Build:Scourge's Nightmare
Scourge's Nightmare is a Character Build in Outward, created by Bison³.
Summary
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Scourge's Nightmare This build tries to get the best out of the most overpowered skills in the game, Hexes. 
Breakthroughs Required Faction 
Any Equipment Weapon Off-Hand Head Body Boots Backpack 
Fulmination 
Inheritance of the Past 
Shelter 
Shelter 
Flux 
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Quickslots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
Full Build Details
Base stats (this is what you should have in early game after taking mana, without passives) : Health : 85 Stamina : 85 Mana : 60
Final stats (these depends or you factions choice, if you go with Blue Chamber's Collective you'll have more health and mana, but here it's just with all the bought skills and Peacemaker Elixir) : Health : 130 Stamina : 130 Mana : 80
Faction : You can choose any faction, they all have their pros and cons, in my opinion The Blue Chamber's Collective and The Heroic Kingdom of Levant are both a really good choice, the first grants more mana and health while the other grants you a 15% bonus damage overall.
List of all the skills you will need to buy : - Jinx (50) - Torment (100) - Rupture (600) - Sigil of Wind (600) - Conjure (600) - Warm (skill) (50) - Blessed (skill) (50) - Cool (skill) (50) - Mist (skill) (50) - Possessed (skill) (Free) - Reveal Soul (Free)
for a total of 2150 silver.
List of all the passives you will need to buy : - Fitness (50) - Efficiency (50) - Metabolic Purge (100) - Nightmares (100) - Bloodlust (500) - Lockwell's Revelation (600) - Weather Tolerance (100) - Shamanic Resonance (500) - Leyline Connection (500) - Fire Affinity (600) - Steady Arm (50) - Fast Maintenance (50) - Pressure Plate Training (50) - Slow Metabolism (50) - Miasmic Tolerance (50)
For a total of 3350 silver.
Changes you can make to this build : - You can swap Spark in your quickslots with either Conjure or Sigil of Wind. - If you'd rather specialize in pure elemental damage, you can swap the Scarlet set for the Rust Lich set.
Early game : - Get enough money to travel to Harmattan (Before that, buy Fitness at Cierzo) - Farm chests / ornate chests in this region to get more money and a basic stuff (you will need a total of 2100 silver in Haramattan, at least try to get 1250 silver to get the base of this build : Jinx, Torment, Bloodlust, Rupture). You might also want to buy Efficiency quickly, as this will prove really useful to run around. - Get your base mana (which is : 60, go to Sorobor Academy, while you're there, get Reveal Soul for free from The 9th Watcher)
Congratulations you can now begin to destroy everything!
Mid game (in any order) : - Get more money to buy other interesting passives and weapons (Chimera Pistol costs 2000, but it will help you such much to destroy everything you encounter) - Roam the world to get those passives and weapons - Complete your faction quests - Find a mana reduction stuff (while waiting to finally get the Scarlet set) - Try to get a "running around" armor set, like the Master Trader set)
End game : - Complete your stuff (This means complete Three Brothers quests to finally get the Scarlet set) - Buy the last of your passives - Get your enchants- Enjoy!
Optional : - You might want to get the Brains passive, if you want to focus more elemental damage. - You can enchant the Chimera Pistol with Levantine Secret if you want to, it's not necessary since you won't wield it too much in fights, it's use is mainly to apply Elemental Vulnerability on enemies.
Combos : Your main combo is Anihilate. You first want to get a maximum of hexes on the enemy with Jinx without taking the aggro, then swap to the Chimera Pistol, fire, swap to the Light Mender's Lexicon, then use Torment and finally Rupture.
You have other useful combos you can do, like Mana Spark, which is done by using Reveal Soul on dead bodies, then using Spark on them. This will make you regen 50% of your mana. You can also use Summoned Ghost, which happens when uising Conjure after Reveal Soul, this will summon a Ghost which will fight for you, giving you the opportunity to stay at range, which is really useful.
Finally, you can use Sigil of Wind and then Conjure to create Lightning Strike. This build doesn't base it's DPS on that combo, but it can be useful.
You can use every boons if you want to, either by casting the spells or drinking potions. You'll destroy everything more!
Combos
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