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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the best ways to upgrade your gear without relying on massive drops or trade. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your gear.

Upgrades to equipment grant an increase in the item's stats. The amount of bonus varies depending on the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components can make your armour and weapons better. They can be found by destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors or finding them in item-spheres. You can also salvage them from equipment containing the components or through salvage kits of high-end quality, such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when you remove them from the item.

Upgrade components are primarily used to improve an item but they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked to increase the level of an upgradeable item or they can be used to enhance the experience gained by upgrading an existing weapon or piece of equipment. They can also be forged to give additional bonuses. A glyph that is crafted can boost the upgrade chances of its target while boost upgrades increase the attack or defense capabilities of a weapon.

You can attach an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will display the upgrade components to which the item upgrade can be updated. Alternately, you can use the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either scenario, an item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been collected.

Each component has a distinct experience multiplier, which determines the amount of experience an item receives when it is upgraded with that component. Organic components, for instance, have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. You should upgrade organic components first until you reach the next level in the weapon or equipment, and then move on to mechanical upgrades.

In addition to the multiplier for experience every item also has a maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of upgrades are determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the type of upgrade for the upgradeable item. The highest level of upgrade is a weapon with 10th level. However, the most commonly used upgrade for weapons is 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 the upgrade will increase its guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item or set piece is that it will be given an increase of +1 to its primary stat. Following upgrades, the primary stats are boosted even further (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded one of its additional stats is increased randomly.

Upgrades to a weapon may increase its damage base, which could be crucial for certain builds. However, weapons cannot be upgraded to have a higher maximum defense roll than their base. It is a good way to improve the value of some set and unique items, however it's important to remember that they're not necessarily superior to a high-level runeword in any build.

If the item upgrades you're upgrading comes with a guaranteed bonus that is guaranteed, it can be rerolled only once and its guarantee will be reset to 0. The same power dies are used to reroll an item as it is used to increase its level. However the new item comes with different bonuses. Upgrades can be made by visiting the NPC [Armor] Boboko in the Central Flarine. To upgrade an item you will require the required amount of Minerals and Erons and 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 also offer special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. This reward is rerollable once and will be made using the same materials as the original item.

Rerolling

A player is able to reroll any item acquired in the game if they have enough tokens to do so. If an upgraded item is being rerolled, it can be exchanged for the level 1 version of the same item in another set. Reroll tokens are sold in the shop for a small sum of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The upgraded item will still have the extra bonuses of the first, but its stats will be different as well.

Players can change the identity of equipment in addition to changing it's roll by interfacing with an NPC upgrader. This will change its identification as a weapon to armor, or reverse it. The base stats and requirements remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that have the gear in question.

Players can also increase the level of an item upgrader equipped equipment by acquiring upgrade items and conversing with the upgrader NPC of the item. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, the item type and the number of crests. For weapons, each step up will add an additional 5% to its damage.

Upgrades can increase the effectiveness of an item, but they also decrease the quality of an item. It is therefore important to strike a balance between the two. Certain items aren't worth upgrading, whereas others require upgrading to make them more effective. A player may want to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modification (% block chance or FHR) to see what else it can become.

The primary reason people reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game, is that they're trying to get a specific character or weapon that they aren't able to obtain. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to obtain and the RNG isn't always a good fit. The only choices left are to spend real cash or grind a lot. Rerolling is extremely popular in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item you can pick to upgrade the weapon or armor. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I believe this feature was intended to increase the value of expensive and rare items. However, as most gear is replaced fairly quickly, and can only be upgraded to a certain level, you will generally replace it before it becomes too old. It's not worth it to upgrade items with gem sockets because the power of the gem will far outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

If you click the upgrade button on an item upgrades, you'll be presented with a small window displaying the upgrade template of the item as well as the crest and Valorstone costs to increase the item level. The cost of upgrades will vary based on the armor and weapons, with the former usually costing more than the latter. The upgrade template shows the stats that will be added to the upgraded item and it also lists the current base ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and the crest is calculated based on the current Ilvl of the item as well as the upgrade templates. The ilvl is also decreased by the upgrade templates lvl reduction percentage. For example, an upgrade of 8% will decrease the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8percent.

In addition to the base ilvl increase it will also get upgrades in other stats, such as critical strike damage, damage from PvE and block, parry and dodge rating. The increases are also based on the upgrade template.

In the upgrade item template you can check the amount of damage or defense the item will suffer when it is upgraded. This is displayed below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. Apart from the practice equipment, all armor and weapons gain the same stats when they are leveled up. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly perfectly rolled piece of armor or weapon can command significantly more trade value than non-upp'd versions. This is also true for other armor pieces, like tiaras and circlets.