Paragons, worth making?

With Focused Anger and Aggressive Refrain, plus skills like Blazing Spear, Cruel spear and Harrier's Toss, you can be a massive DPS machine. The paragon's biggest strength, though, is similar to the Mesmer. You make the rest of the team look good.

My paragon has become my primary char surpassing my first char my Ranger with almost 6 mill in xp. I've taken her through all campagns, UW, FoW, and trying for Urgoz and DoA. I find her the most fun. Though i still love my Rit and Drev. I like her hybrid nature of good armor, short ranged damage (spears have short bow range I believe). And I enjoy being able to affect all my party members. I dont have any regrets with her she's great fun. Though I'm partial to things with wings so maybe thats why too. :-p

I would recomend them to anyone especially over annoying Sins. :-p

I honestly didn't know what a Paragon did until I played as one. And this was after I played through Nightfall twice or so. But enough of stranding away from the topic...

Paragons are pretty much a jack of all trades. Not good at one particular thing, but they can do a myriad of things at once. You protect your party, shout to gain energy and buffs, throw lightning spears at your enemies, setting them on fire, and then knitting sweaters for your guild mates around the holidays. Unlike most player skill bars which generally focus on one or two things, Paragon skill bars are extremely diverse as to what each skill is supposed to do.

The good thing about the Paragon is that it can easily do anything and everything you need it to do for the team while still attacking away with little to no breaks in between. The bad thing is, the Paragon's success depends a lot on the team it's playing with (though this can be said for any class). You can pretty much say that the Paragon functions as an amplifier for its team.

Well, yes, if you actually play Hard Mode seriously and efficiently.

paragon as support god - case in point: doing FOW with 2 rangers, 4 paragons, warrior and dervish - overaggroed in Burning Forest and it looked like 1/2 the monsters in there descended upon us and nobody died! Red bars jumping up and down all across the party window, it looked like a bouncing equalizer display...needless to say the para's provided crazy support/prot/damage, we finished FOW no problems with no monks. Prolly not the greatest achievement of all time, but impressive to me nonetheless as i hadn't played a lot with Paragons before then. Now I have a LS3 paragon, but haven't really explored the class by finishing campaigns, etc - although I want to eventually (once my ranger gets to GWAMM - so maybe never lol) But I digress: @ og question, yes create a paragon if u want to play a ranged attack/mid-line support role (earshot distance for ur shouts/chants).

i love my paragon :-D
what i love more, is when people in my alliance decide to use there paragons at the same time as me in the same party xD

then things get really fun :-D

if you party has only one paragon you are pretty much limited to SY spam... kinda boring..

if you have 8 paragons in a party, you can do pretty much whatever you want as long as you have chorus of restoration and ballad of restoration in your bar :-P

VERY versatile class in numbers.

unfortunately, most people do not see there strength in numbers so no one makes them. *sigh*

I noticed one thing while speedrunning my Paragon through various missions today: they can use nicely made builds nearly everywhere. For me, running the Imbagon build has gotten me through 80% of the missions so far. The other 20% are the missions I had to complete before I could get the proper build made (heh). Fit for anywhere, really. Although admittedly, doing the same thing over and over in a select area gets quite boring.

IMbagon is rly boring though... paragons are fun, imbagon isnt.

Like every other character he is as good as a player who is using it.

But remember if people will see skills that are not popular (especially on character that is not popular) they probably call u a noob.

Yeah "save yourselves" is really much more boring than using any other adrenaline shout to recoup energy...

Basically a pve paragon bar looks like - aggressive refrain, adrenal shout, there is nothing to fear, attack skill number 1, attack skill number 2, energy shout, rez, other skill.

Imbagon bar looks like - aggressive refrain, save yourselves, there is nothing to fear, attack skill number 1, attack skill number 2, for greater justice, focused anger, other skill.

A world of difference...

Multiple paragons party are fun

Are they worth making? It depends whether you find it enjoyable to play.

Good offense, defense, awesome support. Not to mention Imbagon is just ridiculous albeit boring after a while.

Are they worth making? It depends whether you find it enjoyable to play.

Good offense, defense, awesome support. Not to mention Imbagon is just ridiculous albeit boring after a while.

Two weeks ago I played FoW full clear and finshed it within around an hour with the following team after 2 members left after restoring the temple.

1x Dervish
3xParagons (1xImba, 1xMoti, 1xDPS)
1xElementalist
1xMonk

I'd say yes.

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I'd say they're worth making.
That build is a variant of the highly mod-able "Broad Head Spear" build I made.
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Really fun to see a spammable BHA. While BHA is stronger, Stunning Strike is MUCH more spammable due to less downtime.

Though keep in mind that when you experiment and go into a PuG or group, people will always either call you a n00b or tell you to run IMBagon.

If it can TntF on recharge and keep up SY!... ppl should stfu.

I am trying out

Spear of Fury(r7)
Anthem of Weakness
Save Yourself(r7)
For great Justice
Aggresive Refrain
Focused Anger
Go for the Eyes
Ebon Standard of Honor(r10)

It seems to do well enough in the desert, it dosent seem to need "There is nothing to fear" (at this time) though Im vanquishing with sabway Necros so I need a little more reliable damage and theres lots of fodder before they get to the party members. Paragons also seem to do well when it comes to minor adjustments for areas due to how well rounded they are. I'm sure I will change it around again when it comes to the stone summit herders again to prevent knock downs.

I enjoy my paragon greatly. But its strength is in party support mainly. If thats not your "thing" they may not be for you. Like Monk isnt for some people.