Pain Doubler Paragon! High powered melee death for everyone!

I was hesitant to share this build because its so devastating... but here we go.

This all started when me and a friend we in a heated debate over GFTE and Orders. I was arguing that GFTE was better because it was easy spam, and my friend argued that you just can't beat the non conditional damage bonus with good old OoP. So I did the math and said "hey! What happens when you slap OoP on a command paragon...."

Build: Pain Doubler

P/N

Equipment:
20/-5 Shield, +30 Health (Command) and a +5e. +30 Spear works.

Attribute Spread:

Command: 15
Blood: 9
Spear Mastery: 9
Leadership: 9

Skills:

Wild Throw
"Go for the Eyes!"
Order of Pain
"Stand Your Ground!"
Incoming {e}
Blood Ritual
Leader's Comfort
Rez

The sole purpose of this build is to transform your combat based allies into meatgrinders of death. Before a spike you will cast OoA and shout GftE at the same time. Have you ever seen a warrior hit with eviscerate + executioner with both of these on? I swear you will see heads fly off. With command at 15 GftE has a critical hit ratio of 75%, which is just pain crazy. Since the skill is only a 4 adren cost, even without an IAS you can still spam it constantly. In conjuction with OoP, your thumpers will be smashing squishies into pancakes, frenzied sins will be making paper cutouts out of the enemy team, and shock axes will be splitting people in half. By using wild throw you can also cancel some annoying stances like mantra of flame and watch the poor monks bake in the searing.

Defensively "Stand Your Ground!" offers a bonus for monks and eles that stop to cast and overall boosts the defense of your team tremedously (especially while holding). You also have 7 seconds of incoming to foil spike attacks and relieve alot of pressure from your monks. Since you are running decent blood, you can even recharge drained casters with blood ritual and leaders comfort is your basic heal when your in a dire situation.

This is an incredibly balanced paragon build without alot of energy problems since you will be gaining a decent amount of energy from leadership and nothing costs over 10e. With your orders and GftE at you disposal, you can easily orchestrate a death opera of melee happiness for you team and also migitate a boatload of damage by using your defensive buffs. Monks and eles will love you when you drop by with a quick Br. Overall you have alot of very good options and skills at your disposal.

Morgahn also loves this build and runs it pro. With 2 Rampage thumpers in our group, we smashed alot of ranked teams with a high pressure attack. The build is plain devastating in the kind of damage it can offer to a high pressure team, such as Rspike or Thumper teams. On the flipside it is equally good defensively and can turn the tables with a high powered incoming!

I like this build as a whole, yet Blood Ritual is a Prophecies only skill. The "equivalent" NightFall Paragon skill is Song of Power, but that's a hefty 25 energy cost (and ends if someone uses a skill). That's way too much for what it does.

The Necro skill elite Blood is Power ain't bad if you can handle 33% loss, and that skill is core.

As for Stand Your Ground, I have yet to find a skill trainer for it. Where oh where can I get this skill? GuildWiki (at the time of this post) is empty of such important information in that stub.

where do u cap the elite skill incoming?

"Stand your ground!" isn't available at the skill trainer until late in the game. More specifically, Gates of Torment.

Back on topic though, I like the build. Two jobs in one, so now I can have MoW and Olias as SS and MM.

I keep my Master of Whispers as Orders, it really does kick some mighty ass when I get "Go for the Eyes" and Orders in a Spear of Lightning.

I have to say, it seems you might run out of energy quick fast.

Otherwise, quite nice.

Update: I tried this build pretty extensively over the last few hours, and it does kick some serious arse in PvE. I rarely had trouble with energy, but I did modify it some with Anthem of Flame and the Signet so I can get energy back quick. I'm not taking my toon to Tyria to get Blood Ritual, and I want the Incoming elite rather than the Blood is Power.

If you are familiar with the quest, Battle of Turai, you know how much a pain in the arse that one is. I switched to this build-ish, and kick arse with it.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s... ttle+of+turai

I want to add Morgahn with this build too to see how I can tweak it. There are some baddies in the Realm of Torment that hit me hard - now its my turn.

Lastly, here's where to get Incoming! http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Incoming