Path of Exile Item Upgrading

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

Upgrades to equipment provide an increase to the item's base stats. This bonus scales depending on the rarity and quality of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components are the items that can make your weapons and armor better. They can be found by destroying enemies, buying them from karma vendors or finding them in the form of item-spheres. You can also salvage them from equipment containing the components, or by utilizing high-end salvage kits like Black Lion Salvage Kit and Item upgrading Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed when you remove them from the item.

Upgrade components are primarily used to upgrade an item upgrader mod, but they can also be used for other purposes. 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 forged to give additional bonuses. A crafted glyph can increase the upgrade chances of its target, and a boost upgrade increases the attack or defense attributes of weapons.

Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will allow you to connect it to an item. This will show the upgrade components that the item can be upgraded. You can also make use of the workbench to choose an upgrade template. In either case the item will be upgraded after enough upgrade components are gathered.

Each component has a distinct experience multiplier that affects the amount of experience an item receives when it upgrades with that component. For instance, organic components offer an experience multiplier that is higher than mechanical ones. It is recommended to upgrade the organic components first, until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment and then switch to the mechanical upgrades.

In addition to the experience multiplier, each item also has a maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of upgrades is determined by the upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade for the upgradeable item. For instance, the most expensive possible weapon upgrade is a tier 10 weapon. The most commonly used upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and an armor upgrade for tier 5.

Sets

A set is a group of items that share the benefit of. Each item upgrade in the set can be upgraded at least once and the upgrade increases its guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats will be boosted a little more (for instance, +1 to 12+/13+/14+), and each time you upgrade the item, one of its extra stats will be increased randomly.

Upgrades to a weapon may increase the damage base, which could be important for some builds. Weapons cannot be upgraded for a higher maximum defence roll than their base. Upgrading can be a good way to improve the value of certain sets and unique items, but it is important to keep in mind that they may not be superior to a high-level runeword in any build.

If the item you're upgrading has a guarantee bonus, it can be rerolled a few times and the guarantee will reset to 0. Rerolling is the same amount of power dice as leveling an item up, but the new item will offer different extra bonuses. Upgrades can be made at the NPC [Armor] Boboko in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require the required amount of Minerals and Erons and a power dice of each kind. These can be bought by using Gold at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collection. The NPCs will also offer special rewards for each completed stage of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled one time with the same materials and components as the first item.

Rerolling

If a player has enough rerolling tokens, they can reroll any item that they've accumulated during the game. When an upgraded item is being rerolled, it can be exchanged for a level 1 version of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens can be bought at the store for small amounts of in-game currency, however they aren't refundable. The new item upgraded will still have the extra benefits of the previous one, but its stats will differ too.

Players can change the identity of their equipment as well as changing it's roll by interfacing with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identification from a weapons to armor or vice versa. Its base stats and requirements remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters who have the gear in question.

The player can also upgrade the level of the item for any equipment that is equipped. This can be done by engaging with an upgrader NPC and obtaining upgrade items. This will cost a certain amount of crests as well as Valorstones according to the upgrade track and the item type. For weapons, each step will add 5percent to the damage.

Upgrades can boost the power of an item upgrade, however they also decrease its quality. It is therefore important to strike a balance between the two. Certain items might not be worth upgrading and some will require to be upgraded in order to maximize their potential. A player might want to upgrade their breakpoint armor using an interesting modifier ( percent block chance or FHR) to see what else it can be.

The primary reason people reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game, is because they're trying to obtain a particular weapon or character that they can't otherwise obtain. These items can be costly and time-consuming to acquire and the RNG isn't always a good fit. 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 think this feature was designed to add some value to rare and expensive items. However, since most gear is replaced fairly quickly, and it can only be upgraded by one level, you'll typically replace it before it is too old. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade items that have gem sockets because the power of the gem will outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

When you click the upgrade option on an item, you'll see a small window with the upgrade template for the item and the cost of Valorstone and crest to increase the item level. Armor and weapons will have different costs, with the former typically being more costly. The upgrade template lists the stats that will be added to the upgraded item and it also lists the current ilvl.

The Crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the item's current ilvl as well as the upgrade template. The ilvl is also decreased by the upgrade templates reduction percentage for lvl. For example the weapon that has an 8% upgrade decrease will reduce its count by 8-8%.

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

In the upgrade template you can determine the amount of damage or defense that the item will be able to sustain after it is leveled up. This is shown below the cost and the upgrade percentages. All weapons and armor that are not practice equipment get these stats once they've been leveled up. The value of these stats will be determined by the market, with a rolled perfect version of a weapon or piece of armor is able to command more trade value than non-upp'd versions. The same applies to other pieces of armor like circlets and Tiaras.