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Path of Exile Item Upgrading
The best method to upgrade your gear in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This allows you to improve it without having to rely on expensive trades or drops. This article will teach you how to upgrade your items.
Upgrades in equipment can add an additional bonus to the item's base stats. The bonus increases with upgrade component level and rarity.
Components
Upgrade components are the items that improve your armor and weapons more effective. They can be found through destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors, or finding them in items-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. In contrast to other items upgrade components, upgrade components aren't destroyed when removed from an item.
The primary function of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded, however, they also serve other functions. They can be stacked in order to boost the level or experience gained from upgrading existing weapons or gear. They can be forged to give extra bonuses. A glyph that is crafted can boost the chance of upgrading its target while a boost upgrade item increases the attack or defense capabilities of a weapon.
By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will let you bind it to an item. This will display a list of upgrade components that the item upgrade can be upgraded to. You can also use the workbench to selecting an upgrade template. In either case the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components are gathered.
Each component has its own experience multiplier that affects how much more experience an item will gain when it is upgraded with the component. Organic components, for instance have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. It is therefore recommended to upgrade with organic components until you reach the experience multiplier of the next level of the equipment or weapon, 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 upgrades are determined by its upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. For instance, the highest possible upgrade for a weapon is a tier 10 weapon. The most popular weapon upgrade is a gun with tier 6 and an armor upgrade for tier 5.
Sets
A set is a set of items that share the same bonus. Each item upgrade in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and the upgrade increases its guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade the set piece or weapon, it will receive a +1 increase to its primary stat. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be increased a bit more (for example, +1 up to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item it will have one of its additional stats will be increased randomly.
Upgrades can also increase the damage base of a weapon. This can be crucial for certain builds. However, weapons are not upgraded to have a higher defense level than their normal base. Upgrading can be a good method to increase the value of a set and unique items, however it is important to keep in mind that they may not be more effective than a high-level raneword in any build.
If you're upgrading an item that has bonuses the item can be rerolled once, and its guarantee will reset to 0. The same power dies are used to roll an item, just as it is used to increase its level. 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 need the appropriate amount Minerals and Erons as well as a power dice of each kind. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector, and are available for purchase with Gold. NPCs will also provide special rewards for each completed stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a single time with the same materials and components as the first item.
Rerolling
A player is able to roll any item they have acquired during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens to do so. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced by a level 1 version in another set. Reroll tokens can be purchased at the store for a small amount of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The new item upgraded will have the same bonuses of the first however its stats will be different also.
In addition to rerolling items, players can also change the identity of any equipment by interacting with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification from a weapon to armor or vice versa, all the while retaining its base stats and attributes that are required. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that own the gear in question.
The player can also upgrade their level of the item for any equipment that is equipped. This can be done by talking to an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade components. This will cost a set number of crests and Valorstones depending on the upgrade track and item type. Each step will add an additional 5% of damage to weapons.
Upgrading an item can boost its power, but it will also decrease its quality. Therefore, it is important to balance the two. Some items aren't worth upgrading, while other items need to be upgraded to maximize their potential. For example an individual player may decide to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to explore the possibilities of what it can become.
The main reason people reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game, is because they are trying to acquire a certain character or weapon that they can't otherwise obtain. These items are time-consuming and costly to obtain and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only choices left is to shell out real money or grind lots. This is why rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.
Leveling
When upgrading an item, you can pick to increase the level of the weapon or armor. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe this feature was designed to add some value to rare and expensive items. However, as most items are replaced quite quickly, and it can only be upgraded by to a certain level, you will usually replace it before it is too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items with gem sockets because the power of the gem will be greater than the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.
You will see a small window when you click on the upgrade option for an item. It will display the template of the item, the Crest, as well as the cost of Valorstone to increase the item's level. The cost will differ between armor and weapons and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines 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 and the upgrade template. Additionally the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be decreased by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For example the weapon that has an 8% upgrade decrease will decrease its value by 8-8 percent.
The item will be upgraded to other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damages, and block, parry, and dodge rating, in addition to the base ilvl. These enhancements are also based on the upgrade template.
In the upgrade template, you can see the amount of damage or defense an item will be able to sustain when it is upgraded. This is displayed below the cost and the upgrade percentages. All weapons and armor apart from practice equipment get these stats when they level up. The value of these stats will be dictated by the market, with a perfectly perfectly rolled piece of armor or weapon is able to command higher trade values than non-upp'd versions. This is also true for other armor pieces like circlets and tiaras.