Paragon: Worst class?? or the Most misunderstood?

I think one of the problems is that Paragons start is so slow... everyone knows what they get with a warrior, an elementalist etc., etc (at least as a whole we know what to expect) . It takes the Paragon much longer then most classes to attain skills that give it a specific purpose and/or niche.

If you're playing with any reasonable number of physicals (2 plus the Paragon, at least) he becomes pretty awesome. I think a lot of the bad rep comes from people refusing to do damage with their physicals, and expecting the 'nukers' to kill everything.

Personally I am hard pressed to leave an outpost without my General Morgahn:

Wild Throw, Spear of Lightning, "Go for the Eyes!", Song of Restoration, Aggressive Refrain, Anthem of Flame, "Stand Your Ground!", Ressig, 12 Spear Mastery, 12 Leadership, 8 Command, 10 Motivation (1 major).

You get a strong combination of single target DPS (target stragglers that break aggro) and a bunch of party buffs, offensive and defensive. I'll slam the class for having so much crap in its lines, but if you just take the good skills it's still a very, very strong character.

Peace,
-CxE

Quote: Originally Posted by Shuuda

I personally love the paragon. It was my first character for NF and ran it through quite quickly. I did almost all missions with henches and heroes, there are a few a got some guildies to help with but other than that the paragon is a prof to reckon with if the player knows what they are doing. Saying they are underpowered or useless is ridiculous.

Quote: Originally Posted by XvArchonvX

Most misunderstood. They're rather awkward to play, but doable. I think the biggest problem, and why people don't take them, was already mentioned - a lot of Paragon players don't look at their team, they just take whatever build suits them.

I only just recently created a Paragon (just got to level 20) and it didn't take me long to figure out how to play them. I do look at my team and decide what build/skills to use. A lot of times I go to use something like Aria of Restoration and say "oh, not really any spell casters, so something else will be better" (actually, this can be useful in any group for your monk(s) to help them out when they come under attack, but most of the time if your monks are your only spell casters, you can take something better.)

Likewise, if I have a lot of spell casters and little to know physical classes, Zealous Anthem isn't going to be doing any good.

There are more "neutral" builds that you can make with a Paragon as well though that will benefit virtually any class out there.

There are a few reasons why Paragon's support skills aren't supposed to replace a monk's - First of all, there's no way to remove chants, shouts, echos, ect. - that alone is reason enough as to why the effects aren't as powerful as other similar skills. Secondly, most of them will affect your entire party. And finally, a Paragon also can also deal quite a bit of damage, giving them a duel role as team support, and damage dealer.

That said, there are some pointless skills in there, my biggest problem is Defensive Anthem though...

As was said... Aegis does the same thing without the downside of being removed upon attacking. I think it should lose the attacking removal condition, and increase the duration. As it is now, it not only does not deserve Elite status, with Aegis out there it would even be a lousy regular skill to take.

I got NF a month ago. Made a Para and beat the game with heroes and henchies!

They could be better, could be worse.

I for one think they are quite versatile using skills from their secondary to complement their utility builds such as:

[card]expel hexes[/card]

[card]blood is power[/card]

...and other such eilites that require little investment to be effective...The paragon can handle not having a paragon elite...

The Paragons need a retooling so that they can be more powerful but not overpowered. I love the Paragon but I'd say a good 50 of the skills are almost completely useless. That's ok for a profession with 130 skills, but Paragon has only 75.

My own thought is they've been just a tad overnerfed.

But at the same time, as others have indicated. Rangers and Paragons have a small problem in that they're self-reinforcing. I tend to play my ranger more, and I run into a lot of 'we don't want rangers'... so my reaction is typically to call out to all the other rangers and form a PUG akin to a B/P group. Right now, paragons really don't have the equivalent of a simple B/P group build for PvE... or I haven't seen them forming them.

I kind of wonder if certain skills will need to be identified for single paragon use, while others kept usable for mass paragon builds.

Quote: Originally Posted by Pick Me

Another reason y a paragon is better than a warrior is, what others dont realize, in the start warriors were ment to have the best armor, and were stronger against dam. b/c of the armor, paragon max armor is the same as warriors max; 80

Quote: Originally Posted by PenguinMercenary Another reason y a paragon is better than a warrior is, what others dont realize, in the start warriors were ment to have the best armor, and were stronger against dam. b/c of the armor, paragon max armor is the same as warriors max; 80 uga uga orly wtf?

seriously..what in gods name are you talking about?

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PARAGUNS OBVIOZLY SAK BECUZ DEY AINT GUD IN PVE HMKAY? BECUZ LYK RYTS ND MONKS R BETTA FO HEALZ ND PROTECT N STUFF YE?

The paragon's armour is only lacking the +physical aspect... other than that their armour is on par with the warrior...

^ Thank you guys for proving my point..... I think you guys should go back and read the first post...(spear=underestimated...motivation=overesti mated) paragons in their current state are not healers...they provide damage and utility...

compared to monk = the paragon cannot compete with the heals/prots
compared to warrior = The paragon has higher base dps, and overall team damage augmentation.

you should think of the paragon as a ranged warrior, with some team based utility.... not as a healer/protector

I cant wait till GW:en gets here hopefully with some new paragon skills. As the thread has already pointed out alot of the Paragon elites are pretty useless or require incredibly precise timing to get the most out of them. Now-a-days I just use a pretty standard build with
[skill]"Go for the eyes!"[/skill][skill]spear of lightning[/skill][skill]anthem of flame[/skill][skill]aggressive refrain[/skill][skill]signet of return[/skill] leaving an elite and 2 other skills spare, I often go with cruel spear, one of the + energy motivation skills for spell casting or attack skills (dependant on party) and fall back. Spamming GFTE and Anthem of flame keeps your IAS up indefinately if done right or combining with 'fall back' and 'charge' between fights and you'll never have problems with energy

If you want to play this game to go up on the line, rush in, and wait for monks to heal you while you keep using frenzy, use a warrior. If you like motivation, and you like to keep party alive and boosted then use a paragon. People have to know how to use them to play them, unlike the warrior. The same goes for assasin.

The only reason people do not play paragon is because they do not know what they can do, and when they think about playing them, they just figure warrior or ranger is better because they do damage. Err... wrong. You only need a certain amount of damage dealers. If you all were damager dealers where would the healing, motivation come from. So, well... people don't know paragons can help the team, so they use warrior since it is easy.

i normaly take general morgan or the motivation henchie and blaze through stuff. never notice what sologon? does tho XD

my para is atleast as effective as any of my other chacaters, in general terms , lazy playstyle too

Quote: Originally Posted by XvArchonvX

In terms of offense via Spear attacks, I feel that the Paragon fills a "Support" role (surprise, surprise). By this, I mean that their attack skills are an easy way to help the party slay a target. Paragons have a large variaty of Deep Wound-inducing attack skills (note that Rangers have zero), as well as other flexible skills that are easy to use. For example, Lightning Spear for elemental damage (Physical Resistance Mesmers, anyone?), Burning Spear or Barbed Spear for an easy and cheap condition, et cetera.

Essentially, I see Paragons as a full-fledged support class. Everything about a pure Paragon is support -- even their attacks.

When Nightfall came out, definitely the most misunderstood class. After Anet's nerf department got a hold of it (it wasn't the most powerful class to begin with tbh), definitely the worst. Yes, worse than a Sin.