Guild Wars 2 Item Upgrade
Item upgrade, commonly known as "upping," improves an item's stats. Each upgrade increment increases the stat linearly.
Players can recycle six items at one time to get a gauge of the upgraded component of each item. The cost of recycling items scales according to their rarity and level.
Upgrade components
An upgrade for an item in Guild Wars 2 is a process that can boost the power of your weapon and armor. This can be accomplished by various methods such as the use of upgrade components and also upgrading an item's mark levels or rarity. In addition, many items can be reforged, which could increase their stats.
You can purchase upgradeable items throughout the game. They are available in all over the world and are rewards for missions. They can also be made by players. The primary method to upgrade equipment is by making use of upgrade components which are components that can be slotted into equipment. The majority of equipment comes with upgrade slots, and most require a certain level of upgrade. Certain upgrade components offer specific bonuses while others provide a general bonus.
There are a variety of upgrade components available in the game. These include universal upgrades, inscriptions and jewels. Universal upgrades, like gems and enchantments, are able to be placed in any equipment type and provide smaller bonuses than those that are equipment-type specific. Glyphs are only available on gathering tools. They offer a variety of bonuses, from increasing the speed of an item's gathering to providing additional crafting materials.
Choose the item from your inventory, and then open the Upgrade window. This will display a preview on the right side of the screen, showing what the expected stats are after the upgrade, along with any required components or materials. The Upgrade button at the bottom will be labeled as blocked if you don't have enough of either.
The amount of upgrade components needed for a given item can be seen in the upper-right corner of the Upgrade window. The cost of an upgrade increases with the level and rarity of the item increase. However you can lower this cost by purchasing upgrades from a vendor or trading them with other players.
Nearly all weapons can be upgraded using an upgrade to a prefix, such as an insignia, or a rune, and a lot of them are upgraded by a suffix upgrade. These upgrades can be used to add an adjective to the item's name for example "Radiant" or "Minor Vigor".
Glyphs
Glyphs are an effective tool for communicating visual information. They animate to capture the attention of the viewers and trigger interest in the brain. The glyphs' animation mimics the body language, making them more effective in conveying an inter-linguistic message. Glyphs can also trigger a feeling of familiarity in the brain, which increases retention of the message.
Each glyph comes with a range of values it can improve a stat by according to the item when you open the glyph in the Glyph Storage or when you use them to enchant an Artifact. This range is not the actual amount by the glyph can increase a stat, but the maximum value by which it can increase a stat. The value of the glyph depends on the tier as well as the quality of the item you are admiring.
The majority of upgrade components that are inserted into items can't be removed or replaced without removing them except for legendary upgrades and equipment. If you have a rune or glyph you do not want to use, but it hasn't been incorporated to gear yet, you can move the item to a different piece by selecting the Upgrade Glyphs menu within the Glyphs Panel. This will create an entirely new Glyph Set with the selected glyph.
If you are looking to remove the glyph from an item, you will need to save it using the help of a Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool. The item where the glyph is located will be destroyed, but the upgraded item can be retrieved using the glyph shards.
The addition of a glyph to an item can cause it to be unstable, and the shards of that glyph will disappear from your inventory when you remove the item. You can also apply an inscription on your equipment to provide an extra benefit. For example the glyph Deferred Damage can store damage for the wearer and deal it slowly rather than all at once. This is helpful for players who take many hits from enemies however do not want to be overwhelmed.
Reroll tokens
Reroll tokens are used to change the affixes of weapons and other equipment. They can be obtained from various sources, such as mystery boxes, rare drops from skulled monsters, or by killing bosses. Reroll tokens give the player a brand new random affix that is usually superior to the one they had before. Reroll tokens can also be used to upgrade weapon stats to cause more damage or bonuses.
Rerolled items don't appear in the menu of item upgrades, but they are still able to be upgraded. By pressing the "upgrade button" you can recycle the rerolled items. This will alter the appearance of the window for the item and let up to six items to be selected to recycle. The level gauge is boosted by recycling an item. This amount is determined by the item's rarity as well as its level. Thus, items with higher levels are more valuable for recycling than items with lower levels.
Players can also use Reroll Tokens and Star Remnants to roll rerolling weapons to upgrade units. Rerolls roll a percentage chance to determine a weapon's trait. If it rolls higher, then the weapon is upgraded. If it is lower the weapon remains as is. Weapons can be repeatedly rolled up to three times.
Rerolling is a fantastic option to upgrade an item. However, players must be aware that the total ilvl is diminished by the number of the rerolls required to bring it to the final ilvl. This reduction effect is most effective on ring items and Diadems that do not have any competing ilvl-raising options.
Players have complained that the reroll system is expensive. It's more fair to let people pay for it using money or food items that would allow players to make adjustments to their builds without having to invest excessive amounts of time. However the paid rerolls aren't something that the developers would like to implement at this point in the game's development. Instead, they plan to add an option to change the race in the near future.
Leveling
There are many ways to upgrade an item. The most effective method to level up an upgrade to an item is by increasing the upgrade amount. This boosts the value of upgrading a stat. The second is to increase the upgrade effect which increases the damage or heal of a given stat. upgrade item can be upgraded to a more advanced upgrade type. When this is done, the new item will maintain its iLevel however it will benefit from the upgrade effects of the upgraded item type.
It is crucial to keep in mind that upgrades are random. Most of the time the best roll will come from the glyphs, but there are also opportunities for more or unique rolls. In addition the iLevel of the upgrade will be determined by the item type and when you upgrade a rare or unusual item to an extraordinary type you could gain an iLevel that is higher.
Upgrades can be expensive Particularly if you're upgrading equipment from the standard track to the legendary. The cost of upgrading a piece of equipment will depend on its base iLevel and the amount of upgrade levels. In addition, some upgrade tracks require crests in order to get to the next upgrade level.
If you're lucky, your upgraded item will reach the maximum level of its upgrade track and unlock an additional benefit. This will result in a significant increase in the value of the item. The bonus effect is different with each upgrade level. In general, the upgrade effect is increased a value of +3.
The iLevel can also change in accordance with the item's upgrade path and its base level. For example an item upgraded from being a rare or unique item to an exceptional one is likely to gain the Enhanced Defense of the new base item.