Reaper - Corruptionmancer

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Focused on: Hybrid damage, Boon removal.

Designed for:

Conquest

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Overview

A condition and boon corruption focused build for PvP.

Skill Bar

Scepter/WarhornHealingUtilityElite

Staff

Slot Changes

Spectral Armor and Plague Signet can be replaced by the following skills (depending in the enemy comp):

• - another condition tranfer.
• - damage reduction, more targets to split the damage of skills like . Can also be used to trigger traps.
• - AoE damage and decent anti-projectile uptime.
• - adds vertical mobility, breaks stun, generates LF.
• - some defense against teleports, mesmer shatters, and melee in general.

Elite skills options:

• - a strong CC which also applies stability.
• - excellent downed pressure, otherwise easily avoided.

Specializations

Variants

• is a must-pick if you're using as your elite.

Variants

• is a viable alternative especially when not using Carrion amulet.

Equipment

2

Superior Sigil of Fallibility

On hit: Inflict vulnerability for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 2s)

9

Superior Sigil of Doom

Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts poison (6 seconds). (Cooldown: 9s)

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 Intelligence

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

Superior Rune of Scavenging

(1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +35 Vitality (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +65 Vitality (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Poison Duration, convert 7% of your Vitality into Condition Damage.

Carrion Amulet

+900 Power +900 Vitality +1200 Condition Damage

Variants

Sigils

Staff

Superior Sigil of Intelligence

9

Superior Sigil of Intelligence

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

can be replaced by the following sigils (especially when not using Carrion amulet):

• Superior Sigil of Escape

  18

  Superior Sigil of Escape

  Remove movement-impairing effects from yourself when swapping to this weapon while in combat.
• Superior Sigil of Stagnation

  9

  Superior Sigil of Stagnation

  Cripple nearby foes when swapping to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9 seconds.)
• Superior Sigil of Energy

  9

  Superior Sigil of Energy

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

Rune

• Superior Rune of the Adventurer

  Superior Rune of the Adventurer

  (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +35 Power (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +65 Power (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +125 Condition Damage; When you use a heal skill you gain 25% endurance. (Cooldown: 10s)
  - hybrid rune with added endurance gain.
• Superior Rune of Thorns

  Superior Rune of Thorns

  (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Poison Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +15% Poison Duration (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Poison Duration; gain 50 condition damage for 60 seconds when you're hit by a poisoned foe. (Cooldown: 10s)
  - should be used if you took with Wanderer's Amulet.

Amulet

• Wanderer's Amulet

  Wanderer's Amulet

  +1050 Precision +560 Toughness +1050 Condition Damage +560 Expertise
  - trades power and vitality for toughness and condition duration.

Usage

General

• Try to stay at range as much as possible, mainly moving in to finish off targets and cleave downed enemies with Reaper Shroud. Positioning is key.
• Build Life Force with staff skills.
• Boon corruption isn't the only strength of necromancer/Reaper - many of your attacks are unblockable which can include CCs such as or .
• can be used to constantly consume Blind from you to increase the chance of landing key skills. Be sure to activate it right before you have to go melee range with Reaper Shroud as the added mobility and LF regen will be quite useful too.

Boon ⇒ Condition Table

Aegis	Burning (1 stack, 3 s)
Fury	Blind(5 s)
Might	Weakness (10 s)
Protection	Vulnerability (3 stacks, 10 s)
Quickness	Slow (3 s)
Regeneration	Poison (10 s)
Resistance	Chilled (3 s)
Retaliation	Confusion (3 stacks, 5 s)
Stability	Fear (1 s)
Swiftness	Crippled (10 s)
Vigor	Bleeding (3 stacks, 10 s)