THE BEST GUIDE to Spending Paragon Points in Diablo 4

you've done it you over level 50 and things are  starting to truly unlock for Diablo 4 the end game   has begun but now you're faced with an Ever moving  series of boards not unlike the deadly game of   musical chairs known as the Paragon system in this  video today I want to help break down the Paragon   system by showing you how you can build out your  boards without any help from build guides or what   have you well I'll effectively be doing is showing  you how to approach Paragon boards so they're not   an overwhelming mess first we'll talk about some  general information pertaining to the boards so   that I don't need to cover it during the rest  of the video then we'll break out how we build   a paragon board for one of my characters giving  you the methods in ethos so that you can do this   for any of your builds going forward if this is  your first time on my channel the way I do things   is by upfronting the information in my video so  you can decide if it's the right one for you so   this time it's going to be a bit more difficult  because we're talking about a lot of methods that   will be custom to your character but let me give  you the critical facts you should know essentially   you want to look at every single board and look at  the rare nodes not the legendary nodes those nodes   are going to be your focus because you're limited  to the amount of points you can spend and it takes   roughly 30 points to go from start to a legendary  node then out without focusing on anything else   so we circumvent that by focusing on the rare  nodes that are a direct complement to your build   for example I am building predominantly overpower  so I choose a board that has lots of rare nodes   with overpower on it versus the one board with  a legendary overpower ability not to say you   shouldn't because usually one or two legendary  nodes are worth it for your build but the rare   nodes afford you a ton of benefit and most boards  legendary nodes are build specific also you want   to focus on the glyphs that complement your  build and put them in a board that has enough   nodes that will actually trigger the bonus of  the glyph I'll show you how to do all that in   a bit but that's it that's the gist of what  we'll be covering if that's enough to get you   started then please feel free to shut the video  down I want to get you back in the game as fast   as possible if you are heading out please don't  forget to like comment and or subscribe each one   of those does truly help me out in a very huge way  also I have a massive playlist filled with a law   although all of my guys and how to's for Diablo  4 Linked In the description as well at the end of   the video so if you need help head on over there  you can quickly navigate to any part of this video   that does interest you the most use any chapters  in both the timeline and the description lastly   please don't forget to follow me on Twitch where  I'll be streaming Diablo 4 as well as all the   Diablo for twitch drops let's get started here on  the best way to spend Paragon points in Diablo 4.   so loading into the game let's go through some  general information here about Paragon points   Paragon boards everything again just general  information so the first thing we're going to   take a look at is the fact that you have a total  of 225 Paragon points 200 from leveling 20 from   Renown 4 from loathe statues and then one once you  hit like level 100 or whatever [ __ ] but 225 is   your total amount of points so again make sure you  are doing your Renown as you can see I've clearly   not done that but that's a free 20 points that you  can get and any character that you level from this   point onward if you have your little statues and  your Paragon points you've got something like 25   points or 24 points right once they hit 50 that  you can put into a paragon Port board which is   pretty much your very first board you knock it  out you're done with the ones you start with   so into the actual Paragon board let's take a look  here uh the glyphs themselves that you're we're   going to talk about once we kind of dissect the  board a little bit you can remove these by simply   right clicking and you can just go ahead and put  them back in whenever you want unlike the nodes   that is free but refunding Paragon points is just  like refunding skill tree points you can see here   it only costs 535 Four Points I right click and  I'd refund it but nonetheless you can refund both   swapping glyphs is free though um as for the  glyphs themselves you can see I have all of my   rare glyphs you will find all of your rare glisten  time you can find your rare glyphs anywhere   in tier three or four but they seem to have a  much higher drop rate specifically in Nightmare   dungeons also leveling these glyphs as you can see  here this one says level one this one says level   four this one says level three but leveling  these glyphs is done at the end of nightmare   dungeons with the uh higher tiers rewarding more  experience and the nice thing is that upgrading   a glyph you will spend the exact experience points  needed to upgrade it if you have enough then it'll   allow you to allocate the rest elsewhere if you  want so the formula for experience though is to   experience times the dungeons tier so a tier 10  dungeon is 20 experience to allocate to Glitz   after rare gifts reach level 15 if you look over  here it says range three there range goes up by   one up to Range four once they hit Level 15. so  that's kind of a big priority of yours and we'll   go through that a little bit more once we build  this out but just like Diablo 3 try and focus on   one glyph at a time focus on your big one get it  to level 15 then move on to the next one if you   don't have the best glyph at the time of uh maybe  this video or when you're going through it just   try and focus on one that you do have that you  plan to kind of roughly put into your build by   the time you get level 60 if you've been running  nightmare dungeons you should have all of them   if you don't qualify though if