Scourge - Blood Bunker Scourge

If taken is not only a great spike skill, but also a defensive one - thanks to the low cast time CB can be used to counterpressure targets. Someone's chasing you with and stacks? Turn their boons against them, right into and ! It's also unblockable.

Support

• Your two specialities are barrier stacking and condition cleansing.

• Applying a barrier cleanses conditions and grants .

• , , and are your main sources of barrier sharing.

• adds a support element to all of your Staff marks. Allies can now trigger the marks, and each mark has a unique positive effect on top of some healing.

  • Transfusion's effects also apply to trait procs, like the you create after dodging.
  • To get the most out of the marks, aim to hit both friend and foe with the same skill.
  • There's a minor downside to this trait: you can no longer place marks beneath your feet preemptively! For example on other builds you could place a under yourself right before a Revenant or Thief would jump you with a teleport, interrupting their burst attempts. With Transfusion however the mark would be triggered by you the moment it's placed, leaving you open to attacks.

• pulses barrier and to nearby allies for a couple of seconds, followed by a detonation that applies a larger amount of barrier while also corrupting boons on enemies. This skill only goes off around yourself and shades that were placed before the activation of this skill, so try to set up multiple shades in advance in order to cover a larger area. It's one of the strongest skills in the build both for defensive and offensive purposes so try to hit as many targets as possible, both friendly and hostile.

  • Try to share as many pulses with allies as possible, but enemies only really need to be in range of this skill for the final detonation.
  • is an excellent tool for rooting an enemy into the final explosion.

• adds yet another group cleanse to the build.

Life Force management

• As your shade skills cost LF, being efficient at managing this resource will be crucial for both your damage and sustain. We're going to list all the sources and provide a few tips for getting the most out of them.

• All staff skills generate life force:

  • is a rather weak skill and there's no way you'll be able to use it much under any pressure. It does however generate 4% LF per target hit, and you should use it for the occasional ranged poking. Alternatively, right after you won a fight (and no enemies are nearby who could rez their downed allies) you can use the downed bodies as batteries and just spam staff autos on them for a substantial amount of free Life Force while bleeding out the enemy.
  • Marks are unblockable and generate 3% LF each. and can be used freely for just pressure and LF building, while and are more powerful and should be kept for the proper occasion (Putrid for mass cleansing and Reaper's for interrupting).

• passively stacks LF for you up to the 10% threshold except for when is active.