Imbagon

An Imbagon is a Paragon who spams "Save Yourselves!", providing a near-constant +100 armor to other party members. They are most frequently used in the Domain of Anguish, although they are generally useful for PvE. The term is a portmanteau of "Imbalanced" and "Paragon", referring to the common belief that the profession is inherently weak. (It is also sometimes used as a derogatory phrase about the profession.)

Characteristics

Imbagons are primarily a Support build, with most of their advantages drawn from Shouts. They can also provide minor damage with their Spear and related attack skills.

• Warrior secondary.
• Skills and equipment to quickly build the adrenaline required, including:
  • Increased Attack Speed skills, such as Aggressive Refrain.
  • Furious spearhead.
  • Focused Anger

Typical build

P/W
"Go for the Eyes!" Aggressive Refrain "Save Yourselves!" "There's Nothing to Fear!" Ebon Battle Standard of Honor "For Great Justice!" Focused Anger "Fall Back!"	Spear Mastery: 11+1+1 Command: 8+1 Leadership: 11+1

Variations

Since Save Yourselves! is a Warrior skill, Imbagons are always Paragon/Warriors. Although there are several useful shouts in the Tactics line, most have comparable or superior Command-based equivalents.

• Command: "Incoming!", "Stand Your Ground!" and "We Shall Return!".
• Leadership: "They're on Fire!"
• Tactics: "Charge!", "Retreat!", "Shields Up!" and "Watch Yourself!"

Evaluation

Pros

• Provides a constant high reduction of damage to the party while within earshot.

Cons

• Extremely susceptible to Shout and Adrenal counters such as Vocal Minority and Soothing Images.
• Deals low damage

Player vs Player

Imbagons are rarely used in PvP because of the following handicaps:

• Their most effective skills are PvE-only, e.g. "There's Nothing to Fear!".
• Other important skills have been nerfed for PvP (to prevent boring matches), e.g. the PvP version of "Stand Your Ground!" only protects characters until their next attack.

External Links

• General Imbagon on PvXwiki
• Specific Imbagon for DoA on PvXwiki

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