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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

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

Upgrades to equipment grant an additional bonus to the item's stats. This bonus scales depending on the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components can make your weapons and armour better. They can be obtained by fighting off enemies, locating them in item spheres or buying them from karma dealers. They can also be salvaged from equipment that has 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, upgrade components aren't destroyed when removed from an item.

The main function of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded, however, they also serve other functions. They can be used to increase the quality of an item that can be upgraded or they can be used to boost the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of equipment. They can also be forged to give additional bonuses. For instance, a created glyph can increase the chance of upgrading its target, while a boost upgrade will boost the defense or attack property of a weapon, or armor.

Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to bind it to an item. This will show a list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. You can also 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 a different experience multiplier, which determines how much more experience an item receives when it is upgraded by the component. For instance, organic components have a more experience multipliers than mechanical ones. It is therefore best to upgrade with organic components until you have reached the experience multiplier for the next level of the weapon or gear, then change to mechanical upgrades.

In addition to the multiplier of experience Each item also comes with a maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of upgrades are determined by its upgradeable rank and the upgrade type of the upgradeable item. For instance, the most expensive possible weapon upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. However, the most common weapon upgrades are an tier 6 weapon as well as an armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a set of items which all have the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once, and each upgrade boosts the amount of bonuses that are guaranteed. When you first upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades the stats of the primary one will be increased a bit more (for instance, +1 to 12+/13+/14+) Every time you upgrade the item, one of its extra stats will be increased randomly.

Upgrades can also boost a weapon's damage base. This may be important for certain builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to a higher maximum defense roll than their normal base. It is possible to increase the 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 an item you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus it is able to be rerolled once, and then its guarantee will be reset to zero. The same power die is used to roll an item, just as it is used to increase its level. 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. They can be purchased with Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs also offer special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled one time using the same materials and components as the first item.

Rerolling

If a player has enough tokens for rerolling, they can roll 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 in the shop for a small sum of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The new item will have the same extra bonuses like the first, however the stats will also differ.

In addition to rerolling objects, players can also alter the identity of any equipment by interacting with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification from an armor to a weapon or vice versa, all the while retaining its base stats and required attributes. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters that own the gear.

The player can also upgrade their level of an item for any equipment equipped. This can be done by interacting with an upgrader NPC, and then obtaining upgrade components. The cost will differ based on the upgrade track, the item type and the number of crests. Each step will give 5percent more damage to weapons.

Upgrading an item will make it more powerful however it can reduce its effectiveness. It is therefore essential to find a balance between the two. Certain items might not be worth upgrading however, others will need to be upgraded to realize their potential. One player may wish to upgrade their breakpoint armor using an interesting modifier (% block chance or FHR) to discover what it could become.

The primary reason people play rerolls in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is that they're trying to acquire a certain weapon or character that they wouldn't otherwise be able to acquire. Getting these items can be costly and time-consuming and the RNG gods do not always want to play ball. The only alternatives are to invest money or grind a lot. For this reason, rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can choose whether to upgrade the weapon or armor when you upgrade an item. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I think this feature was created to give value to expensive and rare items. However, as most items are replaced quite quickly, and can only be upgraded one level, you'll usually replace it before it gets too old. It's not worth upgrading items with gem sockets since the power of the stone will outweigh any increase in the level of.

You will see a small box when you click the upgrade option for an item. It will display the template for the item, its Crest, as well as the cost for Valorstone to raise the item level. The cost of upgrades will vary based on weapons and armor as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats that can be added to an upgraded item along with its current base ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and crest is calculated using the item's current Ilvl and the upgrade templates. The ilvl will also be decreased by the upgrade templates lvl reduction percentage. For example weapons with an upgrade decrease of 8% will decrease its ilvl by 8 - 8%.

In addition to the increase in ilvl base, the item will also be upgraded in other stats such as critical strike damage, PvE damage and dodge, block, and parry rating. The increases are also built on the upgrade template.

In  helpful resources  can check the amount of damage or defense that the item will be able to sustain when it is upgraded. This is shown below the cost and the upgrade percentages. All armor and weapons apart from practice equipment get these stats once they've been leveled up. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly perfectly rolled version of a weapon or piece of armor able to command much more in trade value than unupp'd versions. The same applies to other armor pieces like circlets and tiaras.