Scourge - 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

Healing

• 吸血纹章 is lower healing, but higher DPS than 召唤血魔. Be aware that it will hit the closest enemy rather than your target, so in some encounters it might end up being unreliable.
• 鲜血法池 is the largest personal heal if you'd rather have safety than damage, and can heal allies without needing a target.

Utility If using Pistol then swap out 不死纹章, otherwise swap out 召唤影魔

• In fights with shorter phases, or with extra sources of life force, you will do more damage with 怨恨纹章 (use off cooldown).
• 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.

A condition DPS and utility build for Scourge. This build provides strong sustained DPS and bonus AoE cleave with 恶疾肆虐. It also provides incidental support for its subgroup by generating 威能, cleansing conditions, and overhealing allies with barrier.

Scourge excels in encounters where it can play to its strengths, namely 恶疾肆虐 and defensive support. It also deals all its damage from range and isn't too reliant on 威能 or healing, which makes it good for roles such as flak kiting at Sabetha.

Specialization Variants

Taking Blood Magic instead of Soul Reaping is a major DPS loss, but provides more support through minor healing and 鲜血输送. Should only be considered in training runs or struggling groups where you're desperate for the sustain.

• 空槽 is higher DPS and offers a tiny bit of group sustain, but if you need Blood Magic you probably need 生命仪式.
• If taking 生命仪式, consider using 鲜血法池 as your healing skill.

Relic Variants

• 阿奇姆古物 is nearly identical damage and is AoE. It can outperform 碎层古物 where the boss is stationary and attacks frequently, but you need to be sure that there is another source of 困惑, as you don't apply any yourself.
• On long fights where you constantly take damage from the boss, 荆棘古物 can be higher damage. It is also a core relic, but doesn't work everywhere.
• 望族古物 is the best option for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
  • In this case, you should use 盘装牛肉仁当 (or ascended alternatives) as your food.

Rotation Fundamentals

Unlike other Necromancer specialisations, its shroud skills are always available. This means you will be using your skills off cooldown according to a priority list. The rotation becomes more structured for players that own Secrets of the Obscure, as pistol becomes a strong choice due to its ability to trigger practically off cooldown, introducing a weapon swap into the rotation.

Shades Your first shroud ability is . This drops a short-duration Sand Shade at the target location. For as long as a shade is active, your other shroud abilities will happen around your shade as well as you (an enemy can only be hit once if both you and your shade are in range). You want to maintain a shade on top of your target at all times, both to activate and to maintain damage if you have to move out of melee range.

All your shroud skills deal damage when activated, but and deal more (the latter via ). Your other two shades can be used for utility: provides AoE Barrier to nearby allies, and inflicts on nearby enemies.

All shroud skills consume life force to use. In general you will only have enough to use and off cooldown, but some encounters will have extra sources of life force that allow you to spam the other abilities for more damage.

Life Force Life force is a resource based upon your max health. Each shroud skill consumes a fixed amount to use, while certain skills generate an amount based on a percentage of max life force. A huge amount of your damage comes from your shroud abilities, so using such skills frequently is essential.

There are four skills that generate life force:

• , , - weapon skills that are also used for damage.
• - the active ability of your Shadow Fiend (if using). The skill has no cast time, but your Shadow Fiend will take a moment to respond.
• - kept passive, this skill generates life force every three seconds.

Simplified Rotations

While scourge is conceptually simple, its damage isn't really concentrated on a small number of abilities, so it remains quite fast-paced even when simplified. Fortunately, dropping one or other of the mainhand weapons isn't a huge DPS loss. The higher damage option will be to camp .

Food

• (or ascended alternatives) if using .

Utility

• or

Scourge is one of the classes best suited to Pylon Kiting at the Qadim the Peerless encounter. You should make the following modifications to the build:

Skills

• You probably want to change the healing skill to something such as as Qadim will be out of range of the passive lifesteal of .
• Replace with so that you can reach orbs quickly.
• is nice to have as you will rarely be in range to use . This allows you to help CC your pylon, as well as any distortions that aren't taken care of.

Traits Trait options will depend on the amount of sustain you feel you need to keep yourself alive:

• The most aggressive option is to run the Blood Magic specialization as described above. Using off cooldown should be enough to keep you alive if no orbs are dropped.
• Alternatively (or perhaps in addition to, if you really need the healing), taking in Curses provides a good amount of sustain provided you are able to maintain damage on Qadim.

Gear

• Due to a quirk of how the pylon's boons work, it won't provide if you already have it - which you will, thanks to and . This will actually leave your lower than on other classes, so replacing the with a can make up for it.
• If you are running Blood Magic, you may find that you struggle with life force. In this case it might be advisable to have a Focus as well as a Torch so that you can hit the boss with .

• can be pretty useful here.
• might be useful if your supports aren't providing .

• 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 on them to copy conditions to Deimos.
  • If they are taking a long time to die, you can then back off Deimos. This can be particularly useful when the second miniboss splits in four.
• Otherwise, 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 to any lava elementals that get too close to Qadim in the burn phases.
• 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.

• Use for the adds.
  • You can use to clear orbs as well.
• Use 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:

• makes killing projections a breeze.

For more information, see our Keep Construct Guide.

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

For more information, see our Samarog Guide.

• A lot of attacks apply and at Largos, so make liberal use of
• Both bosses like to move about a lot, making Unreliable, so may be the better option.

For more information, see our Largos Assassins Guide.

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

If you are pylon kiting:

• You will need to take 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 while at the pylon, you could take offhand focus instead of warhorn to generate some extra life force with
• 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 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 .
  • You can take .
  • You can run Blood Magic and spam on yourself.

For more information, see our Qadim the Peerless Guide.

• You can use to allow greens to teleport to it.
• If skipping greens, you can help the group by providing barrier with and just before the green hits.
• can be used to copy , or to nearby Seekers, keeping them away from the group. With multiple necros you can also "bounce" the conditions from the boss with one , then having another use it on the seeker, copying them back to the boss for big damage.
  • If you use in the middle of the cast, you can also copy keeping the seekers away for even longer.

For more information, see our Vale Guardian Guide.

• is extremely useful against the turrets and adds.
  • If you save it when the minibosses are active, you can immediately use 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".
• converts conditions to boons on an extremely low cd.
• Use to kill adds and shards.
• If Xera is not close enough to shards for to hit, then drop a on each one you want to clear and use .
  • In an emergency, you can also off one shard to others once you've build up some conditions with 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 . Being too early or too late can be a disaster.
• You can use at the start to kill wurms, but make sure you have it ready for when the first Tormented Dead spawns.
• If you use as you cast it will copy to the Tormented Dead, keeping them away from the group and giving the knocker more time.
• 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 either.
• Spam to clear condis from the group.
• Wall RNG means that the boss may be constantly moved out of . Given that failing the CC is an instant wipe, 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.

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

For more information, see our Cardinal Sabir Guide.