Booster Scourge

October 2024

Introduction

This Celestial Booster Scourge is a great beginner-friendly offensive setup made for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post.

Build Fundamentals

The Scourge’s unique mechanic involves Manifest Sand Shade. Up to three Shades may be used at a time. Sand Shades allow you to deal damage to your enemies while providing some support to allies. All Sand Shades also inherit the effect of Shade skills (F1-F5) Manifest Sand Shade, Nefarious Favor, Sand Cascade, Garish Pillar, Desert Shroud. The Scourge uses life force to cast these skills.

Maintaining life force is very important when playing Scourge: You gain life force by actively using Devouring Darkness, Harrowing Wave, Oppressive Collapse, Locust Swarm, and passively from Signet of Undeath. Additionally, life force is generated when enemies or minions die. Another great benefit of Signet of Undeath is the ability to instantly revive downed players from range while sacrificing your health.

Scepter allows us to stay out of close-range combat while applying conditions. Although this is beneficial to our survival, what makes this build strong defensively is the ability to convert damaging conditions into boons using Nefarious Favor, applying a large amount of instant using F3 Sand Cascade, and F5 Desert Shroud.

One of your strongest damage-dealing combinations is the use of the corruption skill Blood Is Power and Desert Shroud because of Plague Sending. Using this combination of skills will initially inflict more conditions on you, which will then be transferred to your enemies. Furthermore, the damage dealt with Devouring Darkness and using Shade abilities trigger the Manifest Sand Shade effect.

Crowd Control

• Oppressive Collapse
• Garish Pillar inflicting
• Wail of Doom inflicting
• Spectral Grasp

Alternatives

If you don’t need Signet of Spite for damage you can take:

• Spectral Grasp for additional crowd control and the ability to pull foes to you.
• Sand Swell for 20-uses teleport.
• Corrosive Poison Cloud for projectile block.
• Plague Signet for additional condition transfers.
• Trail of Anguish for