Reaper - Spectral Onslaught

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Overview

A high damage PvP Power Reaper built around the recently buffed Reaper's Onslaught trait, augmented by spectral skills for proper Life Force management to decimate team fights.

Skill Bar

GreatswordHealingUtilityElite

Axe/Focus

Slot Changes

Utility

For the optional slot:

- better kiting and vertical mobility.
- a stun break that also mitigates damage through AoE Weakness.
- sustain vs conditions.
- CC and Life Force management.
- boon corruption.

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Specializations

Equipment

18

Superior Sigil of Annulment

Your next attack after swapping to this weapon while in combat will remove 2 boons from your target.

9

Superior Sigil of Cleansing

Remove 1 condition when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

9

Superior Sigil of Agility

Gain 5 seconds of swiftness and 1 second of quickness when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

10

Superior Sigil of Revocation

On hit, remove a boon. (Cooldown: 10s)

Superior Rune of Speed

(1): +25 Vitality (2): +10% Swiftness Duration (3): +50 Vitality (4): 25% chance when struck to gain swiftness for 15 seconds. (Cooldown: 30s) (5): +100 Vitality (6): +25% Movement Speed; +20% Swiftness Duration

Demolisher's Amulet

+1050 Power +1050 Precision +560 Toughness +560 Ferocity

Equipment Changes

Rune

- if you'd like more Quickness uptime.
- pure damage, zero utility.

Amulet

Paladin's Amulet

Paladin's Amulet

+1050 Power +1050 Precision +560 Toughness +560 Vitality

- trades some damage for more sustain.

Usage

General

Spectral skills and Focus 4 are going to be the main Life Force (LF) builders, especially .
- Even at maximum LF you can consider using before entering . Both the Protection and the extra LF from incoming attacks are going to increase the time you'll be able to spend in shroud.
- Spam as much as you can if you're not at the Life Force cap.

There's more to (SW) than just being a stun breaker with a bit of LF management, this skill allows for quite a bit of creativity. For example:
- Activate SW ⇒ jump off a cliff while being chased ⇒ when your enemies jump after you.
- Activate SW ⇒ break line of sight ⇒ cast ⇒ teleport back at the very end of the channeling (this makes it harder to avoid and reduces the chance of getting interrupted, although the outcome is going to be a bit luck based).
- Activate SW ⇒ (if using Flesh Wurm) ⇒ teleport back when they catch up to you. This works for stomping downed enemies as well, the channeling isn't interrupted by either of these teleports!

For mobility use the following sequence:

applies Swiftness from
just before Death's Charge finishes (the ending of DC brings your character to a halt, which can be cancelled by dropping out of shroud early)

has a very distinct animation which makes it easy to avoid, if you feel like that's going to happen then stow your weapon to cancel the channeling. This is also great for fake casting - you can use the skill, cancel it immediately with weapon stow (the whole animation will still play, potentially baiting out dodges or other defensive CDs), and send it only on a CD of 5 seconds.

is one of the best burst skills in the build. Try to use it when you have a fair amount of Might stacks, Quickness, and peferably Vulnerability on the target.

Shroud

Most of your burst comes from , where your damage is further increased by and .

Opening with is very common, as it helps getting your damage off uninterrupted while the damage reduction helps you stay in shroud longer.
- is the chain skill of this slot. This should only be used when either A) you need an emergency CC, or B) Infusing Terror is about to expire.

should be used in the field created by for the

Frost Aura

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Frost Aura

Protect yourself with frost armor that reduces incoming damage by 10%. While active, it chills foes that hit you. Each attaker can be affected by this only once per second.

Frost Aura (7s): -10% Incoming Damage

Chilled (2s): -66% Movement Speed, -66% Skill Recharge Rate

whenever possible.

should primarily be used on CC'd or downed targets (as Poison reduces the resurrection healing coming from their allies), but thanks to the permanent Quickness while in shroud this skill is now much easier to land without any real setup.

's a single target skill for the most part, and one that's best used on low-HP targets. can Fear targets long enough to prevent enemies from dodging this skill.

Use auto attacks when eveything else is on CD.

Burst combo example: Death's Charge (gap closer with good impact damage) ⇒ Terrify ⇒ Executioner's Scythe ⇒ Soul Spiral

Greatsword

is the only thing that justifies taking Greatsword, its strength is arguably on par with Well skills. Nightfall is fairly versatile and useful in many sutations, especially when it comes to surviving vs melee players or 1v1ing on point (but that's not your main role).

The auto attack chain is just way too slow and will barely (if ever) be used.

suffers from the same problem as the auto chain, but at least it hits way harder. This will mostly be used as a downed cleave skill when Shroud is on CD, but if you're feeling lucky you can try to use it for bursting in regular combat especially against bunkers. Much easier to land with some lingering Quickness from .

is excellent for stacking some vulnerability/life force.

is a decent CC but can be hard to land against moving targets.

After unloading skills 3-5 spend most of your time in Reaper's Shroud waiting for weapon swap to come off CD.

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