Diablo 4 Paragon Guide - How to Choose a Paragon Board and Glyphs

[@Fextralife]

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[@JoblessBuhdda]

Please do update for permafrost build Ty😀

[@____GoMeZ____]

I’m a TB Rogue at level 93. I’ve rerolled my board 3 times now in the attempt to perfect it. If you’re worried about your board, just save up gold and don’t be afraid to try different things. It can be confusing but your first attempt isn’t the end all be all.

[@nordsense]

Well said!

[@gershcz]

So I'm able to remove or rotate a board after I've placed it? They aren't permanent?

[@8654ZuluFoxtrot]

@@gershcz No they are not. Just unclick the entry and keep unselecting them until you are back onto the previous board. Once you do that, you can then change to a different board or rotate it, or whatever.

[@____GoMeZ____]

@@gershcz Correct. Nothing on the board is permanent =)

[@liekos666]

@@gershcz nah, not permanent. I hadn’t even realized I could rotate a board before placing it until after I’d already set it down, then watched a build video later. Just a little tedious to manually undo each and every node individually in a chain…

[@apollodivine]

For Rogue players : Imbuement potency, vulnerable damage, and cutthroat damage slots drastically increase your damage output

[@en4961]

*For meta rogue players

[@adangomez5072]

Thanks for the tip

[@Krnkid90]

imbuement potency? Do you been imbuement damage?

[@nathann3507]

Thanks

[@wahran0898]

@@en4961what do non meta rogues do?

[@michaelc1541]

Thank you so much! I just hit 49 (total casual) and I had no clue how the paragon boards worked. The tip about the costs is going to save me so much grief.

[@subashchandra9557]

Vulnerable damage is possible the best stat in the game, as long as you have a consistent way to make rooms vulnerable. For this reason, I always take Exploit first.

[@nickkelly3199]

Seemed like an easy pick for me because I made a build around vulnerable and flurry

[@cookandcookie]

The timing couldn't have been any better! I'm about to hit level 50 and this is very insightful.

[@samwatkin5975]

The skill tree and paragon board could really benefit from highlighting a skill as a goal. An example that comes to mind is Nioh 2 where it allows you to do this.

[@Weremoogle]

I needed to help a new player understand how to even get started on paragon boards. This was so much better than me trying to explain in text. Thank you!

[@meeqsb3521]

One thing that should be added is that the rare nodes are usually additive and the legendary nodes can multiplicative. So early on the rare nodes are amazing but as you level up the diminishing returns kick in quite fast. Another perk of the legendary nodes early on is that they aren't conditional, so you just get the effect. So something like Glyphs are weak early but get very powerful later once you can level them up. So what you value is more so dependent on your level and changes as you progress

[@mklptrk]

Also a rogue here (53), I use a ranged rapid fire build; I fully understand the power of vulnerability but have yet to find a very effective way to proc multiple enemies. I’m using penetrating shot (I’m sure I should be using puncture but I don’t like the range). Been trying to avoid many build guides but just unlocked paragon board, this was helpful!

[@PhaZeUnleashed]

I just unlocked this last night and was like “what the hell is this”.

[@Vladi_AK47]

Same 🤣

[@nectros7157]

Straight and to the point as always! Great video.

[@Ellipticnomad]

Very helpful video. Just reached level 52 on my shadow summoner build and this helped immensely. Thanks

[@Mystra]

I highly recommend the first one being the one that boosts rare runes by 240%. This ads alot of armor, stats and damage. For the others just go for what fits the build. Take a Shadow Necro, Control is good and Scourge. Control is because you can cc alot and that glyph increases your damage when you do. Scourge increase your shadow dps. So just follow this same strategy for other classes, the names vill vary.

[@xMafo]

Where do you find that?

[@xer0dude]

You can make the Skills and Paragon menu fullscreen in game. I was on my third character when I realized that lol

[@ragingfreak2]

I had no idea how this worked. Cheers for the video mate. Very useful for a newbie like me.

[@markoffmichael]

Great. You explained the strategy of the board. What no one discusses is something really simple: How do you utilize (substitute? swap out?) magic glyphs in your collection to replace the ones on the board. Drag and drop doesn't work. This is like a driving instructor saying, "give it some gas" without explain where your feet go on the pedals. Basics before strat, M'friend.

[@Fextralife]

You click them to unslot it says so on screen

[@colinderue8095]

you should be using a paragon planning tool if you're serious about efficiency of points, it will allow you to successfully position your boards in the order you wish and properly set yourself up for satisfaction of the secondary bonuses that you want.

[@JuneauGTW]

You are so helpful. Thank you for this explanation. I would have been confused and intimidated as soon as I hit level 50. Also, I am having a blast playing your Cold Archer Rogue build! It combos wonderfully with my wife's tanky Barbarian playstyle.