you take a look  at this glyph or if you look at this rare node   they'll say stuff like bonus another 10 damage  if requirements met 160 willpower this is for   mayor Reds rare notes not for the glyphs sorry  I misspoke but for rare notes if you don't have   these stats don't worry you're going to get them  as you can see on your left here all these stats   are your stats on your character paper doll  so all of your strength as a as it pertains   to Lilith statues item contribution whatever it  is that's what it's looking at when it takes a   look to cross reference uh your individual stat  here so it will build over time and if you don't   have them right at that point of getting  it don't worry they'll turn on eventually   also points are at a premium so don't go crazy  spending off the beaten path like I want to go   to this glyph socket I'm not going to go well I  got five intelligence right here maybe willpower   right here no just B-Line the shortest path that  will also give you any kind of specific benefits   you need you want to stick to the closest path  possible you want to activate your rare nodes   your glyph sockets and then get out you get all  of your power from glyphs so you want to get   those turned on ASAP lastly and the biggest thing  here I want to stress that it's okay to [ __ ] all   this up I actively do it all the time so don't be  afraid to refund points swap boards go back it's   all a learning process and hey you know you might  pivot your build so just don't freak out trying   to invest points try stuff reinvest it later  whatever it is it's not that expensive to swap   points at all so experiment and please as always  play the game how you want if you want to swap   a whole entire board you do have to remove all of  the nodes from it but so be it it doesn't cost you   that much money go ahead and do it and try some  stuff out now that we've gone over some general   information let's go about how you actually  approach your Paragon board now I'm going to   do this portion in the actual game but we're going  to switch to Diablo 4.gg to build out a full board   so that we have access to all the points and I  can kind of pivot things around but you start   off right here right at the Paragon starting node  you've got your normal nodes your rare nodes and   your magic nodes so your rare nodes are important  here because they're going to give you two bonuses   followed by a third you know tertiary bonus right  there right so it's going to show us hey you know   what if you have this much stat I'm going to give  you this much more of one of your already existing   bonuses so this rare node would have given me  10 damage but because I have 160 plus willpower   I'm getting 20 damage and four percent max life  as you can see that is extremely important here   and as we push up we get more and more and more  and more and more all the way to our glyph socket   so our glyph socket is there's going to be one  in every single board and these are going to be   crucial because we're going to put our glyphs into  this so let's take a look over here at amplify   so this has a radius size of three meaning that  from the glyph socket it will move out one two   three and one two three one two three and one  two three and then it'll fill in everything in   between so take a look there you go so it put all  the way around everything I have basically a not a   circle but it's close I'm just going to say Circle  because it's easier for me to say and I'm going   to keep going from there so this will give us 42  bonus to all magic nodes within range additional   bonus if requirements are met enemies affected by  curse skills take 10 increased damage from you and   your minions the requirement is 40 intelligence  so unlike the bonus required for rare nodes here   this keys off of our actual stats this is keyed  off of it says right there purchased in radius   range off of the individual nodes that we have  in range of this glyph so we're going to zoom out   again again here we're going to see that requires  intelligence so we're going to use keyword search   and that's going to be crucial for you building  things out because you want to look at this when   you're trying to look at other boards and I'll  show you how to do that in just a second here so   we're going to click intelligence so I can now see  all of my intelligence nodes that I need to grab   that'll actually turn this on I want to prioritize  magic nodes because I'm going to get the most   her stat if there's any in range that will give me  that stat what I mean by that is take for example   here this is a magic node of willpower which  gives 7 willpower versus this base one which   gives me five so I get two more willpower for the  same amount of point so it's definitely worth it   and I want to just make sure I have everything  set so this is when you can really deviate from   your path this is when you know you're going  from A to B and that b being your glyph socket   and whatever board and C being your exit point  or legendary node if you if you're going for one   this is the time you're going to deviate  from that path and really kind of fill in   other nodes around to activate your glyph that  is crucial you can also deviate from your path   here and there for very specific rare nodes  but by and large this is what you'll be doing   so that's really kind of how you're navigating  this UI and once you do this this gives you this   is going to show you any benefits that you're  getting from the glyph so 2.1 damage 21 armor   and those are the bonuses that are happening  happening because this grants 42 bonus to all   magic nodes within range well here's one  right there and there's one right there   so it's showing me directly how much damage I'm  getting from all these nodes being boosted almost   a boofed getting boosted by this glyph socket so  anything in green above socketed glyph is what is   happening as a result of the requirements being  met or the actual amplification from the bonus   of the socket itself I'll put something  else in here just to show you another one   this has grants 