Guide To Item Upgrades: The Intermediate Guide To Item Upgrades

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Item upgrades are a common and crucial method to enhance the performance of numerous items in Path of Exile. They can be a good source of extra damage and more AD or even more attaches.

Rare-grade equipment is often superior to upgraded Common or Magic gear because of their high requirements.

Armor

Armor upgrades are a form of upgrade that can be applied to armor and weapon items. They increase the effectiveness of the item upgrading that they're connected to. Upgrades to armor are available in the game's world and can be purchased from Blacksmiths at any bonfire. Alternatively, they can also be salvaged from items with upgrade components inside them, using a specialist or more powerful salvage kit.

The level of an armor's or weapon's upgrade determines the amount of damage it is able to absorb. A piece of armor upgraded to its highest upgrade level will boost the damage it absorbs. It's important to remember that this will increase the weight of the armor, so it should be heavier.

There are a variety of armor upgrades available in the game. Each has a different effect. For example, some upgrades will grant the armor a certain amount of additional health points, while others make it lighter and stronger. The kind of armor upgrade an item can get will be indicated by the name of the upgrade as illustrated in the table below.

Certain upgrades require magic or a combination of technology and magic, which are identified by the "Magic" and "Hybrids" entries in the table. Furthermore, some upgrades require a charge to use, which is identified by a "Charges" entry in the table below. These charges are either constantly updated or never expire, depending on the upgrade.

Iron Ore is the cheapest option to improve your armor. It can be found by exploring and looting small treasure chests. Titanium is more expensive but is readily available in the smelters of Orgrimmar and Stormwind City. Certain upgrades, like the Reforge or the Hot Potato Books can only be applied on high-level armor pieces. These upgrades can provide a significant improvement in stats and are worth the cost, especially for single-handed weapons.

The player must be aware that upgrading a piece to its maximum upgrade level will increase its defense values. However, it will also reduce its agility and its speed. Therefore, it is typically not recommended to upgrade most armor pieces above +9, because the increase in defense is typically not worth the extra weight and power costs of the improvements required.

Weapons

Weapon upgrades let players increase the effectiveness of certain aspects of the weapon. Upgrades can increase the accuracy of a rifle or the damage that shotgun shells do. Certain weapons also come with upgrades that improve their innate qualities. Frictionless materials (improves stability, and reduces the risk of overheating), and Kinetic coils (increases the projectile's velocity to cause more damage) are two examples.

The majority of weapon upgrades require a whetblade, one of three Power Dices and a different amount Minerals and Erons. They can be obtained by completing Side Quests, taking out a certain number of monsters or bosses or through the Weapon Upgrade NPC in Central Flarine.

Upgrading a Weapon, Equipment Set piece or Whetblade requires visiting the NPC [Armor] Boboko in Central Flarine and paying her an upgrade fee that is based on a specific number of Bars. The higher the upgrade level, the more bars required to complete it. If you have multiple upgrade materials the cost of upgrading will be lower.

In Chapter 2: Season 5, the ways to upgrade your weapon and equipment sets was a bit different. In the past you could search for an Upgrade Bench and pay a set amount of Bars to upgrade your equipment or weapon to a higher rarity. You could continue doing this until you reach a maximum upgrade level for the weapon or equipment, after which upgrades would reset.

You can still do this, however, the process is high on RNG and low on agency. You should consider buying equipment with minimal upgrade levels, but high base scores and stat distributions. These will then have a better chance of bringing you the highest tier benefits and blessings.

The majority of players will prioritize upgrades to the weapons they most often use to allow them to progress quicker. Additionally players, they should think about upgrading the weapons they use with their squadmates to increase their power and effective. For instance, Shepard should consider upgrading the M92F to unlock the Beretta M93R, which will enhance its effectiveness when accompanied by biotech specialists such as Grunt and Tali.

Jewels

Jewels are placed in the armor's sockets and weapons, increasing a stat and providing secondary effects. Jewelry crafting is a method of creating them. You combine gemstones with specific reagents on a jewelry table. The higher the level of the gem has, the more powerful its secondary effect. These reagents can be found around the world through Treasure Goblins, World Bosses and sometimes by salvaging Legendary gear. You can also buy them from The Jeweler in exchange for gold and Scattered Prisms.

The Jeweler can boost the quality of a gem in stages ranging from Crude up to Royal. The stat boosts can vary according to the tier that the jewel is in when it's inserted into weapons, jewelry, or equipment.

All tiers of jewels can be crafted at the Jeweler, with the exception of the rare and legendary gems that require you to be at a certain level to obtain them. Like other upgrade components jewels can be swapped out with a identical jewel without damaging it. However you can only swap out the jewels in a piece of equipment only once.

It is normal to use more jewelry for aesthetic reasons. Apart from improving performance, the diamonds create a surface that is harder than metal, which means that repeated friction with pivots doesn't cause harm as easily.

In addition to the upgrades mentioned above additionally, players can acquire glyphs for their shields and weapons from a Glyphmaster. These glyphs provide a small boost and can be swapped, but they're not guaranteed to be available as loot. Glyphs can be upgraded, as jewelry, by visiting the Jeweler for gold, and also a scattered Crystal. Glyphs can also be taken out and returned to the inventory. Other upgrade components such as traits or aegis can't be exchanged and can only be retrieved through an upgrade extractor or salvaging using Black Lion Salvage Kit, or Ascended Salvage.

Trinkets

Trinkets can give your character many small, but beneficial benefits. They can be obtained in the areas of starting as loot or personal story rewards from vendors, and by doing road interactions. They can be found on the Trading Post, or crafted by jewelers.

The first trinkets a player unlocks will be the cloak, which gives an unimportant but beneficial boost to speed of movement and evasion. Then, they can get amulets, rings, and necklaces in a similar fashion to how the player can acquire armor and weapons. Each piece of equipment has one upgrade slot that can accept either a universal upgrade or a jewel upgrade. Universal upgrades provide smaller bonuses and can be put into any type of equipment while jewelry cannot be changed or upgraded, and is only compatible with specific types of trinkets.

These trinkets can also grant buffs and skills that remain active when the hero is not in combat. This allows the hero to be more efficient when they are not active. It can also compensate for the lack of a strong slot in the talent tree or team which are usually filled by the hero's optimal stats.

A good general rule of thumb for trinket upgrades is to prioritize BiS (Best item upgrade-in-Slot) items that you aren't planning to replace soon, followed by items with desirable stats, but less important than the iLevel of the item to be upgraded. This is especially true if an item has multiple stats that you'd like to upgrade since it's generally more beneficial to upgrade one important stat than two sub-optimal ones.

Jungle players often upgrade their yellow trinkets to a red trinket at the beginning of the game. Top and mid players, on the other hand they will select a pink or green ward, based on the matchup. These choices will have a significant impact on the hero's map control abilities.

In addition to the items listed above, players can also find other trinkets throughout the game in the form of trophies and awards. These can be earned by completing certain milestones in the story. For example, completing a chapter’s main quest or defeating the boss. You can check them out by selecting the achievement from the reward section of the hero's menu.