Scourge - World Corrupter

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Focused on: Condition damage, Boon removal and Sustain

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on March 23, 2025.

Overview

A high condition damage WvW Scourge build made to corrupt boons and deal high damage while sustaining with trait synergies.

Skill Bar

Pistol/Torch

Scepter/Dagger

Utility

Variants

Weapons

• Take Staff if you don't own SotO (and therefore cannot use Pistol). Your main set will be Scepter and Torch.

Utility Skills

• Serpent Siphon
  - highest general trade value if you can land it correctly.
• Signet of Spite
  - big single-target spike.
• Spectral Armor
  - good anti-Power stun break.
• Spectral Walk
  - good anti-Condi 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
  - great for chasing/escaping or just kiting.

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Specializations

• Dark Defiance
  can be taken for more sustain agains conditions.

Equipment

Head
Trailblazer

Shoulders
Trailblazer

Chest
Trailblazer

Hands
Trailblazer

Legs
Trailblazer

Feet
Trailblazer

Backpiece
Trailblazer

Accessory
Trailblazer

Accessory
Trailblazer

Amulet
Trailblazer

Ring
Trailblazer

Ring
Trailblazer

Pistol
Trailblazer

Torch
Trailblazer

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter
Trailblazer

Dagger
Trailblazer

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Stats

• Rabid gear will provide higher burst damage and usually higher DPS but lower survivability:
  • +326 Condition Damage
  • +45.76% Critical Chance
  • -212 Armor
  • -6,330 Health
  • -42.6% Condition Duration

Rune

• Superior Rune of the Trapper
  - highest damage option.
• Superior Rune of Orr
  - lower damage but better condi defense.
• Superior Rune of Tormenting
  - high damage option when taking Rabid gear.

Relics

• Relic of Akeem
  - higher burst damage but lower sustain.
• Relic of the Demon Queen
  - cover condition and healing reduction.
• Relic of the Fractal
  - similar to Akeem, option for when not using Pistol.
• Relic of Nayos
  - more self-healing vs conditions.

Consumables

• Peppered Cured Meat Flatbread
  or
  Clove-Spiced Pear and Cured Meat Flatbread
  .
• Corsair Tuning Crystal

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 while corrupting boons for even more. As such, watch your target's boons and try not to waste your attacks on boonless foes.

• 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, Might, and cleanse is corrupting or removing 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 some builds can.

• 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.

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

Related Builds

• Scourge - Corrupter - sPvP version of the build.