Scourge - Alacrity Support Healer

Part of the current metagame

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Focused on: Healing and Utility

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on January 31, 2024 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.

Overview

A Scourge build that brings heavy support in raids. This build provides sustained healing and extreme resurrecting ability. In addition, it provides permanent Fury, Protection and 25 Might to its subgroup, as well as a low-cooldown application of Aegis.

It should be noted that most of the healing is in the form of barrier, which isn't reduced by Agony (in fractals).

Skill Bar

Dagger/Warhorn

X/Torch

Utility

Weapon Variants

Fear of Death and Eternal Life generate enough life force to use any weapon:

• Use Axe if vulnerability is lacking.
• Use Scepter for range, and also has the most convenient boon removal.
• Use Pistol for extra CC (requires Secrets of the Obscure).
• Staff can be used to provide extra Regeneration if you aren't running Well of Blood or Serpent Siphon.

Both Axe and Scepter also provide extra boon rip.

Skill Variants

Healing

• Sand Flare - Provides AoE barrier (and therefore more Alacrity), but you lose out on a ranged res.

Utility
Any of your utilities can be swapped out for extra utility:

• Blood Is Power for extra Might generation (though this should never be needed)
• Corrosive Poison Cloud - destroys projectiles.
• Corrupt Boon - for extra boon rip.
• Sand Swell - 900 range portal, useful for mobility and skips.
• Summon Flesh Wurm - 1200 range teleport. Can also bodyblock certain projectiles (e.g. Old Tom's poison whirl).
• Trail of Anguish - some Swiftness and Stability, but applying it requires you to run back and forth over your group.
• Epidemic - can be useful even in healing gear.
• Spectral Grasp - AoE pull.
• Signet of Undeath - a costly ranged res, but a complete one. Also a good choice if you feel you lack life force.

Elite

• Ghastly Breach - if heavy AoE boonstrip is needed or for a little more Might.
• Lich Form - for soloing Thaumanova heat room with your massive health pool.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• Vampiric Presence - trades healing for a tiny bit of extra damage.
• Vital Persistence - if you need more personal survivability.

Equipment

Head
Harrier

Shoulders
Harrier

Chest
Harrier

Hands
Harrier

Legs
Harrier

Feet
Harrier

Backpiece
Harrier

Accessory
Harrier

Accessory
Harrier

Amulet
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Dagger
Harrier

Warhorn
Harrier

Sigil

Sigil

Torch
Harrier

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x15

Infusion
x3

Relic

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Water and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Transference only provide around 150 healing per second each.
  • Note that Sigil of Superior Sigil of Transference increases your revive speed from Transfusion and Ritual of Life, so it has value beyond raw healing.
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Concentration will allow you to swap some pieces out for Minstrel stats or Magi stats. Minstrel stats provide more healing, but also add toughness, which may be undesirable in raids.

Consumables

Food

• or ascended alternatives

Utility

• • for a cheaper alternative
• can be used if you find yourself often reviving. Note that this does grant 75 toughness, which may interfere with boss aggro in rare cases - eat different food if this is going to be an issue.

Usage

Alacrity

Thanks to Desert Empowerment, every barrier you provide also grants Alacrity. This means using Manifest Sand Shade, Sand Cascade and Sandstorm Shroud off cooldown on your group.

Be aware that each of these skills applies barrier in a different way:

• Manifest Sand Shade provides barrier to five targets in a 300-unit radius of where you drop your shade.
• Sand Cascade provides barrier to three targets in a 180-unit radius around you and each of your shades.
• Sandstorm Shroud pulses barrier three times to five targets in a 300-unit radius around you, THEN a final pulse to three targets in a 180-unit radius around you and each of your shades.

Healing

• Your healing is divided between refreshing barriers on your allies and slow healing over time.
• Switch to Staff if Regeneration runs out and use Mark of Blood three times before swapping back. You can also dodge to trigger Mark of Evasion.
• You can stack multiple barriers to preempt heavy damage, but keep in mind that barriers are capped at 50% of your ally's maximum health.
• Use Garish Pillar off cooldown for AoE pulsing heals. Delay it if you anticipate that you might need to vacuum up downed allies.
• Use Locust Swarm off cooldown to provide some minor healing.
• Well of Blood is a powerful pulsing heal that also provides Regeneration and revives downed allies.
• Thanks to Abrasive Grit, each application of barrier removes one condition.
  • Additional conditions can be removed with Nefarious Favor.

Might

• Use Sandstorm Shroud, Blood Is Power, Oppressive Collapse, Desiccate, and Sand Cascade off cooldown to provide might as required.
• Always have your Sand Shade up to get the 225 bonus concentration from Sand Sage.

CC

• Charge (necromancer)
• Garish Pillar - note that this is also your primary sustained heal
• Dark Pact (dagger)
• Wail of Doom (warhorn)
• Oppressive Collapse (torch)
• Reaper's Mark (staff)
• Chilblains (staff)

General Tips

• Try to place your shade on one side of the group, and stand on the other side - this will help spread barrier more evenly.
• If lots of boonstrip is needed, remember that Dark Pact, Feast of Corruption and Unholy Feast strip boons as well.