Curse

Phantom Flux · Nov 10, 2006, 02:42 AM // 02:42

Just to let you all know, I accidenly chose for my Paragon to be a secondary Elementalist, and I'm glad I did. I never really understood the hype of P/Ws. A lot of P/W players claims you can tank with them but in every mission or quest i've been in, they'd go hacked to pieces like some terrible Noob-Sin Players. Now, I do have an assassin player and i'm very good with him, however I can't deny how too many Mortal Kombat/Naruto Fanatics be nubbing up the sin's prestige. Not to go way off topic, I believe this build of mine is simplicitic and very well effective. Part of it is what the game configured, however I added Ward of Melee. With it I am able to block a lot of attacks and give my heroes the advantage of taking down my foes. I switch the wards up depending on what kind of foe I'm dealing with. It's great because atleast it's not some skill that causes exhaution and not to mention most of my Paragon's skills need adrenaline, leaving me to preserve the energy for any elementalist stuff.

It is a very good build, plus I got the survivor title to prove it. Please forgive the 1k armor it will be hitting some end game armor after another Abaddon-beating soon. :-D

Zamochit · Nov 10, 2006, 02:54 PM // 14:54

Hey

Just to let you know, the majority of Paragon Warriors run using primarily energy based shouts. They then use "watch yourself" for the additional armour boost (which is nice obviously) But primarily as a form of energy management, due to the energy gain from Leadership when you use a shout.

Paragons can tank, not as well as a warrior can obviously but the base armour level + Centurion Insignia will give you 90 AL when under a shout. Plus you get 16AL from your sheild. This compares relatively favourably to a warrior especially against elemental damage. When you are spamming watch yourself around half the time you have a +20 AL. You can also use stand your ground in emergencys for a great armour boost.

I agree that paragons shouldnt tank, but they have good self preservation skills if they are put in a position where they need to tank temporarily.

If you are happy rolling with P/E then good luck with it Im sure that it works well as a combination. Also in the same way as Sins are starting to get better as their players begin to understand fully the strengths and weaknesses of the class, expect paragons to get better at their roles over time.

Munanko Roha · Nov 10, 2006, 03:26 PM // 15:26

Phantom, it's not the combination of professions that makes a good Survivor, it's how they're played.

Anyway I would say that Paragon is easily the best class to obtain a Survivor, a 100 AL ranged class with lots of defensive skills gives survivability like no other profession.

I appreciate anyway the fact that you play a pretty offensive build, I know a lot of people who bring only self defences and stay out of the combat to avoid being killed and is proud of his Survivor title...blah...

Just one critique though: you are putting 14 attribute points in 2 lines just for using 2 skills, isn't it a bit of a waste? Especially the 8 points in Command seem to me not worth...

And 1 word about the P/W combo: just like Zamochit said Watch Yourself is used for added armor (very useful) and for energy recovery (even more useful). But adding points to Tactic enables you to add Shields up (Paragons and Rangers shutdown) and a lot of nice self defences, like Soldier's Defence (15 seconds of 75% avoid if under the effect of a shout...and you will always be under its effect!)...

broodijzer · Nov 11, 2006, 09:54 AM // 09:54

looks like a nice build, do you mind giving the template/code? I don't recognize the icons at all

Phantom Flux · Nov 12, 2006, 09:29 AM // 09:29

The command skill attribute numbers were added because I happened to obtain a good shield that needed a req 9.