Where were you and your up-voters when I posted thousands of times on the old forums against paragon and got down-voted by the army of botters?
Okay, I forgive you for writing this.
#noParagonInD4
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That’s not how exponential functions work. A cubic function is a polynomial function (x³). An exponential function would have the exponent itself growing (a^x) for example and is in a completely different order of magnitude than a cubic function.
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you accept and then dismiss paragon as competition; of grinders, speedrunners and 4-man specialised powerlevelers ?!
-my advise: play solo or choose another mountain to climb.
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Yes, and if the amount of XP required to obtain a paragon level is, let’s say, 5% more than the previous level took, then it’s (1.05)^X where X is the number of paragon levels difference. That’s how D3’s paragon levels are, i.e. not a cubic function.
I kind of felt the same as the OP, I stopped playing for 3.5 years and my 2K paragon then was on the higher end, and now Im on the low end and thought even before I started a month ago that I would be way too far behind. It didn’t matter though, bc paragons are for the people that put in a lot of time, so it’s fine with me that they get something out of it; items drop too easy, so paragons do make sense to me.
Hey GodlyLegit i suggested some other stuff to do beyond Paragon. Like a similar Paragon system but not in GR. See and tell me what do you think.
I was starting to wonder why GodlyLegit quit playing. Now I know. Good good
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Someone’s working on maxing their sarcasm rating, I see. 
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you’re not going to be missed, so bye.
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A friend of me is a Diablo fan like me, but he also totally agree on Paragon system is terrible.
I miss running trists runs and spending more time at low level experience gained should be cut by 75% and make it impossible to get a power level, no one can play with you if its above/below 5 level difference. Diablo 3 has cool legendaries that are available at low levels but chance to drop is retarded low, and experience gained is too high so by the time something good drops, its good for a few levels then you have to discard right away, you can’t really get a decent use of the items. No bounties until you lv60 or higher, no rifts until you reach level 70. Then you are force to find other places to grind at like the trists runs and baal runs used to be. Just sayin…
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I stopped playing, because Diablo 2, and even Diablo 1, are just better.
Heck, even Hellfire was better 
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they added paragon to give the game “something” so it wouldn’t die off, because of the itemization.
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Unless you are planning on being one of the top 100 playere in the world for any given class, this is a meaningless concern. And since percentages dictate that you AREN’T one of those 100 people, your reasoning is ridiculous.
You’ve obviously never made it far on the LB if you think that’s true. Skill, knowledge of the game, strategy, and luck all play more of a factor at high clears past paragon 2k. After that paragon have severely diminishing returns.
Time will tell and there’s been loads of criticism given about this already. Granted in a seasonal leaderboard I don’t really see it as an issue cause it really is gonna be more skill and knowledge with the build you play. It sounds like they are planning something but theres no details, it doesn’t sound like they are copying and pasting the current system so they are looking to change it up and make it more meaningful. Stay strong on the feedback though especially as they put the game through testing and I’m sure they will implement something that can make everyone happy.
Personal opinion; Paragon is not a bad system. Unlimited Paragon probably is unless level progress above 800 is made exponential (almost infinite additional experience needed to increase a level once a player gets much past 800).
Paragon is not really a good reason to quit D3 unless all you are interested in is chasing the GR leaderboards. The top players on the GR leaderboards are pro players, near pro players or botters. Regardless of what game you play, you are going to be chasing those pro and near pro players.
D3s game structure is such that some people use bots to try to get ahead without actual individual gameplay. Where players want to compete on leaderboards, some players will find ways to cheat. Since there are a lot more players than there are game developers, companies like Blizz will always be reacting to new cheats. There will never be game security that totally prevents cheating in any game, certainly not D3 or D4.
It is unnecessary to have high Paragon to get on D3 leaderboards. As far as I remember, I have never hit 800 Paragon playing either normal or HC in a season and I only play solo. However, I have been on seasonal leaderboard for at least the last 4 or 5 seasons. My current career normal Paragon level is 1176.
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Op I agree with you, paragon is bad, itemization is even worse, crafting… pathetic. PvP…lol. i can only hope Diablo 4 improves on these aspects.
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Pointless chasing leaderboards if you play for fun. Just do season until your geared. If it a good theme …lol keep going. After that try hc to 1k paragon or so. Season 19 ww barb…i wont make the bottom of the board . Im not concerned. P.S ive said this before…tier leaderboards to paragon levels.
Agree 100% but other who eant can enjoy it if they like.