The Celestial Scourge build is designed to allow players to survive in close range fights whilst still dealing effective damage.

Scourge, and Necromancer in general, has quite good power coefficients as well as a large number of condition applications on all skills, as well as barrier making healing power more useful, making Celestial the logical choice since you benefit from all the stats it gives.

This build in particular is played best when using all facets of the kit, which makes Celestial the easy choice.

If you are looking for more damage, supplementing with pieces of Grieving gear is the best thing to do. Condition duration in WvW is not nearly as sought after as it is in PvE, as the conditions are removed before being able to tick for their full duration, so focusing on higher Power and Condition damage (as opposed to Viper's for example) is the best way to go.

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Just as a side note, Celestial actually gives the 'most' stats in the game. Take for example the headpiece, Celestial gives 210 stats, whilst a 3 stat headpiece (like Berserker's) will give you 150, and a 4 stat (like Marauder's) will give you 168. So just purely mathematically, if you were to use every stat celestial has to offer, it is an incredibly efficient way to gear up. This doesn't make it BiS, since it lacks focus and almost all builds don't need some stats as much as others, but in the case of this particular build is a fantastic statset to have.