Scourge - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

Spirit Vale

Salvation Pass

Stronghold of the Faithful

Bastion of the Peninent

Hall of Chains

Mythwright Gambit

The Key of Ahdashim

Non-SotO Weapons

Players without Secrets of the Obscure cannot run Pistol, therefore they should just leave the second mainhand slot empty, and can take a utility offhand weapon such as Warhorn.

Skill Variants

Utility 巨蛇虹吸 can be swapped out for different utility. As this provides barrier, and therefore 敏捷, you should take ~10% extra boon duration to make up for the loss.

• 致命干燥 can be used to supply ~75% 激怒 and an additional ~6 stacks of 威能. As the skill also provides some life force, it could replace 不死纹章.
• 恶疾肆虐 if you need cleave. Even post-nerf it is a strong skill.
• 痛苦路径 If you need 稳固.
• 腐蚀毒云 if projectile absorb is needed.
• 黄沙膨胀 - 900 range portal, useful for mobility on certain fights.
• 鬼灵缚爪 is a 1200 range 5-target pull.

Never swap out 鲜血力量.

Elite

• 召唤血肉魔像 for more CC. It's a fairly large DPS loss to bring, but can be helpful in particular on encounters where the boss is unlikely to stand still long enough for all your pulses of 瘟疫化身 to hit.

Trait Variants

• Use 寄生蔓延 for self heal sizable DPS loss.
• You provide a decent amount of 威能 already, but you could provide even more by taking 沙砾碾磨 for a small DPS loss.

• If you want more boon duration, you can swap some more gear to Ritualist stats.
• 碎层古物 would be higher single-target damage and is easier to trigger, though Akeem is AoE.
• 荆棘古物 is the best option for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
  • On long encounters where you regularly take damage, this relic can be the meta choice.

• Abuse the Adrenaline Mushrooms as much as possible.
• You can use 黄沙膨胀 to allow fast traveling for you and your group.
• 痛苦路径 might be useful if your supports aren't providing 稳固.

For more information, see our Spirit Woods Guide.

• 邪恶恩惠 converts conditions to boons on an extremely low cd.
• 恶疾肆虐 is not needed, so you could take one of the following:
  • You can use 黄沙膨胀 to teleport out for poison or corruption.
  • 瘟疫纹章 is a stunbreak, but more importantly it can pull a huge number of 中毒 stacks onto you, which you can then transfer to Matthias for extra damage.
  • 鬼灵缚爪 is very handy if you are struggling with cc - if you stand inside the sacrifice's hitbox then the skill will multihit them.
• Matthias will be moving about constantly, which can make 瘟疫化身 unreliable. Given the importance of breaking the sacrifice, 召唤血肉魔像 may be the better option.

For more information, see our Matthias Gabrel Guide.

• Use 恶疾肆虐 to kill the scouts as they move in - make sure they are in range. If you will not be able to kill a scout before it turns into a soldier, hold 恶疾肆虐 for when the soldier moves into the group.

For more information, see our Mursaat Overseer Guide.

• You can use 邪恶恩惠 at every Greater Death Mark to convert the 折磨.
• 黄沙膨胀 can allow you to break shackles very quickly by teleporting away from the group - you can even try to pick up the mechanic deliberately by staying as close to the middle of Dhuum's hitbox as you can (without ending up in front of him).
  • Before shackles begin appearing at 60%, you can also use 黄沙膨胀 to help with bombs - either by using it yourself or providing a portal for the player with the bomb. This will allow the bomb player to greed for DPS by staying on the boss for longer without endangering the group. If you are providing the portal for another player, make sure you quickly take the portal back so you aren't standing next to the bomb when it explodes.
• If Greater Death Mark is about to happen, you can delay 吞噬黑暗 to immediately start stripping boons from Dhuum.

For more information, see our Dhuum Guide.

Alacrity

Thanks to the trait 沙漠强化, you generate 敏捷 every time you apply Barrier. Your barrier skills are 黄沙瀑布, 沙暴帷幕 and 巨蛇虹吸. You also have 沙尘闪耀 if you spot any gaps in your uptime.

You will need to have a shade up whenever you apply 敏捷, as it provides 15% extra boon duration via 黄沙贤者. Shades only last for 15 seconds, you need to refresh them regularly. If you have any doubts about your ability to maintain a shade, you should take at least 10% extra boon duration for safety.

Be aware that each of these skills applies barrier in a different way:

• 显形沙影 provides barrier to five targets in a 300-unit radius of where you drop your shade.
• 黄沙瀑布 provides barrier to three targets in a 180-unit radius around you and each of your shades.
• 沙暴帷幕 pulses barrier three times to five targets in a 300-unit radius around you, THEN a final pulse to three targets in a 180-unit radius around you and each of your shades.

