Upgrade

Upgrading is a way for players to increase the stats of their gear by using Gold or Defender Medals. The upgrade system has been changed in the Trials Update to allow upgrading from within the inventory.

Mechanics

The Upgrade menu can be opened by CTRL + LClick on the item. Only Shards, Armor, Weapons and Rings can be upgraded. Each item can usually be upgraded numerous times. Gear and relics can be upgraded up to 10 times and rings can be upgraded up to 50 times.

For Shards, the max upgrade level varies between each shard.

Protean Shift Update

As of the Protean Shift update, gear upgrades are performed within the player's inventory. There are 5 cores to upgrading gear: Upgrading, Evolving, Advancing, Rerolling and Tinkering.

• This process is for increasing the base stats of the item such as Hero Damage, Defense Health, etc. This process consumes Gold or Defender Medals, along with motes from the chaos tier of the current item. Additionally, it could require the respective upgrade material and ampoules from the chaos level of the item. An exhaustive list of these materials can be found in Crafting Materials. Uniquely, boots require Plain, Shiny, or Pristine leather when advancing from 9/10 to 10/10 on the item. Cost of upgrading depends on class of item (e.g. helmet, boots etc). It does not depend on the item's rarity.

Cost from 0/10 to 10/10:

Chaos Level	Ampoules	Motes	Corresponding Material
Chaos 1	0	10	0
Chaos 2	0	10	0
Chaos 3	0	20	0
Chaos 4	0	10	0
Chaos 5	0	20	2
Chaos 6	0	20	2
Chaos 7	0	20	2
Chaos 8	0	80	20
Chaos 9	10	100	50
Chaos 10	10	100	50

Gold and Defender Medals

Since all items do not cost the same amount of Gold and Defender Medals to upgrade from 0/10 to 10/10, the table below will display all those values for each type of item.

Cost to upgrade from 0/10 to 10/10 :

Chaos Level / Item	Helmet	Chest	Gloves	Boots	Weapon and Shield	Relic
Campaign	2,400 gold or 100 defender medal	3,900 gold or 100 defender medal	1,850 gold or 100 defender medal	2,150 gold or 100 defender medal	8,900 gold or 10 defender medal	11,550 gold or 100 defender medal
Chaos 1	2,400 gold or 100 defender medal	3,900 gold or 100 defender medal	1,850 gold or 100 defender medal	2,150 gold or 100 defender medal	8,900 gold or 100 defender medal	11,550 gold or 100 defender medal
Chaos 2	7,500 gold or 120 defender medal	12,550 gold or 120 defender medal	5,700 gold or 120 defender medal	6,700 gold or 120 defender medal	29,000 gold or 120 defender medal	36,800 gold or 120 defender medal
Chaos 3	18,350 gold or 140 defender medal	30,850 gold or 140 defender medal	14,000 gold or 140 defender medal	16,100 gold or 140 defender medal	70,850 gold or 140 defender medal	89,700 gold or 140 defender medal
Chaos 4	28,550 gold or 160 defender medal	48,400 gold or 160 defender medal	21,500 gold or 160 defender medal	25,000 gold or 160 defender medal	111,600 gold or 160 defender medal	141,650 gold or 160 defender medal
Chaos 5	42,600 gold or 180 defender medal	73,650 gold or 180 defender medal	32,000 gold or 180 defender medal	37,450 gold or 180 defender medal	168,250 gold or 180 defender medal	213,750 gold or 180 defender medal
Chaos 6	60,000 gold or 200 defender medal	103,050 gold or 200 defender medal	45,100 gold or 200 defender medal	52,650 gold or 200 defender medal	236,600 gold or 200 defender medal	296,950 gold or 200 defender medal
Chaos 7	257,400 gold or 300 defender medal	444,450 gold or 300 defender medal	191,850 gold or 300 defender medal	226,950 gold or 300 defender medal	511,800 gold or 300 defender medal	641,050 gold or 300 defender medal
Chaos 8	300,000 gold or 600 defender medal	600,000 gold or 600 defender medal	250,000 gold or 600 defender medal	300,000 gold or 600 defender medal	600,000 gold or 600 defender medal	800,000 gold or 600 defender medal
Chaos 9	15,000,000 gold or 2,000 defender medal	15,000,000 gold or 2,000 defender medal	15,000,000 gold or 2,000 defender medal	15,000,000 gold or 2,000 defender medal	15,000,000 gold or 2,000 defender medal	15,000,000 gold or 2,000 defender medal
Chaos 10	18,750,000 gold or 2,500 defender medal	18,750,000 gold or 2,500 defender medal	18,750,000 gold or 2,500 defender medal	18,750,000 gold or 2,500 defender medal	18,750,000 gold or 2,500 defender medal	18,750,000 gold or 2,500 defender medal

