In the screenshot above, a Monk, it’s Dexterity, as it would also be for Demon Hunters.

Strength, Dexterity or Intelligence - Whichever of these is your classes primary damage stat.When you gain a Paragon level, you get a point in one of these four tiers, starting at Paragon level 1 giving you a point to spend in Core, 2 giving you a point in Offense, 3 a point in Defence allows you to spend points as follows: Going up a Paragon level gives you a point to spend in one of four categories. Going up a level provides a broad array of increases - health, damage, regen, etc. Paragon levels work differently than leveling 1 to 70. If you’re at Paragon 317 on your main? That level 2 Witch Doctor you started two years ago and haven’t touched since will also have 317 Paragon levels. Every point of experience you earn after you hit level 70 on a character goes towards raising your Paragon levels, and once those levels are raised, they’ll apply equally to all the characters on your account. If you have three level 70 characters, and you spend a variable amount of time playing each of them, all three will end up with the same Paragon levels. Paragon levels are, in essence, an alternative progression model that rewards you for playing at max level and allows you to get stronger on all of your characters while earning those Paragon levels. Okay, so what does that all mean? What are Paragon levels? Let’s discuss the end of game leveling system that adds more punch to your characters across the board, not just to one specific character. This can lead to your having a brand new level 1 alt but that character will have just as many Paragon levels as your main does.

Paragon levels are account based, meaning that once you earn a Paragon level on your level 70 Demon Hunter, your level 3 Monk and level 28 Wizard will also have the same Paragon levels. And that’s great, but once you hit level 70, there’s a separate method of progression, one that isn’t tied to an individual character.

The first pathway is a straightforward one - as of the Reaper of Souls expansion, you collect experience points to go from level 1 to level 70 over the course of five acts, four of which contain the main story of Diablo 3 and the fifth consisting of all the story from Reaper of Souls. In essence, leveling in Diablo 3 takes two separate paths.

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