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It actually is in a good spot, if a little weak. The changes to conditions that removed the instant burst kills knocked it off its perch as a full damage bunker. Now, the spec is strong on the point but incredibly weak against ranged, needs a babysitter in a team fight, and a liability on rotation speed.

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@Crinn.7864 said:

@Arzurag.7506 said:Low defense/decent damage=balanced

Scourge still has the best offensive capabilities of any class in the game as far as sPvP is concerned. Scourge will still be taken by all tourney teams, and Scourge still define the meta.

If you dont have backup, you are only trash tier. I can only speak for wvw and pve doe.

In pve (raids) other classes do their job (dmg) way better. And just as a support its way too bad.

In wvw. You will always just get outkitet, lockdowned by ccs or outsustained. Scourge gets pretty good in zergs yes. But the only reason for that: you have people around you, that support you, cleanse condis, give stability and so on.

The scourge alone is pretty bad. And most of the players cant play him properly. Just facerolling f1-5 in a 1v1 is almost an insta loose. But else you arent doing much dmg

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Scourge is another one of these attempts of creating a class that has one major weakness and is broken in other areas to compensate. That's bad design and hard if not impossible to balance without changing class mechanics.

Remember PowerShiro right after HoT Release (pre nerf time!)? Extremely weak to conditions but broken power damage and broken anti power sustain. Paired with a cleanse bot Ele you had your perfect OP meta comp without any equally effective class composition.

Firebrand+Scourge is exactly the same.

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@"KrHome.1920" said:Scourge is another one of these attempts of creating a class that has one major weakness and is broken in other areas to compensate. That's bad design and hard if not impossible to balance without changing class mechanics.

Remember PowerShiro right after HoT Release (pre nerf time!)? Extremely weak to conditions but broken power damage and broken anti power sustain. Paired with a cleanse bot Ele you had your perfect OP meta comp without any equally effective class composition.

Firebrand+Scourge is exactly the same.

Firebrand+Scourge at least feed into each other a little bit. Yeah, it's referred to as "Scourge + Firebrand Support," but Firebrand is still getting condition conversions and barrier from the Scourge in return as well.

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@nekretaal.6485 said:It actually is in a good spot, if a little weak. The changes to conditions that removed the instant burst kills knocked it off its perch as a full damage bunker. Now, the spec is strong on the point but incredibly weak against ranged, needs a babysitter in a team fight, and a liability on rotation speed.

The necro did a full circle...again, for 3rd time? It was strong, to strong, it got to a good point, and then back to needing a healer to be of any use... deja vu!? ...

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