Scourge - Corrupter

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Focused on: Condition damage and Boon removal

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on May 25, 2024.

Overview

A high condition damage PvP Scourge build made to win teamfights and smaller skirmishes.

Skill Bar

Pistol/Torch

Scepter/Warhorn

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Take Staff if you don't own SotO (and therefore must use Scepter instead of Pistol) or if you need the utility more than the damage/mobility of Scepter+Warhorn.

Utility Skill Variants

• Serpent Siphon
  - highest general teamfight value if you can afford to cut a stun break.
• Corrupt Boon
  - best against Harbingers and Guardians or comps with a Support Chronomancer.
• Signet of Spite
  - huge single-target spike.
• Spectral Armor
  - extra anti-Power stun break.
• Plague Signet
  - extra anti-Condi stun break.
• Corrosive Poison Cloud
  - missile block and weakness application.
• Summon Flesh Wurm
  - Necro's "Get out of jail free card" for when under heavy pressure.
• Sand Swell
  - only for very coordinated teams or kiting in duels.

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Specializations

• Dark Defiance
  can be taken against very condi-heavy comps.

• Terror
  will deal higher burst damage but lower teamfight DPS, especially if you miss one or more fears.

Equipment

Pistol

Torch

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter

Warhorn

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Amulet

• Carrion Amulet
  deals less damage but is better vs. Condi comps.

Relic

• Relic of Akeem
  higher burst damage but lower sustain.
• Relic of the Demon Queen
  cover condition and healing reduction.

Usage

Elite specialization basics

• Death Shroud
  is replaced by the Sand Shade mechanic. Effects that trigger on entering, while in, or while leaving shroud can be used with the new Shroud 5 skill:
  Desert Shroud
  .

General

• Your main job is to dish out big AoE damage and CC and while corrupting boons for even more. As such, watch your target's boons and don't waste your attacks on boonless foes unless they are being focused down by your team.

• Abrasive Grit
  grants Might and cleanses a condition on any ally (including yourself) that you grant barrier to via Scourge skills and traits.
  Feed from Corruption
  triggers this, so one of your main sources of sustain and cleanse is corrupting or stripping boons from enemies.

• Relic of Nourys
  and
  Parasitic Contagion
  provide additional passive sustain through your damage. Play aggressively but position carefully, as you cannot reposition as easily as other builds.

• Always open with
  Manifest Sand Shade
  , even if you need to place it before combat, to benefit from
  Sand Sage
  and
  Blood as Sand
  from the beginning of combat. Make sure there is always at least 1 shade active.

• Use
  Garish Pillar
  carefully but as often as possible. As a source of Fear it will CC and deal damage.

• Use
  Locust Swarm
  to rotate between points.

• Use
  Wail of Doom
  (or
  Reaper's Mark
  ) to interrupt enemies that are blocking.

• Trail of Anguish
  can be used to safestomp enemies (thanks to the Stability) if you know you won't need it for combat soon.

• Scepter skills (including the auto attack chain) are not projectiles and can be used to play around projectile denial (such as Magnetic Aura).