14 Common Misconceptions About Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the Best item upgrade ways to improve your equipment without relying on big-ticket drops or trade. This article will teach you how to upgrade your gear.

Upgrades to equipment provide an additional bonus to the item's stats. The amount of bonus varies depending on the rarity and strength of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components make your armour and weapons stronger. You can locate them by destroying enemies, buying them from karma sellers or finding them in items-spheres. You can also get them from equipment that has the components or by using high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Unlike most other items, upgrade components are not destroyed when removed from an item.

The primary function of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded but they also serve other functions. They can be used to boost the level or experience gained from upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can also be made to give additional bonuses. For instance, a created glyph can increase the upgrade chance of its target, while a boost upgrade will increase the attack or defense attribute of a weapon or armor.

Selecting an upgrade template in the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. It will display the list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. Alternately, you can make use of the workbench to choose 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. This determines the amount of experience an item will gain when upgraded using that component. For instance, organic components give 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.

In addition to the experience multiplier every item also has a maximum number of upgrades it can receive. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the kind of upgrade they can receive. The most powerful upgrade is a weapon that is 10th level. The most common weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and a armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of items which share a bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once and each upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade the set piece or weapon will give it a +1 increase to its primary stat. Following upgrades, the primary stats will be boosted even further (for instance the +1 bonus for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded one of its additional stats increases randomly.

The upgrade of a weapon can increase the damage base, which can be necessary for certain builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to have a greater defense level than their base. It's possible to increase the value of certain set and unique items by upgrading them, however they might not always be better than a Runeword with a high level.

If an item you're upgrading has a guarantee bonus that is guaranteed, it can be rerolled a few times and its guarantee will be reset to zero. The same amount of power dies are used to reroll an item, just as it would be used to level it up. However, the new item has different bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll need a power die of each type (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the right amount of Minerals and Erons. These can be bought with Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs will also provide special rewards for each stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a single time, using the same materials and components as the first item.

Rerolling

A player is able to reroll any item acquired in the game provided they have enough tokens to do so. If an upgraded item is rerolled, it will be exchanged for the level 1 version of the same item in another set. Reroll tokens are sold in the shop for a small amount of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item level upgrade will come with the same extra bonuses like the first, however the stats will also be different.

In addition to rerolling items, players can also alter the identification of any equipment by interacting with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification as a weapon to armor, or vice versa. The basic stats and requirements remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters who have the gear in question.

Players can also boost the item level of any equipped device by obtaining upgrade components and interacting with the NPC who upgrades the item. The cost will differ based on the upgrade track, the item type and number of crests. For weapons, each step up will add 5percent to the damage.

Upgrading an item will make it more powerful however it can reduce its effectiveness. It is therefore important to keep both in check. Some items may not be worth upgrading, while others will need to be upgraded in order to realize their potential. For instance one player might wish to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to see what it can become.

Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. It is a method used by players to gain access to a character or weapon they cannot otherwise get. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to obtain and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only choices left is to shell out real money or grind lots. Rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can select whether to upgrade the weapon or armor when you upgrade an item. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I think this feature was intended to give value to expensive and rare items. However, as most items are replaced quite quickly, and it can only be leveled up to a certain level, you will generally replace it before it becomes too old. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade items with gem sockets because the power of the gem will far outweigh the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

You will be presented with a small box when you click the upgrade option on an item. It will display the template for the item, its Crest, as well as the cost of Valorstone to increase the item level. The cost will differ between the armor and weapons as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade item [Full Record] template lists the stats to be added to an upgraded item, and also the current base ilvl.

The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the current ilvl of the item and the upgrade template. Additionally, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be decreased by the upgrade template's lvl decrease percentage. For instance weapons with an upgrade decrease of 8% will decrease its count by 8-8 percent.

In addition to the increase in ilvl base it will also receive upgrades in other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage, dodge, block, and parry rating. These increases are built on the upgrade template.

In the upgrade template, you can check the amount of damage or defense an item level upgrade will receive after being leveled up. This is listed below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. In addition to practice equipment, all other weapons and armor gain the same stats once upgraded. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly rolled piece of armor or weapon is able to command higher trade values than non-upp'd versions. The same applies to other armor pieces like circlets and tiaras.