Path of Exile item Upgrading (Articlescad.com)

In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the best ways to upgrade your equipment without relying on big-ticket drops or trade. This article will teach you how to upgrade your items.

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

Components

Upgrade components are the parts that improve your armor and weapons better. You can acquire them by destroying enemies, finding them in spheres of items or purchasing them from karma sellers. They can also be salvaged from equipment that contains them or by using an advanced salvage kit such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products, upgrade components are not destroyed when removed from an item.

Upgrade components are typically used to improve an item but they can also be used for other purposes. They can be used to increase the level of experience gained from upgrading existing weapons or gear. They can be forged to give extra bonuses. For instance, a specially crafted glyph will boost the chance of upgrading its target, and the boost upgrade can boost the defense or attack quality of a weapon or armor.

You can connect an upgrade items 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. Alternatively, you can make use of the workbench to choose an upgrade template. In either case the item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components are gathered.

Each component is assigned an experience multiplier. This determines the amount of experience an item gains when upgraded using the component. For instance, organic components offer more experience multipliers than mechanical ones. It is therefore best to upgrade using organic components until you reach the experience multiplier for the next rank of weapon or gear, and then change to mechanical upgrades.

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

Sets

A set is a group of items that share a bonus. Each item can be upgraded at minimum once. The upgrade will increase the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item upgrades, its initial stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be increased even more (for instance the +1 bonus for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded, one of its stats will increase randomly.

Upgrades can also boost the base damage of a weapon. This could be crucial for certain builds. Weapons cannot be upgraded for a higher maximum defence roll than their base. Upgrades can be a great method to increase the value of a set and unique items, however it is important to keep in mind that they might not be superior to a high-level runeword in any build.

If you're upgrading an item that comes with an added bonus it can be rerolled one time, and its guarantee will reset back to zero. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as bringing an item upgrader, but the new item will offer various bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll require a power dice 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. These can be bought by using Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. The NPC will also provide an additional reward for every tier that is completed 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 reroll any item acquired in the game provided they have enough reroll tokens. When an upgraded item gets to be rerolled, it will be exchanged for a level 1 version of the same item from a different set. Reroll tokens can be purchased from the store for small amounts of in-game currency, but they are not refundable. The new item will come with the same extra bonuses like the first, however the statistics will also be different.

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

The player can also upgrade the item level for any equipment equipped. This is accomplished by talking to an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade components. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, item type, and the number of crests. Each step will add an additional 5% of damage to weapons.

An upgrade can make it more powerful, but it will also decrease its quality. It is therefore important to find a balance between the two. Certain items aren't worth upgrading, while others require upgrading to maximize their potential. For example an individual player may want to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to see what it can be.

Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it to gain access to an item upgrade or character they cannot otherwise get. These items are time-consuming and costly to obtain, and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only alternatives are to invest money or grind a lot. For this reason, rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor when upgrading an item. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I believe it was intended to to increase the value of rare items, but since equipment generally drops quickly and can only be upgraded once you've reached a certain level, you'll usually replace the item before it gets old enough. It's also not worth upgrading items with gem sockets, as the power of the stone will outweigh any increase in the level of.

You will be presented with a small box when you click on the upgrade option for an item. It will show the template of the item, the crest, and the cost of Valorstone to increase the item level. The costs will vary between weapons and armor and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item and will also list its current base ilvl.

The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the current ilvl of the item upgrader and the upgrade template. Additionally the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl decrease percentage. For example, a weapon with an upgrade decrease of 8% will decrease its value by 8-8 percent.

The item will receive upgrades to other stats, such as critical strike damage, PvE damages and block, parry and dodge rating in addition to the base ilvl. The increases are also dependent on the upgrade template.

In the upgrade template you can check the amount of damage or defense the item will suffer when it is upgraded. This is listed below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. All armor and weapons, except practice equipment, get these stats once they've been leveled up. The value of these stats will be dictated by the market, with a perfectly rolled piece of armor or weapon is able to command more in trade value than unupp'd versions. This is also true for other armor pieces, like tiaras and circlets.