Paragon 2.0 questions - Blue Tracker

#1 - Sept. 26, 2013, 3:45 p.m.

I know it's still in development, so answers to these questions might just be anyone's "good guess", or might be what is "planned" for now, but could change later.

1. I understand that the level cap will be increased to Level 70, instead of 60. What will happen to my characters current levels when that is implemented? In other words, my main char is Paragon level 94. When the level cap is raised to 70, will I actually *lose* paragon levels to make up for the experience points needed to set my character to level 70/paragon X? Will my characters that are low paragon level (I think I have one that's like para 5) not even BE paragon so that it can go up to level 70?

2. Paragon 2.0 will give players a way to put the "points" we gain with each paragon level where we want them. The way it is right now, when I get a paragon level I get points in my chars main stat, vitality, gold find AND magic find. But the way I understand Paragon 2.0 each paragon level will only give us ONE point to spend (increasing a stat by +5, or giving a certain attack/defense/utility an increase by percentage). So in other words in Paragon 2.0 I will have to choose ONE thing to put the point in, instead of getting FOUR things increased per level now - is that correct? I will only be able to choose ONE stat, or ONE attack, or ONE defense, or ONE utility (like gold find, magic find, movement speed, etc)? Isn't that kind of a *loss* to what we have now?

3. I have heard/read somewhere that, at THIS time (in the planning stage), players will be able to reset their Paragon points as many times as they wish. Is this going to cost gold to do? If I play a game on my DH and have the Paragon points set for that character, but then switch to my WD, will I be able to reset the paragon points for that character without spending my gold?

4. Paragon points will be ACCOUNT based, rather than individual characters. Does this mean I will no longer have characters at different paragon levels? In other words, right now my main is para 94, and 4 or 5 other characters that have various paragon levels... lets say they are para 5, para 12, para 20 and para 30 - will all my "paragon" level characters just be Paragon 50 (for example - taking into account all characters levels will be readjusted to meet the new Level 70 requirements)?

I'll reserve any opinions I have on these changes until these questions are answered. Thanks for reading.

#4 - Sept. 26, 2013, 5:15 p.m.

Thanks Audial! You about covered it. :)

Jaelyn, you may want to take a look at this post for available details on Paragon 2.0: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/10014411465?page=7#139

- When Paragon 2.0 goes live, we'll being adding up all the Paragon experience on each of your characters, and we'll be using that combined total (the total amount of Paragon experience you have, not the total number of Paragon levels) to determine your Shared Paragon level. Again, this will be broken down by game type.

- The leveling curve for Paragon 2.0 has not yet been finalized, so we are unable to provide a direct conversion of current Paragon levels > Shared Paragon levels at this time.

09/20/2013 06:49 PMPosted by Lylirra
- After Paragon 2.0 goes live, if you are level 60 and do not have the expansion enabled on your account, you will continue to earn Paragon experience in the new system. This is because you are still technically at the level cap. However, if you are level 60 and decide to enable the expansion on your account, you will stop earning Paragon experience. This is because the expansion increases the level cap to 70. Once you reach level 70, you will start to accrue Paragon experience again from where you left off. (So, basically: Only max-level characters will be able to earn Paragon experience. If you don't have the expansion, max-level = 60. If you have the expansion, max-level = 70.)

- What category a Paragon Point can be spent in will be determined by what Paragon level you earn. Paragon level 1 gives you a point to spend in "Core Stat," Paragon level 2 gives you a point to in "Offensive," Paragon level 3 gives you a point to spend in "Defensive," and Paragon level 4 gives you a point to spend in "Utility" (or "Adventure"). Each Paragon level past that follows the same pattern.

- All categories other than Core Stats (DEX, INT, STR, VIT) have a cap on the number of points that can be allocated to them, which also means there is a cap to the total number of points that 3 of the 4 categories can have. At present, this means if you reach Shared Paragon 800, you will have maxed the number of points that can be allocated to the Offensive, Defensive, and Utility categories and all future Paragon levels you earn will grant you a point in the Core Stat category instead.

09/20/2013 06:49 PMPosted by Lylirra
- Players can respec their Paragon Points. We've not yet finalized whether or not respeccing Paragon Points will incur a cost, or what the respec cost might be if we decide to implement one.

09/20/2013 06:49 PMPosted by Lylirra
- The second is that Paragon levels are now account-wide per game type. Game type = game mode (i.e. Normal and Hardcore). All Normal characters on an account will share a Paragon level. Similarly, all Hardcore characters on an account will share a Paragon level. Following Paragon 2.0 going live, any Paragon experience you gain on your Normal or Hardcore characters will contribute to your account’s Normal Shared Paragon level or Hardcore Shared Paragon level, respectively.

- Your account's Paragon Point pool is not shared between your characters. Instead, characters on your account will each get their own set of Paragon Points to spend independently (e.g. you can spend your Paragon Points differently for each character). To provide an example, if your account's Normal Shared Paragon level is 100, all Normal characters on your account will each get 100 Paragon Points to distribute as you see fit.

Under current design, yes. Using your example, if your account's Shared Paragon level is 100, all Normal characters on your account would have access to 100 Paragon points, even if they're not at max level (i.e. sub-60).

Again, all subject to change prior to ship, etc etc. :)