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11 minutes ago, Arianth Moonlight.6453 said:

isn't that like super weak? Sure, I have only tried it on Reaper, but I do -50% dmg compared to Berserker.

Ye celestial is garbage in open world; you will waste much more time trying to kill things when compared to viper's. If you want a more tanky set up, then go for traiblazer's instead of viper's. 

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27 minutes ago, Methuselah.4376 said:

Ye celestial is garbage in open world; you will waste much more time trying to kill things when compared to viper's. If you want a more tanky set up, then go for traiblazer's instead of viper's. 

I don't agree with the fact that celestial is garbage. This is a decent stat set everywhere, except in instanced content with aggro on Toughness. You can do fine as support scourge in celestial (see the Hardstuck variant of the Plaguedoctor Scourge), switching traits and skills for a more offensive setup leaves you with a good enough dps to go through open world and story and Cele Harbinger seems particularly efficient for WvW roaming (you may need to have a way to switch runes, there, tho). That's the power of celestial: it's good enough for almost everything and definitely not the worst choice if you want to do multiple things while changing as little as possible.

I won't deny that Trailblazer is still better for soloing content and Viper for pure offense, tho. But that's the difference between a generalist and a specialist.

 

 

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ok, how does this look? I have literally no idea what a Scourge is supposed to do so I focused in getting exactly 100% condition duration (except for bleed which is over capped but well).

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PSBBs+tjlVwAZXsPGJWqPuPVA-zRRYVR6vZUBnRHqqQkqK9SIoEAd++HAA-e

oh, the link doesn't save buffs but with Sand Sage you get 100% condition duration.

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2 hours ago, Arianth Moonlight.6453 said:

ok, how does this look? I have literally no idea what a Scourge is supposed to do so I focused in getting exactly 100% condition duration (except for bleed which is over capped but well).

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PSBBs+tjlVwAZXsPGJWqPuPVA-zRRYVR6vZUBnRHqqQkqK9SIoEAd++HAA-e

oh, the link doesn't save buffs but with Sand Sage you get 100% condition duration.

It's for open world, right?

  • Why do you use signet of spite?
  • You don't have a stunbreak.
  • Not sure if taking Death Magic is worth it, I'd go with Soul Reaping 1/1/3 for more damages and life force or Blood Magic 1/3/3 for support and sustain. If you want to keep Death Magic, I'd go with 2/2/2 instead, you are playing a condi build with condi weapons so power won't do much for you.
  • Most Scourge builds take Plague Sending for the combo between f5 and blood is power, it can also benefit your other corruptions skills by giving you one more way beside dagger 4 to transfer conditions.
  • Runes of the Tempest will be expansive to get unless you have legendary runes. Runes of the Nightmare are the prefered choice for condi builds, in general.

 

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20 hours ago, Arianth Moonlight.6453 said:

I know the only viable gear for Reaper/Necro is Berserker cuz they have no healing/conditions to properly use any other gear

That's prejudices. Facts are that:

- A condi reaper deal as much damage as a power reaper. (as far as I know condi reaper currently bench at 33k dps)

- Both Marauder and Assassin gear are very good and reliable alternative to berserker gear on reaper (Yes, you won't have the possibility to reach the maximum numbers that berserker would allow you to reach but the sheer amount of extra precision you got from those gear stat is confort). The ideal power reaper make use of a mix of assassin and berserker stat which in return allow you to take advantage of the power runeset instead of making you dependant of the very few precision runesets that the game offer you. (a berserker/assassin/scholar blend offer you 15% more crit damage but 126 power loss over the current berserker/thief runes meta build)

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42 minutes ago, Kaladel.1670 said:

It's for open world, right?

oh no, I just focused on getting 100% condition duration (ignore the skills too, they just there).

13 minutes ago, Dadnir.5038 said:

A condi reaper deal as much damage as a power reaper.

got that build? I have this one but I'm still working on a backpack before switching all my gear to try it: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PShAEZlRwOYXMFGJWuX1NXA-zRRYfhC2MqOfhRXVFmq+HCBlAoz3/AA-e (again, the skills are just there since I can't test what's best yet).

