Scourge - Pyrophobia

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Focused on: Condition damage and Boon removal

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on September 03, 2023.

Overview

A high condition damage PvP Scourge build made to win teamfights and smaller skirmishes.

Skill Bar

Pistol/Torch

Scepter/Warhorn

Utility

• Do not take any heal besides Sand Flare. Only swap off Ghastly Breach if you want to combo Summon Flesh Golem with Relic of the Nightmare.

Utility Skill Variants

• Corrupt Boon - great for punishing builds that earn many boons at once (such as enemy Harbingers using Elixir of Ambition), can sometimes act as unblockable CC (depending on which boons are corrupted.)
• Corrosive Poison Cloud - missile block and weakness application.
• Summon Flesh Wurm - Necro's "Get out of jail free card" for when under heavy pressure.
• Spectral Walk - defensive cleanse, stunbreak, and life force generation.
• Signet of Spite - excellent dueling/sidenoding skills, or for burning down high-value targets.

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Specializations

Variants

• Unholy Martyr can be taken for some additional cleanse at the cost of sustain and rez power.

Variants

• Path of Corruption if an additional boon corruption is valued over raw burst.
• Weakening Shroud can be taken in Power-heavy matchups.
• Parasitic Contagion can be taken for general sustain.

Variants

• Desert Empowerment can be taken for more sustain and Alacrity, but you lose a significant amount of damage. Better in other builds, such as Scourge - Blood Sage.

Equipment

Pistol

Torch

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter

Warhorn

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Amulet

• can be taken in Condition-heavy matchups.

Rune

• Rune of Orr - for particularly Condition-heavy matchups.
• Rune of Engineer - can be taken vs. Power-heavy matchups.

Relic

• Relic of the Nightmare for less overall damage but a stronger combo in teamfights.

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

• Thanks to Terror, your Fear effects deal damage. Insidious Disruption inflicts Torment to any foes you disable.

• Abrasive Grit provides Might and cleanses a condition for any ally (yourself included) that you grant barrier to via any Scourge skills. Thanks to Feed from Corruption, this triggers on you whenever you remove or corrupt a boon on an enemy (with a 1-second internal cooldown.)

• 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.#

• Try to proc Relic of Akeem off cooldown. This should be relatively easy to do, as you have many ways to disable opponents and many sources of Torment.

• Use Garish Pillar carefully but as often as possible. As a source of Fear it will CC and deal damage, but it will also trigger Transfusion for sustain and to rez allies (or at least save them from being stomped.)

• Do not cast Nefarious Favor unless you have excess Life Force and/or the rest of your Shade skills are on cooldown, as the others are much more important.

• Use Locust Swarm to rotate between points. With Banshee's Wail and Sand Sage you can get permanent Swiftness.

• Switch to Warhorn and use Wail of Doom to interrupt enemies that are blocking.

• Trail of Anguish can be used to safestomp enemies (thanks to the Stability) if you know you won't need it for combat soon.