CoP spike?

Hi, I've wikid/googled/gurud and I'm still a bit confused. I've heard something about a Contemplation of Purity Spike (in relation to mesmers) and I was wondering if someone could explain it to me?

On that note, I know it's not a very well liked build so rest assured I have no plans to use it in PVP. Just curious

You sure it's Contemplation of Purity and not Cry of Pain???

[skill]Contemplation Of Purity[/skill]
Ho-boy, let's go spikin

I always knew that baby was too innocent to be trusted...

And besides, Cry of Pain is a PvE-only skill, so you couldn't do it in PvP anyway.

Ah yes, it is indeed a very evil spike. Here is how it works:

Several mesmers use Assassin's Promise + Cry of Pain to roll through PvE, but upon some success they start contemplating about purity of their build and role of PvE skills in GW...

/facepalm

/doublefacepalm

/headdesk

I was wondering if there was some crazy trick I didn't know about that made Contemplation of Purity suddenly turn into crazy awesome damage.

And now, I realize why there were six Me/A and only two Me/Mo's in that group.

Once more:

/facepalm

Thanks Kitsune

that was probably similar to something along the lines of dervway when nightfall's preview event came out, although cop isnt really an offensive skill......

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr Pvper

i am leaning towrds the non thread idea

You can use cry of pain to do big AoE damage to monsters. But the question is, who takes multiple mesmers to spike...in PvE?

Quote: Originally Posted by holymasamune

I've never been crazy enough to try to even FIND 8 mesmers in pve (do that many even exist?), but cry of pain works flawlessly as any other class. Most of the time when doing dungeons with friends at least 3 or 4 of us are using cry of pain on our /me characters. Its probably the fastest killing build in the game.

i wanna try it now with sins, since there seem to be an over abundence of them

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Quote: Originally Posted by Terra Xin

why is it just mes doing it know you need a mes hex but anyone can run this spike if you ask me.
you have 1 mes on the team everyone is x/A and they spike it

unless i am wrong you can use any of the PVE skills on any char so you can have CoP on an Ele/A?

Quote: Originally Posted by Sir Pandra Pierva

Another option to compliment Cry of Pain is using the Necromancer Sunspear Skill Necrosis, which also causes respectable damage after hexing a foe, although it's just to your target foe. But it is spammable with only a 2 second recharge, and 5 energy cost. Consider using Parasitic Bond as a cover hex to set up Cry of Pain and Necrosis.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rayne Nightfyre Another option to compliment Cry of Pain is using the Necromancer Sunspear Skill Necrosis, which also causes respectable damage after hexing a foe, although it's just to your target foe. But it is spammable with only a 2 second recharge, and 5 energy cost. Consider using Parasitic Bond as a cover hex to set up Cry of Pain and Necrosis. Add Discord and you have AK-47 lol Cry of Pain's conditional damage is triggered only with Mesmer hex.