• This process is for advancing gear to the next Chaos level. This is useful to preserve rare mods or items with high base stats. This process consume Gold or Defender Medals as well as ampoules of the next tier. Advancing Rings to the next Chaos level costs only Gold or Defender Medals.

Cost for evolving:

Chaos Level	Ampoules	Cost
Campaign to Chaos 1	1	5,125 gold or 75 defender medal
Chaos 1 to Chaos 2	1	5,125 gold or 100 defender medal
Chaos 2 to Chaos 3	1	16,375 gold or 120 defender medal
Chaos 3 to Chaos 4	1	40,000 gold or 140 defender medal
Chaos 4 to Chaos 5	1	62,800 gold or 160 defender medal
Chaos 5 to Chaos 6	1	94,600 gold or 180 defender medal
Chaos 6 to Chaos 7	1	132,400 gold or 200 defender medal
Chaos 7 to Chaos 8	1	200,000 gold or 400 defender medal
Chaos 8 to Chaos 9	1	2,000,000 gold or 2,000 defender medal
Chaos 9 to Chaos 10	1	2,000,000 gold or 2,000 defender medal

• This process is for advancing gear to the next rarity level. It consumes a number of Ampoules which are the same tier as the item and Gold or Defender Medals. The number of ampoules and gold does not depend on the item's rarity but its chaos level.

Cost for advancing:

Chaos Level	Ampoules	Cost
Campaign	0	6,705 gold or 25 defender medal
Chaos 1	2	6,705 gold or 25 defender medal
Chaos 2	3	15,255 gold or 45 defender medal
Chaos 3	7	27,630 gold or 60 defender medal
Chaos 4	7	39,090 gold or 70 defender medal
Chaos 5	13	43,940 gold or 70 defender medal
Chaos 6	10	59,515 gold or 70 defender medal
Chaos 7	30	677,820 gold or 200 defender medal
Chaos 8	30	777,820 gold or 200 defender medal
Chaos 9	15	877,820 gold or 200 defender medal
Chaos 10	30	1,228,948 gold or 200 defender medal

• This process is for rerolling your mod's quality roll, between 1 and 10. This is useful to make your mods even stronger. It consumes a number of Motes and Tokens which are the same tier as the item, and Gold or Defender Medals. The number of motes, tokens and gold does not depend on the item's rarity but its chaos level.

Reroll Base Values:

Chaos Level	Gold	Motes	Tokens	Medals
0	2,500 gold	2	1	13 defender medal
1	2,500 gold	2	1	13 defender medal
2	2,750 gold	2	1	13 defender medal
3	3,500 gold	2	1	13 defender medal
4	4,500 gold	5	1	13 defender medal
5	5,000 gold	5	1	13 defender medal
6	6,000 gold	5	1	13 defender medal
7	11,000 gold	3	1	13 defender medal
8	25,000 gold	4	1	13 defender medal
9	25,000 gold	5	1	24 defender medal
10	25,000 gold	5	1	24 defender medal

Notes

• The primary stat of your item can be rerolled as well, it costs Talismans which are the same chaos tier as your item.
• The 286th reroll is guaranteed to be 10/10, it works accross all mods. Otherwise, there isn't a guaranteed 10/10 roll when rerolling the primary stat of your item.

• This process is for transferring M.O.D.S from one item to another. Beware, transferring a mod from a lower Chaos tier item to a higher Chaos tier item will mean that you lose any growth of the mod's stat. This process consumes Defender Medals or Gems.

Click here to learn more about Tinkering.