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Path of Exile Item Upgrading In Path of Exile, item upgrading is among the best ways to improve your equipment without relying on big-ticket drops or trade. This article will show you how to upgrade your gear effectively. Upgrades to equipment provide an increase to the item's base stats. The bonus is according to the rarity and strength of the upgrade component. Components Upgrade components are the parts that make your weapons and armor better. You can acquire them by the destruction of enemies, finding them in spheres of items or buying them from karma merchants. You can also get them from equipment that contains the components or by using high-end salvage kits like Black Lion Salvage Kit and Ascended Salvage Tool. Unlike most other items upgrade components, upgrade components aren't destroyed when removed from an item. Upgrade components are typically used to improve an item however, they can also be used for other reasons. They can be used to boost the value of an upgradeable item, or they can be used to increase the experience gained when upgrading an existing weapon or piece of equipment. They can be forged for additional benefits. For example, a crafted glyph will boost the upgrade chance of its target, whereas the boost upgrade can enhance the defense or attack quality of a weapon or armor. Selecting an upgrade template from the GUI will let you bind it to an item. This will display a list of upgrade components that the item can be upgraded to. You can also use the workbench when selecting an upgrade template. In either case, the item will be upgraded once enough upgrade components are collected. Each component has its own experience multiplier that affects how much more experience an item will gain when it is upgraded by that component. For instance, organic components offer more experience multipliers than mechanical ones. It is recommended to upgrade your organic components first until you reach the next rank in the weapon or equipment, and then switch to the mechanical upgrades. Each item comes with a maximum upgrade number that is available for. The number of items that can be upgraded is determined by their upgradeable rank and the type of upgrade they can get. The highest upgrade possible is a weapon of the tier 10. The most commonly used upgrade is a gun of tier 6 and an armor upgrade of tier 5. Sets A set is a collection of objects that all share the same bonus. Each item in the set can be upgraded at least one time, and the upgrade increases the guaranteed bonuses. The first time you upgrade an item, its initial stat will be +1. After subsequent upgrades, primary stats are increased even more (for instance, +1 for 12+/13+/14+) and every time an item is upgraded, one of its additional stats increases randomly. Upgrades can also increase the damage base of a weapon. This can be crucial for certain builds. However, weapons can't be upgraded to a higher defense base than their normal base. Upgrading can be a good option to increase the value of a set and unique items, but it's important to remember that they may not be better than a high-level runeword in any build. If an item you're upgrading has a guaranteed bonus that is guaranteed, it can be rerolled once, and then its guarantee will reset to 0. The same power die is used to reroll an item, just as it would be used to level it up. However, the new item has different bonuses. Upgrading can be done through the NPC [Armor] Boboko in the Central Flarine. To upgrade an item you will require the proper amount of Minerals and Erons and a power dice of each kind. They can be purchased with Gold at the crafting table, or in the Ultra Collection. NPCs also offer special rewards for each completed level of the upgrade process. This reward can be rerolled one time with the same materials as original item. Rerolling A player is able to roll any item they have acquired during the game, provided they have enough reroll tokens to do so. If an upgraded item is rerolled, it will be exchanged for the version that is level 1 of the same item in a different set. Reroll tokens are available at the store for an amount of in-game currency, but they cannot be refunded. The new item will come with the same extra bonuses as the previous one, but the statistics will also differ. Players can change the identification of equipment in addition to changing it's roll by interfacing with a NPC upgrader. This will change the identification from a weapons to armor or reverse the process. Its base stats and requirements will remain the same. The change is permanent and will affect all characters that have the gear in question. The player can also upgrade the level of an item for any equipment equipped. This is done by interacting with an upgrader NPC, and then obtaining upgrade components. This will cost a set amount of crests and Valorstones according to the upgrade track and type. Each upgrade will add 5% more damage to weapons. An upgrade will make it more powerful however, it can also decrease its quality. Therefore, it is important to balance the two. Certain items might not be worth upgrading and some will require to be upgraded in order to realize their potential. A player may want to upgrade the breakpoint armor by adding an interesting modifier ( percent block chance or FHR) in order to explore what else it can become. The primary reason people are able to reroll in Genshin Impact, or in any gacha-based game is because they are trying to get a specific weapon or character that they can't otherwise obtain. These items can be costly and time-consuming, and the RNG gods don't always want to cooperate. The only alternative is to spend real money or grind extensively. Rerolling is a popular feature in Genshin Impact. Leveling When upgrading an item you can pick to level up the weapon or armor. However, this feature is absolutely nothing in the current game. I believe it was intended to be a way to add value to rare items, but since gear in general drops fairly quickly and is only upgraded once you've reached a certain level and you'll typically replace the item before it gets old enough. It's also not worthwhile to upgrade items with gem sockets because the power of the gem will outweigh the increase in ilvl with the upgrade. When you click on the upgrade option on an item, you'll get a small screen with the item's upgrade template and the cost of Valorstone and crest to increase the level of the item. The cost will differ between weapons and armor as well, with the former typically costing more than the latter. The upgrade template outlines the stats to be added to an upgraded item, as well as its current base ilvl. The cost of the Valorstone and Crest is calculated using the current Ilvl of the item and the upgrade templates. In addition, the ilvl of the new upgraded item will be reduced by the upgrade template's lvl decrease percentage. For example an upgrade of 8% can reduce the ilvl of a weapon by 8 to 88%. In addition to the base ilvl increase, the item will also receive upgrades in other stats such as critical strike damage, PvE damage and dodge, block and parry rating. These increases are dependent on the upgrade template. In the upgrade template you can see the amount of damage or defense the item will be able to sustain after being leveled up. This is displayed below the cost and the upgrade percentages. Aside from practice equipment, all other armor and weapons gain the same stats once leveled up. The value of these stats will be dictated by the market, with a perfectly rolled piece of armor or weapon able to command much higher trade values than non-upp'd versions. This is also true for other pieces of armor such as circlets or Tiaras.