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Paragon Boards enable you to further customise your character's build beyond character level 60 when you no longer receive skill points but instead receive Paragon Points.

What are Paragon Boards

Each board is comprised of a tileset of nodes with each node offering a boost to either stats, skill categories, status effects, or resources. As you earn experience beyond level 60 you receive points that you use to unlock these nodes, snaking your way across the board to an 'end gate' where you can attach another board. Each class has access to nine boards of which they can lock a maximum of five together.

All Types of Paragon Nodes
All Paragon Nodes

Each board is made up of:

  • Normal Nodes - Boost basic stats Dexterity, Intelligence, Strength or Willpower
  • Magic Nodes - Boost Armor, Maximum Life, Resistances, Resources, Damage types and Damage received. Clustered around a Rare Node.
  • Rare Nodes - Six of these peppered around the board offer multiple boosts plus a bonus that sets the theme for the surrounding Magic nodes.
  • Legendary Node - A single Legendary Node with a significant boost particularly useful to your class and to a specific playstyle.
  • Glyph Node - A single Glyph node where you socket a Glyph of your choice that you have leveled up in The Pit. These are particularly powerful as they have qualities that are improved by the other nodes within a set radius. Glyphs can be upgraded to Legendary status adding a bonus affect and increasing their radius.
  • Gate Node - There is 1 of these at each edge of the board (apart from the smaller starter board) and a point spent here will award 5 points to basic stats and also allow you to attach another Paragon board.

When you reach a Gate Node clicking on it brings up details of all the Boards you can attach there including its Legendary Node and Rare Nodes. The boards can be rotated before attaching so you have more choice of the route you'll take through that board.

Paragon Board Labeled
Annotated Paragon Board


How to Get Paragon Points

The maximum number of Paragon points that can be collected through earning experience, renown, and Altars of Lilith is 300.

Paragon points are shared across each realm. Realms are split into:

  • Seasonal Softcore
  • Seasonal Hardcore
  • Eternal Softcore
  • Eternal Hardcore

Points are accrued by any of your characters on each realm and those points can be assigned to the Paragon Boards of all of your characters once they reach level 60 (max character level). You do not need to earn Paragon Points for each character.


Which Paragon Boards are Available

Board Name Legendary Node Details
Blood Rage Killing a Bleeding (DoT) enemy has 10% chance to grant Berserking for 5 seconds. Your damage is increased by x10% of your Damage while Berserking bonus, up to a maximum x30%.
Bone Breaker Every 12 seconds, your next Skill is guaranteed to Overpower.
Carnage While Berserking, Critical Strikes increase your Attack Speed by +2%, up to +16% for 6 seconds.
Decimator Each time you make an enemy Vulnerable, your damage is increased by 10% for 5 seconds. Overpowering a Vulnerable enemy grants an additional x10% bonus for 5 seconds.
Flawless Technique Damaging enemies with One-Handed Weapons increases your Critical Strike chance by x1% for 4 seconds, up to x8%. This can only happen once per Skill cast, or twice per second while channeling Whirlwind.
Force of Nature Your Earthquakes have a 75% chance to spawn a Dust Devil every second that deals [1,429] damage. Earthquake damage is increased by 30% of your Damage vs Close bonus, up to a maximum of 150%.
Hemorrhage Your Bleeding (DoT) damage is increased by x15% of your Vulnerable Damage Bonus, up to x45%.
Warbringer For every 75 Fury you spend, gain 15% of your Maximum Life as Fortify.
Weapon Master Swapping weapons grants you 8% of your Maximum Fury.

Board Name Legendary Node Details
Ancestral Guidance After spending 75 Spirit, you deal x30% increased damage for 5 seconds.
Constricting Tendrils Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 15% chance to entangle the enemy with vines, Immobilizing (CC)them for 2 seconds and Poisoning them for 150% of the Base damage dealt over 4 seconds.
Earthen Devastation Your Earth Skills deal x10% increased Critical Strike Damage, increased by x20% of your Damage vs Crowd Controlled bonus, up to x40%.
Heightened Malice While there are 3 or more Poisoned enemies Nearby, you deal x45% increased damage.
Inner Beast After Shapeshifting, your Spirit costs are reduced by 5% for 10 seconds, up to 45%. If you reach 10 stacks, this bonus resets and reduces the Cooldown of your Ultimate Skill by 5 seconds.
Lust for Carnage Critical Strikes with Werewolf Skills restore 2 Spirit.
Survival Instincts While in Werebear form, you deal x1% increased damage, up to x50%, for every 1% difference in current Life percent between you and the enemy.
Thunderstruck Storm Skills deal increased damage equal to x20% of your Damage vs Close and Damage vs Distant bonuses, up to x60%.
Untamed Casting a Companion Skill grants +4 Ranks to your Companion Skills for 5 seconds..