Rotation

Opener

1. 显形沙影 Have 1 down before the fight starts
2. 鲜血力量 Optional extra cast, may get cleansed by allies
3. 黄沙瀑布 to get 敏捷 started
4. 瘟疫化身
5. 鲜血力量
6. 沙暴帷幕

DPS Priority

After the opener, just use skills as they become available, with the following priority:

1. 沙暴帷幕 off cooldown with 鲜血力量 after
2. 吞噬黑暗
3. 瘟疫化身 off cooldown
4. 痛苦浪潮
5. 死亡束缚
6. 重压崩溃
7. 显形沙影 making sure to keep 1 shade up
8. Scepter autoattack chain, making sure to get the 3rd attack

General Tips

• Use 沙暴帷幕 ⇒ 鲜血力量 wherever possible to transfer the self-condis to your target via .
• Don't let reach maximum charges.
• Try to finish your autoattack chains.
• If using , use it whenever there are enemies near the main target.
• Feel free to use or if life force is over capping, or to support your teammates with cleanses and CC.
• The cast time on is pretty long, so it is efficient to "precast" the skill just before the boss becomes vulnerable.
• On encounters where the boss becomes Exposed, you can do a huge amount of damage by lining this up with .
  • Ideally you want to be finishing its 10th pulse as the boss becomes broken, which usually means casting it at the start of the phase, or as soon as you see the defiance bar appears.
• Changes in attributes such as condi damage can change which condis are transferred first via .

Breakbar

• Your best option without losing DPS are soft CCs such as cripple, blindness, and fear from .
• is one of the strongest crowd control skills the necromancer has, but you give up by taking it.
• In emergencies, you can swap to warhorn for .

• 恶疾肆虐 can be pretty useful here.
• 痛苦路径 might be useful if your supports aren't providing 稳固.

• 痛苦路径 is worth taking to reduce general annoyance from the various White Mantle CCs.

For more information, see our Twisted Castle Guide.

• You can drop a shade on the hand kiter to provide some barrier if you are worried about them.
• When returning from split phases, the dark Sauls do not clear conditions so you can immediately use 恶疾肆虐 on them to copy conditions to Deimos.
  • If they are taking a long time to die, you can then 恶疾肆虐 back off Deimos. This can be particularly useful when the second miniboss splits in four.
• Otherwise, 恶疾肆虐 can be used to kill Prides and Greeds. Be aware that there are a lot of valid targets for epidemic to hit, so you may wish to wait until the Prides are fairly close in the hopes they are prioritised.

For more information, see our Deimos Guide.

• You can use 炫耀之柱 to 恐惧 any lava elementals that get too close to Qadim in the burn phases.
• 恶疾肆虐 is useful not just for clearing elementals, but for dealing with the additional destroyers that spawn in the second phase, and can even be used to epi between the two wyverns once they on adjacent platforms.

For more information, see our Qadim Guide.

Food

• 芦笋肉串
  • Using 胡椒味熏肉薄饼 (or similar) would be a small DPS loss, but allow you to benefit from the ascended food buffs.

Utility

• 大师调谐水晶 or 协调冰柱

• Use 恶疾肆虐 for the adds.
  • You can use 恶疾肆虐 to clear orbs as well.
• Use 召唤血肉魔像 if cc is needed.
• Use your barrier abilities in the cc phase to support the healers.

For more information, see our Gorseval the Multifarious Guide.

Keep Construct takes extra power damage, so Scourge is very suboptimal here, however:

• 恶疾肆虐 makes killing projections a breeze.

For more information, see our Keep Construct Guide.

• Spears can be killed with 恶疾肆虐 or by dropping your shades on them.

For more information, see our Samarog Guide.

• A lot of attacks apply 冰冻 and 迟缓 at Largos, so make liberal use of 邪恶恩惠
• Both bosses like to move about a lot, making 瘟疫化身 Unreliable, so 召唤血肉魔像 may be the better option.

For more information, see our Largos Assassins Guide.

• 恶疾肆虐 could be taken if you are having trouble with the distortions in the final phases.
• If you don't trust your group to provide 稳固, do it yourself with 痛苦路径

If you are pylon kiting:

• You will need to take 黄沙膨胀 to pick up orbs.
  • The range feels very short when there is magma between you and the drop location - you will probably need to step outside your pylon slightly to ensure your safety, so don't be too slow.
• As you can't reach Qadim with 痛苦浪潮 while at the pylon, you could take offhand focus instead of warhorn to generate some extra life force with 灵魂抓攫
• Make sure to keep a shade on Qadim at all times as your shade abilities won't hit him otherwise.
  • If you do this, be sure to also use 刺骨恶寒 once Qadim starts eating pylons, to keep stripping his boons.
• You have a few options to sustain yourself - what works best will depend upon you and the speed of your group:
  • You can run 超级折磨符文.
  • You can take 寄生蔓延.
  • You can run Blood Magic and spam 炫耀之柱 on yourself.

