Last year, someone managed to get 20K Paragon (which, as we know, is the paragon cap). Given that 20K is far beyond what most players - ever - attain, how would that affect gameplay? For example, what would that make one’s Base Stat and to what Great Rift Level might one get to without any gear (or, at least, without any set bonuses)?
I know it’s a silly question; but it’s been on my mind for some time.
Thoughts?
Best,
J
Without sets or bonuses from gear (including LoD and LoN “sets”) you hardly make any damage.
Without having done the real calculation I would guess that an LoD death nova necromancer in this season (31) with a few thousand paragon points (or less) is making around the same damage as a non season LoD necromancer with 20K paragons with the same build because of the extra multipliers from the two more weapons in the cube.
It affects nothing. While the gap of experience is pretty large between levels as the requirement evergrowing with each level up; the power-wise paragon level margin is rather small than its worth in experience points. Why? Because Greater Rift scaling of monster health stat is exponential but paragon level is additive power.
The difference between 5k paragon level and 20k paragon level would be about 15000 * 5 = 75000 main stat, that would more than double your damage given that your character would be around 35-37k main stat at 5k. With stable 1.17x exponential growth of monster health in each consecutive Greater Rift at high tiers in account, turns out that sort of main stat margin only could grant you enough power to climb 5-7 Greater Rifts higher.
https://maxroll.gg/d3/resources/experience-explained
To quote this article:
The highest known Paragon is a player from China with 17,500 Paragon. This player farmed a total of 90,000 TR and is around 70% of the way to 20,000.
China servers are closed but looking at this scheme 70% of progress to maximum and the power gap between 17.5k and 20k is around 19300 - 16800 = 2500 paragon points which is roughly 12500 main stat.
When you hit it to the assumption of 17.5k paragon level character having already around 90k main stat, the difference that excess paragon 'till 20k make would be about 12.5-14% damage increase. That is only ONE greater rift worth of power gain as monster health scale grows with 1.17x with each tier.
While that small amount can improve your effective health around 25% allowing you to endure damage up to 9-10 greater rifts, you have to show at least around half the effort you did on progress up to this point to have those benefits. As you climb up, the efforts don’t worth the benefit for damage as it is an additive layer of attributes, while it can immensely increase your effective health.
It depends on their supportive items. Some classes have some abundant multipliers on very certain builds while other classes don’t. There’s a conquest in Seasons requiring you to climb to tier 45 without any Set items equipped and I believe if LoD can be used, it won’t matter much which class you attempt it about. Rest of that, can be calculated by paragon margin as explained in several outlets about Diablo 3.
Very detailed. Thanks for that!