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| elite = Ghastly Breach
 
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===Skill Variants===  
 
===Skill Variants===  
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==Specializations==
 
==Specializations==
 
{{Specialization|Spite|top|top|bot}}
 
{{Specialization|Spite|top|top|bot}}
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{{trait|Awaken the Pain}} slighly higher overall dps.
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'''Variants'''
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* {{trait|Awaken the Pain}} slightly higher DPS
 
{{Specialization|Curses|mid|mid|bot}}
 
{{Specialization|Curses|mid|mid|bot}}
 
{{Specialization|Scourge|top|mid|bot}}
 
{{Specialization|Scourge|top|mid|bot}}
 
'''Variants'''
 
'''Variants'''
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* {{trait|Nourishing Ashes}} if Life Force generation is an issue.
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* {{trait|Nourishing Ashes}} if Life Force generation is an issue
  
  
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| sigil3 = Superior Sigil of Absorption
 
| sigil3 = Superior Sigil of Absorption
 
| sigil4 = Superior Sigil of Energy
 
| sigil4 = Superior Sigil of Energy
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| infusion1 = Mighty WvW Infusion
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| infusion1-qt = 18
 
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}}
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===Equipment Variants===
 
===Equipment Variants===
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'''Stats'''
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* Use {{Tooltip|Berserker stats}} if you want more offensive stats
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'''Sigils'''
 
* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Force}} increased damage
 
* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Force}} increased damage
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* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Antitoxin}} Best rune against incoming condition pressure.
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'''Runes'''
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* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Durability}} Best rune against power based damage.
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* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Durability}} defensive option
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* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Strength}} High damage and better might uptime, strong if not using Dumplings.
 
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* {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Pack}} If fury and boons are an issue.
 
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===Consumables===
 
===Consumables===
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* {{Food|Fried Oyster Sandwich}}
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* {{Food|Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak}}
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:: {{Food|Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak}} feast option with additional power and ferocity.
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** {{Food|Fried Oyster Sandwich}} personal food option
 
* {{Utility|Superior Sharpening Stone}}
 
* {{Utility|Superior Sharpening Stone}}
  
  
 
==Usage==
 
==Usage==
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'''Elite especialization basics'''
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'''Elite specialization basics'''
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* This is how the shade mechanic works: if you have no active shade ({{Skill|Manifest Sand Shade}}) in the world, all your F2-F5 skills will proc around you. If you do have an active shade, all your shade skills, and related traits, will only affect the active shade area, not you.
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* This is how the shade mechanic works: if you have no active shade ({{Skill|Manifest Sand Shade}}) in the world, all your F2-F5 skills will proc around you. If you do have an active shade, all your shade skills, and related traits, will only affect the active shade area as well as you.  
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* Therefore, depending on you group playstyle, you may not want to place a shade at all, and behave yourself like a mobile shade, doing damage while in melee, and benefiting from the barrier and cleanse. However, being able to 900-range spike can be superior if coordinating shade cooldowns, and knowing when and where to place your {{Skill|Manifest Sand Shade}}. The self support aspect of the shade skills is mostly irrelevant, since you run with dedicated supports in WvW zergs.  
 
  
 
'''Shroud'''
 
'''Shroud'''
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* All of your shade skills will proc the strike of {{Skill|Manifest Sand Shade}} (F1), whichs means you want to instantly use then, as soon as you land your F1, to maximize damage.
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* All of your shade skills will proc the strike of {{Skill|Manifest Sand Shade}} (F1), which means you want to instantly use then, as soon as you land your F1, to maximize damage.
 
* Shroud traits proc as if the shade skills counted as that shroud skill.
 
* Shroud traits proc as if the shade skills counted as that shroud skill.
 
** {{skill|Nefarious Favor}} procs {{Trait|Path of Corruption}}
 
** {{skill|Nefarious Favor}} procs {{Trait|Path of Corruption}}
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** {{Skill|Desert Shroud}} procs {{Trait|Plague Sending}}, and {{trait|Spiteful Spirit}} around you
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** {{Skill|Desert Shroud}} procs {{Trait|Plague Sending}} and {{trait|Spiteful Spirit}} around you
 
** All shade skills proc {{Trait|Reaper's Might}}
 
** All shade skills proc {{Trait|Reaper's Might}}
 
* {{Skill|Nefarious Favor}} and {{skill|Sand Cascade}} can be used before landing a shade, for extra barrier and cleanse.
 
