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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

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

Upgrades to equipment give an increase in the item's stats. The amount of bonus varies according to the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components make your weapons and armour better. You can get them from fighting off enemies, locating them in spheres of items or purchasing them from karma sellers. They can also be salvaged from equipment that contains them, or through an advanced salvage kit like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed by removing them from an item.

Upgrade components are mostly used to improve an item but they can also be used for other reasons. They can be stacked to boost the value of an upgradeable item or they can be used to boost the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can be forged to give additional bonuses. A crafted glyph can increase the upgrade chances of its target while an upgrade boosts the defense or attack capabilities of the weapon.

You can connect an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will display the upgrade components to which the item can be updated. You can also use the workbench to selecting an upgrade template. In either instance, the item upgrades will be upgraded after enough upgrade components are gathered.

Each component has a unique experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item will gain when upgraded with that component. For instance, organic components offer a higher experience multiplier than mechanical ones. Therefore, it is recommended to upgrade using organic components until you have reached the multiplier of experience for the next level of the weapon or gear, and then change to mechanical upgrades.

Each item comes with a maximum upgrade number that can be received. The number of upgrades available is determined by its upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade for the upgradeable item. The highest level of upgrade is a weapon that is 10th level. The most popular weapon upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and a armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a group of items that share a bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and the upgrade will increase its guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. In subsequent upgrades the stats of the primary one will be boosted a bit further (for instance, +1 to 12+/13+/14+) Every 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 may be important for certain types of weapons. Weapons aren't upgraded to give greater maximum defence rolls than their base. Upgrading can be a good option to increase the value of certain sets and unique items, but it is important to keep in mind that they're not necessarily better than a high-level runeword in any build.

If you're upgrading an item with bonuses the item can be rerolled a single time and the guarantee will reset to zero. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item, but the new item will offer various bonuses. Upgrades can be completed through the NPC [Armor] Boboko in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you'll 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 in the Ultra Collector and are available for purchase with Gold. The NPC will also offer a special reward for every tier that is completed of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled once and will be made using the same materials as the original item.

Rerolling

If a player has enough to reroll tokens, they are able to roll any item they've accumulated during the game. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced by an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens are available in the shop for a small sum of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item will have the same bonuses as the previous one, but the statistics will also be different.

Players can change the identity of equipment in addition to changing it's roll by interfacing with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identification as a weapon to armor or reverse it. The base stats and requirements will remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that have the gear in question.

The player can also upgrade their level of the item for any equipment equipped. This can be done by interacting with an upgrader NPC, and then obtaining upgrade items. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, item type, and the number of crests. For weapons, each step will add an additional 5% to its damage.

An upgrade can make it more powerful however, it can reduce its effectiveness. It is therefore important to keep both in check. Some items aren't worth upgrading, whereas others need to be upgraded to reach their full potential. For example one player might decide to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor that comes with an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to discover what it could be.

Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it to try to obtain the character or weapon they cannot otherwise get. The process of obtaining these items can be expensive and time-consuming, and the RNG gods aren't always willing to play. The only alternative is to spend money or grind extensively. For this reason, rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor when upgrading an item. However, this feature is absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe it was intended to to increase the value of rare items, but because equipment generally drops quickly and can only be upgraded one level up it is likely that you will replace the item before it becomes old enough. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade items with gem sockets as the power of the gem will 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 template for the item, its crest, and the cost of Valorstone to increase the item level. Armor and weapons will have different prices, with the latter generally being more expensive. The upgrade template lists the stats that can be added to an upgraded item, and also the current base ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and Crest is calculated using the item level upgrade's current Ilvl and the upgrade templates. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade templates reduction percentage of lvl. For example the weapon that has an upgrade decrease of 8% will reduce its count by 8-8 percent.

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

In the upgrade template you can check the amount of damage or defense that the item will suffer when it is upgraded. This is listed below the cost and upgrade percentages. All armor and weapons that are not practice equipment get these stats when they level up. The market will determine the worth of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can fetch more than a non-upp’d version. The same is true for other pieces of armor, such as circlets and Tiaras.