Scoundrel

The Scoundrel is a damage class in OrbusVR that is themed around gambling and uses their high critical strike chance to hit high damage spikes. Their deck of magical cards lets them add additional effects to their bullets.

Normal Shots
By pressing the trigger button, a Scoundrel can shoot a bullet from their gun. This will empty the magazine (blue ability bar) a bit. If the magazine is empty, no bullets will be fired.
 * Never have the magazine completely full while in a fight (this wastes potential bullets), but also never have it empty (messes up the timing for tilesets).

Charged Shots
By pressing and holding down the trigger, you can charge your gun with three bullets (or four, with the Full Basket talent), dealing three times the damage of a normal bullet. This ability stuns the enemy for a very short period of time and interrupts some of their abilities.
 * While charging, bullets will recharge faster than they are consumed. Use this to balance your magazine so you always have the blue ability bar at about half while also not having to wait for the bullets to recharge.
 * If using 3-bullet charged shots, using a charged shot and then shooting two normal bullets will consume about as many bullets as are generated.
 * For 4-bullet charged shots with the Full Basket talent, use a charged shot and then shoot two or three bullets.
 * Use your cards on charged shots if possible, as most of the card effects are tied to the damage you do with that shot.
 * The gun will start glowing purple once the shot is fully charged. If you get the timing right, you can fire the fully-charged shot before the gun glows purple.  For 3-bullet charged shots, two different delay tiles can be triggered by either shooting as soon as the gun is fully charged (1-2 seconds delay) or waiting a split-second before firing (2-3 seconds delay).

Curveshots
Moving the gun in a straight line while shooting will make the bullet follow a curved trajectory. Hitting an enemy with a curveshot will give you a rating on the distance and curve of that shot (Rank 1 to 5) and place a debuff on the target that increases the damage you deal to it. The strength of this effect can be increased for high-rank curveshots with the talent On the Line.


 * Curveshots do not benefit the shot that applies them.
 * The damage-increasing debuff does not stack on the enemy, newer curvshots will override the older debuff, even if the rank is weaker.
 * Twisting the gun around one of its axis will not curve the bullets - the curve comes from moving it in a straight line in the direction you want the bullet to curve in.

Super Ability
The Scoundrel's Super ability will increase the damage of the next 6 bullets and automatically apply a Rank 5 Curveshot with each of them.

The Super can be activated by pressing both triggers at the same time while the yellow Super bar is full. Super energy is generated by shooting enemies.

Cards
The Scoundrel cards are used to add effects to their bullets. The deck contains one card of each type, and refreshes once you run out of cards.
 * Throwing a card up in the air will make it float below your XP bar, and its effect will be applied to the next bullet that hits an enemy.
 * Cards can be burned by holding them and pressing trigger. This will make a glow appear in the air, giving one of three buffs to the next card used depending on which card was burned.
 * A card can be stored in your pocket for later use.


 * Stacking the deck: The red glow will place a copy of the card used with it in the next deck (and only the next deck). For example, if you use Vines with red, after you run out of cards the next deck will have 7 cards, two of which are Vines.
 * Your deck refreshes when you run out of cards, change zones (including entering a raid/dungeon/battleground), switch classes, resurrect, or relog.

Talents

 * When using Stack the Deck, the first card on the deck is always the extra Card of Flames.
 * A scoundrel with five True Gambler stacks is the most fragile class in the game, even more so than cloth classes. We highly recommend you avoid getting hit by anything.

End-Game Builds
→ Main Page: Scoundrel: Tilesets

Most Scoundrel builds use the True Gambler talent, which increases damage significantly over Guaranteed Win, but a Scoundrel with all five True Gambler stacks is even more fragile than Cloth classes.

Poison Ash Scoundrel
Scott's scoundrel build is min-maxed for maximum damage by stacking Vine cards to apply as many poison DoTs as possible.

For an in-depth video guide for this build, see | Scott's video for Poison Scoundrel.

Talents
 * Slow Burn
 * Quick Draw
 * On the Line
 * Break Shot: Party boost
 * True Gambler: Increases your critical strike chance drastically.

Cards
 * Use Card of Vines with a card that burns red to stack as many poisons as possible. To do that, keep one of those cards in your pocket and look for a matching one to combo with. Use them with Charged Shots.
 * Use everything else immediately.
 * You can empower poisons with blue-burning cards (Ice and Light) for a bit of extra DPS.

Burn Scoundrel
Lavawhale's build burns cards to activate tilesets. It doesn't reach the damage potential of the Poison build, but is easier to play.

Talents

Cards

PvP Scoundrel
As the Scoundrels is able to deal high amounts of spike damage and kill their enemies quickly, it is one one of the more popular classes in PvP. This build aims to kill their enemies in as little as one shot.

Talents
 * Full Chamber
 * Stack the Deck: Improves your chances to draw into Flame.
 * On the Line: Helps to kill the very tanky Paladins.
 * Full Basket: Combine with empowered Flames for a bullet that kills most classes.
 * Guaranteed Win

Cards
 * Flame-empowered 4-charged shots will kill most classes. Use them at close distances.
 * Poison is worth using, but generally less useful than Flame because it takes a while to kill the enemy, and can be healed through or decursed.

Notes
 * Curveshots are useful for tanky classes and classes that like to run and heal themselves back up. Most players will die to a 4-charged Flame-empowered shot without the need to hit curveshots.

Gear Enhancements
Armor
 * Crit Damage
 * Projectile Damage

Ring Affixes
 * Empowered
 * Elite Hunter

Weapon Affixes
 * Bleed is the preferred damage affix for PvE.
 * Iceheart as a second affix if playing with Runemages that use Frostbolt.
 * Giantkiller works too instead of Iceheart.
 * First Strike is the best affix for PvP.

Tipps and Tricks

 * A Scoundrel can hit DoTs that tick for very high amounts of damage. If you happen to pull aggro from the tank with this, they might not be able to get the boss back.
 * For boss fights that require you to take damage because of mechanics, like Geruvi of Citadel Hard Mode, it can be helpful to switch from True Gambler to Guaranteed Win (or leave that talent unchecked).
 * You can use the pocket of other Scoundrels to store your cards too, but this is more of a fun fact and doesn't really have any uses.

Further Resources

 * Scott's essay on maximum Scoundrel DPS

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