* {{Skill|Nefarious Favor}} and {{skill|Sand Cascade}} can be used before landing a shade, for extra barrier and cleanse.
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* {{Skill|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 repositioning shades when needed.
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* {{Skill|Desert Shroud}} will continue pulsing if a new shade is summoned, at the location of the new shade. Don't worry about repositioning shades when needed.
 
* Shade usage order (with enough life force)
 
* Shade usage order (with enough life force)
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** Using '''F1''' {{Skill|Manifest Sand Shade}} {{to}} {{Skill|Desert Shroud}} {{to}} {{skill|Nefarious Favor}}+{{skill|Sand Cascade}}+{{skill|Garish Pillar}}
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** Using '''F1''' {{Skill|Manifest Sand Shade}} {{to}} {{Skill|Desert Shroud}} {{to}} {{skill|Nefarious Favor}} + {{skill|Sand Cascade}} + {{skill|Garish Pillar}}
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** Not using '''F1''' (on melee) {{Skill|Desert Shroud}} {{to}} {{skill|Nefarious Favor}}+{{skill|Sand Cascade}}+{{skill|Garish Pillar}}
 
  
 
'''General'''
 
'''General'''
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''Scourge brings strong damage through his shade skills, barrier access and boonrip.''
 
 
* Positioning, reacting fast and timing your dodges well are key. You don't have evade skills nor immunities like other classes, and your support classes won't be able to babysit you all the time.
 
* Positioning, reacting fast and timing your dodges well are key. You don't have evade skills nor immunities like other classes, and your support classes won't be able to babysit you all the time.
 
* {{skill|Well of Suffering}} and {{skill|Well of Corruption}} are a significant part of your damage and boonrip outside of weapon skills. Place then on top of the enemy group, along friendly {{skill|Winds of Disenchantment}} and your team pressure. Using your wells at the same time as the other Necromancers in your group is an enormous damage spike.
 
* {{skill|Well of Suffering}} and {{skill|Well of Corruption}} are a significant part of your damage and boonrip outside of weapon skills. Place then on top of the enemy group, along friendly {{skill|Winds of Disenchantment}} and your team pressure. Using your wells at the same time as the other Necromancers in your group is an enormous damage spike.
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** {{skill|Trail of Anguish}} can be used offensively, the same way as Breach, but you should save it to use as stunbreak if you feel pressured during fights.
 
** {{skill|Trail of Anguish}} can be used offensively, the same way as Breach, but you should save it to use as stunbreak if you feel pressured during fights.
  
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'''Scepter'''
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'''Scepter/Dagger'''
 
* {{Skill|Devouring Darkness}} is your most important skill and one of the reasons why you run the ''Curses'' spec. Try to keep it on cooldown when you are in range. You can pre-cast it in 1,200-range, while moving towards the enemy, to avoid downtime.
 
* {{Skill|Devouring Darkness}} is your most important skill and one of the reasons why you run the ''Curses'' spec. Try to keep it on cooldown when you are in range. You can pre-cast it in 1,200-range, while moving towards the enemy, to avoid downtime.
 
** Since it has a 10s cooldown, you should be able to cast it twice per weapon swap rotation, as your opener and finisher. It also is one of your main sources of life force in the build.
 
** Since it has a 10s cooldown, you should be able to cast it twice per weapon swap rotation, as your opener and finisher. It also is one of your main sources of life force in the build.
 
* {{Skill|Grasping Dead}} provides good AoE damage and should be used constantly to maintain AoE pressure.
 
* {{Skill|Grasping Dead}} provides good AoE damage and should be used constantly to maintain AoE pressure.
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* Use {{Skill|Deathly Swarm}} whenever you might need some condi clear.
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* {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}} for the extra AoE {{tooltip|Weakness}} and corrupt. Bear in mind the cast and animation time.
  
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'''Axe'''
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'''Axe/Focus'''
 
* {{Skill|Unholy Feast}} is one of your most powerful melee skills, try to use it as often as possible for AoE boon corruption and extra damage on low targets.
 
* {{Skill|Unholy Feast}} is one of your most powerful melee skills, try to use it as often as possible for AoE boon corruption and extra damage on low targets.
 
* {{Skill|Ghastly Claws}} a strong life force generator and high single target damage skill. Useful for a quick downed cleave.
 
