15 Reasons You Shouldn't Be Ignoring Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

In Path of Exile, item upgrading is one of the most effective ways to upgrade your equipment without relying on large-ticket drops or trade. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your items.

Upgrades in equipment can add a bonus to the item's base stats. This bonus scales depending on the rarity and strength of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components are the items that can make your weapons and armor better. You can get them from the destruction of enemies, finding them in item spheres, or buying them from karma merchants. You can also get them from equipment that contains the components or by using high-end salvage kits like Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components cannot be destroyed by removing them from an item.

Upgrade components are typically used to upgrade an item, however, they can also be used for other reasons.  item upgrades  can be stacked to boost the level or experience gained by upgrading existing weapons or gear. They can be made for additional benefits. For example, a designed glyph will increase the upgrade chance of its target, whereas an upgrade boost will enhance the defense or attack attribute 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 that the item can be upgraded. You can also use the workbench when selecting an upgrade template. In either instance the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components are collected.

Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item gains when upgraded using the component. For instance, organic components have a a higher experience multiplier than mechanical ones. It is recommended to upgrade organic components first until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment and then move on to mechanical upgrades.

Each item comes with an upgrade limit number that can be received. The number of upgrades are determined by the upgradeable rank and the upgrade type of the upgradeable item. The most powerful upgrade is a weapon that is the tier 10. The most common weapon upgrade is a tier 6 gun and a armor upgrade for tier 5.

Sets

A set is a group of items which share bonuses. Each item can be upgraded at least once. The upgrade will increase the bonuses that are guaranteed. The first time you upgrade a set piece or weapon is that it will be given a +1 increase to its primary stat. Following upgrades, the primary stats will be boosted even further (for instance +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded one of its additional stats is increased randomly.

Upgrades can also increase the base damage of a weapon. This could be crucial for certain types of weapons. Weapons cannot be upgraded for a higher maximum defence roll than their base. Upgrades can be a great option to increase the value of some set and unique items, however it's important to remember that they might not be better than a high-level runeword in any build.

If you are upgrading an item that comes with bonuses it can be rerolled one time, and its guarantee will reset to 0. The same amount of power die is used to roll an item, just as it is used to increase its level. However, the new item has different bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require a power dice 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. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector, and can be purchased using Gold. The NPC will also give an additional reward for each tier of the upgrade process. The reward can be rerolled a single time with the same materials as the original item.

Rerolling

If a player has enough tokens for rerolling, they can reroll any item that 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 can be purchased in the shop for a small sum of in-game currency. They cannot be refunded. The upgraded item will have the same bonuses of the original one, but its stats will differ as well.

In addition to rerolling items, players can also alter the identity of any equipment by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. This will change its identification from a weapons to armor or reverse it. The basic requirements and stats will remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters who are wearing the gear.

Players can also increase the level of their item on any equipped device by obtaining  upgrade item s and conversing with the NPC who upgrades the item. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, the item type and the number of crests. Each step will add an additional 5% of damage to weapons.

Upgrading an item will make it more powerful however, it can also lower its quality. Therefore, it is important to balance the two. Some items are not worth upgrading, while other items need to be upgraded to reach their full potential. For instance an individual player may wish to upgrade a piece breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to discover what it could be.

The main reason people are able to reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is that they're trying to obtain a particular character or weapon that they aren't able to obtain. These items can be time-consuming and expensive to acquire, and the RNG doesn't always play nice. The only options left is to shell out real money or grind for a long time. Rerolling is a very popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor after upgrading an item. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I believe it was intended to to increase the value of rare items, but because gear in general drops fairly quickly and can only be upgraded once you've reached a certain level and you'll typically replace the item before it becomes old enough. It's also not worth upgrading items with gem sockets because the power of the gemstone will outweigh any increment in the level of.

You will see a small box when you click on the upgrade option on an item. It will display the template for the item, its crest, and the cost of Valorstone to increase the item's level. The cost of upgrades will vary based on the armor and weapons and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats to be added to an upgraded item, and also the current base ilvl.

The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated based on the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. In addition the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl decrease percentage. For instance the weapon that has an 8% upgrade decrease will reduce its ilvl by 8 - 8%.

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

The amount of defense and damage the item is able to receive when it is leveled can be shown below the upgrade cost and decrease percentages in the upgrade template window.  item upgrades  and weapons that are not practice equipment get these stats when they level up. The market determines the value of these stats. A weapon or armor with perfect rolls can fetch more than a non-upp’d version. The same is true for other armor pieces, such as circlets and tiaras.