Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the best ways to improve your gear without relying on large-ticket drops or trade. This article will show you how to upp your items effectively.
Upgrades in equipment can add an additional bonus to the item's base stats. This bonus scales depending on the rarity and level of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components are the items that make your weapons and armor more effective. You can locate them by destroying enemies, buying them from karma sellers or finding them in items-spheres. They can also be salvaged from equipment that contains them, or through an advanced salvage kit like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products, upgrade components are not destroyed when removed from an item.
The primary function of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded but they also serve other functions. They can be stacked to increase the level or the amount of experience gained by upgrading equipment or weapons. They can be forged to give additional benefits. A glyph that has been crafted can increase the upgrade chances of its target, while an upgrade boosts the defense or attack capabilities of weapons.
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 updated. Alternately, you can make use of the workbench to choose an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components have been collected.
Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item gains when upgraded using the component. Organic components, for example, have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. It is therefore best to upgrade with organic components until you have reached the multiplier of experience for the next rank of weapon or gear, then move to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the experience multiplier every item also has an maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of upgrades is determined by its upgradeable rank and the upgrade type of the upgradeable item. For instance, the most expensive possible upgrade for a weapon is a weapon with 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 items that share the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at the minimum once. The upgrade increases the bonuses that are guaranteed. When you first upgrade the set piece or weapon will give it an increase of +1 to its primary stat. On subsequent upgrades the stats of the primary one will be boosted a bit further (for example, +1 up to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item, one of its extra stats will be increased randomly.
Upgrades to a weapon may increase its damage base, which could be necessary for certain builds. Weapons cannot be upgraded for a higher maximum defence roll than their base. It is possible to increase value of specific sets and unique items by upgrading them, but they might not always be better than a Runeword with a high level.
If you are upgrading an item that comes with bonuses, the item can be rerolled one time, and its guarantee will reset back to 0. Rerolling is the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item, however the upgraded item will come with different extra bonuses. Upgrades can be completed at the NPC [ArmorBoboko. Boboko in the Central Flarine. To upgrade an item you will require the proper amount of Minerals and Erons, as well as a power dice of each kind. These are available at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collector, and are available for purchase with Gold. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a second time and will be made using the same materials as the first item.
Rerolling
A player can roll any item they have acquired in the game provided they have enough reroll tokens. If an upgraded item is to be rerolled, it will be exchanged for the version that is level 1 of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens can be purchased at the store for a small amount of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item will offer the same bonuses like the first, however the stats will be different.
Players can change the identity of their equipment as well as changing it's roll by interfacing with an NPC upgrader. This will change the identity from a weapon to armor or vice versa, while maintaining its base stats and the attributes it requires. The change will be permanent and will affect all characters that own the equipment.
Players can also boost the item level of any equipped equipment by acquiring upgrade components and interacting with the item's upgrader NPC. This will cost a certain number of crests and Valorstones depending on the upgrade track and item kind. Each step will give 5% more damage to weapons.
Upgrades can increase the effectiveness of an item, however they can also reduce its quality. Therefore, item upgrade is important to keep both in check. Certain items might not be worth upgrading and some will require to be upgraded to reach their potential. For example one player might decide to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to see what it can become.
Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People use it in order to get the character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise have. These items can be costly and time-consuming to obtain and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only options is to shell out real money or grind lots. For this reason, rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
You can choose whether to upgrade the weapon or armor when you upgrade an item. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe it was designed to be a way to increase the value of rare items, but as equipment generally drops quickly and can only be upgraded once you've reached a certain level and you'll typically replace the item before it becomes too old. It's also not worth upgrading items using gem sockets since the power of the gemstone will outweigh any increase in the ilvl.
You will see a small window when you click on the upgrade option on an item. item upgrader will display the item's template, the Crest, as well as the cost for Valorstone to raise the item level. The costs will vary between the armor and weapons, with the former usually costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item and it also lists the current base ilvl.
The cost of the Valorstone and Crest is calculated using the item's current Ilvl and the upgrade templates. In addition the ilvl of a new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For example, a weapon with an upgrade decrease of 8% will decrease its value by 8-8 percent.
In addition to the base ilvl increase it will also be upgraded in other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage, dodge, block, and parry rating. These increases are also based off the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template you can check the amount of damage or defense the item will receive after being leveled up. This is shown below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. All weapons and armor, except practice equipment, get these stats when they level up. The market will determine the value of these stats. A weapon or armor with perfect rolls can fetch a much higher price than an unupp'd version. The same is true for other armor pieces such as circlets or tiaras.