Scourge - Power Scourge
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Contents
Overview
Power Scourge brings extremely high power damage with good spikes and sustained damage potential, along with the usual Scourge boon corrupts.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Utility
Serpent Siphon Ranged boon corrupt and barrier.
Spectral Armor For extra lifeforce and stunbreak.
Sand Swell Defensive mobility and situational utility.
Specializations
Equipment
6xSuperior Rune of the Scholar
18xMighty WvW Infusion
Consumables
Variants
Stats
- More Berserker's pieces will give higher effective power at the cost of health and armour.
- Add Marauder's for bigger life force pool and health.
Sigils
- higher effective Power than Bloodlust but vulnerable to
Weakness.
- On Staff
Runes
- Reasonable damage and high self sustain if kills are frequent.
- High damage and might uptime
Food
- Higher damage if you can guarantee 25 might stacks.
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/Focus
- 24px Devouring Darkness is your most important boonrip skill, try to keep it on cooldown when you are in range.
Spinal Shivers massive spike and boon rip on a single target.
Axe/Dagger
Ghastly Claws a strong life force generator and high single target damage skill.
Unholy Feast is one of your most powerful skills, try to use it as often as possible for AoE boon corruption.
Staff
- Staff auto attacks are low impact and its abilities relatively long cooldowns, so the best use of the weapon is to use its cooldown skills then swap out as soon as possible.
- Use
Mark of Blood and 
Chilblains to build area condi stacks. 
Putrid Mark and 
Reaper's Mark usage should be more careful, don't be afraid to leave them off cooldown when swapping back to Axe.
- Putrid Mark is one of your limited anti-condition skills so use it carefully.
- Interrupt key skills with the fear of Reaper's Mark.
Shroud
- Your shade skills activate around you as well as all active shades.
- All of your shade skills will proc the strike of 24px Manifest Sand Shade
- 24px Desert Shroud will continue pulsing if a new shade is summoned at the location of the new shade so there should be no worry about re-positioning shades when needed.
- Use both wells during 24px Desert Shroud to activate the 33% crit chance and 300 Ferocity bonus from
Death Perception.
- Use both wells during 24px Desert Shroud to activate the 33% crit chance and 300 Ferocity bonus from
UPDATE 2019 20 03
With Scrapper+Antitoxin being part of the meta game, condis are basically non existant, increasing the potential of power spike oriented builds like this. Defenitely a must.
Amazing build. It is able to provide crazy spikes of damage and has a great cleave potential. Shines at open field fights, but not as good as Celestial variant for smaller spaces and GvGs.