Diablo 4 - How GLYPHS Work and why you want them (Plus some Paragon Board)

[Music] foreign here and today we're going to talk about glyphs and how they fit into your Paragon board and the importance of them so according to Diablo 4 Dev Camp chat all of that stuff um 90 of players have not even beaten the campaign yet which means you have not gotten to this point yet but once you do there will be some fun stuff in store so we can do a little bit of a a look into the Paragon board and then of course we can dive further into glyphs specifically because honestly that's what Paragon boards actually revolve around which is something I don't think people fully recognize so let's take a look first things first let's just go to the Paragon boards and just look at Paragon boards um and you can see okay cool you think like they revolve around these legendary nodes right which sometimes they're going to for a sorceress with my character no they don't at all but sometimes they'll evolve around these notes you could say or maybe for different characters for instance this one says your contrasting skills have a five percent reduced cooldown or Mana cost per conjuration skill you have equipped that's not bad right this one burning damage is increased by 40 of your Critical Strike damage further increased by five percent for every 20 intelligence you have so you can see this would be 178 bonus so obviously you know maybe if I'm running some sort of burning build right here then this could be useful conjuration this could be useful whatever but like I said you actually are really I would say getting more power out of the other places is within the skill tree and this comes from a your rare nodes which are going to give you stuff like damage to burning enemies or damage reduction from enemies that are burning um that's crackling energy you know this one here this is a great one vulnerable damage right this one is really big so these rare nodes can be really nice but the bigger piece that I really find or what you really are revolving around with these boards are glyphs every board I truly believe you're going to want to hit a glyph I would be pretty shocked if you go into a board and don't pick up a glyph unless you're just running for like I just want to get this and I just run over here really fast start the board there and pick this up and I don't want to come all the way down here and grab that so I could see that happening in some cases again various characters will have different ideas but let's take a look at what glyphs are and what they do so glyphs are the following you can see them over here on this left side I'm actually going to change my screen you can see them on this left side they will start at level one uh you'll have some of them that will be this like a Blue Cliff honestly I don't think any blue glyphs get used please correct me if if I'm wrong but I'm not sure any blue glyphs actually get used they just seem like worse glyphs um so the rare glyphs are really what we're aiming for and here you can see it starts at level one and then it gives you the radius size and then the bonus so Paragon nodes within range gained 50 15 bonus to their fire damage and damage reduction modifiers so that could be really nice right getting you some additional damage reduction right there 15 bonus for the notes then there's the additional bonus which gets met uh you can see the requirements down below if there's 25 willpower and that says every pyromancy skill you cast or every second you Channel incinerate increases your fire damage by two percent and that's a multiplier remember if you you see that X that is big that is a lot of damage up to ten percent X so I remember when we talked about how damage gets calculated in this game you have all the like damage versus control versus slowed versus Burning versus all that's in one bucket vulnerable damage is a bucket crit strike damages a bucket and then you have damage it your main stats and bucket and then you have damage X not damage plus damage X as its own and so this is going to be giving you that multiplier that is just going to be a lot stronger so getting these bonuses is very nice assuming that they're good for your character so they start out at a certain radius and then when they hit level 15 they will increase their radius a little bit more so I'll go ahead and show that right here right I'll just put conjurer in this is the starting radius right here right one two three one two three it says you know the radius is three so that's the starting radius there but if I then take if I get something to level 15 which you can see Elementalist is level 15 it will now increase this radius and why is this useful this is useful because here you can see I need to get 40 intelligence well I could technically get 40 Intelligence on this node because there are these two over here but if I wanted for instance let's say dexterity and I needed a certain amount of dexterity I could get 7 12 17 22 27 dexterity Within this radius but if I needed more oh okay this is outside and this is outside so that's another 12 dexterity that is outside of that node which means when I could get this big increase boom now I would have access to those and I could get 35 decks or whatever I need right there for that so just focus on your rare glyphs and really focus on the specific ones um within it that are good for you so this right here is Paragon nodes within range gained 57 bonus remember that goes up as you level it to their non-physical damage and damage reduction modifiers so if we look at that I've got plus non-physical damage right here plus non-physical damage right here plus non-physical damage right here and the green is showing the Boost and then this is additional plus non-physical damage and you can see I have the bonus of enough dexterity overall which means I get even more plus non-physical damage now of course I'm a sorcerer I'm not doing physical damage so all of this is great right and now that I have this range as well I'm able to get to my 40 intelligence to meet the bonus so I also get dealing fire cold or lightning damage to an enemy increases all damage to deal by five percent X for 10 seconds stacking once per element um so just a nice little boost right there that I get from having this bonus then you can do the same sort of thing and you'll notice I have a build where I've actually built into seven glyphs so normally I would say you're going to build five to six glyphs and that's going to allow you more room to kind of like oh grab some attack speed nodes oh I can grab some control impaired reduction nodes but I'm finding that glyphs are just so powerful that building for more glyphs is kind of worth sacking a lot of these side nodes so that's what I've personally done right so again the glyphs go in the sockets and the big thing you want to look at is number one what is the uh bonus requirement for instance this says I need 40 intelligence so when I'm looking at where to put it I look for two things number one is there a bonus is there 40 intelligence that's pretty easy to get and here you can see yes there is there's actually even more I could get int here int int and more into there so I could actually get what 60 int from this which is pretty crazy and kind of makes me wonder if I should put something else in this song right so I could get 60 into this slot which is really great if there's something that gives that bonus but I'm also looking for additional non-physical damage because this gives that bonus to those range to that range and so again this one has non-physical on these nodes which means hey this is going to be the place to put it right so looking at your boards and seeing those things is helpful this one for instance is for every five willpower purchased within the range