Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the best ways to upgrade your gear without relying upon large-ticket drops or trade. This article will show you how to upgrade your gear.
Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus to the item's base stats. This bonus scales with the upgrade component level and rarity.
Components
Upgrade components are the things that can make your weapons and armor better. You can acquire them by the destruction of enemies, finding them in item spheres, or buying them from karma dealers. You can also salvage them from equipment that contains the components or by using high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and 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 reasons. They can be used to boost the value of an upgradeable item or they can be used to enhance the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can be made for additional bonuses. For instance, a specially crafted glyph will boost the chances of upgrading its target, whereas an upgrade boost will enhance the defense or attack 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 the upgrade components that the item can be upgraded. You can also utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, an item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components have been collected.
Each component has a distinct experience multiplier, which affects the amount of experience an item will gain when it is upgraded with that component. Organic components, for example have more experience multipliers than mechanical components. It is recommended to upgrade the organic components first, until you reach the next level in the weapon or equipment, then switch to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the multiplier of experience every item also has the maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of upgrades are determined by the upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. The most powerful upgrade is a weapon that is tier 10. The most common weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and an armor upgrade for 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 once, and each upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats are boosted even further (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats is increased 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 greater defense level than their base. It is 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 an item you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus that is guaranteed, it can be rerolled a few times and its guarantee will be reset to 0. Rerolling is the same amount of power dice as leveling an item, 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 require 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. These are available at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collector, and can be purchased with Gold. The NPC will also offer an extra 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
A player is able to roll any item they have acquired in the game provided they have enough tokens to be able to do so. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced with an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens are available from the store for a small amount of in-game currency, but they cannot be refunded. The new upgraded item will have the same bonuses of the first however its stats will be different too.
Players can change the identification of their equipment as well as rerolling it by interacting with an NPC upgrader. The equipment's identification will change from a weapon to an armor or reverse the process. The base requirements and stats will remain the same. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters who have the equipment.
Players can also boost the level of their item on any equipped device by obtaining upgrade items and conversing with the NPC who upgrades the item. This will cost a set amount of crests as well as Valorstones depending on the upgrade track and the item type. Each step will give an additional 5% of damage to weapons.
An upgrade can make it more powerful, but it will also lower its quality. It is therefore important to strike a balance between the two. item upgrades aren't worth upgrading, while other items require upgrades to reach their full potential. For instance one player might wish to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that has an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to see what it can be.
Rerolling is a popular practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it in order to get an item or character they would not otherwise be able to acquire. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only options left is to shell out real money or grind a lot. Rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor after upgrading an item. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I think this feature was intended to add some value to rare and expensive items. However, since the majority of gear is replaced fairly quickly, and can only be leveled up one level, you'll generally replace it before it gets too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will far outweigh the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.
When you click the upgrade option on an item, you will be presented with a small window displaying the item's upgrade template and the cost of Valorstone and crest to boost the level of the item. The cost will differ between weapons and armor and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats that will be added to an upgraded item along with its current base ilvl.
The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated by analyzing the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. The ilvl will also be decreased by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For instance an upgrade of 8% can reduce the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 8percent.
The item will get upgrades to other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage and block, parry, and dodge rating in addition to the base ilvl. These upgrades are also based on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template, you can check the amount of damage or defense the item will suffer after it is leveled up. This is displayed below the cost and the upgrade percentages. All weapons and armor apart from 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 weapon or piece of armor able to command much more in trade value than unupp'd versions. Similar is the case for other pieces of armor like tiaras or circlets.