more trade value than non-upp'd versions. The same applies to other armor pieces, such as tiaras and circlets.