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Archive Paragon Board

Below is the historical information on how the Paragon Board system used to function before Patch 2.0.

Diablo 4 Paragon Board - August 2002
Current Paragon Board - August 2022

The Paragon Board is a new system being added to Diablo 4 to expand character customisation beyond a character's skills.

Players will unlock the Paragon Boards at level 50. Players will work their way from the centre of their class starting board outwards depending on what direction they want to take the character.

At the edge of each board is a "gate" tile where players will choose which new paragon board they wish to attach to the board they have just crossed.

Board Selection

Players will be able to select a new board from a selection when they reach a gate tile at the edge of the current board. The new board can also be rotated so players can plan their best route across the newly selected board.

Gate Tiles

Gate tiles are found on the edge of the Paragon Board. Once reached, a new board is unlocked and players can select a new board from a list. Players may also optionally rotate the newly placed board.

When the gate tile is selected, players will also receive +5 stat bonus to Strength, Willpower, Intelligence, or Dexterity.

How Many Paragon Points Per Level?

There are four level markers on the level-up bar each representing one Paragon point.

How Many Paragon Points in Total?

There are 256 Paragon points to gain in total before players are maxed out. Unlike Diablo 3. in Diablo 4, Paragon points are finite.

Paragon Board Nodes

The Paragon Board is also split into different tile types (nodes) as follows:

Normal Nodes

These provide a player with a "small and meaningful boost". These are common on each board with each normal tile providing a +5 stat bonus to Strength, Willpower, Intelligence, or Dexterity.

Magic Nodes

Magic tiles are found in clusters and provide a "potent, more diverse set of benefits". These are less common than Normal Tiles.

Paragon Board Legendary Tile
Paragon Board different tile types

Rare Nodes

Rare Tiles provide significant boosts to power. Rare tiles also have additional powers that unlock once a player has raised an attribute to a sufficient level. There are six Rare tiles per board.

Legendary Nodes

A single Legendary tile found at the centre of a Paragon board. These provide a new Legendary power.

Two joined Paragon Boards with Legendary tile in the middle.
Two joined Paragon Boards with Legendary tile in the middle.

Paragon Board Nodes


Glyphs and Sockets

Paragon Board Glyphs and Sockets

A Socket is a special tile that can contain a Glyph. Glyphs are items found throughout Sanctuary that, when embedded into a Paragon Board, bring various benefits based upon the number of active tiles within their radius.

Glyphs can also be leveled up. Leveling up a Glyph extends the radius of their effect, allowing each one to draw power from or impart power to even more active tiles.

Levelling Glyphs is achieved after completing Nightmare Dungeons.

Upgrade a Glyph
Upgrade a Glyph


Players can see the collected Glyphs on the left side of the Paragon Board interface to select them and can be unsocketed from the board at any point at no cost.

Glyph Selection
Glyph Selection

How to Clear Paragon Board Nodes Quickly

In patch 1.2.1, Blizzard added a reset all button which allows players to remove all their nodes at once. When clicked, a box pops up showing how much it will cost to complete the action of clearing all boards.

Adding New Boards

According to Blizzard, new boards will be added to the game over time.

Diablo is a game that is about creating exciting, overpowered builds, and while we don’t want to balance the fun out of the experience, we don’t want to create situations in which imprecise tuning squash creativity.

We will also be constantly adding new legendary and unique items, paragon boards, glyphs, and more that will continually refresh the meta and create new build opportunities.

Video Explainer

Archive

Below are images of earlier iterations of the Paragon Board.

Paragon Board selection
Paragon Board selection - Gate tile shown at edge of the board. Image from Dec 2021 but shows the basic concept.
Paragon Board
Paragon Board Early 2022
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