15 Reasons You Shouldn't Ignore Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The best method to improve your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This lets you upgrade your gear without having rely on expensive drops or trades. This article will teach you how to upp your items effectively.

Upgrading equipment grants a bonus to the item's base stats. This bonus scales with the upgrade component level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components can make your weapons and armour better. You can get them from 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 through salvage kits of high-end quality, such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products upgrade components, upgrade components aren't destroyed when removed from an item.

Upgrade components are primarily used to upgrade an item, but they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked in order to boost the level or experience gained by upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can also be made to provide extra bonuses. A glyph that has been crafted can increase the chance of upgrading its target while boost upgrades increase the defense or attack capabilities of the weapon.

Selecting an upgrade template in the GUI will allow you to bind it to an item. This will display an upgrade component list that the item can be upgraded to. Alternately, you can utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components have been collected.

Each component has its own experience multiplier, which determines how much more experience an item gets when it is upgraded with that component. For instance, organic components have a an experience multiplier that is higher than mechanical ones. It is recommended to upgrade the organic components first, until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment, and then move on to mechanical upgrades.

Each item comes with an upgrade limit number that is available for. The number of upgradeable items is determined by their upgradeable rank and the kind of upgrade they can get. For instance, the highest possible weapon upgrade is a tier 10 weapon. However, the most common weapon upgrades are a tier 6 weapon and a tier 5 armor upgrade.

Sets

A set is a collection of objects that share the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at the minimum once. The upgrade will increase the amount of bonuses you can expect to receive. When you first upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. After subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be enhanced even more (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded one of its stats will increase randomly.

Upgrades to a weapon may increase its damage base, which can be important for some builds. However, weapons are not upgraded to have a greater maximum defense roll than their regular 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 might not be superior to a high-level runeword in any build.

If the item you're upgrading has a guarantee bonus it is able to be rerolled a few times and the guarantee will be reset to 0. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item, however the new item will have additional bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require a power dice of each type (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; dice 7 drops from bosses) and the proper amount of Minerals and Erons. These are available at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collector and can be purchased with Gold. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each stage of the upgrade process. The reward can be rerolled a single time with the same materials and components as the first item.

Rerolling

If a 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 with an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens are available at the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They are non-refundable. The new item upgraded will still have the extra benefits of the previous one however its stats will be different too.

In addition to rerolling objects, players can also alter the identification of any equipment by interacting with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification from a weapon to an armor, or reverse it. Its base requirements and stats remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that have the gear in question.

Players can also increase the item level of any equipped equipment by obtaining upgrade items and conversing with the NPC who upgrades the item. The cost will differ based on the upgrade track, item type and the number of crests. Each step will add an additional 5% of damage to weapons.

Upgrades can boost the effectiveness of an item, however they also can decrease its quality. It is therefore important to find a balance between the two. Certain items might not be worth upgrading at all, while others will need to be upgraded to maximize their potential. For example one player might want 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 be.

Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People use it in order to get a character or weapon they would not otherwise be able to acquire. These items are time-consuming and costly to obtain and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only choices left is to shell out real money or grind for a long time. For this reason, rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor after upgrading an item. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I think it was meant to be a way to give some value to rare items, but because the majority of gear drops quickly and can only be upgraded after a certain amount of levels, you'll usually replace the item before it becomes too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will be greater than the increase in ilvl with the upgrade.

When you click on the upgrade option on an item, you'll see a small window with the upgrade template for the item and the crest and Valorstone costs to increase the level of the item. Armor and weapons have different prices, with the latter usually being more expensive. The upgrade template lists the stats to be added to an upgraded item along with its current ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and the crest is calculated based on the item's current Ilvl and the upgrade templates. Additionally, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be decreased by the upgrade template's lvl decrease percentage. For example the weapon that has an 8% upgrade decrease will reduce its ilvl by 8 - 8%.

In addition to the base ilvl increase, the item will also receive upgrades in other stats, such as critical strike damage, PvE damage and dodge, block and parry rating. These upgrades are also based on the upgrade template.

The amount of defense and damage the item will receive when leveled up can be shown below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. Aside from Cases.gg for practice, all items and armor get these same stats when leveled up. The market will determine the value of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can command an incredibly higher price than a non-upp’d version. This is also true for other pieces of armor like circlets and Tiaras.

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Pub: 09 Oct 2024 01:38 UTC

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