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Up until this point, you might have thought that dealing with your Paragon Points is rather, well, unsatisfying. Blizzard decided after some consideration that they want to give Glyph a bit more excitement, and even offer better rewards for doing the work that it requires, since it’s just pretty grindy overall. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s gotten tired of running Nightmare Dungeons back to back without much reward. With these changes, everything will feel different, and even give us a bit more control over how fast we can upgrade our Glyphs, along with notable Paragon Board updates. Let’s take a look at all the Paragon changes coming in Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred.
Glyph Changes
Where we used to run Nightmare Dungeons in order to upgrade our Paragon Board Glyphs, things will be a bit different. Now, we’ll be running the Pit to increase Glyph Ranks, along with some other changes.
- Upgrading a Glyph is no longer driven by experience. Instead, you’re given attempts to increase your Glyph’s Rank by completing Pit Tiers.
- Three attempts to upgrade your Glyph’s Rank are rewarded for successfully completing the Artificer’s Mastery, and a bonus attempt for not dying.
- Each upgrade attempt can be used to increase any Glyph that isn’t already at max level. The chance to upgrade your Glyph is based on the level of the Glyph and the Tier of the Pit you complete. For example, completing a Pit Tier that is 10 higher than your Glyph’s Rank guarantees an upgrade Rank.
- Completing a Pit Tier that is significantly higher than your Glyph’s current Rank grants bonus upgrade ranks per attempt.
Additionally, you’ll earn bonus upgrades for each attempt at the Pit where there is at least a 20-level difference between the completed Pit Tier and your Glyph Rank.
For example, if you run three deathless Tier 30 Pit runs, it would take a Glyph up to Rank 19. This is how that process would look:
- First Pit Run
- Attempt 1: Glyph Rank increases from 1 to 3.
- Attempt 2: Glyph Rank increases from 3 to 5.
- Attempt 3: Glyph Rank increases from 5 to 7.
- Bonus Attempt 4: Glyph Rank increases from 7 to 9.
- Second Pit Run
- Attempt 1: Glyph Rank increases from 9 to 11.
- Attempt 2: Glyph Rank increases from 11 to 12.
- Attempt 3: Glyph Rank increases from 12 to 13.
- Bonus Attempt 4: Glyph Rank increases from 13 to 14.
- Third Pit Run
- Attempt 1: Glyph Rank increases from 14 to 14 (Radius Size increase).
- Attempt 2: Glyph Rank increases from 15 to 16.
- Attempt 3: Glyph Rank increases from 16 to 17.
- Bonus Attempt 4: Glyph Rank increases from 17 to 18.
Additionally, the max Glyph level is now 100, and at level 45, you can upgrade a Rare Glyph to a Legendary Glyph that allows for an increased affix on the Glyph and an increased Radius Size of 5 rather than 4.
Paragon Board Changes
We’ve been using the same old Paragon boards for quite a while now, so it only makes sense that each class is getting a new board. Each one will have a single Legendary Node, but we’ll be limited to only 5 board equipped at a time, including out starting board. Additionally, rather than only being able to earn 200 Paragon Points, we’ll not be able to earn 300 of them by leveling.
Diablo 4 is now available on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation consoles.
