20 Resources That Will Make You More Efficient At Item Upgrading
Path of Exile Item Upgrading The best way to improve your gear in Path of Exile is through upgrading your items. This allows you to upgrade your gear without having depend on costly trades or drops. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your items. Upgrades to equipment give an additional bonus to the item's stats. This bonus scales with the upgrade component level and rarity. Components Upgrade components make your armour and weapons stronger. You can locate them by destroying enemies, buying them from karma sellers or finding them in the form of item-spheres. They can also be salvaged from equipment with them, or through a high-tier salvage kit like the Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when you remove 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 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 be forged to give additional bonuses. For example, a created glyph can increase the chance of upgrading its target, while a boost upgrade will increase the attack or defense quality of a weapon or armor. Selecting an upgrade template in the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will display a list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. Alternately, you can utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components have been collected. Each component has a distinct experience multiplier, which affects the amount of experience an item receives when it is upgraded by that component. Organic components, for example, have more experience multipliers 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 has a maximum upgrade number that it is possible to receive. The number of upgrades is determined by its upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. For example, the highest possible weapon upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. However, the most commonly used upgrades for weapons are a tier 6 weapon and a tier 5 armor upgrade. Sets A set is a collection of items which all have the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at minimum once. The upgrade increases the guaranteed bonuses. When you first upgrade an item or set piece is that it will be given a +1 increase to its primary stat. After subsequent upgrades, the primary stats are enhanced even more (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item 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 types of builds. However, weapons cannot be upgraded to have a greater defense level than their regular base. It is possible to increase the value of specific sets and unique items by upgrading them, but they may not always be superior to a higher-level Runeword. If the item you're upgrading has a guarantee bonus that is guaranteed, it can be rerolled once, and then its guarantee will be reset to 0. Rerolling will cost the same amount of power dice as the process of leveling an item up, but the new item will offer additional bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require the required amount of Minerals and Erons as well as a power dice of each kind. They can be purchased by using Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. The NPC will also offer an additional reward for each tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a single time, using the same materials as original item. Rerolling If the player has enough tokens for rerolling, they can reroll any item that they have acquired during the game. If an upgraded item is rerolled, it will be exchanged for the level 1 version of the same item in another set. Reroll tokens are sold in the shop for a small sum of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new upgraded item will still have the extra bonuses of the original one however its stats will differ as well. Players can change the identification of their equipment, in addition to rerolling it by interacting with an NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from an armored weapon to a weapon, or vice versa, while retaining its base stats and required attributes. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters who own the equipment. Players can also increase the level of their item on any equipped equipment by acquiring upgrade items and conversing with the upgrader NPC of the item. The cost will differ based on the upgrade track, item type and the number of crests. Each step will add 5percent more damage to weapons. Upgrading an item can boost its power, but it will reduce its effectiveness. It is therefore important to find a balance between these two. item upgrades may not be worth upgrading however, others will need to be upgraded to reach their potential. For instance one player might wish to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor that has an interesting modifier ( percent chance of blocking or FHR) to see what it can be. Rerolling is a standard practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it in order to get the character or weapon they cannot otherwise get. The process of obtaining these items can be costly and time-consuming and the RNG gods don't always want to cooperate. The only options is to shell out real money or grind lots. Rerolling is a very popular option in Genshin Impact. Leveling You can decide to upgrade the weapon or armor after upgrading an item. But, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe it was designed to be a way to increase the value of rare items, but since equipment generally drops quickly and can only be upgraded one level up and you'll typically replace the item before it becomes old enough. It's also not worth it to level items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will be greater than the higher ilvl that comes with the upgrade. You will see a small window when you click the upgrade option for an item. It will display the item's template, the Crest, as well as the cost of Valorstone to increase the item level. The cost of upgrades will vary based on armor and weapons, with the former usually costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats that will be added to an upgraded item along with its current base ilvl. The cost of the Valorstone and the crest is calculated based on the current Ilvl of the item and the upgrade templates. The ilvl is also decreased by the upgrade templates lvl reduction percentage. For instance, a weapon with an upgrade decrease of 8% will decrease its value by 8-8 percent. In addition to the base ilvl boost the item will also be upgraded in other stats, such as critical strike damage, PvE damage and block, parry and dodge rating. These upgrades are also based on the upgrade template. In the upgrade template you can see the amount of damage or defense that the item will suffer after it is leveled up. This is listed below the cost and the upgrade percentages. In addition to practice equipment, all items and armor get the same stats when they are leveled up. The value of these additional stats will be determined by the market, with a perfectly rolled weapon or piece of armor able to command much more trade value than non-upp'd versions. The same applies to other pieces of armor such as tiaras and circlets.