Curse

InfernalSuffering · Oct 17, 2006, 01:16 AM // 01:16

Well, obviously it is possible but can it be really good and effective? I have seen the different secondary combinations with paragon but its mostly just giving credit for p/w. Here is my take on the genious p/a. Now I like the whole "guardian angel of Elona" thing but I really want a "dark angel" type character: insert the P/A. For now I am only going to go the route of shadow arts. I now give to you a possible build I might use( PvE) and some other good combinable skills.

The Shadow Arts Paragon
Anthem of Fury {e} -used for energy and adreneline
Barbed Spear -condition
Merciless Spear -condtion
Blazing Spear -condition
Vipers Defense -condition and evasion(sense a pattern)
Heart of Shadow -healing and evasion
Shadow Refuge -healing
Good ol' Rez Sig -ressurecting

Other good skills to combine:
Death's Retreat: used to stay out of heart of battle and not get killed by tanks (only good w/ no shouts or chants)
Return: good for condition and again keeping melee characters away from you
Way of the Fox: semi-useful when faced w/ the inevitable increase in usage of whirling defense etc.

Spura · Oct 17, 2006, 10:42 AM // 10:42

Heart of Shadow = trash
Shadow Refuge = trash

There is a reason why assassins use Shadow Refuge. Because they are forced to. All other selfheals are better in most situations.

unholy guardian · Oct 17, 2006, 10:02 PM // 22:02

it's really an intresting build, but really the condition idea is almost best served from another condition spammer. Vipers defense doesn't beat an ias for you really.

zling · Oct 28, 2006, 01:26 AM // 01:26

this build seems pretty awkard... paragorns have chants, shouts and echoes to assisst themselves and their party and 2 attributes devoted to these. your only chant is your elite anthem... the whole point of the assassin is to dish out damage quickly and than get out quickly, you dont need to do that as a paragorn cause you have high armor... assassin's defensive skills arent all that great while paragorn has a lot of good defensive shouts, chants and echoes and yet you use the assassin's defensive skills over the paragorn's...

your build seems to be a condition spammer but there are a lot of much better ways to be a condition spammer, for a paragorns as well as for other classes. heck if you wanna be a condition spamming paragorn use anthems such as anthem of flame and cripple, combine it with barbed spear and that elie skill that inflicts deep wound and use the mesmer's condition spreading skill for an AoE condition spammer.

LifeInfusion · Oct 28, 2006, 02:28 AM // 02:28

IMO it would be better if you went a secondary that is not so energy intensive, just like a Warrior a Paragon has only 2 pips of energy.

Vipers Defense -condition and evasion(sense a pattern)
Heart of Shadow -healing and evasion
Shadow Refuge -healing

Paragons have healing too, why not ditch the assassin skills for paragon skills? As an added bonus, you don't need to spread attributes into Shadow Arts.