Reaper - Wells Midline

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Focused on: AoE damage.

Designed for:

World vs World

Overview

Excellent AoE coverage via Wells and Marks, this high-damage necromancer build was designed for large scale WvW encounters. As the walking artillery of your group, whose main contribution will be in the form of damage, you should build as offensively as possible to output the maximum amount of damage.

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Axe/Warhorn

Weapon Variants

Greatsword

¾

Dusk Strike

Cleave foes in front of you.

Damage: 304

Number of targets: 3

Duration: 130

1¼

8

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

1

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

½

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

¾

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

• Swap Axe/Warhorn to Greatsword for a strong AoE soft CC and downed pressure at the cost of single target damage.
• Swap Staff to Greatsword for GvG.

Skill Variants

Heal

• "Your Soul Is Mine!" higher healing output but no condition clear.

Utility

• "Nothing Can Save You!"

⇒ "Rise!" additional damage reduction if you feel that a stunbreak is not needed.

⇒ "Suffer!" versus heavy condition pressure, also brings decent soft CC.

⇒ "You Are All Weaklings!" take with Blighter's Boon for a Stunbreak and sustain

⇒ Corrupt Boon single target focus.

Elite

• "Chilled to the Bone!" lower CD, strong against enemies with poor Stability
• Plague defensive option.

Specializations

Spite:

Spiteful Talisman Awaken the Pain Close to Death

Variants

• Chill of Death for a high damage single target boonrip.
• Spiteful Spirit additional AoE boonrip.

Soul Reaping:

Soul Marks Vital Persistence Death Perception

Reaper:

Chilling Nova Decimate Defenses Reaper's Onslaught

Variants

• Augury of Death if running "Your Soul Is Mine!" and other shouts.
• Chilling Victory defensive option, take with Blighter's Boon
• Blighter's Boon significant sustain increase at the cost of shroud damage

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Pack

18x

Mighty WvW Infusion

Variants

Stats

• Change Cavalier's to Valkyrie's for more damage and vice versa for more defense.
• Keep Death Perception in mind while determining crit chance.
  • The character sheet is bugged and shows 1% less crit chance than is actually there. Aim for 29% unbuffed.

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Strength

  1

  Superior Sigil of Strength

  60% Chance on Critical: Gain Might (10 seconds). (Cooldown: 1s)
• Superior Sigil of Force

  Superior Sigil of Force

  +5% Damage

Runes

• Superior Rune of Strength

  Superior Rune of Strength

  (1): +25 Power (2): +10% Might Duration (3): +50 Power (4): 20% Might Duration (5): +100 Power (6): +20% Might Duration; +5% damage while under the effects of might.
  A DPS increase if fury is guaranteed by others in the group.
• Superior Rune of Durability

  Superior Rune of Durability

  (1): +25 Toughness (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Toughness (4): 25% chance when struck to grant nearby allies protection and regeneration for 3 seconds and resistance for 1 second. (Cooldown: 20 seconds) (5): +100 Toughness (6): +15% Boon Duration; +125 Vitality
  Defensive option.

Consumables

Food

• Fried Oyster Sandwich

  Fried Oyster Sandwich

  Nourishment (30 m):

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

  Consumable
  Offensive option.
• Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

  Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

  Nourishment (1 h):

  +100 Power+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from Kills

  Consumable
  Alternate offensive option.
• Carrot Soufflé

  Carrot Soufflé

  Nourishment (60 m):

  +200 power for 30s after killing an enemy+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from kills

  Consumable
  Alternate damage 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 vs condi pressure.
• Fried Golden Dumpling

  Fried Golden Dumpling

  Nourishment (30 m):

  +100 Concentration+25% Magic Find during Lunar New Year33% Chance for Might (5 seconds) on Crit

  Consumable
  Stacks Might proccing Blighter's Boon

Utility

• Superior Sharpening Stone

  Superior Sharpening Stone

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Gain power equal to 3% of your precisionGain power equal to 6% of your ferocity+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable

Usage

General

• Use Chilblains and Mark of Blood to chill enemies and build life force.
• After using your wells enter Reaper's Shroud to gain Death Perception.
  • Lich Form can also be used, since it has an unlisted 1000 precision (47.6% Crit) bonus.
• Once your weapon skills are on cooldown and you have enough life force (the value depends on the situation) it's time to go along the melee train.
  • Use Locust Swarm and Unholy Feast, then switch to Reaper's Shroud. Use Death's Charge to engage then follow up with Executioner's Scythe to CC and Soul Spiral for great damage and chilling bolts. Continue until you get low on life force or your wells are back up. At this point leave shroud, using Wail of Doom and Unholy Feast as you disengage.

Weapons

• Your staff's Marks and Necrotic Grasp will be your main ranged option.
  • Don't spam Putrid Mark or Reaper's Mark off cooldown. Putrid Mark's condition transfer can save your life if your other condition removal skills are unavailable. Using Reaper's Mark to interrupt enemies' melee train pushes, key skills (healing, Banner Standard, Meteor Shower, etc.), and stomps on your downed allies is very beneficial, but make sure they don't have stability.
• Axe is shorter range and more single target focused than staff. Rending Claws and Ghastly Claws are great for singling out enemies.
• Greatsword's melee range abilities require careful usage, only engage when safe.
• Gravedigger has a cooldown reset on downed players.
• Nightfall and Grasping Darkness are helpful to disrupt the enemy melee train and very safe to use compared to the greatswords melee range abilities.

Shroud

• Combo
  Frost Aura

  40

  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 you can by using Death's Charge in the Ice Field created by Executioner's Scythe.
• Make sure to use
  Terrify

  ½

  Terrify

  Detonate your armor to make foes around you flee in fear.

  Fear (1s): Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.

  Range: 360
  before
  Infusing Terror

  20

  Infusing Terror

  Shroud yourself with dark armor that grants stability every second. You may shatter this armor to fear foes around you.

  Stability (3s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared or taunted.

  Fear(2s): Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.

  Duration: 8s

  Radius: 360
  expires.