P/E PvE Build: "They're on fire!"

It is your elite and half your attribute points. Eles have energy storage. You fail. OH noes! You just posted "You fail."!
That's retarded. So before the Elemental Attunement nerf, all mesmers that played lightning builds failed because they might as well have been eles? No, ofcourse not, because fast casting worked with the bulid and gave it an advantage, but some disadvantages, over playing an elementalist.

I can't play an ele with this build because I use it with leadership, a paragon-only attribute. I don't fail, you do for being a stupid shit.

It is your elite and half your attribute points. Eles have energy storage. You fail. Just what this unfortunately slow growing and pretty quiet guru paragon forum needs, a moderator that will troll peoples build posts with one line replies. Dont like the proposed build fine, mention where you think it is heading wrong, offer suggestions for tweaks. But hey, benefit of the doubt, maybe someone ran over your pet dog or you found out you have genital warts and are just having an off day.

I think I'll give your build a test run once I unlock the ele skills, nice to see paragons arent getting pidgeon holed into one or two builds only.

Just what this unfortunately slow growing and pretty quiet guru paragon forum needs, a moderator that will troll peoples build posts with one line replies. Dont like the proposed build fine, mention where you think it is heading wrong, offer suggestions for tweaks. But hey, benefit of the doubt, maybe someone ran over your pet dog or you found out you have genital warts and are just having an off day.

I think I'll give your build a test run once I unlock the ele skills, nice to see paragons arent getting pidgeon holed into one or two builds only. moderators should promote quality and discourage crap. The build leans toward the latter. It's pretty easy to see why. Paragons already have a skill that induces burning that they is easily accessible and has a short recharge, there's no point in adding a 15 energy fire hex to give the same effect.

More like, what the hell is he thinking making half a bad ele, half a bad paragon?

No way around it, a full paragon, or a full ele, or the ele with ToF on a para hero etc would be much superior.

Nice try at originality, but the reason this isn't run is bcos it isn't very good. I run a similar build (posted in this forum), and it works very well. I go 16 Leadership, 12 Fire and use adrenaline shouts, glowing sig, and fire attunement to manage my energy. I'm able to provide 53% dmg reduction for all allies for about 2/3 the duration of a fight and oftentimes longer. Compare that to Incoming which lasts 1/3 the duration of a fight (lasts 7 secs, downtime 13 secs) and only affects your party. Oh, and each SF does aoe dmg (from burning) of 84 regardless of armor level.

I've played the standard para builds a lot, the pure motivation healer/battery, the command build w Incoming and Stand your ground, the ToF build using burning finale, the spearagon. The SF based build that I run compares quite favorably with these builds.

The OP's build imo has some e-mgmt issues but is still pretty good. The build I run can go from 0e to 30e in a matter of seconds. Each SF only costs 9e with Fire Attunement on, and each adrenaline shout gains you 8e.

Also, even if you have an Ele with SF in your party, their job is not to keep multiple mobs on fire but rather to provide high dmg on one mob. While they're doing that, you could keep the other mobs burning.

The reason this build is not run is not because it is sub-par. It is because people look at it and think that it won't work. If people tried it instead of letting their knee-jerk reactions get the better of them, the verdict would be very different.

So far the people who have tried it, the OP, Phoenix Ex, and myself (altho I prefer my version) all think it does very well. The people who haven't tried it have very strong opinions, none of which comes from having any experience with the build. Conclude from that what you will.

moderators should promote quality and discourage crap. The build leans toward the latter. It's pretty easy to see why. Paragons already have a skill that induces burning that they is easily accessible and has a short recharge, there's no point in adding a 15 energy fire hex to give the same effect. It's not a hex.
They have more than one class skill to induce burning. There's anthem of flame (when a melee character uses an attack skill), burning refrain (when you attack an opponent with higher health), and burning finale (all adjacent foes when a shout/chant ends). Each one is circumstantial.

Searing Flames is different because you can target whatever crowd you want with it. I use heroes, I hate using PUG groups. Having an ele hero with searing flames attack the target I want would require A) Annoyingly hard micromanagement or B) switching my target, and therefore all my hero and henchman targets, to it. As a paragon with searing flames, I can start attacking a squishy character, making that the henchmen/hero target, and switch my aim reticle to the crowd I want to for casting searing flames without losing the original target.

None of the ways are "better" than the others. They work "differently" from eachother, and depending on the circumstances one might be obviously better than the other. But none of them are "better" than the others.