42 well here's what this one does  it's going to grab me a 30 bonus so my damage and   armor is lower now but we've still turned on  the requirements for the intelligence you can   see all that is active right there that's kind of  just a general crash course of how you're going   to navigate your board and how you're going to  apply all these glyphs but once you get to the   very top of a board you get to this the board  attachment gate now activating it is going to   obviously give you five five five and five of  all four of your stats you click it and then   you can choose a selection but this is what  I mean this is when you're going to look at   legendary nodes and rare nodes and you're going  to focus on rare nodes because those are the ones   that are actually going to benefit directly to  your build with legendary nodes being only one   or two usually that are really directly going to  benefit your build so for example bloodbath a taxi   guaranteed overpowered that's really going to be  good for my build but the rare nodes while good   are not as good as maybe this one which has  a ton of overpower damage whatever it is so   we'll get into that when we build the actual  board here but we would select a board by going   through these reading these to ourselves and  going okay this is going to be the one that   does it I'm going to click preview and now I  can see that board and what it's going to look   like and where I'm going to put it that's  another big thing we're about to talk about   so looking at this board I still can use the  keyword thing to really get a good idea well   you know what I'm really focused on overpower  let's click over power here oh no oh okay cool   I got seven individual nodes on this that are  going to boost my overpower damage in some way   shape or form this is looking pretty good  but you know what if I'm starting down here   those nodes are real far away we're going to  rotate the board now and we're going to do it   one more time now those nodes are way closer to  me and I can actually attack them with little ease   remember you're trying to minimize your time in  any board you are not trying to get the legendary   node for but here's the kind of a thing that I  deliberately created to show you we've done this   we've spun the board down here and these are right  here that's great but our primary focus on this   board inside and outside of anything is always  going to be the glyph socket well now the glyph   socket is very far away and I don't really want  to do that so we're going to spin the board again and that's looking a little bit more  like how I want to approach this and I'm   going to do this all in D4 builds but this  allows me to have a straight shot to go up   go over here and then up again to get all  these rare node goodies that are going to   give me overpower damage right this is going to  be great one two three there you go that's 45   overpower damage then I can proceed up to turn on  this socket and that socket is going to enable me   to then get more benefits which I will then leave  this board maybe out this direction or about this   direction which I then attach another board to  now this is why we're going to use D4 builds   because this is a limit of what I can do board  attachment wise unless I've got enough points   so let's stop now and go into D4 build to talk  more about this because what we need to look   at with these boards is what boards have the  appropriate amount of nodes near the respective   sockets and that's a scary sentence but let  me just break this down really quick for you   if you look at this socket we're going  to cancel that if you look at that socket   well I know I've got enough intelligence in range  boom intelligence turned on but not all sockets   have enough nodes to turn on every single one of  your glyphs because the nodes around them might   not have enough to turn it on so like for example  here willpower well I don't have enough willpower   here to turn this on even if I had bought this one  and this one and this one it's still going to be   just short I'm still only going to have 17 of the  25 required willpower I'm going to need to level   it up to increase the range to grab these two  that just barely puts me there at 27. so that's   what I mean is we're going to take a look at how  these sockets really shake out once we look at D4   bills.gg so let's swap over to the actual website  which you can find Linked In the description so   I've recreated the board here in D4 builds and  you can see that it looks exactly the same for   all these those of you that are using my blood  necro build and you're waiting for an end game   updated video it is coming out in the next day or  two this is how I will be building it out to show   you so if you want to follow kind of loosely what  we do in this video it's what's going to apply   to you as you're going through that blood necro  build so what I want you to see with D4 builds and   probably the strongest thing here that I wish the  game had are these numbers right here this is your   glyph radius stats so so what it is saying here is  that this and it's highlighting intelligence 70.   that at max range of 4 range this glyph socket  can get a total of 70 bonus intelligence that's   what that number is telling me and why that  is crucial and why we're going to build in the   direction we do is this allows me to maximize  the glyphs that I want to get for my build and   that's what you should really be looking at  so let's go ahead and add another board here   and I we took a look at this in the uh the game  but if I hover over all these in the Builder   it shows me it highlights hey you know what this  has got will of 54 for blood begets blood that's   probably going to be our first one because it's  a very good will glyph that we're focusing on   here remember this is a bill that we're trying to  double down hard on over power that is what my my   build uses so that's what we're going to use if  you're playing maybe a Hoda build and vulnerable   something you're focusing on then that's what  you're going to go with or