Shiverpeak Reformed (shiv) is running a Blood Spike build. I won't give the details since it hardly belongs to me - I just watched them defeat Treacherous Empire when they were rank 9 or something. Suffice to say that Shiv went from rank 650 to rank 14-15 in a few days.
In the current GvG metagame full of defensive teams (2 P/Ws, 2-3 monks, 2-3 chained aegis) that are just waiting till VoD while a lone sin is ganking the NPCs, Blood spike should be highly effective, since life drain is not affected by things like Aegis, armor or Incoming, and the monk infinite energy is less relevant. I actually expect more teams to start GvGing with this kind of setup.
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