Are You Getting The Most Of Your Item Upgrading

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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the most effective ways to upgrade your gear without relying on massive drops or trade. This article will teach you how to upp your items effectively.

Upgrades to equipment provide an additional bonus to the item's stats. The bonus is depending on the rarity and level of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components are the items that can make your weapons and armor more effective. They can be found by destroying enemies, purchasing them from karma vendors or finding them in the form of item-spheres. You can also salvage them from equipment containing the components, or by utilizing high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products upgrades aren't destroyed when removed from an item.

The main purpose of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded, but they also serve other purposes. They can be stacked to boost the value of an upgradeable item or they can be used to boost the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of equipment. They can also be forged to give additional bonuses. For example, a designed glyph will increase the upgrade chance of its target, whereas a boost upgrade will increase the attack or defense quality of a weapon or armor.

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

Each component is assigned an experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item can gain when upgraded using the component. Organic components, for example have a higher multiplier of experience than mechanical components. It is recommended to upgrade 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 is determined by its upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. The highest level of upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. The most common weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and an armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a set of items which all have the same bonus. Each item upgrader mod in the set can be upgraded at least once, and the upgrade increases its guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade an item or set piece will give it a +1 increase to its primary stat. In subsequent upgrades the stats of the primary one will be boosted a bit more (for example, +1 to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade items the item, one of its extra stats is increased randomly.

Upgrading a weapon can also increase its damage base, which may be important for some builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to a higher defense base than their regular base. It is a good method to increase the value of certain sets and unique items, however it's important to remember that they may not be superior to a high-level runeword in any build.

If the item you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus it is able to be rerolled once and the guarantee will be reset to zero. The same power dies are used to roll an item, just as it would be to level it up. However the new item comes with different bonuses. Upgrades can be made at the NPC [Armorthe ] Boboko in the Central Flarine. To upgrade an item you will require the proper amount of Minerals and Erons and a power dice of each kind. They can be purchased by using Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. The NPC will also give an additional reward for each tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled one time using the same materials and components as the first item.

Rerolling

A player is able to play rerolling any item that they acquire in the game provided they have enough reroll tokens to be able to do so. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced with an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens are available in the shop for a small amount of in-game currency. They are non-refundable. The new upgraded item will still come with the extra bonuses of the first however its stats will differ also.

In addition to rerolling items players can also change the identification of any equipment by engaging with an upgrader NPC. This will change its identification from a weapons to armor or vice versa. The basic stats and requirements remain the same. The change will be permanent and affect all characters who have the gear.

The player can also upgrade the item upgrades level for any equipped equipment. This is done by interacting with an upgrader NPC, and then obtaining upgrade components. It will cost a specific amount of crests as well as Valorstones according to the upgrade track and type. In the case of weapons, each step up will add an additional 5% to its damage.

Upgrades can increase the capability of an item, however they also can decrease its quality. It is therefore important to strike a balance between the two. Some items may not be worth upgrading however, others will need to be upgraded in order to maximize their potential. For instance, a player might wish to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that has an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to discover what it could become.

The primary reason people are able to reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is because they are trying to acquire a certain character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise be able to acquire. Getting these items can be expensive and time-consuming, and the RNG gods do not always want to play. The only options left are to spend real cash or grind a lot. This is why rerolling is a very popular choice 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 think it was meant to to increase the value of rare items, but as equipment generally drops quickly and can only be upgraded after a certain amount of levels and you'll typically replace the item before it gets old enough. It's also not worth upgrading items with gem sockets, as the power of the gem will outweigh any increment in the ilvl.

You will see a small window when you click on the upgrade option on an item. It will show the item upgrader's template, the crest, and the cost of Valorstone to increase the level of the item. The costs will vary between armor and weapons as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade item template outlines the stats that can be added to an upgraded item, along with its current base ilvl.

The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. The ilvl is also decreased by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For instance, a weapon with an increase of 8% will decrease its value by 8-8 percent.

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

In the upgrade template you can check the amount of damage or defense an item will be able to sustain when it is upgraded. This is shown below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. Aside from equipment for practice, all weapons and armor gain these same stats when leveled up. The value of these stats will be dictated by the market, with a perfectly rolled perfect version of a weapon or piece of armor is able to command more trade value than non-upp'd versions. Similar is the case for other pieces of armor, like tiaras or circlets.