Paragon

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Paragons are the guardian angels of Elona, humanity’s champions against malefic threats. They rally the valiant with Shouts and Chants, aiding heroes, henchmen, and other adventurers through inspiration and motivation. A Paragon’s best weapons rely on an insightful mind, a courageous spirit, and a charismatic voice. Many Paragons also arm themselves with a spear and shield, striking from a distance as they shout their battle cries. Through insight, they help others resist Hexes and Conditions, echoing their commands across the field of battle (in fact, some “ Echo” abilities renew themselves each time a Chant or Shout ends). When all hell breaks loose, a commanding Paragon shines as a beacon of light, driving back the forces of darkness.

Paragon characters can only be created on accounts that have access to Guild Wars Nightfall.

With a commanding voice and charismatic presence, the Paragon rallies the valiant through inspiration, motivation, and leadership.

–In-game description

[edit] Attributes

[edit] Leadership (Primary)

With the Paragon's primary attribute, Leadership, you gain 1 Energy for each ally affected by one of your Shouts or Chants (maximum 1 Energy for every 2 ranks).

[edit] Command

Many Paragon skills, especially those that protect your allies or increase your tactical position on the battlefield, become more effective with higher Command.

[edit] Motivation

Many Paragon skills, especially those related to healing and energy management, become more effective with higher Motivation.

[edit] Spear Mastery

Spear Mastery increases the damage you do with spears and your chance to inflict a critical hit when using a spear. Many skills, especially spear attack skills, become more effective with higher Spear Mastery.

[edit] Common usage

[edit] Motivation

Motivation offers two excellent elites for general play; Song of Restoration, a party-wide heal, and Song of Purification, an effective method to counter conditions.

[edit] Damage Mitigation or Imbagon

In situations of massive damage, paragons work well to reduce the overall effect of enemy attacks. Using increased adrenaline gain skills (like Focused Anger and FGJ) to spam PvE skills such as "Save Yourselves!" and "There's Nothing to Fear!", an aware player can make his or her team nearly invincible.

[edit] Echo Volven

Unlike enchantments, the Paragon echoes (not to be confused with the spell "echo" of the mesmer profession) will continue after using the Volfen, blessings from Eye of the North. If a player casts echoes, like Aggressive, Mending, Burning, and Bladeturn refrain (all of which are recharged when a shout or chant ends on target), on him or herself and continually uses Volfen Bloodlust to renew all of the Echoes, then the normal Volfen Blessing becomes much more of a threat to any PvE enemy. This only works with Volven Blessing, unless using sweets and such to use Ursan Roar at a faster interval.

[edit] Weapons and armor

The paragon's primary weapon is a spear, which is a ranged weapon.

Paragon armor has the same armor rating as that of warriors, and similar to warriors, they can also use shields. The total armor rating however, is slightly less than that of a warrior, since warrior armor has an inherent +20 bonus.

Paragon is the profession with the highest armor rating of all ranged professions.

[edit] See also

[edit] Trivia

A Paragon is a living being that is the embodiment of an ideal.

Professions
Core: Warrior • Ranger • Monk • Necromancer • Mesmer • Elementalist
Factions: Assassin • Ritualist Nightfall: Paragon • Dervish