Reaper - Spectral Onslaught

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Overview

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

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Axe/Focus

Slot Changes

Weapons

Some people prefer playing with Greatsword instead of Staff, giving up some utility for more burst and some protection vs melee via . Take on Soul Reaping.

Utility

For the optional slot:

- stun break, defense against direct damage, and great Life Force generation.
- area denial that can save your life and has nice synergy with (if taken).
- sustain vs direct damage.
- sustain vs conditions.
- CC and Life Force management.
- easy access to boon corruption.

Elite

- a decent elite skill if you feel like you wouldn't be getting value out of your Lich due to things like AoE projectile denial being prevalent on the enemy team.

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Specializations

Variants

is also a viable option, and highly recommended when playing with the shout heal or even just one utility shout.

Equipment

9

Superior Sigil of Intelligence

Your next three attacks after swapping to this weapon while in combat has a 100% critical chance. (Cooldown: 9s)

9

Superior Sigil of Energy

Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

Superior Sigil of Exposure

Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts 5 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 9s)

9

Superior Sigil of Cleansing

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

Superior Rune of the Lynx

(1): +25 Power (2): +35 Condition Damage (3): +50 Power (4): +65 Condition Damage (5): +100 Power (6): +25% Movement Speed

Marauder Amulet

+1050 Power +1050 Precision +560 Vitality +560 Ferocity

Equipment Changes

Amulets

Paladin's Amulet

Paladin's Amulet

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

- trades some damage for more sustain.
Demolisher's Amulet

Demolisher's Amulet

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

- a middleground between Berserker and Paladin.
Berserker Amulet

Berserker Amulet

+1200 Power +900 Precision +900 Ferocity

- a true glasscannon, not recommended for beginners (may require proper support from the team).

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 variant

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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