Team Build: 7H Paragon Build

Hey all!

I have been wanting to make a 7H Paragon Teambuild, as I bought mercenaries and I love my Paragon. I did not see this yet, so I thought I could try a bit and see where I ended. I got a lot of inspiration from Khomet (thanks for that!) and now looking for feedback on what I got atm.

Thanks in advance!

I see you love paragons, but wouldn't be 5/8 paras enough?

SoS splinter rit hero would surely do better than SoS para.
MoP necro with minions too.
And a monk hero as well.
Bringing Skills that benefit from physical damage would help greatly.

And what is this team's purpose?
Just some easy NM for fun? Or full storyline, titles, HoM and WoC HM?

I'm not sure how I feel about the paras with little to no Spear Mastery, but I know why you did it, having tinkered around with similar builds myself.

I highly recommend Song of Purification somewhere, as it is a skill that can single handedly keep conditions off your party. Also on topic, you might actually want to consider Hexbreaker Aria for hex removal since 4/5 of your heroes have spells.

The healer seems incredibly out of place and useless in this case. With all the healing from both your shouts, OotV, and Blood Bond thrown around along with the incredible defense of the imbagon build, I can't see your team very well needing the healing that this hero will provide. If I were you I'd probably be considering using him to help mitigate the stretched attributes of your other heroes. A simply Moti/Command hybrid might alleviate some of the cramped nature of your Fury and Motigon heroes, allowing you to perhaps take an attack skill or two on them instead.

Tried this before. Massive lack in survivability and damage. Needs MoP at least, but still struggles with survivability... It's gimped because you're trying to make everything a primary paragon.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sagittario I see you love paragons, but wouldn't be 5/8 paras enough?

SoS splinter rit hero would surely do better than SoS para.
MoP necro with minions too.
And a monk hero as well.
Bringing Skills that benefit from physical damage would help greatly.

And what is this team's purpose?
Just some easy NM for fun? Or full storyline, titles, HoM and WoC HM? I was trying to make a build with 7 Paragons. Not an overpowered build that could steamroll over everything in PvE (because I already have GWAMM and 50/50 on my other account, Chinese Dog). As such, I tried to make a good build with 7 Paragon Heroes, because I am just that bored with the game :P

The build is just for fun in PvE, so I guess maybe a vanquish too...
Although I was already able to complete FoW NM (not a big achievement, but it's a paragon team :P ), so I was quite happy with that...

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Quote: Originally Posted by Spears From Hell

I found Paragons to be extremely well suited to survive. They have high armor, which is even more with Centurion Insignias and Shields Armor-ignoring dmg = instant wipe.

Quote: Originally Posted by Spears From Hell Hey all!

I have been wanting to make a 7H Paragon Teambuild, as I bought mercenaries and I love my Paragon. I did not see this yet, so I thought I could try a bit and see where I ended. I got a lot of inspiration from Khomet (thanks for that!) and now looking for feedback on what I got atm.

Thanks in advance!

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/...Spearsway2.png happy to help
1st note, you don't need 2 copies of burning barrage, "they're on fire" has 100% uptime already and burning refrain can be put on everyone so you have some duplication there. the volley idea is a good one, I had been using that for some time on a paragon team I created called "Kway", you might find some useful ideas there. I used two volley paragons, one with anthem of fury and the other with song of purification. a third paragon had a spear and high motivation, that one was for party healing and hex removal. the 7H build on the Kway page uses some other professions but if you want to stick with mostly paragons you could try something like this (6 para, 1 rit, 1 monk):

imbagon (player)
volley (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...Volley_paragon)
volley (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...Volley_paragon)
hexeater (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:..._Eater_paragon)
orders/splinter (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...SoS.2FSplinter)
enraged lunge (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...#Enraged_Lunge)
enraged lunge (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...#Enraged_Lunge)
UA (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...nyielding_Aura)

Between burning refrain and anthem of flame you should have a fair amount of burning and if you have pets available it would be a good idea to slot blazing finale in there to add some more, that way you will get maximum protection from "they're on fire". Since you don't have a panic/PI mesmer it would probably be a good idea to put distracting shot or distracting throw on all of the paragons, and bring anthem of disruption for extra fun... XD

hope this helps,
khomet

Quote: Originally Posted by Axel Zinfandel I highly recommend Song of Purification somewhere, as it is a skill that can single handedly keep conditions off your party. Also on topic, you might actually want to consider Hexbreaker Aria for hex removal since 4/5 of your heroes have spells. Seconded. The Healer Paragon should carry it instead of Word of Healing. Then swap out the Monk healing skills for Ritualist healing skills (Spirit Light, Mend Body & Soul), seems these heal large amounts and are much more efficient than Monk heals without Divine Favour, and the SoS Paragon is making spirits to power them anyway.

Then slot in some more hex removal over a few copies of "They're On Fire". Anti-shout hexes will cause instant wipe for you otherwise, and three copies of "They're On Fire", as Khoment stated, is excessive anyway. One can be kept up round the clock, and I can understand having two for a back-up just incase or due to any A.I. failings, but three is totally excessive.

A stacked-hex remover that you can micro is also a must to keep the team running in such hex heavy areas (the imbagons effectiveness is crucial to this sort of team, and if he's shutdown the team very quickly falls).

I'd also pop Disrupting Throw on the Healgon too, just to give him something to trigger the Anthem with seems he can also benefit from the extra Adren, and also assist the limited shutdown the team has (not a criticism, just an observation, it can't really be helped with an all Paragon team) with another interrupt. Consider increasing his Leadership a bit too to help with energy.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sagittari Quote:
Originally Posted by Spears From Hell View Post
I found Paragons to be extremely well suited to survive. They have high armor, which is even more with Centurion Insignias and Shields
Armor-ignoring dmg = instant wipe. They're on Fire + There's Nothing To Fear will greatly reduce incoming armour-ignoring damage too.

Although, it is true Paragons actually aren't too greatly armoured when running Aggressive Refrain or Soldier's Fury. Monks and Ritualists can easily pull-off superior ALs then, without the use of any armour-increasing skills too.

This is the para team build I've been using to mess around with.

Trust me, I've been playing in elite areas with 8 paras teams: if you are going to use spells just use spellcasters, not paras. In my opinion an only paragon team should use mostly paragon skills; there are also warriors skill which synergies very well with paragon skills (100blades + burning refrain..etc). Skill like "You move like a Dwarf" helps a lot and synergies well with "Chorus of restoration" which is in my opinion the best healing skills within a team where shouts and chants are always on..

Also think about conditions: a para can spam many of them, "epidemic" with a good aggroo can really make the difference.

Skills like "Spear of Fury" is a must imo. Also "Great dwarf weapon" casted on a meele para is perfect.

"Barbs and Mark of pain" if use well also helps a lot.

Let me work on a team build and I will post it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Behemoth1