Upgrade items improve your equipment's performance. Double-click an upgrade, and then click on a piece of gear with an unused upgrade slot to fuse the upgrade to the gear.

• Hammer over Dagger/Shield - for a less defensive setup with improved CC. If you pick Hammer, replace the Sword with a Dagger on the other set.
• I don't know if this is how it's supposed to work but I am unable to put say a gemstone into certain items that have an unused upgrade slot. For example, I have an accessory that I got from my story quest that has an unused slot, but no matter what I do I can't insert a gem into it.
• An enrichment is a type of upgrade component that goes into enrichment slots, which can be found on ascended amulets. Since ascended amulets have one enrichment slot and you can only equip one amulet, you can only use one of these enrichments at a time on a given character. Four enrichments can be purchased from Laurel Vendors.
• Torch or Focus can be taken. I personally use Torch because of the extra Crowd Control on the Torch #5 skill but when i run Poison cloud instead of Spectral Grasp, Focus is best for generating shroud. This can be used instead of to always be gaining shroud whilst in combat. This can be extremely helpful in a pinch.

Rare Trinket (Amulet): This amulet appears to have a minor dampening effect on the Destroyers, and it is always strangely cool to the touch.—Researcher Twilli. Unused Upgrade Slot. Rare Trinket (Amulet) Required Level: 80. This amulet appears to have a minor dampening effect on the Destroyers, and it is always strangely cool to the touch.

— Upgrades

Upgrade components are items that can be added to weapons, armor, trinkets, and gathering tools. The equipment must have an Upgrade Slot to accept a component, and most upgrade components require the item to be above a certain level. Upgrade components grant bonuses (such as increased attributes or effects added to attacks) while wielding that piece. Some upgrades have special cosmetic effects. Upgrades can be crafted, bought, found, or obtained as a reward. Upgrade components in an item can be replaced with another upgrade component, but doing so will overwrite the previous upgrade. Upgrade components placed in items cannot be recovered except by either salvaging the item (with a Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool), or by using an Upgrade Extractor. Equipment from karma merchants will often come with an upgrade component that cannot be replaced or salvaged. However, glyphs and upgrades in legendary equipment can be swapped freely.

Types of upgrade components[edit]

Universal upgrades[edit]

Primary article: Universal upgrade

Universal upgrades, which include gemstones, are upgrade components that can be placed in any type of equipment. They provide smaller bonuses than components that are type-restricted, but they are easier to acquire than most other components.

Jewels[edit]

Primary article: Jewel

Jewels are upgraded versions of gemstones created by a jeweler; they provide larger bonuses but can only be placed in trinkets.

Runes[edit]

Primary article: Rune

Runes can only be placed in armor. Each armor piece can have no more than one rune. Placing the same type of rune on different armor pieces worn together will give the wearer additional, accumulating benefits. For example, a single Superior Rune of Balthazar will give a +25 bonus to Condition Damage, a second (on another piece of equipment) will add on a +10% bonus duration to burning if worn at the same time, and so forth. This means that the player can accumulate armor set bonuses on any set of armor pieces, rather than having to acquire specific armor pieces in order to finish a set and gain the full bonus.

Runes are noteworthy for being able to grant abilities and stats unobtainable through any other equipped source, such as creating effects when struck, increasing movement speed, and decreasing weapon swap time. As such, the choice of runes can be more involved and beneficial to a build than choices of accessories. However, other rune sets simply provide large benefits to basic statistics, and are replaceable by other components such as gemstones and sigils.

The first number (ex: 0/2 Minor Rune of Dwayna) represents the number of armor pieces with that particular rune embedded that you currently have equipped. When you have a piece of armor that asks you to have 2 pieces of rune ex: (0/2 Minor Rune of Dwayna) that means you should have two pieces of armor that hold that type of rune. It does not mean that you need to apply the same rune to the same piece of armor twice. If you do, your current upgrade will be destroyed.

Sigils[edit]

Primary article: Sigil

Sigils can only be placed in weapons. Each one-hand weapon may have only one sigil. Two-handed weapons can have two separate sigils, but both must be different. (You cannot double or otherwise 'improve' a sigil's benefit by slotting another of the same type to the weapon(s) currently in use.) Sigils have a variety of effects, such as attacks which trigger on critical hits, passive damage or attribute bonuses, or triggering effects when swapping to a weapon with that sigil slotted.

Infusions[edit]

Primary article: Infusion

Infusions are a special type of upgrade component used for non-amulet ascended equipment, legendary equipment, and some non-ascended back items. Enrichments are upgrade components that can be placed in ascended amulets. Infusions placed in an item can be recovered by salvaging the item or with an Infusion Extraction Device.

Glyphs[edit]

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Primary article: Glyph (upgrade)

Glyphs can only be placed in gathering tools. Glyphs enhance the speed and functions of gathering tools. Unlike other upgrade components, glyphs can be removed and reinserted indefinitely and will be placed into the inventory if replaced by another glyph.

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Notes[edit]

• Replacing an upgrade component may alter the suffix of an item.
• Upgrades must be of equal or lower level to the item being upgraded.

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