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Path of Exile Item Upgrading

The best method to upgrade your equipment in Path of Exile is through upgrade of your items. This allows you to enhance your gear without having to rely on expensive drops or trades. This article will help you understand how to upgrade your gear.

Upgrades to equipment provide a bonus to the item's base stats.  upgrade item  based on the rarity and strength of the upgrade component.

Components

Upgrade components are the parts that can 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 contains the components or by using high-tier salvage kits such as Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Upgrade components aren't destroyed by removing them from an item.

The primary function of upgrade components is to allow an item to be upgraded, however, they also serve other functions. They can be used 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 made for additional bonuses. A crafted glyph can increase the upgrade chances of its target, while a boost upgrade increases the attack or defense attributes of a weapon.

You can attach an upgrade template to an item by selecting it from the edition GUI. It 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 case the item will be upgraded when enough upgrade components are collected.

Each component is assigned an experience multiplier. This determines how much experience an item can gain when upgraded using that component. Organic components, for example have an increased multiplier of experience than mechanical components. You should upgrade organic components first until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment and then move on to mechanical upgrades.

In addition to the multiplier of experience, each item also has the maximum number of upgrades that it can receive. The number of items that are upgradeable is determined by their upgradeable rank, and the kind of upgrade they can receive. The most powerful upgrade is a weapon with tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a gun with tier 6 and an armor upgrade of tier 5.

Sets

A set is a collection of items that share a bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and the upgrade increases the amount of bonuses that are guaranteed. The first time you upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. On subsequent upgrades, the primary stats are increased 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 base damage of a weapon. This may be important for certain builds. Weapons aren't upgraded to give a higher maximum defence roll than their base. It is a good method to increase the value of a set and unique items, but it's important to remember that they may not be more effective than a high-level raneword in any build.

If you are upgrading an item that comes with an added bonus, the item can be rerolled a single time, and its guarantee will reset to zero. The same amount of power die is used to reroll an item as it is used to level it up. However, the new item has different bonuses. The NPC [Armor] Boboko can upgrade your armor in Central Flarine. To upgrade an item, you will require the proper amount of Minerals and Erons and a power dice of each type. These are available at the crafting table or in the Ultra Collector and can be purchased with Gold. The NPC will also provide an extra reward for each completed tier of the upgrade process. This reward is rerollable once and the reroll will use the same materials as the original item.

Rerolling

If players have enough tokens for rerolling, they can reroll any item that they've accumulated during the game. When an upgraded item is being rerolled, it can be exchanged for the version that is level 1 of the same item from a different set. Reroll tokens are available from the store for an amount of in-game currency. However, they are not refundable. The new upgraded item will still have the extra bonuses of the original one however, its stats will be different as well.

In addition to rerolling objects, players can also alter the identification of any equipment by engaging with an upgrader NPC. This will change the identity from a weapon to armor or vice versa, while keeping its basic stats and attributes that are required. The change is permanent and will affect all characters who own the gear in question.

Players can also increase the item level of any equipped equipment by acquiring upgrade components and communicating with the item's upgrader NPC. This will cost a set amount of crests and Valorstones dependent on the upgrade track and the item kind. For weapons, each upgrade will add an additional 5percent to the damage.

An upgrade will make it more powerful however, it can also decrease 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 maximize their potential. A player may want to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modifier ( percent block chance or FHR) to discover what it could become.

Rerolling is a popular practice in Genshin Impact and other gacha-based games. People do it in order to get a character or weapon they cannot otherwise get. Getting these items can be expensive and time-consuming, and the RNG gods do not always want to cooperate. The only options left are to spend real cash or grind for a long time. This is why rerolling is a 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 believe this feature was created to add some value to expensive and rare items. However, since the majority of gear is replaced fairly quickly, and it can only be leveled up one level, you will typically replace it before it becomes too old. It's not worth it to level items that have gem sockets because the power of the gem will outweigh the increased ilvl that comes with the upgrade.

If you click on the upgrade option on an item, you will get a small screen with the upgrade template of the item as well as the cost of Valorstone and crest to boost the level of the item. The costs will vary between weapons and armor and the latter typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template lists the stats to be added to an upgraded item, and also the current base ilvl.

The crest and Valorstone costs are calculated according to the current ilvl of the item and the upgrade template. In addition, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the template's lvl decrease percentage. For instance, an upgrade of 8% will reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 8%.

The item will be upgraded to other stats like critical strike damage, PvE damage and block, parry and dodge rating in addition to the base level. The increases are also dependent on the upgrade template.

The amount of damage and defense that the item will receive when it is leveled can be shown below the cost and upgrade decrease percentages in the upgrade template window. Aside from practice equipment, all weapons and armor gain these same stats when upgraded. The value of these stats will be dictated by the market, with a perfectly rolled version of a weapon or piece of armor is able to command more in trade value than unupp'd versions. The same applies to other armor pieces such as circlets or Tiaras.