Glyphs Reworked for Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred and Season 6 - Everything You Need to Know
All the updates coming to Vessel of Hatred and Season 6, like Runes and Runewords and the new level cap and progression system are big news — and rightly so! But don't sleep on the changes coming to Glyphs — they're just as important, if not more so, to the progression of player power.
Glyphs Explained
The current system of Glyphs and Glyph experience has players spending a considerable portion of their leveling experience slogging through Nightmare Dungeon after Nightmare Dungeon, leveling their specific Glyphs up to Level 21 for the expanded radius they provide.
It's a simple but tiring affair, especially if you change your Paragon Board setup halfway through the season; thankfully, however, that experience is being optimized.
There were a few issues with Paragon Glyphs, the Pit, and Nightmare Dungeons. We received feedback that the Pit rewards were feeling lackluster. We wanted to make the action of upgrading Glyphs more satisfying, while simultaneously offering better rewards for pushing deep into the Pit. Our desire was to give Glyphs more power, but the Glyph upgrading experience system did not scale well and was needlessly grindy. So, to achieve this goal, we moved Paragon Glyphs upgrading out of Nightmare Dungeons and into the Pit, and also redesigned the system to give more control over how quickly Glyphs can be upgraded.
So, to recap:
Glyphs Are Becoming More Powerful
First and foremost, the maximum level of Glyphs has been increased from level 21 to 100. Glyph radius now increases twice at both rank 15 and 46, and at Level 46, a Rare Glyph can be upgraded into Legendary status using Gem Fragments. This means the size of their radius increases from 4 to 5 and they gain a multiplicative stat bonus.
While the balance around Gem Fragments becoming a currency remains to be seen, the stat bonus that was featured in the Campfire Chat was a 21% increase to Critical Strike Damage — so it will certainly be worth it to upgrade the
