Scourge - Support Healer

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Healing, Boon support and Utility

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on April 14, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A Scourge build that brings heavy support in raids and fractals. This build provides sustained healing and extreme resurrecting ability. In addition, it can provide some Might to its subgroup, or deal respectable damage if using the Hybrid DPS variant.

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. This makes it an excellent healer in a fractal group that already has Fury covered by a Firebrand, or in a raid squad that already has a Druid.

Skill Bar

Scepter/Torch

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

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

• Use Axe if vulnerability is lacking.
• Use Dagger for extra survivability from Life Siphon.
• Use Warhorn if you find yourself starved for life force.

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

• Well of Blood - if sustained healing or additional res power is more important than barrier.

Utility Skills

NEVER replace Signet of Undeath. If running the Hybrid DPS variant, never replace Blood Is Power either.

• 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.

Elite Skills

• 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.

Hybrid DPS only

• Plaguelands - more damage if none of the other options are needed.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

• Life from Death - delayed burst heal.
• Unyielding Blast - if not running staff.
• Vital Persistence - if you need more personal survivability.
• Death Perception - could be used to try and get the most out of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Water.
• Desert Empowerment - better barrier uptime for parties of 5 people, or when barrier needs to be applied more quickly (Note that the tooltip is incorrect, and this only applies barrier to five targets with Sand Savant).

Hybrid DPS only

• Fell Beacon - more damage if Might and condition cleanse are covered.

Curses Variant

Run Curses instead of Soul Reaping for more damage and reduced cooldown on Corrosive Poison Cloud, Corrupt Boon, or Epidemic. Be aware that you may lack sufficient life force depending on the encounter.

• When running Curses with Abrasive Grit, the conditions from Blood Is Power may be cleansed before they are transferred with Plague Sending. To avoid this, use Harbinger Shroud before Blood Is Power.

Equipment

Magi Variant (Heal Bot)

Use this for maximum healing and life force.

Head
Magi

Shoulders
Magi

Chest
Magi

Hands
Magi

Legs
Magi

Feet
Magi

Backpiece
Magi

Accessory
Magi

Accessory
Magi

Amulet
Magi

Ring
Magi

Ring
Magi

Staff
Magi

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter
Magi

Torch
Magi

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Variants

• 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.

Marshal/Shaman Variant (Hybrid DPS)

This setup provides 10-12k DPS while only sacrificing about 15% of your effective healing. Swapping one accessory and the backpiece to Shaman stats will provide sufficient vitality to run Curses without any additional sources of life force.

Head
Marshal

Shoulders
Shaman

Chest
Marshal

Hands
Shaman

Legs
Marshal

Feet
Shaman

Backpiece
Plaguedoctor

Accessory
Plaguedoctor

Accessory
Plaguedoctor

Amulet
Marshal

Ring
Plaguedoctor

Ring
Marshal

Scepter
Marshal

Warhorn
Marshal

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter
Marshal

Torch
Marshal

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

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, so you could replace them with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Malice for more damage. Sigil of Superior Sigil of Agony may be used as a budget replacement for Sigil of Superior Sigil of Malice in this case.
  • 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

• 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 running the Hybrid DPS variant, feel free to use Nefarious Favor for DPS whenever you have the life force to do so.
• 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.