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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The most effective way to improve your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This lets you enhance your gear without having to depend on costly trades or drops. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your items.

Upgrades in equipment can add an increase to the item's base stats. This bonus is based on the upgrade component level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components are the things that make your weapons and armor more effective. They can be obtained by fighting off enemies, locating them in spheres of items or buying them from karma dealers. You can also get them from equipment that has the components, or by utilizing high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components are not destroyed when they are removed from the item.

The main function of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded however, they also serve other purposes. They can be stacked in order to increase the level of experience gained by upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can be made for extra bonuses. A glyph that is crafted can boost the upgrade chances of its target, and an upgrade boosts the attack or defense attributes of weapons.

You can bind an upgrade 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. You can also use the workbench for selecting an upgrade template. In either case, an item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been collected.

Each component has a distinct experience multiplier that affects the amount of experience an item gets when it is upgraded by that component. Organic components, like, have a higher multiplier of experience than mechanical components. You should upgrade organic components first until you reach the next level in the weapon or equipment, and then move on to mechanical upgrades.

In addition to the multiplier of experience Each item also comes with an maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of upgrades is determined by its upgradeable rank and the upgrade type of the upgradeable item. The highest upgrade possible is a weapon that is 10th level. The most popular weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and an armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of objects which all have the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and each upgrade boosts its guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. In subsequent upgrades the primary stats will be increased a bit further (for example, +1 up to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item, one of its extra stats is boosted randomly.

Upgrades can also boost the base damage of a weapon. This may be important for certain types of weapons. However, weapons cannot be upgraded to have a higher defense base than their normal base. It's possible to increase the value of specific sets and unique items by upgrading them, however they might not always be superior to a high-level Runeword.

If you're upgrading an item with bonuses it can be rerolled a single time, and its guarantee will reset back to zero. The same power die is used to reroll an item as it would be used to level it up. However the new item comes with different bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require the required amount of Minerals and Erons as well as a power dice of each type. These can be purchased with 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. The reward can be rerolled one time with the same materials as original item.

Rerolling

If players have enough tokens for rerolling, they can roll any item they've accumulated during the game. If an upgraded item is to be rerolled, it will be exchanged for an equivalent version that is level 1 of the same item from a different set. Reroll tokens can be purchased at the store for a small amount of in-game currency, but they aren't refundable. The new item upgrader upgraded will still have the extra bonuses of the original one, but its stats will be different also.

Players can change the identity of their equipment as well as changing it's roll by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. This will change its identification from a weapon to an armor, or reverse it. The base stats and requirements will remain the same. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters that own the gear.

Players can also increase the level of their item Upgrade on any equipped equipment by obtaining upgrade components and interacting with the upgrader NPC of the item upgrader mod. The cost will differ based on the upgrade track, item type, and the number of crests. For weapons, each upgrade will add 5% to its damage.

Upgrades can increase the effectiveness of an item, but they can also reduce the quality of an item. Therefore, it is crucial to balance the two. Certain items aren't worth upgrading, while other items require upgrading to maximize their potential. For example an individual player may decide to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to discover what it could become.

The primary reason why people play rerolls in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game, is that they're trying to acquire a certain character or weapon that they aren't able to obtain. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to obtain, and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only alternatives are to invest money or grind for a long time. Rerolling is extremely popular in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor when upgrading an item. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe that this feature was created to increase the value of rare and expensive items. However, since the majority of gear is replaced fairly quickly, and can only be leveled up to a certain level, you will generally replace it before it becomes too old. It's also not worthwhile to level items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will outweigh the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

You will be presented with a small box when you click the upgrade option for an item. It will display the template of the item, the crest, and the cost for Valorstone to raise the item's level. Armor and weapons will have different costs, with the former typically being more costly. The upgrade template lists the stats to be added to an upgraded item, along with its current ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and Crest is calculated using the current Ilvl of the item as well as the upgrade templates. The ilvl will also be reduced by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For example the weapon that has an increase of 8% will decrease its value by 8-8%.

In addition to the base ilvl increase, the item will also get upgrades in other stats, such as critical strike damage, PvE damage and dodge, block, and parry rating. These increases are also based off the upgrade template.

The amount of damage and defense that the item receives as it gets leveled up can be seen below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. Apart from the practice equipment, all other weapons and armor gain the same stats once leveled up. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly rolled perfect version of a piece of armor or weapon can command significantly more in trade value than unupp'd versions. The same applies to other armor pieces, such as circlets and tiaras.