Scourge - Celestial Alacrity Hybrid DPS

Bastion of the Penitent

Weapon Variants

• Dagger for life force generation and CC.
• Warhorn can be very useful for some extra CC.

Skill Variants

Healing

• 沙尘闪耀 for extra AoE barrier generation and boon corruption at the cost of regen and ranged heals/rez.

Utility

• 怨恨纹章 does a very very respectable amount of damage.
• 不死纹章 might be helpful for life force upkeep if you're not using a dagger.
• 召唤影魔 for some damage and life force generation.
• 痛苦路径 for 稳固.
• 鬼灵缚爪 is amazing for CC, especially for any fights with adds because you can do it inside the boss's hitbox to hit it five times.
• 恶疾肆虐 can be useful in certain specific encounters.
• Note that 致命干燥 is the sole source of 激怒 in this build so if you replace it you'll lose that.

Elite

• 召唤血肉魔像 for CC.

Food

• 碗装热带水果沙拉
• 碗装禽肉沙茶 if you want some extra Concentration.
• 盘装牛肉仁当 for extra DPS.
• 薄荷梨子与熏肉薄饼 offers high damage while still giving you a 10% healing modifier.
  • The same is true of 薄荷配菜牡蛎汤球, though it trades a little damage in return for more of every stat.

Utility

• 薄荷保养油 for more boon duration
• 富饶保养油 if you need the extra healing.
  • 全息超级鸡腿 is a slightly less effective, but cheaper, option.
• 强效大师调谐水晶 to go all in on DPS.

Trait Variants

• 沙砾碾磨 for extra 威能 generation and condition cleanse.
• 吸血光环 for some passive healing.

Equipment Variants

• You can swap in Plaguedoctor's stats if you need to get your toughness below a certain level to avoid tanking.
• for encounters with many conditions where your normal condi cleanse isn't doing sufficiently well.

Healing

• , , , and (plus if you take it) are your big sources of barrier.
  • Do remember though that your allies can only get up to 50% of their total health in barrier.
• Use for the pulsing healing to your allies but you might wish to save it if you'll need to rez someone or for CC.
• and will provide full uptime if used off cooldown.
  • Dodge every now and then for the regen from .
• If you're taking then also does healing.

Boons

• Using your barrier skills off cooldown will basically guarantee full uptime with a good fifteen or more seconds of leeway.
• , , and are your main sources of .
• does very high uptime.
• Using off-cooldown should guarantee full uptime, given its reduced recharge due to your permanent .

CC

• if you take the Flesh Golem.
• if you take it.
• if using a Warhorn.

General Tips

• You should always have at least one Shade active from for the bonus Concentration and Expertise from .
• If you're using the Scepter, try not to interrupt your auto-attack chain for the high damage dealt by .
  • Bunch uses of your other weaponskills and utility skills to use them all together so as to avoid interrupting the auto-attack chain.

This build can be modified to kite hands for Deimos while using and Plaguedoctor's stats, making it possible for the tank to run very low toughness.

Life force generation will be mostly handled by , , , and the myriad dying spirits and hands, so you don't need to worry about that. It's a tricky build to run, however, and requires some precise timing and practice.

For the hands themselves, you can very comfortably stack five of them; between the insane amounts of barrier and you can generate and , the damage from them is just actually not a problem.

• Try to always use just as the hands are spawning to get the full benefit of the and life force generation.
• Use your barrier skills and off-cooldown.
• You can start casting just after the fourth hand spawns to get out of the fifth and instantly get some barrier.

Now, the main problem is Mind Crush. The only way you have to deal with it is the from . However, that gets eaten by a single hit of the hands, and Mind Crush does overlap with them, so if you're getting hands just as Mind Crush is coming you will need to either have very precise timing about the damage ticks or to walk around a bit so that they hands don't have time to hurt you.

• With the this build provides you have two s per Mind Crush cycle, so use one to tank the Mind Crush and then the next one for some extra barrier and regeneration.
• Right after the instant-down of Mind Crush you will start getting ticking damage for 70% of your max HP which won't get reduced by . is your best healing tool for the heavy damage so stay in it for the full heal. will also heal you due to , as will because of .

Some more general tips:

• You can use and your staff's on the spirits that start spawning to kill Saul to get some extra regeneration for yourself. The hands themselves don't trigger Marks, though.
• If you're finding yourself not needing so much pure healing, taking can be a nice source of some extra barrier.