you deal plus nine point two percent increase damage while healthy um and then also the additional bonus is you gain 30 increased potion healing um if you have that right there so this one is for every five willpower within the range so now you can see I'm going and I'm hitting all the willpower that I can I found a glyph node or a board that had a lot of willpower right and then I'm going and putting it in every way I can and trying to be as optimal as possible so I get all of the willpower while also not burning just on regular steps and this gives me enough that I get this additional essentially 100 damage right now which is nice right there and even for instance over here I don't care about this node whatsoever this rare node resistances resistances are garbage right now in the game so I don't care but there's 14 willpower over here which means hey that's a lot of damage well healthy and so I'm gonna go ahead and pick that up as well right so we can go there this next one I have is vulnerable damage remember that's in its own bucket and then the bonus dealing damage to a vulnerable enemy increases by one percent up to six seconds for six seconds up to ten percent X which again is fantastic and this says for every five dexterity purchased you get additional uh four percent increased damage to vulnerable targets so again I found a spot and I'm grabbing all of the dexterity nodes within here I'm grabbing this dexterity I'm grabbing this because it is damage to burning enemies which is nice since I do damage to burning enemies this is the introduction from it um but again this additional damage is huge and then getting the X multiplier is really nice and so here you can also see that I have all of my glyphs at least at level 15 and this is what you want to do level every glyph up to level 15. I'll just quick go through my other ones this is crit damage with core skills and crit strike increase again getting all the dexterity nodes this one is bonus doll rare nodes and so I went for rare notes that had vulnerable damage so I could bonus that up and then this one has some cold res and int but it has decks on the sides which is why I really went to it this one over here gives damage to burning enemies this one down here gives damage to crowd controlled enemies and then of course with their multipliers as well so every class is going to have some exclusive glyphs again this is a sorcerer and I am level 100 but this isn't just for you being level hundred because when you're level 50 you'll get access to your Paragon board and you'll start working your way through and I just really want you to not forget that glyphs exist and are important and glyphs don't stop at level 15. they can go all the way up to level 21 so even when you get it to 15 it does increase that radius size so you get more of the benefits there but by increasing the level you're increasing the amount of damage the amount of bonus that you're getting with those and so you can see I'm trying to level all of mine up right now to level 21. it just takes a little bit of time so how do you level them up you do a nightmare dungeon and the higher the level the nightmare dungeon the more experience that it's going to give for the level of it but it's not really a big difference so I would say don't push yourself to try and be like slightly higher and in a tough dungeon that's going to take longer a lot of times just clear dungeons that you can clear look for dungeons that are really nice for instance sunken ruins is pretty fast uh wraith wind whatever is pretty fast um it's kind of different because you're not really looking for the ones that give tons of experience and all of that which is how a lot of people are ranking dungeons you're looking for ones that you can just burst through pretty quickly and finish up Mall Woods decently fast I would say and so if you can go through it quickly finish it up then you get to the end you kill the boss and you get the awakened lift Stone and here is where you get to pick whichever glyphs you want and then you can see how much experience is needed for the next level and then you just press OK right you allocate the experience you'll gain that experience in that node and of course it'll level up every level takes a little bit more experience to level so you can see at level 19 I need 332 at level eight I need 87 right so it definitely shifts along the way as it goes but this is going to just increase your characters uh damage really a ton again remember this is getting me just from my Paragon my glyphs right here not the nodes and whatever I've got plus 20 non-physical damage and then all of the additional um X percent for for that I've got 99 damage well healthy I've got 34 additional vulnerable plus the X again I've got 97 Critical Strike damage with core skills and then of course the X again I've got um additional 19 vulnerable damage with 10 x I've got 58.7 to burning with 10x and I've got 130 damage of crowd control with 10x to slow chilled enemies um or additional to Frozen that is a lot of damage when you add it all together and again I don't even have them all maxed at 21 yet they're kind of uh Gone along the way right um so I still have more that I can do I've still got three at fifteen one at 19. so there's even more damage hidden there but that will increase your damage a lot I definitely found that when I shifted my Paragon build um into my own build because I was using the Maxwell ice shards build at first and that guide for me just the damage was too low from their Paragon setup they were only running six nodes I shifted to a seven node setup and adjusted how I played it and it increased my damage a lot so play around with it right look at it play around with it figure out oh this is a great build but it's not quite getting what I need or oh I think I'm gonna actually do more of this right I've seen a lot of guides that want me to run like Raymonds for an armor I just wasn't feeling it it wasn't working for me I understand the like stun damage it's really nice to stack with this immobilized stun you know this aspect but it wasn't quite working for me so I kind of Built My Own build a little bit out of it and was able to get something that had better damage and just felt a lot better overall but that is the glyph system I hope that it made sense to you I hope that I didn't miss anything too important hopefully that gives you some idea but don't sleep on them glyphs are honestly such a huge piece of your damage I mean again just add up and think about how much extra damage in the plus and the multiplicative ways that I'm getting from my glyphs that I just showed you and that should be super helpful um yeah and and so for that for thinking about boards think about when you're looking at a board in my opinion if you don't really care because like I don't I'm not using a single legendary node right so if you don't really care about the legendary notes as much look at where is the glyph socket what are the rare nodes and will there be ways that I can take advantage of you know how much dexterity or how much willpower or whatever right so like this board I'm like oh there's so much willpower in this slot this will be great for him Viber that's why I'm using this board right here right I literally don't care about any of those rare nodes I also do like the plus to Max Mana that is nice but I literally don't care about a lot of the pieces on this board I just wanted to make sure I was able to hit that so anyways I hope that this is helpful and uh gave you a little bit of insight thanks for watching everybody don't forget to like And subscribe YouTube peace I'll see you guys next time

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Length: 17min 35sec (1055 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 20 2023