Paragon

General
The Paragon is a profession first introduced in Guild Wars Nightfall. The word Paragon is used to describe a model of excellence, or one who represents the ideal of their kind.

The Paragon is a ranged support character who buffs teammates and helps them combat conditions, while throwing spears at range. The Paragon may use shouts and chants to buff their teammates. Despite their quite high base energy of 30 they only have +2 regen; the Paragon makes use of adrenaline based skills to offset this. Leadership's inherent energy-gaining effect also offsets this.

The Paragon has an angelic appearance with white armor and underwear. Several chants have an animation showing feathered wings extending from the Paragon's back, enhancing the effect. They wield spears, weapons with the range of a shortbow, as well as use shields, which are tied to the Command and Motivation attributes.

Despite being classified a support character, the Paragon is the only other class apart from the Warrior whose base armor rating goes up to 80; they are also the only other class to naturally equip shields. However, Warriors are still better armored thanks to their usual +20 bonus against physical attacks. The patron gods of the Paragon are Dwayna and Balthazar.

Attributes

 * Leadership (Primary): You gain 1 Energy for each ally affected by one of your Shouts or Chants (maximum 1 Energy for every 2 ranks).
 * Leadership skills
 * 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.
 * Spear Mastery skills
 * Command: No inherent effect. Many Paragon skills, especially those that protect your allies or increase your tactical position on the battlefield, become more effective with higher Command.
 * Command skills
 * Motivation: No inherent effect. Many Paragon skills, especially those related to Energy management or that inspire your allies, become more effective with higher Motivation.
 * Motivation skills

Profession Combinations
See Secondary professions for a Paragon

Related Articles

 * Paragon skills quick reference
 * Refrain skills quick reference
 * Category:Paragon skills
 * Armor types
 * Paragon armor crafting quick reference
 * Paragon collector armor
 * Paragon collector weapons
 * Paragon unique items quick reference
 * Effective paragon guide
 * Chant
 * Echo (skill type)
 * Shout
 * Spear
 * Shield
 * Paragon dance information
 * Paragon quick references (category)
 * Paragon elite skill locations

Trivia

 * Many of the Paragon's shouts can be related to pop-culture references such as "Can't Touch This!" "It's just a flesh wound." and "The Power Is Yours!"
 * A paragon used as a noun is a person or thing so excellent as to have no equal or match.
 * A paragon by definition is also a unit of mass equal to 20 grams, used to measure diamonds.
 * The term paragon used in printing is a type size of 20 points.
 * The Paragon is similar to the Bard classes in other games (most notably Dungeons and Dragons) in which the both use shouts (songs in the case of the bard) to support allies.
 * The Paragon has also the role of a Paladin in other games: he is a heavily armored warrior that leads the team and uses his powers to buff/heal comrades.