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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The best method to improve your equipment in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This allows you to improve it without having to depend on costly trades or drops. This article will show you how to upgrade your gear effectively.

Upgrading equipment grants an increase to the item's base stats. This bonus scales according to the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components make your weapons and armour better. You can get them from the destruction of enemies, finding them in spheres of items or buying them from karma dealers. They can also be rescued from equipment that contains them, or by utilizing an advanced salvage kit like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when they are removed from an item.

Upgrade components are typically used to upgrade an item, but they can also be used for other purposes. They can be stacked in order to increase the level of the amount of experience gained by upgrading weapons or gear. They can be forged to give additional benefits. For instance, a specially designed glyph will increase the chances of upgrading its target, whereas the boost upgrade can increase the attack or defense property of a weapon, or armor.

Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to bind it to an item. This will show the upgrade components to which the item can be updated. Alternatively, you can make use of the workbench to choose an upgrade template. In either scenario, an item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been gathered.

Each component has a distinct experience multiplier that affects the amount of experience an item will gain when it upgrades with that component. Organic components, for instance, have a higher multiplier of experience than mechanical components. You should upgrade the organic components first, until you reach the next level in the weapon or equipment and then switch to the mechanical upgrades.

Each item comes with an upgrade maximum number that can be received. The number of items that are upgradeable is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the type of upgrade they are able to receive. The highest level of upgrade is a weapon that is 10th level. The most commonly used upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and a armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of items that all share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once, and each upgrade boosts the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. After subsequent upgrades the primary stats will be boosted a bit more (for instance, +1 to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item it will have one of its additional stats is increased randomly.

Upgrades can also boost a weapon's damage base. This could be crucial for certain types of weapons. However, weapons can't be upgraded to a higher defense base than their base. Upgrading can be a good option to increase the value of certain sets and unique items, however it's important to note that they might not be more effective than a high-level raneword in any build.

If you're upgrading an item with an added bonus the item can be rerolled once and the guarantee will reset to 0. The same amount of power die is used to roll an item as it would be to level it up. However, the new item has different bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade item an item, you will require a power die of each kind (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; dice 7 drops from bosses) and the appropriate amount of Minerals and Erons. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector and are available for purchase with Gold. The NPC will also provide an additional reward for each completed tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a second time, and the reroll will be made using the same materials as the first item.

Rerolling

A player can roll any item they have acquired during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens to be able to do so. If an item level upgrade is rerolled, it will be replaced with an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens are available at the store for an amount of in-game currency. However, they are not refundable. The new item upgraded will have the same bonuses of the first however its stats will differ as well.

Players can change the identity of equipment in addition to rolling it again by interacting with an NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from a weapons to armor or reverse it. The base requirements and stats will remain the same. The change will be permanent and will affect all characters who have the gear.

The player can also upgrade their level of the item for any equipment that is equipped. This can be done by talking to an upgrader NPC, and then obtaining upgrade components. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, the item type, and the number of crests. Each step will add 5percent more damage to weapons.

Upgrades can boost the effectiveness of an item, however they also decrease its quality. Therefore, it is important to find a balance between the two. Some items aren't worth upgrading, while other items need to be upgraded to maximize their potential. For example one player might wish to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to discover what it could become.

Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it in order to get the character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise have. These items can be costly and time-consuming to acquire, and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only options is to shell out real money or grind for a long time. Rerolling is a popular feature in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor when you upgrade an item. This feature isn't available in the current version of the game. I believe it was designed to be a way to give some value to rare items, but as gear in general drops fairly quickly and can only be upgraded after a certain amount of levels it is likely that you will replace the item before it becomes too old. It's not worth it to upgrade items with gem sockets because the power of the gem will far outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

You will see a small window when you click the upgrade option for an item upgrader kit. It will show the item's template, the crest, and the cost of Valorstone to increase the level of the item. Armor and weapons have different prices, with the latter typically being more costly. The upgrade template lists the statistics that will be added to the upgraded item and it also lists the current ilvl.

The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. The ilvl will also be reduced by the upgrade template's reduction percentage of lvl. For example weapons with an increase of 8% will decrease its ilvl by 8 - 8%.

The item will get upgrades to other stats, like critical strike damage, PvE damages and block, parry, and dodge rating in addition to the base level. The increases are also dependent on the upgrade template.

In the upgrade template you can determine the amount of damage or defense an item will be able to sustain when it is upgraded. This is shown below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. Apart from the equipment for practice, all weapons and armor gain the same stats once upgraded. The value of these additional stats will be dictated by the market, with a perfectly rolled weapon or piece of armor is able to command more trade value than non-upp'd versions. The same is true for other armor pieces, such as circlets and tiaras.