The 10 Most Terrifying Things About Item Upgrading

World of Warcraft Upgrades and Item Upgrading

Upgrades can increase the value of weapons, armors and rings. They also increase bonuses like damage from PvE and crit chance.

For example an item with the upgrade template that ends in % will gain 3% attack damage every time it upgrades (relative to its previous value).

Item upgrading costs crests and the current level of the item. The cost increases as the item's level increases.

Components

Upgrade components are items that can be inserted into armor, weapons, and trinkets to provide a stat bonus or extra impact while they're being used. They can be acquired through crafting, purchasing from vendors trading, or looting. Certain upgrades come with special cosmetic effects.

Upgrade components can only be used on equipment that has a slot. The item upgrade must be upgraded to blue level before the component can be used. Upgrade components, unlike other mods can only be applied only once. They are not able to be replaced or applied multiple times. Infusions and Enrichments are type of upgrade component that is used to upgrade non-amulet legendary and Ascended equipment, as well in some items that aren't ascended. Infusions and enrichments are recovered by salvaging gear from the ascended, or completing an elite mission in the Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall campaigns.

A suffix or prefix can be added to an upgrade, which alters the name of the item it's applied to (for instance, 'Canthan Armor Insignia',' changes to Canthan Armor Minor Vigor). Some upgrades boost an item's Mark Level, or Rarity, allowing players make stronger versions of the equipment that require fewer Upgrade Crystals than would be required to achieve the same level of upgrade using normal methods.

A boost upgrade can alter the attack or defence attributes of a weapon, or armor. These upgrades can be made using the Portative Forging Station once the player completes the cutscene and defeats the Crazed Mechanical. They can also be dropped by enemies while upgrading other gear or buying them from the cash store for 500 upgrade crystals.

Each upgrade increases the probability that a higher tier version of the item will be dropped during the next reset. This gives players the opportunity to upgrade their gear even when they're not sure how much it will be improved after a reset.

If a boost upgrade is successful or not, the process may be costly, and there is a substantial risk that the item may become obsolete or even break when it fails. A failed upgrade will cause the destruction of Upgrade Crystals and Assist Powder, as well as the upgraded item. This is alleviated by the availability cash shop items to double or even eliminate possibility of failure, as well as some upgrades that provide an additional benefit when they are inserted into an item.

Glyphs

Glyphs can be used to upgrade the Paragon Board by placing them in sockets that are specifically designed for. Glyphs buff the power of all nodes in a radius around them, including pre-existing affixes on equipment. Glyphs can be upgraded in numerous ways. We recommend upgrading them as fast as you can to level 15.

You will often find in the final game that placing Glyphs is a great method to upgrade your equipment. They are the only upgrade components that can be upgraded straight to level 15 and provide a large boost to your power and radius on the Paragon Board, enabling you to climb higher nodes faster.

Glyphs, the sole upgrade component that can be removed without restriction and replaced again are the most popular. The only exception is legendary equipment, which requires a Black Lion Salvage Kit to salvage and then re-install.

Each Glyph has a particular range of values that it can improve a statistic by, and the value is shown when you choose the Glyph in your inventory. You can decide to replace it with another Glyph of the same rank, or a higher rank, which will increase the value of the glyph.

There are Glyphs in the Black Lion Trading Post, as part of a Gem Store purchase or bundle with certain tools for gathering unlimited use as well as through Faction Crypt raids. Every Faction Crypt has the possibility of dropping one of the various Glyphs, and there are also a few rare glyphs that can be found as drops from any of the four Faction Crypts.

After you have acquired the desired Glyphs you'll need them to be placed on your equipment. Each Glyph unlocks a unique bonus which will boost a specific set of stat nodes within a radius around the Glyph. Based on the Glyph, this will either be +40 to one of your primary stats or +25 to two of your secondary stats.

The use of a Glyph will boost all the nodes that are connected to it, so it is recommended to position your Glyphs near the most important nodes of the Graph to maximize the impact. For example, a Druid should try to place their Glyphs near their primary damage nodes, but you should also think about placing them near crucial damage nodes, too.

Leveling

The item upgrading system allows players to increase the stats of specific items by putting upgraded components in them. This is referred to as "upping". Each upgradeable item comes with a level that determines its upgraded stats. Upgraded items can be leveled up to a maximum of 385 ilvl. Each level of an item requires a different number of components to be reached, and the upgrade costs increase as the item is advanced in level.

Certain upgrades require a certain ingredient to activate. This ingredient is obtained by completing Upgrade Recipes. These recipes can be purchased from NPCs or on the upgrade tab in crafting tables. Each completed Upgrade Recipe yields a number of Technology Points. These points can be used to upgrade the item. Once enough are earned, the upgrade can be claimed and its additional bonuses will be added to the item.

When an item is upgraded by a player it is replaced with a new item of the same type. The same armor will be upgraded to the form of a weapon or shield when upgraded. The new item will have its own set bonus. This could be a disadvantage since the item may increase in price even if you do not require it.

Upgrades to items can be rerolled if the player has enough reroll tokens in order to do this. The item will be replaced with a brand new one that has a base of level 1 and totally different bonuses. This can be useful, but shouldn't be done often as it can waste resources.

Some upgrades can be rerolled several times which increases their value and giving players the ability to alter their equipment. One example is Dolphin's Gift, which gives a buff when the player repeatedly enters and exits water (or swims like a dolphin). The item can be upgraded several times by increasing the maximum roll each time by 10 increments. This item is very important in PvP. A properly rolled version could be worth up to 50x the value of its unupgraded counterpart.

Requirements

Item upgrading allows players to upgrade the quality of their equippable equipment - weapons, armor, and trinkets above ilvl 385--by providing the appropriate currency and items to an item upgrader NPC. The upgrade of armor set pieces will also increase the defense base of that piece, while upgrading weapon items will increase the damage base and required strength and dexterity to meet the upgraded equipment's requirements.

Each item can be upgraded up to five times, with the exception of hero gear that can have eight upgrades. Every time you upgrade a piece of equipment, it is at risk of failing. The rate of failure increases when you exceed the maximum number. Failures can result in the item reverting to its original state, which will force the user to spend more money on materials than they would had they stopped upgrading at the maximum amount of upgrades.

If an item isn't upgraded, the experience bar in the bar for growth will be reset to zero. Additionally the item will lose any bonuses it gained such as crit chance and attack damage, as well as all other effects that are associated with that effect (for instance, a higher healing over time or the speed of reloading). The player is able to use their weapon or armor after the failure.

If an item is upgraded the upgrades are applied in order from lowest to highest. This means that if a weapon receives a crit chance boost, the increase will be applied before any damage to attack increases. A new attribute called Slots has been added to the item's definition and the value is recomputed each time an upgrade is made.

The amount of resources needed to upgrade an item is determined on the rarity rating as well as the number of upgrade slots. The cost of upgrading non-premium items is equal to the base value of the upgrade--for instance, a standard equipment item upgrader kit could have five upgrades, each costing 25600 Technology Points 4x Quality Improvement Chance. Hero quality items have lower costs per upgrade.

Premium items have different upgrade requirements as compared to standard equipment, for instance, they may require fewer sowels, but more minerals and erons. The player will need to take each piece of gear they want to upgrade to NPC [ArmorBoboko. Boboko located in Central Flarine. In addition to the upgrade costs listed above, each upgrade will require a different amount of the upgrade ingredients.