My attempt at a DS Pain Tankermind

Concept is hover out of range.

I do this with my Dark Electric Defender, I just hover just above the mobs heads which causes them to attempt to range me. I have been testing this out with werewolves in the portal corps missions and it seems to be working..

I went with Presence pool

1. Provoke mobs onto me and use the combination of my ranged defense cap and bodyguard mode in conjunction with my Regen. Also World of Pain also gives a Damage resistance increase which further boost my body guard mode.
2. Intimidate I had to pick to get Invoke Panic - Intimidate is a mag 2 fear single target
3. Invoke panic is a AOE mag 2 fear.

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First, you want to put the resist/defense pet set auras in that build. They will make a huge difference (+20% resistance to all, +10% defense to all with all 4).

Second, your hover will be painfully slow with no speed enhancers.

I have a DS/Pain that I am levelling, and another problem I see with your hover route is its inability to keep your pets in range of Suppress Pain and Nullify Pain. When you are in full body guard mode, Suppress Pain is granting 400% regeneration to a pool of up to 5000+ hit points. Hover and ranged defense is nice, but it's pretty superfluous with a sack of 5000 HP at 400% regeneration, +37% resistance to all (pet auras + World of Pain), +10% defense to all, and a 180 point heal spamming every 4 seconds. Then you also have Absorb Pain, Heal Other, a healing Lt. class pet, and Pain Bringer boosting one of the pets to 1400% regeneration when layered with Suppress Pain. So, why hover?

I would find the hover route annoying and actually a hindrance to my overall survivability and damage dealing capabilities with the pain set. Force Field, however, would benefit immensely.

Ahh-- cool. We just have different strategies for Tanking with Pain. What you wrote definitely makes sense and works great (I have a FF MM that does the same).

Even though you are using provoke, definitely look into at least using the two resistance IOs. This will place all your pets at 70%+ smashing/lethal resistance. Your pets' hit points amount to 5/7ths of your total HP when in full body guard mode, so anything that increases their survivability increases yours because you can never hold 100% of the agro with Provoke. No matter how you use Provoke, it's only hitting 5 targets at a time and you have no precise control over who it hits beyond the first target.

DS/Pain is probably one of the most powerful builds I have ever played so far, and IOs allow for some pretty silly things to happen.