Reaper - Shout Reaper

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Overview

Shout Reaper brings very high area damage and significant boon corruption. The build requires team support to compensate for its low mobility but puts out massive condition pressure.

Skill Bar

Axe/DaggerHealingUtilityElite

Staff

Weapon Variants

x/Focus

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18

Reaper's Touch

Send out a scythe that bounces between foes and allies. Causes vulnerability on foes and regeneration on allies.

Damage: 199

Regen (5s): 650 Heal

₄Vulnerability (10s): 4% Incoming Damage

Life Force: 3%

Number of Bounces: 4

Range: 1,200

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20

Spinal Shivers

Chill your target and remove up to three boons, dealing extra damage based on the number of boons removed.

Damage - Three Boons: 322

Damage - Two Boons: 266

Damage - One Boon: 199

Damage - No Boons: 133

Chilled (5s): -66% Movement Speed, -66% Skill Recharge Rate

Boons Removed: 3

Range: 1,200

Use Focus in GvGs for on the focus target.

Greatsword

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Dusk Strike

Cleave foes in front of you.

Damage: 304

Number of targets: 3

Duration: 130

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Gravedigger

Perform a huge swing that deals heavy damage. Recharges faster if it hits a downed or low health foe.

Damage: 806

Health treshold: 50%

Number of Targets: 5

Recharge Reduced: 100%

Combo Finisher: Whirl

Range: 170

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12

Death Spiral

Conjure a drill of dark energy on your blade and rend the armor of foes in front of you.

₆Damage: 363

₁₂Vulnerability (10s): 12% Incoming Damage, 12% Incoming Condition Damage

Life Force: 2%

Number of Targets: 3

Range: 220

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25

Nightfall

Call down a growing column of shadows that damages and applies conditions on foes per pulse.

Damage: 282

Blind (2s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Crippled (2s): -50% Movement Speed

Number of Targets: 5

Pulses: 4

Interval: 2s

Radius: 300

Combo Field: Dark

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30

Grasping Darkness

Toss spectral scythes at foes in front of you, applying chill to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.

Damage: 403

Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

Life Force: 4%

Number of targets: 5

Range: 600

Greatsword is a strong option when staying in melee range is viable, particularly in a GvG setting where can shine.

Skill Variants

Utility

highest potential damage option.
single target focus.
defensive option.
shorter cd, stun break defensive option.

Elite

Specializations

Variants

- Higher damage output at the cost of condition removal.
- More frequent boon corruption at the cost of sustain.

Variants

- Higher damage option when might is already supplied by the group.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Reaper

18x

Malign WvW Infusion

Variants

Stats

Full Trailblazer's stats trades damage for survivability.
- Dire can be a cheaper option, but provides much lower damage potential.

Sigils

for builds
provides an extra condition to cover more important conditions from cleanse

Food & Consumables

Food

Sweet Bean Bun

Sweet Bean Bun

Nourishment (30 m):

+70 Expertise-20% Condition Duration (Incoming)+25% Magic Find during Lunar New Year

Consumable

- Defensive option, recommended.
Oysters with Spicy Sauce

Oysters with Spicy Sauce

Nourishment (30 m):

+10% Damage Reduction+70 Condition Damage+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

- Alternate defensive option.
Loaf of Saffron Bread

Loaf of Saffron Bread

Nourishment (30 m):

Incoming damage reduced by 20% while stunned, knocked down, or knocked back.-20% condition duration+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

- Alternate defensive option.
Koi Cake

Koi Cake

Nourishment (20 m):

+100 Expertise+70 Condition Damage+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

- Offensive option.
Saffron Stuffed Mushroom

Saffron Stuffed Mushroom

Nourishment (30 m):

Gain +200 condition damage for 30 seconds when you kill a foe. (This effect does not stack)+70 Precision+10% Experience from kill[sic]

Consumable

- Alternate offensive option.

Utility

Magnanimous Tuning Crystal

Magnanimous Tuning Crystal

Nourishment (30 m):

Gain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your VitalityGain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your Toughness+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

Usage

General

Rotate around and to maximize AoE boon corruption.
Use your shouts offensively to proc with

Superior Rune of the Reaper

Superior Rune of the Reaper

(1): +25 Power (2): +35 Toughness (3): +50 Power (4): +65 Toughness (5): +100 Power (6): When executing a shout skill, chill nearby enemies for 1 second (360 radius).

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- Keep in mind that reaper runes have a range of 360 compared to the shouts 600.
is your primary life force generator, make sure to use it aggressively.
can be used to bait out dodges by stowing your weapon right after starting to channel the skill in order to cancel it - it'll only go on a ~5s CD but the entire animation will play.
Whirl Finishers (such as and ) use the combo field the cast was started in to determine the finisher. As long as the cast finishes in the original field, the Whirl will be of that field, regardless of other fields covering it.
- procs 6 whirl finishers while procs 3.
- The highest damage fields for whirl finishers are, in descending order; Frost, Fire, Ethereal.
- Whirl finishers on Light fields create cleansing bolts which cleanse 1 condition each in a 150 AoE around the first friendly target hit by the bolt.

Axe/x

is your secondary life force generator and a strong single target focus skill.
Another of your anti-condition skills, avoid using this for damage in most cases.

Staff

Staff auto attacks are low impact and its abilities relatively long cooldowns, so the best use of the weapon is to use its cooldown skills then swap out as soon as possible.
Use and to build area condi stacks.
and usage should be more careful, don't be afraid to leave them off cooldown when swapping back to S/D.
- is one of your limited anti-condition skills so use it carefully.
- Interrupt key skills with the fear of .

Shroud

is your best on demand source of poison. Use it to prevent rezzes on downed players.
Combo Frost Aura whenever you can by using in the Ice Field created by .
⇒ this combo gives extremely high burst damage.

Greatsword

Stow or swap your weapon after casting to cancel a significant portion of the animation.

Videos

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