Scourge - LI Necromancer

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage and Low intensity

Designed for: Open World and [[|]]

Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on February 23, 2022 and is up to date for the November 28, 2023 patch.

Overview

Scourge is one of the most defensive specializations in the game, but also offers moderate damage due to its high condition damage scaling and innate expertise. This class does use several ground target abilities, which can be problematic for LI, but despite this shortcoming it remains one of the most powerful LI options in the game.


What is LI?

LI stands for "Low-Intensity". LI builds are a class of builds that work to slow the game down drastically by using passive defense and builds that require very low input to function. These builds are designed primarily for players that have disabilities that may prevent them from playing higher intensity builds, though they are here for any player who wishes to play them.

LI builds function quite well on their own and are created to be equivalent to our General or Roaming build section. They typically do not output especially high DPS and focus on gear with passive defense


Skill Bar

Scourge-skillbar-bg.png
Scepter/Torch
Staff
Utility


Specializations


Spec Variant

If using Core Necromancer, replace Scourge with Soul Reaping. Some may prefer this variant due to its lack of reliance on Ground-Target abilities. If using this variant, replace your Torch with an offhand Dagger.


Equipment

Ascended gear is not required. [Equipment Description]

Head
Celestial
Shoulders
Celestial
Chest
Celestial
Hands
Celestial
Legs
Celestial
Feet
Celestial
Backpiece
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Amulet
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Scepter
Celestial
Torch
Celestial
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Celestial
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


  • Budget: Rabid Rabid and Carrion Carrion are very cheap and work well while you build your Celestial set.
  • Damage: Mix in Viper Viper for increased DPS. Additionally, feel free to change the runes to or for a large damage increase.
  • provides a large damage and sustain increase, but is very expensive.


Consumables

You should consider consumables that increase your defense, such as , or use consumables that increase your damage, such as and . When farming for profit, use and . In general, you should always use Ascended Food over non-ascended consumables when it is available.


Usage

This build offers usage based on tiers of comfort. Find a tier that works for you.

Tier 1

Auto-attack and use and off cooldown.

If using Core Necromancer, instead use and alongside auto-attacks.

Tier 2

As in Tier 1, but add off cooldown, ensuring you or one of your shades is next to the enemy when it is cast.

If using Core Necromancer, instead add to your Shroud rotation.

Tier 3

As in Tier 2, but add off cooldown. This is primarily to trigger and .

If using Core Necromancer, this tier gains no additional complexity.

Tier 4

As in Tier 3, but replace Blood Magic with Curses.

Tier 5

As in Tier 4, but use off cooldown.


Other Builds

If comfortable with the tiers above, consider Scourge - Condi Scourge


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 2 votes.
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5 stars
VCertainty gave this build 5 stars • March 2023
New to Necro and have just tried this build with suboptimal gear and the overall flow of the rotation works really well and really helps to learn Necro as it gives you time to pause and see how your skills work on combatants. Would definitely recommend if you're new to Necro and wanna try something without over-investing.
5 stars
Pontyarelle gave this build 5 stars • September 2022
My favorite build for Necro in PVE , i use the variant Viper Status + rune of nightmare and you can solo anything easly with hight sustain and dmg! But if you have gold, use rune of Tormenting for more dmg!

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