7 Things About Item Upgrading You'll Kick Yourself For Not Knowing

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The most effective way to improve 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 teach you how to upgrade your items.

Upgrades in equipment can add an additional bonus to the item's base stats. The bonus increases with upgrade component's level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components are the parts that make your weapons and armor more effective. You can locate them by destroying enemies, purchasing them from karma vendors or finding them in items-spheres. You can also salvage them from equipment containing the components, or by utilizing salvage kits of high-end quality, such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components cannot be destroyed when they are removed from an item.

The main function of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded, but they also serve other purposes. They can be stacked in order to boost the level or experience gained by upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can also be forged to offer additional benefits. For instance, a specially designed glyph will increase the chances of upgrading its target, while an upgrade boost will increase the attack or defense property of a weapon, or armor.

You can attach an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will display an upgrade component list that the item can be upgraded to. Alternatively, you can utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been collected.

Each component has a distinct experience multiplier, which determines how much more experience an item gets when it upgrades with the component. Organic components, for example, have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. You should upgrade your organic components first until you reach the next level in the weapon or equipment, then switch to mechanical upgrades.

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

Sets

A set is a collection of items which all have the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once, and the upgrade will increase the amount of bonuses that are guaranteed. When you first upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades, primary stats are enhanced even more (for instance +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item upgrade is upgraded, one of its stats will increase randomly.

Upgrades can also boost a weapon's damage base. This may be important for certain builds. However, weapons are not upgraded to have a greater defense base than their normal base. It is a good way to improve the value of certain sets and unique items, however it is important to keep in mind that they may not be more effective than a high-level raneword in any build.

If an item you're upgrading comes with a guaranteed bonus, it can be rerolled once and the guarantee will be reset to 0. Rerolling costs the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item up, but the new item will have different extra bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will need a power die of each kind (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; dice 7 drops from bosses) and the right amount of Minerals and Erons. They can be purchased with Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. The NPC will also provide an extra reward for each tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a second time and the reroll will be made using the same materials used in the original item.

Rerolling

A player is able to reroll any item acquired in the game if they have enough tokens. If an upgraded item is rerolled, it will be exchanged for an equivalent version that is level 1 of the same item from a different set. Reroll tokens are available in the store for a small amount of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item will come with the same bonus features as the previous one, but the stats will be different.

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

Players can also boost the item level of any equipped equipment by acquiring upgrade components and interacting with the NPC who upgrades the item. The cost will vary depending on the upgrade track, the item upgrader kit type and number of crests. Each step will add 5percent more damage to weapons.

Upgrades can increase the capability of an item, however they also can decrease the quality of an item. It is therefore important to find a balance between these two. Certain items might not be worth upgrading at all and some will require to be upgraded in order to realize their potential. For instance an individual player may wish to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that has an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to discover what it could be.

Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. It is a method used by players to try to obtain a character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise have. These items can be costly and time-consuming to acquire and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only options left are to spend real cash or grind a lot. This is why rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item you can level up the weapon or armor. However, this feature is absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe it was designed to be a way to add value to rare items, but because the majority of gear drops quickly and is only upgraded once you've reached a certain level, you'll usually replace the item before it becomes too old. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade items with gem sockets as the power of the gem will outweigh the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

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

The cost of the Valorstone and the crest is calculated based on the current Ilvl of the item as well as the upgrade templates. The ilvl will also be reduced by the upgrade template's reduction percentage for lvl. For instance an upgrade of 8% will decrease the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 88%.

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

The amount of defense and damage the item is able to receive as it gets leveled up can be observed below the upgrade cost and decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. All armor and weapons apart from practice equipment get these stats when they level up. 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. Similar is the case for other armor pieces, such as tiaras and circlets.