[@joesomebody407]

Thanks for the video. Had no idea what I was doing

[@Harvester88]

I'm level 61 and just found out about the crafting of nightmare keys to level up the sigils, I barely play as to avoid burn out but now I'm excited about making some progress when I do play.

[@SgtBuffagor]

This video was incredibly necessary. 👍🙏

[@BlynkyLand]

It was ridiculously necessary. 😬

[@bladerain4773]

For every class, it's highly important to choose a board with the hunter killer node as it massively increases your damage to elites

druids and necro doesnt have this one I believe

[@bladerain4773]

@Michal Veselovský it's not a legendary node, you have to look at the rare nodes within the boards

@@bladerain4773 I know, and as I said, only barb, rogue and sorc have this variant :) Even wowhead says so

[@wodensthrone5215]

As a pulverize werebear druid, i dump stuff into willpower mostly, some intelligence and dexterity. I do have glyphs to inflict vulnerable damage, increase damage while in werebear form and others. I'm following a meta werebear guide and its going extremely well, i can do stuff ten levels over my level and more, tons of survivability.

[@Dyrnwynn]

'ten levels under my level'. You mean 'ten levels over my level', right? If so, impressive (at least, it is to me).

[@wodensthrone5215]

@Dyrnwynn Yes, ten levels over people sleep on the survivability of Werebear, it's not a DPS build but you can basically tank anything directly to the face and do a ton of burst damage

[@aitheuhc]

I'm a level 70 necromancer and did all the alter of Lilith which gives you 68 skill points for dexterity, 68 intelligence, 68 strength and 68 will power so I'm not wasting gained skill points to make up for it. You also get skill 4 skill points for finishing regions.

[@Hoigwai]

My boards for a Minion/Shadowblight build are Start/Darkness, Wither/Mage, Scent of Death/Control, and Cult Leader/Deathraiser.

[@owengeorge8447]

First time Diablo player. I just got to level 50 and finished the game. Holy moly is this confusing. Then there are vampiric powers and gear that has amazing passives for my whirlwind but shows considerably less attack power when I equip it. I need a nerd!

[@fwtxw7028]

Great video, thanks for the detailed guide

[@jpw547]

As a new Diablo player this video was still incredibly overwhelming and I still don’t really understand what is going on with this system

[@kennynguyen5248]

That must mean you don't have an understanding of your class and what stats it needs in order to perform better. The paragon board is just another way to get stats in order to improve your build, just like equipping gear.

[@shawnakared3837]

As a new Diablo player this video clarified SO much for me. Not to antagonize just wanted to say it was very helpful for me

[@lifewalkerusa136]

I can't go any further up my first board. Do i need to supplement with my gear?

[@Jymbo6511]

They really need to lower the cost to respec. It's stupid that you get penalized for trying new things or even worse them changing the way something works that you were spec'd into and having to pay to adjust to the new changes.

[@Veloci9000]

can you make a video for every class and its paragon board?

[@simonwadd4038]

Arg, I need one that explains it simpler at start bit, not just the strategies etc. I didn't even know you got more boards etc!

[@danielmiller1676]

This may have been answered in the vid, and I just missed it but how do I level my glyphs in order to gain radius. Also say a glyph requires 40 intelligence if I had more than 40 would it impact it at all?

[@zacharythomas5934]

Would love a 70+ Shadow barrage guide!!

[@alecantropo98]

Fextralife always top quality content, but hearing minmaxing and early in the same phrase really did hurt lol

[@Knight_Marshal]

I am not sure if this was mentioned, but certain boards can get the second glyph bonus with a level 1 glyph and others cannot depending on which stats it uses. The boards I picked for my Necro can get the 25 bonus before I level the glyph to 15.

[@raynaramsay]

Thanks, I am a barb and had no idea what I was doing

[@adangomez5072]

Actually was thinking about this thank you

[@theghoul_nextdoorr]

Hi! New to paragon boards and I filled my first with a guide from maxroll. How do I access the second, third etc boards? Thanks! Running a necromancer if that makes a difference in ur answer

[@robertkwonnacott504]

Oh ok wow thanks for the tips I really appreciate it this video helps a lot Mahalo bruh ❤️🤙🏾

[@patrickcrayton3622]

Is it possible to reset paragon points simalar to resetting your perks in the skill tree?

[@jeremyarchie6396]

Do I need to map my way to a legendary node or no

[@RabbiRabbit87]

How do I attach the new bored it doesn’t give me the option

[@gokage617]

So the second board is the most important. So is better to get all the nodes u want in it before u move on to 3rd board? Is it bad if I decide to get alot of nodes on second board? Also is possible to get every node on single board? Sorry new to diablo

[@brianhum8765]

It's most important in terms of you have to make a conscious decision about which one you pick and how you rotate it compared to the first board which is actually more powerful per point you put into it but it's fixed both in terms of which board you start with and how it's rotated and it's more densely packed with good nodes making the first a lot easier to navigate and harder to mess up.

