Why We Are In Love With Item Upgrading (And You Should, Too!)
Path of Exile Item Upgrading In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the most effective ways to upgrade your gear without relying on large-ticket drops or trade. This article will show you how to upgrade your items. Upgrades to equipment grant an increase in the item's stats. The bonus increases with upgrade component's level and rarity. Components Upgrade components are the items that can make your weapons and armor better. They can be found by destroying enemies, purchasing them from karma sellers or finding them in the form of item-spheres. They can also be rescued from equipment that has them or by using an advanced salvage kit like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed by removing them from the item. Upgrade components are primarily used to upgrade an item, but they can also be used for other reasons. They can be used to boost the value of an upgradeable item, or they can be used to increase the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of equipment. They can also be made to provide extra bonuses. For instance, a designed glyph will increase the chance of upgrading its target, while the boost upgrade can increase the attack or defense quality of a weapon or armor. By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to bind it to an item. This will show the upgrade components that the item can be updated. You can also make use of the workbench to choose an upgrade template. In either scenario, the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been collected. Each component has its own experience multiplier that affects the amount of experience an item will gain when it is upgraded by that component. For instance, organic components offer an experience multiplier that is higher than mechanical ones. Therefore, it is recommended to upgrade with organic components until you have reached the experience multiplier of the next level of the equipment or weapon, and then move to mechanical upgrades. Each item has an upgrade limit number that can be received. The number of upgrades are determined by the upgradeable rank and the upgrade type of the upgradeable item. For example, the highest possible weapon upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and a armor upgrade for tier 5. Sets A set is a collection of objects that all share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once and the upgrade increases the amount of bonuses that are guaranteed. The first time you upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be enhanced even more (for instance +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats increases randomly. The upgrade of a weapon can increase the damage base, which may be important for some builds. Weapons aren't upgraded to give a higher maximum defence roll than their base. It is possible to increase the value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, however they may not always be superior to a high-level Runeword. If you are upgrading an item with an added bonus it can be rerolled one time and the guarantee will reset back to 0. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item up, but the new item will have additional 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. They can be purchased by using Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each completed level of the upgrade process. This reward is rerollable once, and the reroll will be made using the same materials as the first item. Rerolling If players have enough rerolling tokens, they can roll any item they've accumulated during the game. When an upgraded item is to be rerolled, it will be exchanged for an equivalent version at a level 1 of the same item in another set. Reroll tokens are sold in the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They are non-refundable. The new upgraded item will still come with the extra bonuses of the first however its stats will be different also. Players can change the identity of equipment in addition to changing it's roll by interfacing with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from an armored weapon 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. The player can also upgrade their level of an item for any equipped equipment. This is accomplished by interacting with an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade items. This will cost a certain number of crests and Valorstones according to the upgrade track and item kind. In the case of weapons, each step will add 5% to its damage. Upgrades can boost the capability of an item, however they can also reduce the quality of an item. It is therefore essential to find a balance between the two. Some items aren't worth upgrading, whereas others need to be upgraded to make them more effective. For example an individual player may decide to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to see what it can be. The primary reason why people play rerolls in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is because they're trying to get a specific character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise be able to acquire. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire and the RNG isn't always a good fit. The only other options are to spend money or grind a lot. This is why rerolling is a very popular option 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 it was intended to to add value to rare items, but since gear in general drops fairly quickly and is only upgraded once you've reached a certain level, you'll usually replace the item before it becomes too old. It's not worth it to upgrade item s that have gem sockets as the power of the gem will outweigh the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade. If you click on the upgrade option on an item, you'll see a small window with the upgrade template of the item as well as the cost of crest and Valorstone to increase the level of the item. Weapons and armor will have different prices, with the latter usually being more expensive. The upgrade template lists the stats that can be added to an upgraded item as well as its current ilvl. The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated based on the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade template's lvl reduction percentage. For example, an upgrade of 8% will reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8%. In item upgrade to the base ilvl increase the item will also get upgrades in other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage, block, parry and dodge rating. These increases are also based off the upgrade template. The amount of defense and damage the item receives when leveled up can be seen below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. Apart from the equipment for practice, all armor and weapons gain the same stats once leveled up. The value of these stats will be dictated by the market, with a rolled perfect version of a piece of armor or weapon able to command much more in trade value than unupp'd versions. This is also true for other armor pieces, such as tiaras and circlets.