I also have marauder gear and yes, I lost a few DPS compared to berserker but with a massive improvement on survival: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PShAEZlRwOYXMFGJOSXlNbA-zRRYBBBKGVfflRFVVGpq+HgA+kitten-e

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5 hours ago, Arianth Moonlight.6453 said:

ok, how does this look? I have literally no idea what a Scourge is supposed to do so I focused in getting exactly 100% condition duration (except for bleed which is over capped but well).

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PSBBs+tjlVwAZXsPGJWqPuPVA-zRRYVR6vZUBnRHqqQkqK9SIoEAd++HAA-e

oh, the link doesn't save buffs but with Sand Sage you get 100% condition duration.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PSxAs+ZlNwgYgsEmJW6X9PVA-zxIY1o7/MyVqGiqSpnEB7FAW+bZrdwH-e

This is my build, its slightly off-meta but not by much. Massive defense, 100% condition duration, 90%+ crit in groups and 15-20k DPS effortlessly (in real fights) while still giving out lots of Might, barriers and cleanses.

 

Your build has several potential errors, such as not fully using the Fear-Torment-Burning synergy chain. You also need to mostly use Punishment skills to take advantage of burning damage (Sadistic Searing), as well as other minor mistakes like applying self-Weakness and not having a stunbreak in your kit.

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2 hours ago, Kaladel.1670 said:

It's for open world, right?

  • Why do you use signet of spite?
  • You don't have a stunbreak.
  • Not sure if taking Death Magic is worth it, I'd go with Soul Reaping 1/1/3 for more damages and life force or Blood Magic 1/3/3 for support and sustain. If you want to keep Death Magic, I'd go with 2/2/2 instead, you are playing a condi build with condi weapons so power won't do much for you.
  • Most Scourge builds take Plague Sending for the combo between f5 and blood is power, it can also benefit your other corruptions skills by giving you one more way beside dagger 4 to transfer conditions.
  • Runes of the Tempest will be expansive to get unless you have legendary runes. Runes of the Nightmare are the prefered choice for condi builds, in general.

 

I'd like to clarify that Rune of the Tempest is meta for Celestial power-condition hybrid builds, especially on Scourge since they're considered a support class even on DPS builds. Nightmare rune is purely for condition builds which mostly use Viper instead, since it has no power damage or boon duration.

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2 minutes ago, Mariyuuna.6508 said:

I'd like to clarify that Rune of the Tempest is meta for Celestial power-condition hybrid builds, especially on Scourge since they're considered a support class even on DPS builds. Nightmare rune is purely for condition builds which mostly use Viper instead.

Celestial support hybrid scourge uses Nightmare runes.

As for this power-condi hybrid, never heard of it and can't find it on build websites, youtube videos or anything... Where does it come from?

 

 

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https://metabattle.com/wiki/Necromancer

You're welcome

Also. P/C Hybrid builds don't exist because they don't work, so why list them? The people that say they do work have 0 actual clue on how the game works and have done nothing more than overworld events where you can 100% be carried because of how easy it is.

Here are your benchmarks for each spec. They aren't always up to 100% date, but give you an idea on where you stand.

https://snowcrows.com/benchmarks

A more detailed site for class data

https://gw2wingman.nevermindcreations.de/home Edited by Zanther Deathbringer.4762
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15 hours ago, Valisha.8650 said:

You know that from your own perspective I guess 🤣

Proof is the only thing that will make you look right, you know. The stance of "hybrid doesn't work" has been proven for 10 years. If you want to be taken seriously while taking the opposite stance, you need to have facts on your side or people will juste dismiss it as bs. So take your hybrid with arcdps, go do some content and show numbers to the disbeliever. That's as simple as that. No need to argue or disparage other. If you are right and have undeniable proof, we'll all agree that you are right.

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On 9/24/2022 at 4:13 PM, Valisha.8650 said:

You know that from your own perspective I guess 🤣

Its not a perspective. Its an actual fact with actual data and numbers to back it up. Even your "it works well in wvw" is BS, because the actual Harb  Celest WvW playstyle is condition based.

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Harbinger_-_Celestial_Elixir_Roamer

 

Now stop spreading misinformation and embarrassing yourself.

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