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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elemmakil" data-source="post: 3873953" data-attributes="member: 55502">The biggest problem I see is that spiked armor is light, and hence cannot benefit from PA.  Most charger builds I know of are either mounted paladins or leap attackers, and you can take advantage of neither.That being said, the bloodspike charger feat, if <a href="http://realmshelps.dandello.net/cgi-bin/feats.pl?Blood-Spiked_Charger,PH2" target="_blank">this</a> source is correct, looks pretty good.  You get 3 times your strength bonus to the spiked shield attack, and 2.5 times that to your spiked armor.  It would be nice if someone could verify that my source is correct, because it's not always totally reliable.Typically, pure strength bonus to damage is big, but not ubercharger level big.  Keep in mind that a high level warrior with a two-handed weapon can manage 1.5*4=6 times their strength modifier to damage, if all attacks hit (which is pretty sketchy).  Combining this with power attack (generally a lot of it), they can probably out damage a bloodspike charger every round.  Not good.We need other options.  Valorous weapons?  Rhino's Rush from SC?  Even with those, the goal is probably to optimize Strength as much as possible.  Polymorph, barbarian (not sure how you could combine that with Rhino's Rush, as it's a paladin spell.  Paladin of Freedom, maybe).Alternately, you could try to get Power Attack to both weapons, although I'm not sure how, and go the leap attack route.You could try to combine the paladin with Runescarred Berserker (UE), using the Half-orc Paragon to meet the prerequisites.  That way, you could get Rhino's Rush, Rage (Greater Rage, in fact), and Polymorph.  I don't have my books, so I can't stat out a build for you.  Sorry.</blockquote>

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