Scourge

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Scourges channel their life force into the desert sands to summon biddable shades that damage enemies and create shields for their allies. They use punishment skills to torment their enemies, and wield torches to light the path to their destruction.

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Scourge is an elite specialization for the necromancer that focuses on punishment skills, boon corruption, bestowing might and barriers to allies, and replacing their death shroud with the ability to conjure sand shades. It also allows the use of an offhand torch.

List of scourge skills

See also: List of necromancer skills

Profession mechanic

• Scourges lose access to Death Shroud in favor of getting access to Shade skills at all times, which use life force directly on use. Life force cost is static, and does not scale with the total life force pool. Increasing vitality does not increase the cost of Shade skills. All skills, except Manifest Sand Shade, have a half-second delay before activating.

	Skill			Description
	Manifest Sand Shade	0.5½		Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force. Whenever you use a shade ability, you and your sand shades strike nearby foes.
	Nefarious Favor		5	You and your shade convert conditions from nearby allies into boons. Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.
	Sand Cascade		10	Sand rises up near you and your shades to shield nearby allies. Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.
	Garish Pillar		15	Induce fear in enemies around you and your sand shades. Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.
	Desert Shroud		20	Enter the desert shroud, gaining a powerful barrier and pulsing necrotic energy around you and your sand shades. Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per pulse.

Weapon skills

	Skill	Type			Description
Torch
4	Harrowing Wave		0.5½	20	Unleash a wave of corrupted fire, burning and tormenting enemies. Gain life force for each enemy struck.
5	Oppressive Collapse		0.75¾	25	Corrupt the ground under your target; if they remain within the area, they will be knocked down. Grant might to allies near your target based on how many conditions they have.

Slot skills

Healing

Skill	Type					Description
Sand Flare	Punishment			0.75¾	25	Grant nearby allies a barrier. Convert boons on nearby enemies into torment and cripple.

Utility

Skill	Type					Description
Trail of Anguish	Punishment				25	Leave a trail of sand as you travel. Grant swiftness to allies passing through it. Inflict burning on enemies and corrupt a boon into cripple and torment.
Dessicate	Punishment			1	20	Draw in vital energy from your foes to gain life force and grant boons to nearby allies. Convert a boon on affected enemies into torment and cripple.
Sand Swell	Punishment			1	35	Plunge into the ground, creating a portal through Tyria for allied use. Grant allies using this passage a health barrier. Convert a boon on nearby enemies into torment and cripple.
Serpent Siphon	Punishment			0.5½	30	Unleash ghostly serpents toward foes in the targeted area; serpents striking their targets become magical sand, which grants allies a barrier. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment and cripple.

Elite

Skill	Type					Description
Ghastly Breach	Punishment			0.75¾	75	Breach into the realm of torment for a brief time, granting might to allies and slowing enemies. Convert a boon on enemies into torment and cripple each pulse.

List of scourge traits

See also: List of necromancer traits

Tier	Name		Description
Minor Proficiency	Torch Proficiency		You can wield torches.
Minor Adept	Mantle of Sand		Gain the power to craft sand shadows and command them using your life force. Gain access to Punishment and Shade skills.
Major Adept	Abrasive Grit		Granting an ally a barrier removes conditions affecting them and grants might.
Major Adept	Fell Beacon		Torch skills gain reduced recharge. Gain expertise based on your condition damage.
Major Adept	Nourishing Ashes	3	Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
Minor Master	Sand Sage		Gain concentration and expertise for each of your active sand shades.
Major Master	Desert Empowerment		Manifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it.
Major Master	Sadistic Searing		Punishment skills gain reduced recharge and cause your next Manifest Sand Shade to inflict burning on foes near it.
Major Master	Unending Corruption		Manifest Sand Shade corrupts boons on foes near it.
Minor Grandmaster	Blood as Sand		Reduce incoming damage for each sand shade you have active.
Major Grandmaster	Sand Savant		You can summon only one shade at a time, but this greater shade has a modified recharge. You affect more targets and influence a larger area with Shade skills. A greater shade counts as three shades for related traits.
Major Grandmaster	Demonic Lore		Torment you inflict deals increased damage and causes your foes to burn. This trait can only inflict burning on a particular target once every three seconds.
Major Grandmaster	Feed from Corruption		When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain that boon.

List of scourge equipment

•   Scourge's Torch
•   Guide for the Lost
•   Scourge's Tendrils
•   Superior Rune of the Scourge

Related achievements

• Specializations (Path of Fire achievements): Adept Scourge — Begin training the necromancer's scourge elite specialization. (5)
  
• Specialization Collections: Guide for the Lost — Collect these 14 items and skins to receive the scourge's torch, Guide for the Lost. (3)
  

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Trivia

• Scourge utility skills used to be sacrifice skills that consumed life force but the developers felt it wasn't cohesive thematically since life force was typically consumed mostly by shroud skills. They were replaced by punishment skills that corrupt enemy boons into specific conditions (Torment and Cripple).
• The Scourge Class NPC is Akesi Xuni, and may be found outside the Court of the Dead.

External links

• Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire Elite Specializations—Scourge (Necromancer)

References

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Necromancer