For more information, see our Qadim the Peerless Guide.

• 恶疾肆虐 is extremely useful against the turrets and adds.
  • If you save it when the minibosses are active, you can immediately use 恶疾肆虐 to copy conditions to Sabetha when the minibosses reach 25% health.

For more information, see our Sabetha the Saboteur Guide.

• If you are at full health, then barrier will prevent you from being downed while standing on the buttons on the "puzzle towers".
• 邪恶恩惠 converts conditions to boons on an extremely low cd.
• Use 恶疾肆虐 to kill adds and shards.
• If Xera is not close enough to shards for 恶疾肆虐 to hit, then drop a 显形沙影 on each one you want to clear and use 沙漠之幕.
  • In an emergency, you can also 恶疾肆虐 off one shard to others once you've build up some conditions with 沙漠之幕 and other shade abilities.

For more information, see our Xera Guide.

• Coordinate with the player knocking the Tormented Dead away regarding when they want you to use 恶疾肆虐. Being too early or too late can be a disaster.
• You can use 恶疾肆虐 at the start to kill wurms, but make sure you have it ready for when the first Tormented Dead spawns.
• If you use 炫耀之柱 as you cast 恶疾肆虐 it will copy 恐惧 to the Tormented Dead, keeping them away from the group and giving the knocker more time.
• 腐蚀毒云 can be very useful in the challenge mode, as wurms will constantly respawn and their projectile attacks are very painful - as wurms will be constantly dying your life force shouldn't suffer from dropping 不死纹章 either.
• Spam 邪恶恩惠 to clear condis from the group.
• Wall RNG means that the boss may be constantly moved out of 瘟疫化身. Given that failing the CC is an instant wipe, 召唤血肉魔像 is quite useful here (as long as your knocker doesn't mistake it for a Tormented Dead}}.

For more information, see our Soulless Horror Guide.

• 恶疾肆虐 is useless in the normal mode of this fight, but incredible in the challenge mode for clearing the wisps that spawn on the platform.
• 腐蚀毒云 could be taken to provide some extra safety once wisps start spawning below 40%.
• While you could bring 召唤血肉地虫 to skip the shockwaves, the DPS gain from retaining your Violent Currents is usually outweighed by missing the extra DPS from 召唤影魔.

For more information, see our Cardinal Sabir Guide.

• You can use 黄沙膨胀 to allow greens to teleport to it.
• If skipping greens, you can help the group by providing barrier with 沙漠强化 and 黄沙瀑布 just before the green hits.
• 恶疾肆虐 can be used to copy 冰冻, 残废 or 定身 to nearby Seekers, keeping them away from the group. With multiple necros you can also "bounce" the conditions from the boss with one 恶疾肆虐, then having another use it on the seeker, copying them back to the boss for big damage.
  • If you use 炫耀之柱 in the middle of the 恶疾肆虐 cast, you can also copy 恐惧 keeping the seekers away for even longer.

For more information, see our Vale Guardian Guide.

• 邪恶恩惠 converts conditions to boons on an extremely low cd - useful for if you get 恐惧ed.
• Take advantage of 恶疾肆虐 to kill the Slublings. Pay attention to not kill your teammate who is clearing the mushrooms!
• You can place 腐蚀毒云 slightly on the boss and to the center of the room.

For more information, see our Slothasor Guide.

• 腐蚀毒云 can be positioned such that it hits the boss while blocking (some) projectiles.
• You could also bring 痛苦路径 to provide some 稳固 to prevent the float from missing a green.

For more information, see our Cairn the Indomitable Guide.

• Barrier is handy to prevent damage from taking greens at the Broken King. You can drop your shades on distant players to provide support without endangering yourself.
• Keep using 恶疾肆虐 at the Eater of Souls encounter - the spirit horde hurts more than you'd expect.
• DO NOT use 重压崩溃, 冲锋陷阵, 末日哀嚎 or 恐惧 on the eyes, as they will overwrite the 晕眩 from orb detonations. Basically just avoid all your CC.

For more information, see our Statues of Grenth Guide.

• 腐蚀毒云 could be used to protect your group from the hands in the split phase.

For more information, see our Cardinal Adina Guide.