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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The best way to improve your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This lets you upgrade your gear without having rely on expensive trades or drops. This article will teach you how to upp your items efficiently.

Upgrading equipment grants an increase to the item upgrader mod's base stats. This bonus scales with the upgrade component level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components make your armour and weapons better. They can be found by destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors, or finding them in item-spheres. They can also be rescued from equipment with them or by using an advanced salvage kit such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Contrary to other products upgrade components, upgrade components aren't destroyed when they are removed from an item.

Upgrade components are primarily used to upgrade an item however, 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 when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can be forged for extra bonuses. For example, a created glyph can increase the upgrade chance of its target, and the boost upgrade can increase the attack or defense attribute of a weapon or armor.

Selecting an upgrade template in the GUI will allow you to bind it to an item. This will show an upgrade component list 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 once enough upgrade components are gathered.

Each component has a distinct experience multiplier, which affects the amount of experience an item gets when it is upgraded by that component. For instance, organic components offer more experience multipliers than mechanical ones. It is therefore recommended to upgrade with organic components until you have reached the experience multiplier of the next rank of weapon or gear, and then move to mechanical upgrades.

Each item has an upgrade limit number that is available for. The number of upgrades available is determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. For example, the highest possible weapon upgrade is a tier 10 weapon. However, the most commonly used upgrades for weapons are an tier 6 weapon as well as a tier 5 armor upgrade.

Sets

A set is a collection of items that all share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and each upgrade boosts its guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. Following upgrades, the primary stats are boosted even further (for instance +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item upgrade is upgraded one of its stats will increase randomly.

Upgrades can also boost the damage base of a weapon. This could be crucial for certain builds. Weapons aren't upgraded to give a higher maximum defence roll than their base. Upgrading can be a good option to increase the value of a set and unique items, however it's important to remember that they might not be superior to a high-level runeword in any build.

If you're upgrading an Item upgrader mod that comes with a bonus it can be rerolled one time, and its guarantee will reset back to 0. Rerolling is the same amount of power dice as leveling an item, however the new item upgrades will have additional bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll need a power die of each kind (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; Dice 7 drops from bosses) and the proper amount of Minerals and Erons. They can be purchased by using Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs also offer special rewards for each completed stage of the upgrade process. The reward can be rerolled a single time, using the same materials as the original item.

Rerolling

A player is able to roll any item they have acquired during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens to be able to do so. If an item is rerolled, it will be replaced with the same level in another set. Reroll tokens are available at the store for a small amount of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The upgraded item will still come with the extra benefits of the previous one however its stats will be different too.

Players can change the identification of their equipment, in addition to changing it's roll by interfacing with a NPC upgrader. The equipment's identification will change from a weapons to armor, or reverse the process. The basic stats and requirements remain the same. The change will be permanent and affect all characters that own the gear.

The player can also upgrade the level of an item for any equipped equipment. This is accomplished by talking to an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade items. This will cost a certain amount of crests and Valorstones according to the upgrade track and the item type. For weapons, each step up will add 5% to its damage.

Upgrades can boost the power of an item, however they also can decrease the quality of an item. Therefore, it is crucial to keep both in check. Some items aren't worth upgrading, while other items require upgrades to make them more effective. For example, a player might wish to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to explore the possibilities of what it can be.

Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it to try to obtain an item or character they cannot otherwise get. Getting these items can be expensive and time-consuming and the RNG gods don't always want to play ball. The only alternatives are to spend money or grind a lot. Rerolling is a popular feature in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can select whether to upgrade the weapon or armor when you upgrade an item. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe it was designed to to give some value to rare items, but as equipment generally drops quickly and is only upgraded one level up, you'll usually replace the item before it gets old enough. It's also not worth upgrading items with gem sockets because the power of the gemstone will outweigh any increase in ilvl.

If you click the upgrade option on an item, you'll get a small screen with the item's upgrade template and the cost of Valorstone and crest to increase the level of the item. The costs will vary between the armor and weapons as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template shows the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item. It will also list its current ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and Crest is calculated using the current Ilvl of the item and the upgrade templates. The ilvl is also decreased by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For example, a weapon with an 8% upgrade decrease will reduce its count by 8-8 percent.

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

In the upgrade template you can check the amount of damage or defense the item will be able to sustain after being leveled up. This is shown below the cost and the upgrade percentages. Aside from equipment for practice, all items and armor get these same stats when leveled up. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly rolled weapon or piece of armor is able to command higher trade values than non-upp'd versions. This is also true for other pieces of armor, like tiaras and circlets.