Paragon - Staff Support Paragon - MetaBattle

Paragon Basics

You may have 3 adrenaline bars, but your F1-4 Burst skills can only consume 1 at a time. More adrenaline doesn't make your skills stronger.
Paragons gain a new resource to manage: motivation. You build motivation by using Burst skills, including Chants.
Your F2-4 Burst skills have 2 parts - an active (Chant) and a passive (Refrain). When you use a Chant, its Refrain also activates. Chants take adrenaline to activate while Refrains require motivation to maintain. Motivation drains passively while you have an active Refrain.
You can only have one active Chant/Refrain at a time. Refrains become more powerful at higher Motivation levels.
行动吟唱 is the least important one for the support role, providing offensive boons for allies. You're mostly going to be using it for trait synergy and to build motivation. 康复吟唱 focuses on healing and cleansing. 自由吟唱 is a stunbreak that also provides defensive boons.
While Chants are technically Burst skills, a lot of Burst related traits like 净化之怒 only proc if you hit an enemy. Since Chants don't strike enemies, most of these traits won't work with Chants.

General

Always follow the teamfight, avoid getting locked into 1v1s.
Maintain permanent 迅捷 on your team with 冲锋陷阵, both in and out of combat.
- Consider using it as a condition removal tool before using other cleanses to increase the chance of removing damaging conditions with other skills.
Both Warhorn skills are blast finishers. While the build itself doesn't have many combo fields, these are still useful for stacking or auras, just to mention a few applications.
is a ranged rez/stomp that could turn the tide of battle in seconds. Just remember not to waste it - if you feel like you can get the rez or the kill without the banner, then try and go for it. View the banner as more of a last resort option, keep it for the right time.
- It's worth pointing out that the banner revives allies by restoring downed health. This counts as healing and is affected by healing reduction effects such as . If an ally barely has any downed health left, they may not rally from just the banner alone.
- Makes it harder for enemies to interrupt you when casting this skill. Have , break line of sight, keep distance, etc.

Healing & Support Basics

Staff carries your healing, as far as weapon sets go.
On Staff both and are fairly simple ground targeted healing skills that also allow you to quickly reposition yourself or reach distant allies.
and the burst skill are fairly simple fire-and-forget healing skills.
can be used to pull enemies off of your teammates, allowing them to build distance or recover a bit.
is your main support skill on the Warhorn set.
While your healing skills are reactive, the barrier skills are more proactive. Barrier is great at buffering HP when you're expecting enemy burst, or it can buy you more time to heal up allies who are already low. Barrier can also be used to support Necromancers in shroud, when they're unaffected by healing.
Barrier providers in the build are:
- (F3)
- (Warhorn)
- (utility)
You can break stuns for allies with while also making them more durable vs CC via and .
- This skill doesn't break stuns for you unless your timing is absolutely perfect and you manage to use this skill right before a CC lands.
- For personal use there's .
Your healing skill is one of your best all-around support skills. It heals allies multiple times, cleanses conditions, and even restores adrenaline for you.

Condition Cleansing

This is where Warhorn outperforms Staff.
is one of the strongest skills in the entire build, providing a large amount of barrier for the team while also cleansing conditions. The barrier itself also soaks condition damage.
- When used after these two Warhorn skills could AoE cleanse 6 conditions from you and your allies!
- It's recommended that you use Charge beforehand, because it increases the chance of Call of Valor removing damaging conditions.
creates a Light field - using Blast finishers (like Warhorn skills) inside the field results in AoE cleansing.
removes several conditions from teammates.
Burst skills can also cleanse conditions from allies as long as you have the Soldier's Focus buff from . This buff is refreshed every 10 seconds, or whenever you swap weapons.
- Burst skills also proc , but this only removes your conditions.

Offensive Support

As a Paragon, one of your strengths in PvP is offensive support - the ability to help your team out in ways other than just restoring health.
can make your and your team's attacks unblockable. If you follow it up with , you can even pull enemies out of blocking skills like , opening them up for allies to target.
Sword's can immobilize enemies into bursts, as well as slow down enemies who are chasing your allies.
You can stack for your team with and provide them with via as well as burst skills empowered by .