Scourge - Alacrity Support Healer

Trait Variants

• 吸血光环 - trades healing for a tiny bit of extra damage.
• 现世妄执 - if you need more personal survivability.

Weapon Variants

Unfortunately, it is awkward to cover healing, 威能 and 迅捷 with one set of weapons:

• Staff is a strong source of healing, as well on-demand 稳固 and the only source of 活力. The healing is strong enough that it's better to use our relic to cover missing boons rather than replace staff.
• Torch can provide enough 威能 to maintain 25 stacks without relying on a relic.
• Warhorn is the only source that can maintain permanent 迅捷, though 菲勃古物 is near-permanent and can be topped up with 痛苦路径.

On low-damage encounters, it is fine to skip Staff in favour of covering boons more easily. And if your quickness provider is covering 迅捷 or some 威能, you can skip Warhorn and Torch, respectively.

A full explanation of why the recommended setup was chosen can be found in the Usage section.

For the mainhand slot, 死亡恐惧 and 无尽生命 generate enough life force to use any weapon:

• Pistol is chosen as standard as to interact with 午夜国王古物, and hence it also has the strongest CC.
• Use Axe if vulnerability is lacking.
• Use Dagger for extra life force.
• Use Scepter for range, and also has the most convenient boon removal.

Axe, Dagger and Scepter also provide extra boon rip.

Skill Variants

Healing

• 沙尘闪耀 - Provides AoE barrier (and therefore more 敏捷), but you lose out on a ranged res.

Utility Any of your utilities can be swapped out for extra utility, but make sure 威能 is covered before swapping out 致命干燥:

• for extra generation
• - destroys projectiles.
• - for extra boon rip.
• - 900 range portal, useful for mobility and skips.
• - 1200 range teleport. Can also bodyblock certain projectiles (e.g. Old Tom's poison whirl).
• - some and .
• - can be useful even in healing gear.
• - AoE pull.
• - a costly ranged res, but a complete one. Also a good choice if you feel you lack life force.

Elite

• - if heavy AoE boonstrip is needed or for a little more . This is the recommended option when CC is not required.
• - for soloing Thaumanova heat room with your massive health pool.

Food

• or ascended alternatives

Utility

• • for a cheaper alternative
• 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.

Alacrity

Thanks to , every barrier you provide also grants . This means using , and off cooldown on your group.

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

• provides barrier to five targets in a 300-unit radius of where you drop your shade.
• provides barrier to three targets in a 180-unit radius around you and each of your shades.
• 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.

Healing

• Your healing is divided between refreshing barriers on your allies and spamming Staff marks (via ).
• You lose a lot of your reactive healing when you switch off of Staff, so this is only really done to top up boons - try to have this coincide with moments of low pressure.
• 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 off cooldown when you're on stack, as causes it to drop a healing mark underneath you.
• Use when on Warhorn to provide some minor healing.
• is a powerful pulsing heal that also provides and revives downed allies.
• Thanks to , each application of barrier removes one condition.
  • Additional conditions can be removed with .

Might

• Use , , , , and off cooldown to provide might as required.
• If using , all your CC abilities also provide (and ).
• Always have your Sand Shade up to get the 225 bonus concentration from .

Rotation example

We start on Pistol/Warhorn to provide initial and two CCs to stack up a bit faster.

Relics

There are four good relic options: , , and :

• is the strongest healing option, but you should only use it if boons are being covered elsewhere.
• (requires Secrets of the Obscure) can be used to cover
• and both provide similar amounts of and .

is chosen as the default because the others all rely on using your healing skill, which limits your ability to use it reactively. Though getting good use out of involves using off cooldown, which also limits your ability to use it reactively for .

Sigils

• and only provide around 150 healing per second each.
  • Note that increases your revive speed from , so it has value beyond raw healing.
• will allow you to swap some pieces out for Minstrel stats or Magi stats. Minstrel stats provide more healing, but also add toughness, which may be undesirable in raids.

As stated before, Heal Scourge struggles to provide and at the same time. We don't really want to drop Staff, as it offers way more healing than we'd get from , so it's better to use our relic to provide one of the boons we lack. The other boon will be provided by our choice of oddhand weapon on the second set.

No setup is clearly better than the others, and the best option will depend on group and encounter. The reasons for the default setup here are as follows:

• Given that it is one of your few burst heals and a resurrect, it is very helpful to be able to hold on to rather than needing to use it off cooldown for boons. This leaves as the best option and means we need to use Warhorn to cover .
  • If using , the only mainhand weapon that can trigger it is Pistol.
• As healing is reduced significantly when not on Staff, it greatly improves our flexibility to be able to camp it for longer periods. Torch requires swapping nearly off-cooldown to really benefit from the boons it provides, but Warhorn's lasts for 30 seconds (with 100% boon duration). Not only that, but can be used to top up the duration so that you can maintain it for over 60 seconds before needing to swap.
• is a relatively uncommon boon, especially from non-healers (which you presumably will be paired with). Meanwhile, it is uncommon to find a quickness support that doesn't provide any to the group, so it is unlikely to matter if your personal generation is reduced by the lack of Torch.