20 Fun Infographics About Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

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

Upgrades to equipment provide an increase in the item's stats. This bonus scales depending on the rarity and level of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components are the items that make your weapons and armor more effective. You can get them from destroying enemies, finding them in item spheres or buying them from karma merchants. 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. Unlike most other items upgrade components, upgrade components aren't destroyed when removed from an item.

Upgrade components are primarily used to improve an item but they can also be used for other reasons. They can be stacked to increase the level or experience gained by upgrading existing weapons or gear. They can also be forged to provide extra bonuses. A crafted glyph can increase the chance of upgrading its target, while an upgrade boosts the defense or attack capabilities of a weapon.

You can attach an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. It will display an upgrade component list that the item can be upgraded to. Alternatively, you can use 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 a distinct experience multiplier, which affects the amount of experience an item receives when it is upgraded by 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.

Each item comes with an upgrade maximum number that it is possible to receive. The number of upgrades is determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. For instance, the most expensive possible upgrade for a weapon is a weapon of tier 10. However, the most common 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 that share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once and the upgrade increases the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades the stats of the primary one will be boosted a little more (for example, +1 up to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item upgrade, one of its extra stats is increased randomly.

Upgrades can also boost the damage base of a weapon. This could be crucial for certain builds. Weapons aren't upgraded to give greater maximum defence rolls than their base. Upgrading can be a good method to increase the value of certain sets and unique items, but it is important to keep in mind that they may not be superior to a high-level runeword in any build.

If an item you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus, it can be rerolled once and the guarantee will be reset to zero. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as bringing an item up, but the new item will offer additional bonuses. Upgrades can be made at 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 in the Ultra Collector, and can be purchased using Gold. The NPC will also offer an extra reward for each completed tier of the upgrade process. This reward is rerollable once and the reroll 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. When an upgraded item gets 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 available at the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The new item upgraded will still come with the extra benefits of the previous one however, its stats will differ also.

In addition to rerolling items players can also alter the identity of any equipment by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification as a weapon to armor or vice versa. The base requirements and stats will remain the same. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters who own the gear.

Players can also increase the level of their item on any equipped equipment by obtaining Upgrade Items (Clemmensen-Douglas.Mdwrite.Net) and conversing with the upgrader NPC of the item. This will cost a certain amount of crests as well as Valorstones according to the upgrade track and item kind. Each step will give 5percent more damage to weapons.

An upgrade can make it more powerful however, it can reduce its effectiveness. It is therefore important to keep both in check. Certain items aren't worth upgrading, while other items require upgrades to reach their full potential. For instance one player might want to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to see what it can be.

The primary reason why people are able to reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game, is because they're trying to get a specific weapon or character that they wouldn't otherwise be able to acquire. The process of obtaining these items can be expensive and time-consuming, and the RNG gods do not always want to cooperate. The only alternative is to invest money or grind a lot. This is why rerolling is a very popular choice in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor when upgrading an item. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I think this feature was designed to increase the value of rare and expensive items. However, since most equipment is replaced quickly and can only be upgraded by one level, you'll generally replace it before it gets too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items with gem sockets because the power of the gem will be greater than the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

If you click the upgrade option on an item, you will get a small screen with the upgrade template of the item as well as the cost of Valorstone and crest to increase the level of the item. The cost will differ between the armor and weapons, with the former usually costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item. It it also lists the current base ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and crest is calculated using the current Ilvl of the item and the upgrade templates. Additionally the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl decrease percentage. For instance, an upgrade of 8% can reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8percent.

In addition to the increase in ilvl base, the item will also be upgraded in other stats such as critical strike damage, PvE damage, block, parry and dodge rating. The increases are also dependent on the upgrade template.

In the upgrade items template you can determine the amount of damage or defense that the item will receive after being leveled up. This is listed below the cost and upgrade percentages. All armor and weapons apart from practice equipment get these stats when they level up. The value of these additional stats will be dictated by the market, with a perfectly perfectly rolled piece of armor or weapon is able to command more trade value than non-upp'd versions. This is also true for other pieces of armor, such as tiaras and circlets.