14 Common Misconceptions About Item Upgrading

Path of Exile Item Upgrading

In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the best ways to improve your gear without relying on big-ticket drops or trade. This article will teach you how to upgrade your items efficiently.

Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus to the item's base stats. This bonus scales according to the rarity and strength of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components can make your armour and weapons stronger. You can find them through destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors or finding them in the form of item-spheres. They can also be rescued from equipment with them, or by utilizing a high-tier salvage kit such as the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed by removing them from the item.

The main purpose of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded but they also serve other functions. They can be stacked to increase the level of an upgradeable item, or they can be used to boost the amount of experience gained from upgrading an existing weapon or piece of gear. They can also be made to provide extra bonuses. For instance, a created glyph can increase the upgrade chance of its target, and an upgrade boost will increase the attack or defense attribute of a weapon or armor.

By selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will let you bind it to an item. This will display a list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. You can also use the workbench to selecting an upgrade template. In either instance, the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components are collected.

Each component has a unique experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item can gain when upgraded using that component. Organic components, for instance, have more experience multipliers than mechanical components. It is therefore best to upgrade with organic components until you have reached the experience multiplier of the next level of the weapon or gear, then switch to mechanical upgrades.

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

Sets

A set is a set of items which all have the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at the minimum once. The upgrade increases the bonuses that are guaranteed. The first time you upgrade an item or set piece, it will receive a +1 increase to its primary stat. Following upgrades, the primary stats will be enhanced even more (for instance +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats increases randomly.

Upgrades to a weapon may increase the damage base, which could be necessary for certain builds. However, weapons cannot be upgraded to have a higher maximum defense roll than their regular base. It is possible to increase value of specific sets and unique items by upgrading them, but they're not always superior to a high-level Runeword.

If you are upgrading an item that comes with bonuses it can be rerolled a single time and the guarantee will reset to zero. Rerolling costs the same amount of power dice as leveling an item, but the upgraded item will come with various bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require the proper amount of Minerals and Erons as well as a power dice of each type. These can be purchased by using Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs will also provide special rewards for each level of the upgrade process. The reward can be rerolled one time using the same materials as original item.

Rerolling

A player is able to reroll any item acquired in the game if they have enough reroll tokens to do so. If an upgraded item upgrader kit is rerolled, it will be exchanged for the version at a level 1 of the same item in another set. Reroll tokens can be purchased from the store for a small amount of in-game currency, however they aren't refundable. The new item will come with the same bonuses like the first, however the statistics will also differ.

In addition to rerolling objects, players can also alter the identification of any item by interacting with an upgrader NPC. The equipment's identification will change from a weapon to an armor or reverse it. The basic stats and requirements will remain the same. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters who own the gear.

The player can also upgrade the level of the item for any equipment equipped. This is done by talking to an upgrader NPC and getting upgrade components. The cost of upgrading will depend on the upgrade track, the item type and number of crests. For weapons, each step up will add five percent to the damage.

Upgrading an item can boost its power however, it can also lower its quality. It is therefore important to strike a balance between the two. Some items aren't worth upgrading, while other items require upgrading to maximize their potential. A player might want to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modifier (% block chance or FHR) to explore what else it can 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 expensive and time-consuming, and the RNG gods aren't always willing to cooperate. The only alternatives are to invest money or grind for a long time. Rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor when you upgrade an item. However, this feature is absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe that this feature was created to increase the value of expensive and rare items. However, as most equipment is replaced quickly and can only be leveled up to a certain level, you will usually replace it before it gets too old. It's also not worth it to upgrade items with gem sockets because the power of the gem will outweigh the increase in ilvl with the upgrade.

If you click on the upgrade option on an item, you will see a small window with the item's upgrade template and the crest and Valorstone costs to increase the item level. The cost of upgrades will vary based on armor and weapons as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines the stats that will be added to an upgraded item, and also the current ilvl.

The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated based on the item's current ilvl and the upgrade template. The ilvl is also reduced by the upgrade template's reduction percentage for lvl. For instance an upgrade of 8% can reduce the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 8%.

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

In the upgrade template, you can determine the amount of damage or defense the item will receive after being leveled up. This is shown below the cost as well as the upgrade percentages. Aside from practice equipment, 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 able to command much more trade value than non-upp'd versions. This is also true for other pieces of armor like tiaras and circlets.