[@edvaedan9161]

@@brianhum8765this is a very helpful comment. I wondered for awhile if I was putting too much in the first board

[@DUMPTRUCKNINJA]

Thank you, I appt oats all the builds and guides, glhf

[@swordcitrus4750]

how the hell do your respect your paragon board keeps saying you cannot break and connecting node?

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

It feels like it's so easy to completely mess up your character by getting the "wrong" boards.

[@THEZONEXP]

Awesome video ! Been using your guides on your website very helpful thanks :)

[@benshapiro4159]

Ive watched other builds and my paragon board looks waayy different from theirs but we are the same class why is that?

[@neon4706]

I was literally looking for this guide yesterday. I basically never touched the gateway node, because I thought once I unlocked it, the next board would just appear, so when it didn't, I assumed I was missing something and just kept putting my points into the first board. I kept looking up how to get new boards, but never found any information, which finally made me realize I'm just retarded and never actually tried clicking the gateway node.

[@ArkhonXIX]

Where do we get these rare glyphs? I’m only 53 and just started moving on to tier 3

[@adriantunei5453]

I cannot meet (yet) the reqs for the first rare node, unused 14 paragon points… am I doing something wrong?

[@itzpringle-_]

I filled My board how do I see and unlock the next one

[@hondsdollekat]

I selected a board with a no nodes that fit my playstyle because I didn't know you could choose. Kinda sucks that you can't reverse it. EDIT: it looks like you CAN reverse it simply by refunding all nodes on a board, thank Inarius

[@malboroman5120]

I need a paragon & glyphs for dummies video. More confused after this video.

[@willey3286]

Sorcerer legendary notes are mainly garbage :( And only 3 Nodes to increase maximum Mana a tiny bit, whereas Druid gets a whole Board full of Spirit increase + spirit on kill :D

[@TheBlakamon15]

That class need it more which is the problem.

[@ashrafchowdhury9620]

How do you have multiple paragon boards? I only have one small board

[@Venvaneless]

You simply add them by reaching & clicking on one of the exit nodes, that you see at the end of every board, then you pick a new board. Only the first one has only one way out, the others have four. Depending on how many of the available 158 points (I don’t exactly remember the number), which you get via leveling, grinding renown and finding Altars of Lilith you spend, usually players and most builds stick to 4-5 of them.

[@Mike_Wazowskii7]

Awesome! Finally. This shit was confusing I didn't even bother learning it lol

[@katiebea9258]

Playing console and do NOT see HOW to access the "next" board??

[@joemicky8107]

New to the Diablo series, have a glyph that uses the term “paragon node” what exactly is a paragon node?

[@Mobscene_CDN]

The boards are full of Paragon Nodes. If the Glyph affects nearby nodes, it means the ones in the highlighted red area around it.

[@peterant5587]

Hey great video but I just hit level 15 on disembowel at it says radius is at max what does this mean? I thought I could get it to 20, am I missing something? 😮

[@Mad_Peasant_King]

I've just been putting in whatever because I honestly have no clue what to pick until I have reached lvl100

[@taalibxo]

Better hope you got gold saved up because that respec money is gonna hit hard

[@BigJonahJ]

I’m still pretty confused haha why does it bother giving an additional bonus for grabbing nodes in range with a certain stat when there are never enough nodes with that stat in range?

[@Mobscene_CDN]

It depends on the board. You'll have to save that Glyph to use in a board that lots of the stats you need around the Glyph slot. If the Glyph gives additional bonus to having more of a stat around it, make sure to use that Glyph in a board with lots available. That way you can boost your Glyph even more by putting excess points into the stat.

[@TheEin001]

Thanks for the insight.

[@Tokenplayzz]

Can you keep upgrading glyphs after you socket them??

[@afr0steel600]

Yep!

[@_gtgaming]

Thank you! Man I just hit 50 and when I saw the paragon board I turned into that woman in the meme with the math equations over her head.

[@davycornell8715]

So how do you pick a glyph?

[@lewchootrain]

How does the 3rd board get more expensive? Gold respec wise?

[@la-saboteur3199]

The stats you need to trigger bonus effects on rare nodes. But also probably gold wise when resetting but the first thing I said is most important.

[@Jacobstoddy]

Seems broken that sorcerer/necro can’t get the apply vulnerable glyph.

[@Fextralife]

It's certainly creating a balancing issue :(

[@seanrodriguez7043]

Hey Fex, appreciate all your help and all these videos are great! I was curious if your working on the lvl 50 version of the pack leader Druid build? If not if you can make one as it’s been my childhood dream to keep my werewolf clan going 😂

[@danielBrown-fs7xq]

So jumping to 5 boards just for the glyph socket isn't how builds should. Be done

[@curtisjordan5303]

ill be honest, i still don't understand. Got my Rogue to level 60,what exactly am I lookibg to do. The only reason I checked is because it's on the season pass BS.

