Why are Paragons so disliked?

Yeah i had that bad experience from many people with my sin, no matter if you are a good player or if you have a good build, if they did not want a sin in the past now is the para, and my best solution is go with heroes, friends or guildies.

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Spears can be nice pressure IF you have IAS. RaOs love it, and we got rocked recently by a high-ranked HA team running flail warriors with spear (don't need to run so much with a ranged weap) So for paras... that leaves aggresive refrain or soldier's stance, and either of them are going to need 1 or 2 shouts to maintain.

I have w,n,e,and r thru the 3 games...just started p and m in nightfall (i dread getting thru the other 2 on monk until I get all the skills that I need from tyria and cantha) so I have little xp as a paragon, but seems to me p/r with pet and RaO would be massive damage...cause burning, poison, bleeding and 33% faster attack speed. Is my thinking flawed? I have only level 5 so far and haven't picked secondary yet

Ok, the Paragon's usefulness is debatable in DoA and the Para mostly loses those debates! But this does not mean it is a bad char, not at all!

I run a Para, Command 12, Leadership 12, Spear 12 and it is really great in most of the game just with Heroes, Koss, Dunkoro, and Olias MM. The Fantastic Four! Beyond the Vortex, yes I need more on the demon maps, but I've done most of Domain of Secrets with just my Para and the three heroes.

Grenth's Footprint, easy. The Fantastic Four can get surprisingly far into Sorrow's Furnace, though I usually add on a friend who is a Quickshot Interrupt Ranger for that, and we go in as five man Oro quest mostly. The Fantastic Four take down any Kurzick or Luxon map, Mourning Veil Falls is my favorite and great fun. Prophecies is our playground. Die Kephket, die!

Inscriptions, just armor +10 when under effects of a shout or chant. Skills:

Leader's Comfort
Stand Your Ground
Soldier's Fury
Go For the Eyes
Vicious Attack
Anthem of Flame
Never Surrender
They're On Fire

Real bread and butter, knucklehead build, for lazy people like me who are allergic to work. Rez sig? Naaaah! Riches, loot, greens! Huzzah!

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I think this has already been implied or already stated, but there's a decent chance the paragons will be extended or buffed at some point. They would almost have to be.
The assassin's somewhat were. It would make sense, I doubt Anet would want to waste their time with a class noone uses (except for nubs who are new to GW and got NF first altogether.)

well i really like mine, he seems rather effective to me (and every group he goes in) and yesterday i did elona reach with a motivation para in the team, and my energy never droped below half.

paragons really shine as group support, that is there reason for being really...

I prefer play Paragon in PvE because it's better than a Warrior ... as some team want 2W, 2P is the best way ~.~. it's just my opinion and stupid players won't change because they don't want to try ... So, my Para play alone in heroway, but there's no problem cause it's my 8th charac, but I understand new players who want to play Para and don't find groups...
Poor Gw...

ugh, paragons are the most misunderstood class in the game, and just like the RT they just have to gain momentum ( i read a bunch of posts saying that RT is never seen but by the time NF came out and i played the game, I saw RTs almost as often as I saw all the other casters)

i guess paragons were played a lot in the beginning of NF, but as of now they are the rarest class in the game. Though I see several on PvE NF (not nearly as much as dervish, warrior, ranger, necro, etc), its a rare encounter to find one on pvp or find a good one on pve

I was hesitant to pick the paragon because they seemed to rigid and undiverse, guess I was right! their primary makes the HAVE to rely on shouts and chants, and makes them more effective with more ppl, like GVG or alliance (which is why i tone my primary down to 8 or 9 on random or team arenas). Once your done shouting, your given a small gap of energy to add whatever else you would like, be it something from another class, a costly command skill, or, more commonly, just another spear skill

If i over use my "other" non chant skills, my energy bar rapidly hits 0, making me stick to very cheap "other" skills or make them soley rely on adrenaline...

Now that im done bashing the paragon, this is why i stuck with him:

they have TOUGH spear skills. I have a P and a R, and i hit ALOT more dmg with my spear than my bow, and can interupt, bleed, wound, etc. my opponent without any "catches" (a bow skill would have a preparation to add an affect or give you a condition to add a condition, like the enemy has to be running or something. And to top it all, bow generally does less dmg).

In pve good paragons are rare, and people let me tag along (even though i am a lower lvl than them) because paragons have several heals and buffs that help the team rather than the single dmg dealing warrior.

Also in pvp (random) i always thought my paragon was made for gvg or alliance battles and only played him because he was the only char i had a decent build on at the time. Well after experamenting, and even using straight out generic builds (like the avg ranger, avg warrior, etc) i found out that i won a lot more with my paragon (even more so than with my monk!).

This is because the paragon has buffs that either give effects (burning, xtra dmg, or CRIPPILING) to their entire team's attacks, can boost the team's energy or adrenaline, or HEAL. And they can do all this while not being targeted by anybody, because they are such an oddity (and they have tougher armor than casters). Healing builds generally heal less than a monk, so they shouldn't just soley heal, but unlike a monk they can deal very generous amounts of dmg and can increase the energy and att dmg of their allies.