Path of Exile Item Upgrading
In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the best ways to improve your equipment without relying on large-ticket drops or trade. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your items.
Upgrades to equipment provide an increase to the item's base stats. The bonus is depending on the rarity and level of the upgrade component.
Components
Upgrade components can make your weapons and armour better. You can locate them by destroying enemies, purchasing them from karma vendors, or finding them in the form of item-spheres. You can also get them from equipment that has the components or through 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.
The main purpose of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded, however, they also serve other purposes. They can be stacked to increase the level of experience gained by upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can also be made to provide extra bonuses. For instance, a specially created glyph can increase the upgrade chance of its target, and the boost upgrade can increase the attack or defense attribute of a weapon or armor.
You can connect an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will show a list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. You can also use the workbench for selecting an upgrade template. In either scenario, an item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been gathered.
Each component has a distinct experience multiplier, which determines how much more experience an item gets when it upgrades with that component. Organic components, like, have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. Therefore, it is recommended to upgrade using organic components until you reach the experience multiplier for the next level of the weapon or gear, and then move to mechanical upgrades.
In addition to the multiplier for experience, each item also has an maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the type of upgrade they can receive. The highest level of upgrade is a weapon with 10th level. The most common weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and an armor upgrade of tier 5.
Sets
A set is a group of items that have the benefit of. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once and each upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade a set piece or weapon will give it a +1 increase to its primary stat. In subsequent upgrades the primary stats will be increased a bit further (for instance, +1 to 12+/13+/14+) Each time you upgrade the item it will have one of its additional stats is boosted randomly.
Upgrading a weapon can also increase its damage base, which can be crucial for certain builds. Weapons aren't upgraded to give an increased maximum defence roll than their base. It is possible to increase value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, but they may not always be superior to a high-level Runeword.
If an item you're upgrading has a guarantee bonus it is able to be rerolled a few times, and then its guarantee will be reset to zero. The same amount of power dies are used to roll an item, just as it would be used to level it up. However the new item comes with different bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko 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 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 completed stage of the upgrade process. This reward is rerollable once and the reroll will use the same materials as the first item.
Rerolling
If the player has enough to reroll tokens, they are able to play rerolling any item they've acquired during the game. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced by the same level in another set. Reroll tokens are available at the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The new item will have the same bonus features as the original, but the statistics will also differ.
Players can change the identification of their equipment, in addition to rerolling it by interacting with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identity from an armor to a weapon or vice versa, while maintaining its base stats and attributes that are required. The change is permanent and will affect all characters who own the gear in question.
Players can also boost the level of their item on any equipped device by obtaining upgrade items and conversing with the upgrader NPC of the item. The cost will vary depending on the upgrade track, the item type, and the number of crests. Each step will give 5percent more damage to weapons.
The upgrade of an item can boost its power however it can reduce its effectiveness. Therefore, it is important to strike a balance between the two. Certain items aren't worth upgrading, while others require upgrading to reach their full potential. For instance an individual player may wish to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to explore the possibilities of what it can be.
Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People use it to gain access to the character or weapon they cannot otherwise get. These items are time-consuming and costly to acquire and the RNG isn't always a good fit. The only choices left is to shell out real money or grind lots. For this reason, rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can upgrade the weapon or armor. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe that this feature was created to increase the value of expensive and rare items. However, as most equipment is replaced quickly, and can only be upgraded one level, you'll typically replace it before it gets too old. It's not worth upgrading items with gem sockets because the power of the gemstone will outweigh any increment in the level of.
You will see a small box when you click the upgrade option on an item. It will display the template of the item, the crest, and the cost of Valorstone to increase the level of the item. The costs will vary between weapons and armor as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats that will be added to the upgraded item and also lists its current base ilvl.
The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated based on the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. In addition the ilvl of a new upgraded item will be decreased by the upgrade template's lvl decrease percentage. For instance the weapon that has 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, damage from PvE and dodge, block and parry rating. These enhancements are also based on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template, you can check the amount of damage or defense that the item will suffer after being leveled up. This is listed below the cost and upgrade percentages. Apart from the equipment for practice, all armor and weapons gain the same stats once leveled up. The market will determine the worth of these stats. A weapon or armor with perfect rolls can command an incredibly higher price than a non-upp’d version. The same applies to other armor pieces, like tiaras and circlets.