Team Build: Flameway

this makes me want to dust off my little paragon, i'd tried to find builds that could truly take advantage of "They're on Fire!" but could never work one out that seemed very effective.

i'd also never been able to really make a para hero work with anyone but my ranger, but i always just ran barrage/GFTE on him. Yeah, kudos to a lot of members starting threads like this. I think we are all getting pretty bored with the game at this point and it's nice to inspire rediscovering a lot of professions that get shelved due to boring "meta" builds.

Yeah, kudos to a lot of members starting threads like this. I think we are all getting pretty bored with the game at this point and it's nice to inspire rediscovering a lot of professions that get shelved due to boring "meta" builds. well, another issue is trying to find builds that a hero can actually run well. that is a big limiting factor.

Well the good news is that all of the paragon skills are (obviously) found in Nightfall Thanks . I admit I was suffering a mild case of sour grapes - ALL builds discussed anywhere are the end product and, quite frankly, unless a person plays without having work, life, etc. to interrupt, leveling to 20+ via quests/missions takes a bit of time with very few skills. If a rank beginner were to look for ways of building an efficient but fun-to-play character of any ilk, they might be hard pressed to find good advice.

On my main acct (all campaigns), my paragon is a P/E (from 'birth' four years ago). But on my 'new' second acct with only Proph and Nightfall, my girl just hit lvl 7. She is already wielding a bow which is rather interesting to behold. We'll see how it all turns out!

Thanks . I admit I was suffering a mild case of sour grapes - ALL builds discussed anywhere are the end product and, quite frankly, unless a person plays without having work, life, etc. to interrupt, leveling to 20+ via quests/missions takes a bit of time with very few skills. If a rank beginner were to look for ways of building an efficient but fun-to-play character of any ilk, they might be hard pressed to find good advice.

On my main acct (all campaigns), my paragon is a P/E (from 'birth' four years ago). But on my 'new' second acct with only Proph and Nightfall, my girl just hit lvl 7. She is already wielding a bow which is rather interesting to behold. We'll see how it all turns out! P/E can be pretty nice, I have experimented with that a bit. You can get some good use out of Conjure Flame, etc. although an R/E would get more out of it, e.g. Conjure + Barrage.

If your new paragon doesn't have too many skills yet you might want to try a sort of Imbagon-lite with There's Nothing To Fear + Stand Your Ground. Add They're On Fire as well if the rest of your team can cause burning. Good luck!

Khomet, I understand that staying at a range would prevent more damage on yourself, but have considered a melee variation of the barrage?

1. Triple Chop
2. Whirlwind Attack
3. Cyclone Axe
4. Burning Refrain
5. There Nothing To Fear
6. Save Yourselves
7. EBSoH
8. Opt

More defence from SY!, and with a zealous axe you can use one of your attack skills each time you attack. Just a suggestion, going to go try your build in tombs now. Thanks for keeping paras fun man Thanks! I am hoping that Anet gives us more viable skills to work with soon.

I have never used an axe on my paragon, that is an interesting idea... but I have two similar melee-paragon builds on my Sandbox page, one is P/W with Hundred Blades, the other is a P/D with Focused Anger. Both of them are melee with mass-attack capability and blazing finale for burning. Although melee is a lot of fun I find that it doesn't work as well because it is affected by crippling, snaring, kiting, etc. which means that the melee paragon has a harder time building adrenaline in many cases, and when that happens the defensive shields go down. It is still fun to do though.

Tombs is a pretty rough place for teams without minions and spirits because of mass knockdown from the terrorwebs and mass damage and interrupts from the mesmers. The melee aren't too much of a threat by comparison. Tanking helps a lot in Tombs, if you stand ahead of your group the mesmers will blast you with spells and the rest of your team won't take any damage.

How on earth do you maintain your energy while spamming barrage? I'v been trying to use barrage builds for years now with more e-management than you're using. I even resorted to using a zealous bowstring, but the only time that I can manage to maintain energy is when the enemies are close enough that barrage can hit 3 at a time... which isn't very often due to barrage's low AoE.

I guess using EVAS helps you ball enemies, but it also costs 10 energy... It's an acquired art... but mostly it involves Barraging when you can hit 2+ enemies, if you are only going to hit one then just autoattack and save your energy. If you can hit at least two then you charge GFTE in two barrages... this costs 10e for barrage (5e x 2) and you gain +8 from GFTE, so net energy loss is 2e over two barrages, and you actually gain energy while barraging if you can hit more than two.

The timing of shouts can be a bit tricky at first, when you use TNTF and ToF you have a net loss of -7 and -2 energy, but you have to have the full 15 energy to use TNTF. It works best to use TNTF then ToF because TNTF has the greater energy cost. After casting EBSoH and/or EVAS you can recoup the cost instantly with Glowing Signet, just make sure to time it properly. I still miss this occasionally but you can almost guarantee the energy if you use it right after switching to a high-health foe (which burning refrain will then light on fire) or else wait for Searing Flames to hit. This is really easy in Urgoz because the Burning Brush set themselves on fire.

I don't use a zealous bow with this, I have a vampiric destroyer shortbow and a sundering mursaat longbow, I switch between the two for attack speed or increased range. A zealous bow would help with barrage, but it helps most in the case where you can hit 2+ foes... and as described above, if you can hit at least two the energy is not a problem. It does take a bit of practice though...