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Revision as of 13:49, 3 September 2013
Paragon 2.0 refers to a redesign of the Paragon system, due sometime in 2014, shortly before the release of the Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls expansion pack. The system is still under development, but many details have been revealed since the system was first explained in detail at Gamescom 2013.
Paragon 2.0 will still work as an end game feature, providing players with a way to continue earning levels and experience even once their characters have reached max level. There are several major changes to the system:
- All experience earned by max level characters will count towards an account-wide Paragon level. This level, rather than the individual character levels, will award paragon points that can be spent on all characters; not just the specific character who earned the experience.
- The Paragon levels earned and points awarded to Hardcore and Softcore characters are tracked separately. Since Paragon levels are account wide, the experience gained by Hardcore characters remains even after the characters die.
- Paragon points allow for a great deal of character customization, with specific bonuses that can be assigned to things like attributes, offensive stats including CC, CD, and AS, defensive stats like blocking %, and general properties like Faster Movement and Pickup Radius.
- There is no maximum paragon level (though the individual bonuses have varying hard caps).
- The Paragon levels earned by all existing characters will be added into the system when it goes live.
- Characters at Paragon 100 do not earn experience currently, so any play time with them prior to Paragon 2.0 is "wasted" in terms of exp gain.
- Exp earned by Hardcore characters who die before Paragon 2.0 goes live will probably not be counted.
Full details have not yet been finalized for the system, and many questions remain. How much experience is required for paragon levels, how many points are awarded per level, if there are individual character bonuses as well as account bonuses, etc.
Paragon Points and Bonuses
Each paragon level will grant players an unknown number of paragon points to spend on various bonuses and the full amount of points are available to all characters (hardcore and softcore are separate). Read that again; if a player has 50 paragon points to distribute and 6 softcore characters, each one of the 6 gets the full 50 points. The points are not shared between characters; each character gets the full amount.
The points can be spent on various properties in the four different tabs. Not all of the properties or the size of their bonuses are yet known, and the system remains under development, but key facts have been revealed. [1]
Bonuses per tab:
- Core tab: Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Vitality. (Confirmed.)
- Attack tab: Attack Speed, Critical hit Chance, Critical hit Damage, Cooldown reduction. (Confimed)
- Defense tab: +Blocking % confirmed. Others? (Res All? Recovery time reduction?)
- Utility tab: Movement Speed and Pickup Radius confirmed. Others? (Magic Find, Gold Find, Experience?)
The amount of bonus granted by each paragon point is still under development, but as of Gamescom 2013 each point in a Core attribute granted 5 points to that attribute. The bonuses in the Attack tab were a bit more varied:
- Attack Speed: +.20% per point, 50 point hard cap. (Maximum of +10% IAS boost.)
- Critical hit Chance: +.20% per point, 50 point hard cap. (Maximum of +10% Critical hit Chance.)
- Critical hit Damage: 1 point per point, 50 point hard cap. (Maximum of +50% Critical hit Damage increase.)
- Cooldown reduction. -- .20% per point, 50 point hard cap. (Maximum of 100% reduction.)
Early Paragon 2.0 Development
In mid-2013 the developers began suggesting some future changes to the Paragon Levels system.
One main question fans always ask is what will happen to Paragon Levels in the Expansion. It's widely-assumed the cap will increase from 100, but it's not clear what bonus that would provide, with Magic Find and Gold Find already maxed out at the 300% hard cap at Paragon 100. Perhaps the MF/GF cap would be increased? [2]
We've definitely talked about things like taking Paragon and decoupling it from your character specifically and making it something that is more account-over working. So that any time you invest in the game is rewarded and you don’t feel like we’re taking anything away from you if you want to try new characters or try out different play styles within the game. That’s something we've looked into a lot.
Also, maybe potentially adding some sort of customization within the paragon system. Sort of in the vein of a throwback at a Diablo II start location. We've looked at things like that. We definitely have plans to flesh it our more in time. We don’t need to design it from the ground up. What it does, it does well, and we just need to make it more encompassing.
You've also mentioned that you’re not looking into increasing the cap of Paragon. It’s going to be a hundred for at least a while, right?
Travis Day: For the foreseeable future. I think at some point you can expect the cap to go up. The cap isn't even really there to necessarily make an end point to the player. The intent was for paragon 100 to take a long time to get to. Which it does. But as we improve different aspects of the game (make changes to Monster Power, Monster Density, etc.) the time that it takes players to fill out that cap is shorter than we’d like. And once you do cap out, it definitely removes a very important reward for you – your XP stops going up. So that’s something that we want to address – at some point we’ll definitely look at that cap.
About those customizations to the paragon system – what about the people who are already capped? Will they be receiving any kind of reward on patch day?
Travis Day: Yes, absolutely. If we’re making the sweeping changes to the Paragon, the people who invested time will certainly have the reward that is associated with that investment.
