Are capping the number of Paragon boards a bad idea? We currently have seven paragon boards and the starter board for each class and with 200 paragon points, there is no limit to how many boards we can equip. In the expansion, we will only be limited to five boards including the starter boards.
I think this is a terrible idea. We will be getting 300 paragon points (not including renown) and increase from 200, and with a limited number of boards, we basically won’t have any nodes left to spend those points in. This is a bad idea. I think Blizzard should reverse their decision to cap the number of boards and let players play how they want.
What do you guys think Blizzard should do? Do you agree or disagree with my opinion? How should Blizzard handle the Paragon system? Are they hurting build diversity by capping the boards, or creating a balanced and fair system? If we are allowed to have more boards then we can equip more glyphs and spend more time farming the pit and playing the game. With only five glyphs, the game will be done quicker.
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Meh…the idea appears to be to get players to use more of the Rare and Magic nodes, instead of just constantly expanding into new boards to grab either the glyph socket or the legendary node. I’ll reserve judgement until I see how it plays.
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I don’t think that capping the paragon boards is bad but I don’t think there is a reason to give us 100 more paragon point with the cap being on 5 boards
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This is the only way they know to balance and it still will be broken I bet ya.
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We don’t know if its good or bad because we don’t know how the nodes are going to change. Until we do and have played around with it, everyone is just speculating.
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Play the PTR and find out. There are so many changes coming it’s hard to see how one change will fit in with everything. Just the fact that glyphs are going to be crazy now having 7 of them would be too much. At 100 some of them are boosting rare nodes by 600%
If this paragon board were the only thing changing then it’d be easier to argue good or bad.
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Nodes are going to be capped yea and it’s now also random rng to level them lol.
If they don’t cap the number of boards, then people will still have to just put in as many boards as possible to get as many glyphs as possible because they all have strong multiplicative bonuses and those bonuses are getting better with legendary glyphs. Capping the number of boards makes for more different ways to build your character, not fewer.
The other benefit of capping the number of boards is that you will be able to get to all the multiplicative bonuses you can equip without getting to max paragon. That means that maxing out paragon can now be a slow burn that gives a longer tail to progression without creating a mandatory slog.
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Wait, how does fewer options give you more options? Bro y’all on blizzard logic out here, it already is a slog and people hate leveling them because it’s based around nmds and making it random rng is going to stop the slog?
Because it’s not optional to get the maximum number of glyphs. You would have to do it or just be strictly worse. With a cap, you now have many more options for which glyphs to use to get certain benefits, because you aren’t just getting all of them.
I meant leveling paragon. Leveling glyphs may still be a slog. We will have to see how hard pit 55 is and how low the chances of evening a glyph get if you aren’t 10 pit tiers higher.
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At this point unless your suggestions make the game more like D3 don’t expect it to happen. 
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Your literally getting less options if they cap the number of boards… How do you not understand that? If you meant easier because less stuff to take into account ok
Not if you care about maximizing your character.
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What? So 1 board would be more options then 5? It’s called logic and it’s really easy lol
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sour cream upsidedown muffin mix sprinkled on recycled dog food. this sum up the updates i think and the next 2-3 year plan for d4 if you buy d5 you deserve to buy d5
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No. 1 board would be fewer, and 12 boards would also be fewer. The maximum number of options would be to have half as many slots as there were glyphs you wanted to use.
Umm look up the definition of more and less maybe lol I dunno, your getting less boards to use therefore there is less options, I don’t know how to put it any simpler then that wow
I’d like even bigger limit, 3-4 boards. I don’t like those big PoE style trees.