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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 4671325" data-attributes="member: 9053">As someone who's playing a Swordmage in a paragon campaign, I think they're fine and nothing anyone has to worry about. My GM just confessed that my character is the one he feels he has to deal with the most in order to defeat the party. In my case I took Wandering Swordmage which improved the range on my mark to add my Wis modifier (so it's 4 squares for me) and then I selected the Double Aegis Paragon Feat, so I mark two targets.I start the battle by marking two opponents who are engaged with our fighter and being attacked by the rogue and then use one of my teleports to go to an entirely different part of the battle and attack a completely different monster. The result of this is the monsters I've marked have considerable trouble coming over to attack me, and I get to use my shielding feature every round. If they back off and come over to attack me, well I'm still doing my defender job at that point.I use a jagged fullblade, and combined with the iron armbands and weapon focus, my damage output is decent, definitely mid-tier, but that's because our rogue is positively insane with his attacks.So I guess I'll say that I haven't found the Swordmage to be ineffective at all, and I didn't even take what many consider the best path for it (Coronial Guard). --Steve</blockquote>