if you're playing um a   druid build with lightning then do whatever maybe  it's uh stunned or slowed you're going to focus on   a stat you're going to find that stat and you're  going to drill down on it because that's what's   probably the linking stat in your entire skill  tree as far as the builds go and for example here   all of my if I go back to my skill tree here all  of my skills in this Section Drive giving bonuses   to overpower as much as I possibly can so that is  why I'm focusing on that for this build again one   more time you're going to be doing that for your  own build and whatever makes sense so as I look at   some of these other ones though uh bloodbath this  is going to have dexterity focused or bone graft   this is going to be Dex or intelligence now what  I mean by that is again the glyph socket can get   this total amount of stats here so this allows  me to kind of choose which glyphs are going in   each one of these individual boards so let's go  with blood begins blood because it's quite good   and if our glyph socket is right here how do I  want to rotate this so I'm going to rotate this   or another one this way because this gives  me I'm going to type in up here over power   again this gives you those same ones we took a  look at as we were talking about and I'm going   to focus on going over to those we're going to  click up and just kind of go across um well I'm   at strength right now you know what I'm going  to back out of strength and go into intelligence   and do a dexterity into some willpower here into  intelligence over power we're gonna pick up this   rare node get that one too and jump up more now  I know I said you know don't deviate off the path   I've made an exception here because this is  an exceptional amount of bonus damage I don't   recommend it but it'll it will come back to  help us out in the long run now we're going   to get over to this location uh this location and  turn on the glyph socket so what I want to do here   is choose dominate dominate the one  I want to choose because this is one   that gives me overpowered damage and  this is exactly why I did not choose bloodbath bloodbath has a legendary node that  increases my overpower damage which you would   think you'd want to get first right nay take  a look at the glyph radius intelligence is 65   dexterity is 49 but will is only 39. this allows  me to maximize the amount of will in here which   is going to directly benefit my build because  willpower is what gives me overpower damage and   it allows me to use this very good dominate glyph  for every five will power purchase within range   you deal 5.9 percent just a six percent increased  over power damage and when you overpower an enemy   all damage they take from you and your minion is  increased by 12 for 5 seconds that's huge that is   absolutely huge um if you're if you're doing this  to try and plan things out you can click this icon   then choose level 15 on here if you want to level  up your glyph to level 15 to simulate where that   range would be so if you'd like to do that with  the builder you definitely can so let's now get   25 total willpower here and I've got the uh I've  got this build up on the other screen and I'm kind   of following along with what I did there we go we  went all the way down here actually I think I went   yeah I went under the bottom because I this is a  this is a strength node these are two intelligence   nodes so I might as well get more direct damage  bonus because it helps my skill out and that's   another thing is when choosing the direction of  these nodes try to maximize the stat that's going   to benefit you the most intelligence outside of  willpower is my direct damage bonus if you're   playing a barbarian that's probably strength if  you're playing a rogue that's probably dexterity   I don't know look at your stats in game and make  sure you're pretty much choosing these that make   the most sense strength isn't completely wasted on  me right it gives me armor but I might as well get   10 intelligence here and focus to get turn on the  willpower and get a little bit more damage boost   there it's a little bit better of it's better more  of an economic route so you can't see it in this   screen which is the only unfortunate thing about  using D4 Builder so I don't know all the bonuses   that have happened but I can see here that for  every five willpower within your range you now   deal 22.5 increased power over power damage that's  awesome right because this is now added into the   45 that we got from these three that is starting  to get spicy so we're gonna go towards these to   exit because this is our exit to get to the next  board and that's pretty well planned out it's   like I've done this before I made the video  it's like I'm smart but actually I'm not so   we're going through this we're going to get this  other rare node because why not it's on the way   um the priority is this rare node and leaving but  we might as well get the benefit from here since   we're gonna go around it this is going to give  us damage while we're healthy which is nice and   damage for seconds after picking up blood orbs  all you know build dependent and again here I   can go down in a Cross or I can go left and across  right dexterity might as well get more willpower   and then get damage over power over power over  power damage oh I actually say that one overpower   because remember we don't want to really waste  points if we don't really need to and go down   and out so intelligence dexterity more dexterity  intelligence will power and out I mean you could   have gone either one right there right and this  is when we get into bloodbath because that's the   one we want right that's our big juicy one but you  know what I really don't like the orientation of   this board take a look at how far away that lift  socket is so let's rotate this bad boy let's get   that glyph socket real close to us and there we  go we're pretty we're pretty much in a juicy range   here but we also want this legendary node so we do  have some good um rare nodes in route let's try to   get those