It'll be worth relatively more DPS under softcap, but it has an uptime of 60-80% and can be slow to come up. Transformation procs are worth a static 283 DPS.
#PARAGON GAME GUIDES PC#
At my gear level, the 153 AP proc is a gain of roughly 500 DPS while the PC proc is worth 550. In contrast, there are no soul tree or buff bonuses to PC. Use more AP gear as you gain better gear it tends to scale better.Ģ37 PC > 153 AP > 190 PC (PvP proc) > Transformation (Dreamsource) > 206 CP (PvP proc) > Fire Damage (Flamesource) > Death Damage (Rotward)Īlthough AP greaters may seem better than PC greaters, it must be noted that the AP from the proc is not affected by things like soul tree bonuses or stacks of readiness. If you're over ~9000, don't use Illustrious Bottles of Critical Strikes use Phenomenal Bottles instead.Īfter CP soft cap (attempt to get slightly under rather than over, especially if you're anticipating gear upgrades), use a mixture of AP and PC gear. The PC soft cap is 13140 (45%), but this isn't easily reachable without fully stacking PC gear. This is reachable at 2982 in addition to raid buffs and consumables. Stack CP until the soft cap, which is 3120. Use Warmaster's Crystal before T3, switch to Slayer's with a T3 epic weapon or higher Sweeping Blades - this is a loss unless there are at least 4 targets. Recovery Posture (will turn Sergeant's Order into a taunt) Critagon can also be used to run an armor debuff.ĥ4 Paragon 22 Champion 0 Tempest - Critagon It MAY be worth running if your raid has multiple paragons/shamans. The armor debuff is worth roughly 1.5% additional physical damage. Pillars of Justice (Critagon is extremely competitive here too)Ħ1 Paragon 10 Warlord 5 Tempest - main PvE variantĦ1 Paragon 9 Warlord 6 Tempest - Elude for PvPĦ1 Paragon 10 Warlord 5 Champion - F2P variantĦ1 Paragon 7 Warlord 8 Champion - Armor debuff and F2P variant.Paragon is very good at target swapping and short term disconnects. Use Paragon in fights that are relatively melee friendly, have no extended disconnects, and do not require extensive cleave. Death Touch must now be used earlier in the rotation to consume Shifting Blades, as it does considerably more damage than Setting Moon. This means that it's now a gain to take Shatter over Soldier's Might, as a 10% damage taken debuff is stronger than 10% STR by a considerable margin. Strike Like Iron (51 point root passive) increased from 25% increased damage done to 30%.Shifting Blades (28 point root ability) now affects the next four abilities, up from three.Shatter (First tier Warlord branch talent) increased from 1% damage increased damage taken per point to 2%.Paragon received several direct and indirect buffs in Hotfix #7 (Patch 3.7). It also has high burst and synergy with raid cooldowns, and is a spec that should be in every warrior's arsenal. Although it has extremely bad cleave, paragon has very good disconnect capabilities (Grasping the Horizon allows most of your attacks to be made at a 20 m range for 15 seconds every 30 seconds), strong synergy with raid cooldowns, 2 stuns/debilitates, a charge, and a movement speed increasing ability. Paragon is currently a top parsing single target warrior spec, rivaled by Warlord. Thanks to Acuta, who wrote the original 3.3 guide, Byaku, who came up with the old rotation, and Secondbass.