Scourge - Power Scourge

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Part of the current metagame.

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great.

Focused on: Direct damage, Area Damage and Boon Corruption.

Designed for:

World vs World

Overview

Power Scourge brings extremely high power damage with good spikes and sustained damage potential, along with the usual Scourge boon corrupts.

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Axe/Focus

Skill Variants

Utility

• Ranged boon corrupt and barrier.
• For extra lifeforce and stunbreak.
• Defensive mobility and situational utility.

Specializations

Variants

• Trades damage for boon corrupts close range

Variants

Switch Spite to Blood Magic for a decent increase in group support.

• if another Scourge is already taking

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Vampirism

18x

Mighty WvW Infusion

Variants

• More Berserker's pieces will give higher effective power at the cost of health and armour.

Variants

Sigils

• higher effective Power than Bloodlust but vulnerable to Weakness.

Runes

• Highest damage option
• High damage and might uptime
• If Fury up time is an issue

Food

• Higher damage if you can guarantee 25 might stacks.
• Defensive option.

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.

Axe/Focus

• 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.
• massive spike and boon rip on a single target.

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
  and
  to build area condi stacks.
• and
  usage should be more careful, don't be afraid to leave them off cooldown when swapping back to Axe.
  • is one of your limited anti-condition skills so use it carefully.
  • Interrupt key skills with the fear of
    .

Shroud

• Your shade skills activate around you as well as all active shades.
• All of your shade skills will proc the strike of
• 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
    to activate the 33% crit chance and 300 Ferocity bonus from
    .