Path of Exile Item Upgrading
The most effective way to upgrade your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades . This lets you improve it without having to rely on expensive trades or drops. This article will show you how to upgrade your items effectively.
Upgrades to equipment provide an increase in the item's stats. This bonus scales according to the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components make your weapons and armour better. You can find them by destroying enemies, purchasing them from karma sellers or finding them in items-spheres. You can also salvage them from equipment containing the components or through high-end salvage kits like Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products upgrades aren't destroyed when they are removed from an item.
The main purpose of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded but they also serve other functions. They can be stacked in order to increase the level or the amount of experience gained by upgrading equipment or weapons. They can be forged for additional bonuses. For instance, a designed glyph will increase the chance of upgrading its target, and the boost upgrade can increase the attack or defense attribute of a weapon or armor.
By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will let you bind it to an item. This will show the upgrade components to which the item can be upgraded. Alternatively, you can utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components have been gathered.
Each component has a distinct experience multiplier that affects how much more experience an item gets when it is upgraded with the component. For instance, organic components offer a higher experience multiplier than mechanical ones. Therefore, it is recommended to upgrade using organic components until you have reached the multiplier of experience for the next rank of equipment or weapon, and then change to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the multiplier for experience every item also has an maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of items that are upgradeable is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the kind of upgrade they can receive. For instance, the highest possible weapon upgrade is a tier 10 weapon. The most popular weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and an armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a group of items which share bonuses. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and the upgrade increases the guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade the set piece or weapon, it will receive an increase of +1 to its primary stat. On subsequent upgrades the stats of the primary one will be boosted a bit more (for instance, +1 to 12+/13+/14+) Every time you upgrade the item it will have one of its additional stats is boosted randomly.
Upgrades can also boost the damage base of a weapon. This may be important for certain types of weapons. Weapons can't be upgraded for an increased maximum defence roll than their base. It is possible to increase the value of certain sets and unique items by upgrading them, however they may not always be superior to a high-level Runeword.
If you are upgrading an item that has bonuses it can be rerolled once, and its guarantee will reset to 0. The same power dies are used to roll an item, just as it would be to increase its level. However, the new item has different bonuses. Upgrades can be made at the NPC [Armorthe ] Boboko in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll require a power die of each kind (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the appropriate amount of Minerals and Erons. They can be purchased by using Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. The NPC will also provide a special reward for each completed tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled once and the reroll will be made using the same materials as the original item.
Rerolling
A player is able to play rerolling any item that they acquire in the game provided they have enough reroll tokens. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced with a level 1 version in another set. Reroll tokens are available from the store for an amount of in-game currency, but they cannot be refunded. The upgraded item will still have the extra bonuses of the first however its stats will differ also.
Players can alter the identification of their equipment as well as rerolling it by interacting with a NPC upgrader. The equipment's identification will change from a weapons to armor, or vice versa. Its base stats and requirements remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters who have the gear in question.
The player can also upgrade the level of the item for any equipment equipped. This is accomplished by interacting with an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade components. It will cost a specific amount of crests and Valorstones dependent on the upgrade track and item kind. Each step will give 5% more damage to weapons.
An upgrade can make it more powerful however it can also decrease its quality. Therefore, it is important to strike a balance between the two. Some items may not be worth upgrading at all and some will require to be upgraded to maximize their potential. For example an individual player may want to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to see what it can be.
Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it in order to get an item or character that they wouldn't otherwise have. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire, and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only choices left is to shell out real money or grind for a long time. This is why rerolling is a very popular option in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can increase the level of the weapon or armor. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe it was designed to to add value to rare items, but because the majority of gear drops quickly and can only be upgraded once you've reached a certain level it is likely that you will replace the item before it becomes too old. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will be greater than the increase in ilvl with the upgrade.
You will see a small box when you click on the upgrade option for an item. It will display the template for the item, its Crest, as well as the cost of Valorstone to increase the item's level. The cost will differ between armor and weapons and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template shows the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item and it also lists the current ilvl.
The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the item's current ilvl and the upgrade template. In addition the ilvl of a new upgraded item will be decreased by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For example an upgrade of 8% will decrease the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 8%.
In addition to the base ilvl increase the item will also be upgraded in other stats, such as critical strike damage, damage from PvE and block, parry and dodge rating. These increases are dependent on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template you can see the amount of damage or defense that the item will be able to sustain when it is upgraded. This is shown below the cost and upgrade percentages. Aside from practice equipment, all items and armor get the same stats once leveled up. The value of these stats will be determined by the market, with a rolled perfect version of a weapon or piece of armor can command significantly more in trade value than unupp'd versions. The same is true for other armor pieces like circlets and Tiaras.