Scourge - Celestial Scourge
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Contents
Overview
Celestial Scourge brings a mix of AoE condition damage and power damage, boon corruption and team support but is vulnerable to being focused due to a lack of personal defenses.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Utility
- Melee boon corrupt and damage.
- Ranged boon corrupt and barrier.
- For extra lifeforce and stunbreak.
- Defensive mobility and situational utility.
Specializations
Variants
- - Extra condition spam when conversion on your side is covered well.
Variants
- - Melee boon corrupt/sustain
- - If Life Force generation is an issue.
- - Trades damage/LF for sustain.
Variants
Using Soul Reaping over Spite loses some boonrips but provides a significant DPS boost.
Switch Spite to Blood Magic for a decent increase in group support. This is further utilized by Scourge - Blood Magic Support.
- if another Scourge is already taking
Equipment
6x
Superior Rune of the Berserker
18x
Mighty WvW Infusion
Consumables
Variants
Stats
- Fill in Griever's gear pieces for more damage at the cost of lower survivability.
Sigils
- Extra boon rip
- Excellent with Tormenting runes
Runes
- Extremely high sustain boost
- Effective with the Blood Magic variant
Food
- recommended offensive food for power-focused builds
- recommended offensive food if kills are frequent
- recommended defensive food for condi-focused builds
Utility
- option for condition focused builds, especially with Grieving and Viper gear.
- easier to obtain, minimal power loss(~3power) is better than magnanimous with some grieving pieces.
Usage
General
- Use your shroud skills frequently, but remember that since they have no cast time you can also cast other skills while using them - avoid downtime.
Scepter/Dagger
- is your most important boonrip skill, try to keep it on cooldown when you are in range.
Axe/Torch
- a strong life force generator and high single target damage skill.
- is one of your most powerful skills, try to use it as often as possible for AoE boon corruption.
- Generates significant life force as well as being one of your single highest damage skills.
Shroud
- Your shade skills activate around you as well as all active shades.
- All of your shade skills will proc the strike of
- Shroud traits proc as if the shade skills counted as that shroud skill. For instance, is procced by . Traits that proc on going in/out of shroud proc on .
- will continue pulsing if a new shade is summoned at the location of the new shade so there should be no worry about repositioning shades when needed.
- combined with is a large burst AoE boon corrupt. Excels when pushing through an enemy zerg. Usevariant for a stronger AoE corrupt bomb. Most effectively used in a melee ball comp.
Blood Variant
- Be extremely careful when casting since it procs . It will pull any allied downstates within 600 radius to the position you were in when you cast it for the entire duration.
- In general only ever cast when trying to rez a downed ally, and even then only when you are in a safe position to do so.
Videos
- YouTube: [BoRP] Arete
- YouTube: [eX] Demon Puppet
- YouTube: [eX] Demon PuppetSpite Variant
- YouTube: [eX] Demon PuppetStrip/Corrupt Guide
The build requires a different meta to function. Any competent group provides more than enough condi cleanse to make this significantly worse than the power build. If scrapper moves out of the meta, then this build would probably be worth running again.