Zahim.9036

Oh I will try Parasitic Contagion. I do have the runes of torment. To get the barrier I need to stand inside the area of the shades or will I get it anyway? I know that I will get it anyway for F5 at least. Appreciate the advice on BiP+F5, didnt know that it didnt have casttime. Will try swapping for Parasitic Contagion and see how it goes.

Lets start with that I'm 40+, bad with combos/rotations what not and I havent played GW2 in 8-9 years. But with lack of anything else to play I wanted to give GW2 a go again. I am more of a solo player, enjoy the story missions, achievements, unlocking the map etc etc. So I wanted to try something considered easy. I used the boost I got with buying the expansions getting a revenant to 80 and finishing the PoF questline as a renegade. But all the switching and keeping track of energy and things like that was kind of difficult for me. Then I read that scourge was the supposed king of solo PvE and easy to play which sounded great. So I started with a minion necro which was super easy. Not good dps but never really worried about dying and very few buttons to press. So after I finally unlocked scourge and bought a full set of exotic viper gear + sigils (strength/torment for weapons, tormenting on armor), I was considering getting trailblazer or celestial but people seemed to be on the opinion that was overkill since condi scourge is pretty much immortal as it is. But I dont just get it..where is all the self healing/sustain suppossed to come from? Sure I press F1 and get a small shield (around 1K), or I press F5 and get a larger shield (around 5K) . Healing wise I get like 170hp now and then from tormenting..and that seems to be it. I feel like I have less survivability compared to my renegade. I am doing the guide at https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Scourge_-_Condi_Scourge and these are my stats: https://i.imgur.com/RAf8Cb2.png I feel like I need to mash a lot of buttons and keep track of a lot of things (CD's, Shades, trying to place my AoE's) while I need to be very careful at the same time. If I try a bounty monster (which I was hoping to be able to solo) I die in like 10 seconds. What am I doing wrong? Shouldnt I have more self healing from somewhere? Or should I just accept that I am trash at this game if I cant even play what is suppossed to be the best solo class without dying and go play something else?