* {{Skill|Ghastly Claws}} a strong life force generator and high single target damage skill. Useful for a quick downed cleave.
 
* {{Skill|Rending Claws}} is a rather strong filler for single target damage.
 
* {{Skill|Rending Claws}} is a rather strong filler for single target damage.
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* Try to land {{skill|Soul Grasp}} on downed bodies, to ensure the projectile will connect, granting some life force and {{tooltip|Vulnerability}} stack.
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'''Dagger, Focus and Torch'''
 
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* {{Skill|Harrowing Wave}} decent for melee damage and cleave as well as life force generator.
 
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* {{Skill|Oppressive Collapse}} single target CC. Use it to snare escaping players or interrupt channeled skills.
 
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* {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}} for the extra AoE {{tooltip|Weakness}} and corrupt. Bear in mind the cast and animation time.
 
 
* {{Skill|Spinal Shivers}} deals even more damage on targets with boons. Try to land it on squish foes, like weavers and scourges. It's also a boonrip, not a corrupt skill.
 
* {{Skill|Spinal Shivers}} deals even more damage on targets with boons. Try to land it on squish foes, like weavers and scourges. It's also a boonrip, not a corrupt skill.
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* {{Skill|Soul Grasp}} and {{Skill|Deathly Swarm}} won't prioritized, being only projectile filler skills. Try to land {{skill|Soul Grasp}} on downed bodies, to ensure the projectile will connect, granting some life force and {{tooltip|Vulnerability}} stack. Use {{Skill|Deathly Swarm}} whenever you might need some condi clear.
 
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'''Staff'''
 
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* 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.
 
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* Use {{Skill|Mark of Blood}} and {{Skill|Chilblains}} to build area condi stacks.
 
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* {{Skill|Putrid Mark}} and {{Skill|Reaper's Mark}} usage should be more careful, don't be afraid to leave them off cooldown when swapping back to S/D.
 
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** {{Skill|Putrid Mark}} is one of your limited anti-condition skills so use it carefully.
 
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** Interrupt key skills with the fear of {{Skill|Reaper's Mark}}.
 
  
 
'''Weapon skills combos'''
 
'''Weapon skills combos'''
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* {{Skill|Devouring Darkness}} {{to}} ''Weapon Swap'' {{to}} {{Skill|Unholy Feast}} {{to}} {{Skill|Desert Shroud}}({{Trait|Spiteful Spirit}}) if running ''Spite'' variant
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* {{Skill|Devouring Darkness}} {{to}} ''Weapon Swap'' {{to}} {{Skill|Unholy Feast}} {{to}} {{Skill|Desert Shroud}}
 
* {{skill|Spinal Shivers}} {{to}} {{Skill|Ghastly Claws}}  
 
* {{skill|Spinal Shivers}} {{to}} {{Skill|Ghastly Claws}}  
 
* {{Skill|Devouring Darkness}} {{to}} {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}}
 
* {{Skill|Devouring Darkness}} {{to}} {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}}
 
** Add {{skill|Grasping Dead}}, {{Skill|Harrowing Wave}} and {{skill|Oppressive Collapse}} (if running Torch) in the mix for more damage.
 
** Add {{skill|Grasping Dead}}, {{Skill|Harrowing Wave}} and {{skill|Oppressive Collapse}} (if running Torch) in the mix for more damage.
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==Videos==
 
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* {{YouTube|0qYqJ8dcIME|[aW] Demon Puppet}} (Strip/Corrupt Guide)
 
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* {{YouTube|eUuLKvQpnYE|[KEK] Kharturr}}
 
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* {{YouTube|nYN6Lad8b30|[LAYS] Ziggy}}
 

Revision as of 13:36, 23 February 2022

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: Strike damage, Dps, Burst and Boonrip

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on February 23, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A build designed to strip boons and lay down high area damage.


Skill Bar

Scourge-skillbar-bg.png
Axe/Focus
Scepter/Dagger
Utility

Skill Variants

  • Desiccate Melee boon corrupt and damage.
  • Serpent Siphon Ranged boon corrupt and barrier.
  • Spectral Armor For extra lifeforce and stunbreak.
  • Sand Swell Defensive mobility and situational utility.


