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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The most effective way to upgrade your gear in Path of Exile is through item upgrades. This lets you upgrade your gear without having rely on expensive trades or drops. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your items.

Upgrading equipment grants a bonus to the item upgrade's base stats. This bonus is based on the upgrade component level and rarity.

Components

Upgrade components are the items that improve your armor and weapons better. You can acquire them by the destruction of enemies, finding them in item spheres, or purchasing them from karma sellers. You can also get them from equipment that has the components, or by utilizing high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components cannot be destroyed when they are removed from an item.

The main function of upgrade components is to enable an item to be upgraded, however, they also serve other functions. They can be stacked in order to increase the level of experience gained from upgrading existing equipment or weapons. They can also be forged to offer additional benefits. For instance, a created glyph can increase the chance of upgrading its target, while a boost upgrade will boost the defense or attack property of a weapon, or armor.

Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will display the upgrade components that the item can be upgraded. You can also utilize the workbench to select an upgrade template. In either scenario, an item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components have been collected.

Each component has its own experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item gains when upgraded using that component. Organic components, like, have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. It is therefore recommended to upgrade with organic components until you have reached the experience multiplier for the next rank of the weapon or gear, then move to mechanical upgrades.

Each item has a maximum upgrade number that it is possible to receive. The number of upgrades are determined by the rank that can be upgraded and the type of upgrade available to the upgradeable item. The most powerful upgrade is a weapon of the tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a tier 6 gun and a armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a group of items which share a bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least once and each upgrade boosts the amount of bonuses that are guaranteed. When you first upgrade an item, its primary stat will be +1. Following upgrades, primary stats are boosted even further (for instance the +1 bonus for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded, one of its stats will increase 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 greater maximum defence rolls than their base. It is a good way to improve the value of some set and unique items, however it is important to keep in mind that they may not be better than a high-level runeword in any build.

If the item upgrader kit you're upgrading comes with a guaranteed bonus it is able to be rerolled only once and its guarantee will be reset to 0. Rerolling costs the same amount of power dice as leveling an item up, but the upgraded item will come with additional bonuses. The NPC [ArmorBoboko Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will need a power die of each type (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; dice 7 drops from bosses) and the proper amount of Minerals and Erons. These can be purchased with Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. The NPC will also offer an additional reward for each completed tier of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled a single time, using the same materials as original item.

Rerolling

If players have enough rerolling tokens, they can play rerolling any item they've acquired during the game. When an upgraded item is to be rerolled, it will be exchanged for a version that is level 1 of the same item upgrader in another set. Reroll tokens can be bought from the store for an amount of in-game currency, however they are not refundable. The new upgraded item will still have the extra benefits of the previous one, but its stats will differ too.

In addition to rerolling items, players can also change the identity of any equipment by engaging with an upgrader NPC. This will change its identification as a weapon to armor, or reverse it. The base stats and requirements remain the same. The change will last for a long time and affect all characters who own the equipment.

Players can also increase the item level of any equipped equipment by obtaining upgrade components and communicating with the upgrader NPC of the item. This will cost a set number of crests and Valorstones according to the upgrade track and item type. In the case of weapons, each step up will add 5% to its damage.

Upgrading an item will make it more powerful however, it can reduce its effectiveness. It is therefore important to keep both in check. Certain items might not be worth upgrading at all however, others will need to be upgraded in order to realize their potential. For example, a player might want to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to discover what it could become.

Rerolling is a popular practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People use it to try to obtain the character or weapon that they wouldn't otherwise have. These items are time-consuming and costly to acquire and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only options are to spend real cash or grind for a long time. Rerolling is a popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item, you can pick to upgrade the weapon or armor. However, this feature does absolutely nothing in the current game. I think it was meant to to add value to rare items, but as the majority of gear 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 worth it to level items that have gem sockets since the value of the gem will outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

When you click the upgrade button on an item, you'll see a small window with the item's upgrade template and the crest and Valorstone costs to increase the item level. The cost will differ between the armor and weapons as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats that can be added to an upgraded item and also the current ilvl.

The cost of the Valorstone and the crest is calculated based on the current Ilvl of the item as well as the upgrade templates. In addition the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl reduction percentage. For example an upgrade of 8% can reduce the weapon's ilvl by 8 to 8percent.

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. These increases are also based off the upgrade template.

The amount of defense and damage the item will receive when leveled up can be shown below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. Aside from equipment for practice, all items and armor get the same stats once leveled up. The market determines the value of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can command more than an unupp'd version. This is also true for other armor pieces, such as tiaras and circlets.