Path of Exile item upgrade upgrader kit; i was reading this, Upgrading

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

Upgrades to equipment give an increase in the item's stats. The bonus is based on the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components are the things that make your weapons and armor more effective. You can locate them through destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors, or finding them in item-spheres. You can also salvage them from equipment that has the components or through high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when they are removed from an item.

The main purpose of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded, but they also serve other purposes. They can be stacked in order to boost the level or the amount of experience gained by upgrading weapons or gear. They can be forged for extra bonuses. For example, a crafted glyph will boost the upgrade chance of its target, while the boost upgrade can increase the attack or defense attribute of a weapon or armor.

You can connect an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. This will show the upgrade components to which the item can be updated. Alternately, you can make use of the workbench to choose an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components have been collected.

Each component has a different 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. 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 is available for. The number of items that are upgradeable is determined by their upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade they can get. For instance, the highest possible upgrade for a weapon is a weapon of tier 10. The most common weapon upgrade is a gun with tier 6 and an armor upgrade for tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of items that share the same bonus. Each item can be upgraded at the minimum once. The upgrade will increase the amount of bonuses you can expect to receive. When you first upgrade a set piece or weapon will give it an increase of +1 to its primary stat. Following upgrades, the primary stats are boosted even further (for instance +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and each time an item is upgraded one of its stats will increase randomly.

The upgrade of a weapon can increase the damage base, which could be important for some builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to have a higher defense base than their base. Upgrading can be a good way to improve the value of some set and unique items, however it's important to note that they're not necessarily superior to a high-level runeword in any build.

If you are upgrading an item upgrades with an added bonus the item can be rerolled a single time, and its guarantee will reset to 0. Rerolling costs 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 a power dice of each kind (Dice 4 or 6 drop from monsters 21+ and Giants; dice 7 drops from bosses) and the right amount of Minerals and Erons. These are available at the crafting table or the Ultra Collector, and can be purchased using Gold. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled once, and the reroll will use the same materials used in the original item level upgrade.

Rerolling

A player can roll any item they have acquired in the game provided they have enough reroll tokens to do so. When an item is rerolled it will be replaced with an equivalent level 1 version from another set. Reroll tokens can be purchased at the store for a small sum of in-game currency. They are not refundable. The new item will offer the same extra bonuses like the first, however the stats will also be different.

Players can change the identification of their equipment as well as changing it's roll by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification from an armored weapon to a weapon, or vice versa, all the while maintaining its base stats and required attributes. The change will be permanent and affect all characters who own the equipment.

The player can also upgrade their item level for any equipment equipped. This is done by interacting with an upgrader NPC, and then obtaining upgrade items. It will cost a specific amount of crests as well as Valorstones according to the upgrade track and item type. Each upgrade will add an additional 5% of damage to weapons.

Upgrades can increase the power of an item, however they can also reduce its quality. It is therefore important to strike a balance between the two. Some items are not worth upgrading, whereas others need to be upgraded to make them more effective. For example an individual player may want to upgrade a piece of breakpoint armor with an interesting modifier (% chance to block or FHR) to discover what it could be.

Rerolling is a common practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People use it to gain access to an item or character that they wouldn't otherwise have. These items are time-consuming and costly to obtain and the RNG does not always work in a positive way. The only alternative is to spend money or grind extensively. This is why rerolling is a very popular option in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

When upgrading an item, you can pick to level up the weapon or armor. This feature is not available in the current version of the game. I think this feature was designed to add some value to expensive and rare items. However, since most gear is replaced fairly quickly and can only be upgraded by one level, you will generally replace it before it gets too old. It is also not worth upgrading items with gem sockets because the power of the gemstone will outweigh any increase in ilvl.

If you click the upgrade button on an item, you will be presented with a small window displaying the upgrade template for the item and the crest and Valorstone costs to increase the level of the item. Armor and weapons have different prices, with the latter usually being more expensive. The upgrade template lists the stats that can be added to an upgraded item as well as its current base ilvl.

The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated by analyzing the current ilvl of the item and the upgrade template. Additionally the ilvl of a new upgraded item will be decreased by the template's lvl decrease percentage. For instance, a weapon with an increase of 8% will reduce its count by 8-8 percent.

The item will receive upgrades to other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damages, and block, parry, and dodge rating, in addition to the base ilvl. These increases are based on the upgrade template.

The amount of damage and defense that the item receives when leveled up can be shown below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. All weapons and armor, except practice equipment, get these stats once they've been leveled up. The market will determine the worth of these stats. A weapon or armor that has perfect rolls can fetch an incredibly higher price than a non-upp’d version. The same applies to other armor pieces, such as circlets and Tiaras.