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Specializations

Variants

  • Awaken the Pain slightly higher DPS

Variants

  • Nourishing Ashes if Life Force generation is an issue


Equipment

Head
Marauder
Shoulders
Marauder
Chest
Marauder
Hands
Marauder
Legs
Marauder
Feet
Marauder
Backpiece
Marauder
Accessory
Marauder
Accessory
Marauder
Amulet
Marauder
Ring
Marauder
Ring
Marauder
Axe
Marauder
Focus
Marauder
Sigil
Sigil
Scepter
Marauder
Dagger
Marauder
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

Stats

Sigils

  • Sigil of Superior Sigil of Force increased damage

Runes

  • Rune of Superior Rune of Durability defensive option

Consumables

    • personal food option


Usage

Elite specialization basics

  • This is how the shade mechanic works: if you have no active shade (Manifest Sand Shade) in the world, all your F2-F5 skills will proc around you. If you do have an active shade, all your shade skills, and related traits, will only affect the active shade area as well as you.

Shroud

  • All of your shade skills will proc the strike of Manifest Sand Shade (F1), which means you want to instantly use then, as soon as you land your F1, to maximize damage.
  • Shroud traits proc as if the shade skills counted as that shroud skill.
    • Nefarious Favor procs Path of Corruption
    • Desert Shroud procs Plague Sending and Spiteful Spirit around you
    • All shade skills proc Reaper's Might
  • Nefarious Favor and Sand Cascade can be used before landing a shade, for extra barrier and cleanse.
  • Desert Shroud will continue pulsing if a new shade is summoned, at the location of the new shade. Don't worry about repositioning shades when needed.
  • Shade usage order (with enough life force)
    • Using F1 Manifest Sand Shade ⇒ Desert Shroud ⇒ Nefarious Favor + Sand Cascade + Garish Pillar

General

  • Positioning, reacting fast and timing your dodges well are key. You don't have evade skills nor immunities like other classes, and your support classes won't be able to babysit you all the time.
  • Well of Suffering and Well of Corruption are a significant part of your damage and boonrip outside of weapon skills. Place then on top of the enemy group, along friendly Winds of Disenchantment and your team pressure. Using your wells at the same time as the other Necromancers in your group is an enormous damage spike.
  • Sand Flare will be used for the group barrier share before and during extended engages.
  • Ghastly Breach is going to be dropped if the enemy is hard committing into a melee push, to panic disrupt then. Can also be used offensively on melee, to stack AoE fields on top of the enemy stack and lock then down through corrupts and conditions.
    • Trail of Anguish can be used offensively, the same way as Breach, but you should save it to use as stunbreak if you feel pressured during fights.

Scepter/Dagger

  • Devouring Darkness is your most important skill and one of the reasons why you run the Curses spec. Try to keep it on cooldown when you are in range. You can pre-cast it in 1,200-range, while moving towards the enemy, to avoid downtime.
    • Since it has a 10s cooldown, you should be able to cast it twice per weapon swap rotation, as your opener and finisher. It also is one of your main sources of life force in the build.
  • Grasping Dead provides good AoE damage and should be used constantly to maintain AoE pressure.
  • Use Deathly Swarm whenever you might need some condi clear.
  • Enfeebling Blood for the extra AoE Weakness Weakness and corrupt. Bear in mind the cast and animation time.

Axe/Focus

  • Unholy Feast is one of your most powerful melee skills, try to use it as often as possible for AoE boon corruption and extra damage on low targets.
  • Ghastly Claws a strong life force generator and high single target damage skill. Useful for a quick downed cleave.
  • Rending Claws is a rather strong filler for single target damage.
  • Try to land Soul Grasp on downed bodies, to ensure the projectile will connect, granting some life force and Vulnerability Vulnerability stack.
  • Spinal Shivers deals even more damage on targets with boons. Try to land it on squish foes, like weavers and scourges. It's also a boonrip, not a corrupt skill.

Weapon skills combos

  • Devouring Darkness ⇒ Weapon Swap ⇒ Unholy Feast ⇒ Desert Shroud
  • Spinal Shivers ⇒ Ghastly Claws
  • Devouring Darkness ⇒ Enfeebling Blood
    • Add Grasping Dead, Harrowing Wave and Oppressive Collapse (if running Torch) in the mix for more damage.
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Ratings

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5 stars
Arete gave this build 5 stars • August 2023
Boon rip nerfs opened up competition from reaper and virtuoso but this is still one of the best ranged boon removal builds for large fights.

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