[@kiksta3325]

For each season they should change the paragon board.

[@Showerofjyzz]

thats all well and dandy and good for you for touching yourself, but how do i get another board?

[@dr.bherrin]

I usually love your guides, but this one did not help me understand what I am supposed to be doing with the paragon boards. I've been clicking on things and reading, but have no idea how to use any of it. Wish this video was more of a tutorial, but instead it seems I need to already know how to use the thing to understand what you're talking about.

[@JuniorTennis]

This explanation assumes so much nomenclature knowledge. I need an explanation that makes no assumptions of knowledge.

[@BlynkyLand]

Haysus Christo! 😬I think Blizzard hired a board game nerd who had been developing his own system since he was 12, and he finally got to implement it.

[@vectorfox4782]

Don’t just chase legendary nodes, rare nodes are extremely powerful when you level up the right Glyph node. A level 21 (max) Adept Glyph node can give you a whopping 118.00% Mastery Skills Damage increase. Let that sink in.

[@pedroleao_]

After level 150 it turns really hard to level up

[@herobriansleaderthebest9013]

Nobody tells how to unlock the 2nd board. My 1st is full..

[@jbar85jb22]

I have no idea how this shit works lol. I filled my first board up to the top and the second board never appeared. Did the glyph and the top node.

[@Fextralife]

You have to spend a point at the gate then another point to select and attach a board to it

[@jbar85jb22]

@@Fextralife thank you much. I didn't notice the gate part until I looked at my own. My sorcerer paragon tree all messed up so have to re do that haha. Thanks again!

[@PhaRoaH87]

Can I ask you a simple question? Why wouldn't the Paragon Board be important at end game? Seems a bit of a weird video

[@PhaRoaH87]

Changed title real quick I see 🤔

[@clarktaylor8729]

I don’t understand why the game does not explain this. I previewed my next door and set it in a terrible place without realizing

[@Fextralife]

You can refund it and reallocate.

[@clarktaylor8729]

@@Fextralife thank you, this video has helped me a ton!

[@baconscoobysnacks3135]

Not a fan of this video lol. It's under the assumption that we already know the basic aspects of it 😂

[@NetworkerWorking]

I’m a new Diablo player only 3 days in and this makes sense to me . What do you mean? I’d think This is self explanatory if you’ve played the game long enough for you to be able to do it. If it doesn’t make sense it probably means it too early for you to even use

[@CitizenJ3]

do you cover rpg games?

[@siddharthshishulkar8992]

He literally covered Elden Ring like for an year straight

[@manyamaggot]

Only sport games

[@jollygrapefruit786]

Oh gee I don't know is Diablo an RPG game? Hmmmmmmmm..... 🤔

[@Mystra]

It's pretty much all they cover other than some pseudo rpgs like Assassin's Creed. I love that btw :)

[@axs7876]

Nah he is more a monopoly-type gamer

[@The_Dead_Zone]

Unfortunately we'll have to reset the paragon board every season which puts me of playing the game, i want to see progression and sorry to say your builds mean nothing IF players can't get up to those high levels to make builds work, a average player won't be a streamer he/she goes to work for at least 40 hours a week and overtime on top those hours not playing the game. When season 1 comes i expect a lot of players leaving the game.

[@nemesis7884]

Im lvl 69 and havent spent one point yet 😂

[@lewchootrain]

You can always refund for cheap gold. Def don’t miss out

[@kamilkachnic7360]

I do not find this system very appealing to me.

[@deadliftyournan3293]

Any tips for Necro crit builds with no minions, I've got my first Glyph exploit and am piling xp into that from NM dungeons

[@yanmacchorpse9832]

You can rotate then!!! Wtf!!! I didn't know!!

[@demonj00]

This paragon system is a disaster. Definitely my least favorite part of the game.

[@PrevName-h9v]

Man, if they're willing to put an auto spec into the latest version of World of Warcraft to help people get something that's not terrible, they should absolutely do the same here. Doesn't have to be optimized or super fancy, but some sort of "recommended path" or pre-built setup would do wonders for a lot of folks that just want to keep smashing bad guys and move on.

[@SuperAwesomeElliot]

No

[@DTWARRIOR_MK]

😎👍🏼

[@Aether_GM]

7:00 explain this so an idiot (me) can understand.

[@jimday666]

It's complicated AF

[@Hateweek1984]

I'm so lost.... lol

[@drdiscostu]

Confusing.

[@garlandlove1978]

Promo sm

[@ShuToshio]

sorry, still not sure how it works.

[@KonradBeezo]

Lol same, this system is a little confusing for sure