What Freud Can Teach Us About Item Upgrade

WoW Upgrades - The Item Upgrader

Upgrades will give you a boost to specific stats. Each upgrade items increases the level of an item by 3. Each upgrade also increases an unspecified substat.

The upgraded gear typically has a higher trade value, unless it has inherently low requirements (like the FB sorc's shield) or has a high stat variation (like the eth titan weapons). Upgrades are less important for those with lower requirements due to the requirement to roll an exact version.

Recycle Points

The item upgrader allows players to upgrade their gear by giving the currency to an NPC. Upgrades can be applied on any type of armor or weapons. However, the item that is used to upgrade will remain in use for a long time and cannot be used again. Upgrades can also be used to create enhancements.

The upgrader can be found in all major cities, and is accessible anytime to upgrade your equipment. It is recommended to visit the upgrader at least once every few weeks to keep your equipment up to date.

Upgrades will cost more depending on the item level, but they will always be less expensive than purchasing new gear. Upgrades such as upgrading a Benthic chest up to 385 ilvl will cost you 20 recycle points. A similar item level upgrade - Federatedjournals wrote in a blog post, will cost you 105.

Valorstones

Upgrades are items that can be used to purchase tools, armor, weapon and accessory upgrades. They can be purchased by players from item upgrade upgrader NPCs in exchange for various currencies, and can also be found in random treasure lists. Once an upgrade is purchased it can be applied to any weapon or tool using the help of The button will show the preview of an item's next level of upgrade, when there are enough materials.

Upgrade costs differ based on the item slot, and the current level of the item. For example weapons are more expensive than gloves, bracers, or bracers. Each upgrade costs 15 Flightstones and a number of crests, with certain upgrades having a discount to reduce the cost of Flightstones or the crests used. After an item upgrader kit has been upgraded to a certain level it is able to be downgraded and sold to the upgrader at a lower cost.

Upgraders for items are available in many places including the main island and some outposts. The NPCs offer both an upgrade coupon and a possibility of obtaining an entirely new recipe. The discount for upgrading increases as more items are upgraded. It can be increased if players finish certain achievements or quests.

In contrast to Cromwell in Baldur's Gate II is no upgrader for items available in the beginning of Icewind Dale. The NPCs who can facilitate upgrades are available only through a variety of methods. This is both a benefit as well as a drawback.

In Season 3, many new features have been added to the upgrade system. After a player has earned an upgrade to a specific item level for a particular armor slot, upgrading other items to that level will cost less even in the event that they belong to a different gear set.

The amount of Valorstones needed to upgrade is reduced and the discount is available across all accounts. The amount of Harbinger Crests needed to upgrade is reduced too, but it is only available after certain milestones are reached.

Crests

Players have a number of options for upgrading their gear in WoW. Flightstones are an option that is accessible to everyone who wants to upgrade. Crests are more specific and are used for specific item level upgrades. Crests are the main component of the Dragonflight gear progression system introduced in 10.1 and are available in 4 ranks.

The first thing to remember is that crests are only available for gear of a certain rank. Each rank has distinct upgrade paths. The most basic and straightforward upgrade route costs 15 crests while the most complex can require as much as 20 crests, based on the type of gear being upgraded.

Players can earn crests through completing content of the appropriate level, whether that involves walking around and engaging in outdoor activities to get lower-tier gear, dungeons or raids of all difficulties for higher-tier items or Mythic+ heroic raid bosses or dungeons to obtain endgame gear. Crests can be exchanged at an upgrader NPC like Cuzolth in Dornogal, or Vaskarn in Valdrakken to get the appropriate upgrade routes and steps.

The new currency system isn't difficult to use, however it will bring some changes to the upgrade process. When a piece attains the highest level of upgrade for any rank (Explorer or Adventurer) it no longer requires Flightstones. This change is intended to allow players to get their gear up to the highest possible ilvl for all their characters instead of relying only on seasonal loot.

Another important change is that crests have one usage, so it's important to use them wisely. It is best to put your Whelpling-rank Crests on the top-quality equipment that you can find and save Drake and Wyrm Crests for the next round of upgrades. This is particularly applicable to rings and trinkets that take up multiple slots on the character which will only be able to avail the account-wide discount if all slots are filled with high-quality equipment.