The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on August 08, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
Condition Scourge is a slow and steady build that deals damage through 
折磨, 
流血, and 
燃烧.
Although it has low burst damage, condi scourge is a great build for open world due to its simplicity, tankiness, and amazing damage over time, making it great for solo or group play.
This build has access to barriers to absorb damage, passive defense from 
如沙之血, can remove boons from enemies with 
吞噬黑暗 and Punishment skills such as 
痛苦路径, and can remove conditions from allies and itself with 
邪恶恩惠.
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Weapon Variants
- If you don't have access to Pistol Pistol with Weaponmaster Training from Secrets of the Obscure, use only scepter.
- Your choice of second offhand weapon doesn't matter much. You can use warhorn Warhorn for extra CC, focus Focus if you need extra boon removal, or only use torch Torch for easier access to its good damage skills.
Skill Variants
Heal skill
症状吞噬 has the highest healing and is also great vs. enemies that inflict conditions, but leaves you vulnerable to burst damage with the self-inflicted 
易伤. You can consider other options:
沙尘闪耀 provides a good mix of healing and barrier.
Utility Skills
鲜血力量 is taken for damage and boon generation and should never be replaced. 
恶疾肆虐 is amazing for AoE damage by spreading the conditions on your enemy to other nearby enemies, but useless in single target fights. 痛苦路径 is a good stunbreak and provides 
稳固. You can consider other alternatives:
腐蚀毒云 - destroys projectiles.
致命干燥 - boon generation, damage, boon removal.
瘟疫纹章 - amazing in fights with many conditions.
怨恨纹章 - single target damage.
不死纹章 provides good life force generation in long fights and can be used to revive an ally
召唤影魔 - low damage minion but decent life force generation.
巨蛇虹吸 - if you need 
圣盾 to block a predictable but dangerous attack.
鬼灵铠甲 - can replace Trail of Anguish to give up the Stability for life force generation.
鬼灵缚爪 - great CC or pull to cleave trash mobs.
Elite Skills
瘟疫化身 deals massive damage if you can keep the enemy inside for its duration.
召唤血肉魔像 - tanky CC buddy.
Minions
Minions provide extra bodies for defense but will drastically lower DPS. Never use all minions, always keep 鲜血力量.
This still provides 3 minions, one of which has extremely high health and is good for CC.
Specializations
Variants
寄生蔓延 - trades damage for sustain, generally not needed.
沙砾碾磨 - when you need more condition cleanse.- Don't use
沙漠强化 because it requires a lot of boon duration to be useful, which you do not have as a dps build.
Death Magic
Death Magic can be taken if using the minion variant to trade a large amount of damage for an increase to minion health and personal defense. Replaces Soul Reaping.
- If you ever need a lot of defense, use Death Magic with
腐烂防御 + 
黑暗蔑视 + 
堕落狂热 for permanent 
保护 and large increase to your toughness. This is normally not needed as scourge is already relatively tanky.
Equipment
Ascended gear is not required. Infusions are not required. You can use Exotic gear with the same stats. This set uses gear that is similar to Build:Scourge - Condi DPS, which makes it a great option for general PVE
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Viper's Abomination" weapons. Viper exotic armor is very expensive, so we recommend a budget alternative called Carrion (search the trading post for "Ogden" armor) until you can get Viper gear such as by farming Bladed armor or by acquiring ascended armor. Upgrade to Viper and ascended as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.
- If you don't have access to Pistol Pistol with Weaponmaster Training from Secrets of the Obscure, use only scepter.
碎层古物 provides high single target damage. If you don't have access to expansion relics, you will have to resort to much weaker options such as 
骑兵古物, 
苦痛古物, or 
阴鬼古物.
Gear variants
- Trailblazer Trailblazer can be used in open world to trade 10-15% DPS for a massive increase to health and defense. But this set is not useful for most content outisde of open world.
- Celestial Celestial provides lower damage than Viper's and Trailblazer's, less defense than Trailblazer's, but in exchange the healing power makes your barriers bigger. Generally not recommended as the points into ferocity are completely wasted, and the points into boon duration won't be doing much either since this build has very little access to boons, only a bit of fury and might. This set is also not useful for most content outside of open world.
超级地能法印 + 
超级大地法印 budget options while you work on acquiring the very expensive but very strong Superior Sigil of Torment and Superior Sigil of Bursting.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
生日爆破枪 / 
令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐-
薄荷怪异莓棒
锐磨颅骨 (and variants)
Usage
Damage
This build is extremely easy to deal damage with. Simply follow this priority list.
- Always have at least one Sand Shade manifested. This is extremely important because you gain concentration and expertise from
黄沙贤者 and defense from 如沙之血, and inflict damage from 
显形沙影. Using any Shade skill causes existing Sand Shades and yourself to strike nearby enemies with Manifest Sand Shade for free. Manifest Sand Shade doesn't reset your auto attack chain. - Use 邪恶恩惠 which deals great damage thanks to
酷虐灼热. - Use 鲜血力量 anytime you can transfer the self-inflicted conditions. The easiest way to do this is to cast Blood is Power and
沙漠之幕 at the same time to trigger 
传播瘟疫, but any condi transfer will work. - Use
死亡束缚 and 吞噬黑暗 off cooldown; try to use them together as they have the same cooldown. Interrupt your auto attack chain to cast them. On the pistol set, use 
哀嚎射击 and 
恶毒爆冲 off cooldown. - Cast
重压崩溃 and 
痛苦浪潮 any time they're off CD. Preferably, use Harrowing Wave when not at full life force for more value. If you're near your target, Oppressive Collapse will also give you 
威能.
- Cast 瘟疫化身 off-cooldown. This is your highest damage skill, so position it carefully.
- Note that 吞噬黑暗 requires to enemy to aready be suffering from conditions to inflict 折磨. If that is not the case, this skill does nothing and should be delayed.
Opener
- Always use 瘟疫化身 after your Desert Shroud condition transfer, otherwise the self-inflicted
中毒 of Plaguelands (from 
腐化大师) can interfere with the transfer.
Sustain and defense
- You're a fully ranged build, so always stay on the move while attacking. Run or dodge away from attacks.
- 邪恶恩惠 converts your conditions into boons, and 沙漠之幕 can be used to transfer them in emergencies.
- Use 寄生蔓延 to trade some damage for life stealing.
- If you are downed, don't give up.
生命榨取 might keep you alive while your conditions finish the enemy. 腐臭领域 is also quite strong.