to take advantage of it so we're going  to actually go down here like this we're going to   pick that over power up again because it's just  so crucial to our actual build pop up and around and we're gonna go intelligence intelligence  intelligence intelligence into that blood into   that bloodbath boom we just turned on our first  legendary node the first time we actually took   advantage of one and this means now we can  go towards our socket we're gonna go up up   cross and go right into it so now we're  going to turn on the socket of essence   Essence is pretty good here because it's going  to give us a significant amount of crit strike   damage you could conversely go with any other  one as far as maybe it being intelligence but   we're going to look really quick well you know  what 65 intelligence here I can really maximize   intelligence the next one I can maximize is  dexterity so I might as well spend the points in   one or the other I find that getting crit damage  is very good for your end game experience as well   as vulnerable damage exploit is a generic  one that everyone gets access to and it's   probably the one of the single strongest glyphs  in the game because vulnerable is a huge damage   bucket that you can just really spike your damage  but for this intensive purposes I'm going with   um nope nope nope nope nope we're going with  um Essence here and I'm going to level this up   to 15. doing that and clicking that now we  need to turn it on we need the dexterity we   need to put it in range but let's go  ahead and do that so dexterity there   this is a game of some intelligence but these are  going to give us dexterity so this way this is a   cool example of we picked up a rare node which  gives us damage while fortified which benefits   our build because we have tons of fortification  and this gives us some dexterity to turn on the   actual socket it's a cool little ditty and we're  going to pick up a dexterity note here another   one there remember we don't need to follow a  set path here we just need to turn it on if we   can build towards an exit that would be lovely  and we'll even do that so now we're going to   skip this rare note this is hail this is healing  received this isn't really necessarily benefit   me per se yeah I can get willpower up here but  that rare note not for me and we're going to   use that XR exit strategy to get out of this and  I'd probably go hulking monstrosity right here   so this is kind of an i this should give you  a really good idea of how to build these out   right I've gone with hulking monstrosity for our  next one so I know my glyph socket is going to   be intelligence focused here with willpower  being a secondary let me zoom in there oh   willpower being a secondary and definitely not  going to touch dexterity now while and that's   an important closing note here I'm not going to  touch dexterity because sure it might take me let's see 25 dexterity just to turn this  on but these all scale with the amount of   node that you're putting into them so for  every five decks purchased within range you   deal one percent increase damage to vulnerable  targets well okay if I type in dexterity here   and let's say we just go turn this on you're gonna let me okay well okay this is this is  another cool reason why I like D4 built I can just   kind of have fun with this exploit we'll put it  at level 15 so I can better exemplify this exclude uh uh this isn't turned on yet let's do  that let's turn on all of the ones we   can in range that are dexterity and that and  that's it that's it that is all of them 510 15 20. 25 oh 29 totally I think that's everything  cookie notes 29. so with that being said all   those only equals three percent increase damage to  vulnerable targets so it's kind of a waste to put   exploit here versus if I put what an intelligence  one let's just grab a rando intelligence one here   this one I can get all the benefit of this by just  really going hard in the paint on intelligence   boosting to this one so look at those sockets look  at your build what does your build use what's the   primary mechanic the primary stat focus on  it make sure you're putting these glyphs in   to the boards that allow you to maximize the gain  from them and give you rare nodes that complement   your build focus on the one or two legendary nodes  that Focus that that benefits your build to again   if they're if you're if you're using my blood  necro build I'm looking for this legendary node   and this legendary node is actually quite good too  but the rest not interested they will not benefit   me so don't look at those legendary notes I think  they're a little bit of a honey honey pot stick to   looking for those rare notes they're what's going  to give you the Lion Share of your opponents if   you have any questions on this process go ahead  and let me know in the comment section below it   is not an easy process it is convoluted it is  hard it is wild but I think that breaking this   down to looking at the rare notes looking at  the legendary nodes and everything like that   it should hopefully be approachable and palatable  and once you really looked at it you can do this   on your own quite easily it's easy to use it with  a builder like this you can do it in the game by   counting manually if you so wish this just makes  it a lot easier for you by just kind of putting   all the information right in front of you and you  can kind of Click things around it might take you   an hour or two do it during like a lunch break  do it like towards the end of the day before you   go to bed and you're going to have a bill that's  pretty fun and it's your own custom built thing   and that is a really really fun experience  in any arpg but as always guys thank you so   much for watching here today if you have any  questions any concerns anything like that as   always just go ahead and put them in the comment  section below but have a good one and take care [Music]   thank you

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Length: 30min 17sec (1817 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 13 2023