Scourge - Alacrity Support Healer

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Focused on: Healing and Utility

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on July 02, 2023.

Overview

A Scourge build that brings heavy support in raids. This build provides sustained healing and extreme resurrecting ability. In addition, it can provide some Might to its subgroup.

It should be noted that most of the healing is in the form of barrier, which isn't reduced by Agony (in fractals) and makes it easier to maintain Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar uptime.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Torch

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

Fear of Death generates enough life force to use any mainhand weapon:

• Use Axe if vulnerability is lacking.
• Use Scepter for range.
• Use Warhorn over Torch if you find yourself starved for life force, though this reduces your Might generation.

Skill Variants

Healing

• Sand Flare - Provides AoE barrier (and therefore more Alacrity), but you lose out on a ranged res.

Utility
Any of your utilities can be swapped out, with Blood Is Power being the first choice

• Corrosive Poison Cloud - destroys projectiles.
• Corrupt Boon - for extra boon rip if Feast of Corruption is not enough.
• Sand Swell - 900 range portal, useful for mobility and skips.
• Summon Flesh Wurm - 1200 range teleport. Can also bodyblock certain projectiles (e.g. Old Tom's poison whirl).
• Trail of Anguish - AoE swiftness and stability.
• Well of Power - if stability and condition cleanse are needed.
• Epidemic - excellent cleave damage if using the Hybrid DPS variant, and can be useful even in magi gear.
• Spectral Grasp - AoE pull.
• Signet of Undeath - a costly ranged res, but a complete one.

Elite

• Ghastly Breach - if heavy AoE boonstrip is needed or for a little more Might.
• Lich Form - for soloing Thaumanova heat room with your massive health pool.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• Life from Death - delayed burst heal.
• Unyielding Blast - if not running staff.
• Vital Persistence - if you need more personal survivability.

Equipment

Magi Variant (Heal Bot)

Use this for maximum healing and life force.

Head
Harrier

Shoulders
Harrier

Chest
Harrier

Hands
Harrier

Legs
Harrier

Feet
Harrier

Backpiece
Harrier

Accessory
Harrier

Accessory
Harrier

Amulet
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Staff
Harrier

Sigil

Sigil

Dagger
Harrier

Torch
Harrier

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

• Rune of Superior Rune of Mercy if you find yourself often reviving - it will proc off Ritual of Life and Transfusion.
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Rebirth can allow you to survive otherwise lethal mechanics and revive your entire squad, saving them from a wipe.

Equipment Variants

The above gear is only one possibility. Marshal stats, Plaguedoctor stats and Shaman stats can be mixed and matched to suit you, though you should keep the following guidelines in mind:

• 842 is about the minimum viable healing power. With ~1318 being recommended.
• You should try to keep your vitality above 1510 as this allows you to comfortably run Curses. If you will only ever be running Soul Reaping you can drop down to ~1300 without too much trouble.

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Water and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Transference only provide around 100 healing per second each.
  • Note that Sigil of Superior Sigil of Transference increases your revive speed from Transfusion and Ritual of Life, so it has value beyond raw healing.

Consumables

Food

Utility

• can be used if you find yourself often reviving. Note that this does grant 75 toughness, which may interfere with boss aggro in rare cases - eat different food if this is going to be an issue.

Usage

Healing

• Your healing is divided between refreshing barriers on your allies and slow healing over time.
• Switch to staff whenever Regeneration runs out and use Mark of Blood three times before swapping back. You can also dodge to trigger Mark of Evasion.
• You can stack multiple barriers to preempt heavy damage, but keep in mind that barriers are capped at 50% of your ally's maximum health.
• Use Garish Pillar off cooldown for AoE pulsing heals. Delay it if you anticipate that you might need to vacuum up downed allies.

Might

• Use Harbinger Shroud, Blood Is Power, Oppressive Collapse, Desiccate, and Sand Cascade off cooldown to provide might as required.
• Always have your Sand Shade up to get the 225 bonus concentration from Sand Sage.

CC

• Charge (necromancer)
• Oppressive Collapse
• Garish Pillar - note that this is also your primary sustained heal
• Reaper's Mark
• Dark Pact
• Chilblains
• Wail of Doom

General Tips

• Try to place your shade on one side of the group, and stand on the other side - this will help spread barrier more evenly.
• If lots of boonstrip is needed, remember that Dark Pact and Unholy Feast strip boons as well.
• Necrotic Grasp pierces; if there are multiple enemies, hit as many targets as possible to keep your life force up.