Reaper - Power Greatsword

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Overview

A Reaper build for running around in open world. This build deals extremely high damage and has a great deal of innate survivability from

Reaper's Shroud.

Skill Bar

GreatswordHealingUtilityElite

Axe/Warhorn

Weapon Variants

Use offhand Dagger for more condition cleanse.
You can carry a Staff for tagging mobs in open world farming.

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

"Your Soul Is Mine!" - if you don’t need condition cleanse.
Well of Blood - if running Blood Magic.

Utility Skills

"Suffer!" - more condition cleanse.
Summon Shadow Fiend - a minion that distracts enemies, deals decent damage, blinds, and chills.
Spectral Grasp - pulls enemies, chills, and generates life force.
"Rise!" - if having trouble surviving.
Corrosive Poison Cloud - destroys projectiles.

Specializations

Variants

Chilling Nova - if not running shouts.

Blood Magic Variant

If there are nearby allies, you can run Blood Magic instead of Soul Reaping. This is a damage loss but makes you quite good at healing and reviving allies. If you do this, run

Well of Blood.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Standard Equipment

The Standard Variant uses the same gear as the Reaper - Power DPS build for fractals and raids. This makes it a good general-purpose gear set and is the gear that most players should aim for.

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

18x

Mighty Infusion

Optimal Equipment

The Optimal Variant is the best possible gear for this build. It's overkill in most cases, and you should only get it if you have spare gold or you don’t care about fractals and raids.

6x

Superior Rune of Strength

18x

Mighty Infusion

Variants

provides even more sustain at the cost of damage.

Consumables

If you're having trouble you can use the following consumables:

Food

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

or

Dragon's Breath Bun

Dragon's Breath Bun

Nourishment (20 m):

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

Consumable

for more damage.
Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew

Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew

Nourishment (30 m):

100% chance to gain might when you dodge.+40% to your Endurance refill rate.+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

for more dodges.
Scoop of Mintberry Swirl Ice Cream for more healing.

Utility

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Nourishment (1 h):

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

Consumable

Usage

Damage

Reaper's Shroud is an insane damage boost. Go into it any time you have life force for permanent Quickness and extremely high AoE damage.
- Never interrupt your shroud autoattack chain.
Nightfall, Soul Spiral, and Well of Suffering are your highest damage skills. Fight in melee and use these skills to rack up dead bodies.
Once your burst damage skills are exhausted, you should fall back on Gravedigger, your bread and butter damage skill. Use it as often as possible, and look for opportunities to reset it by hitting enemies under 50% health.
When Nightfall, Gravedigger and Reaper's Shroud are all unavailable, just camp in greatsword and press all your buttons.
Axe/warhorn deals poor sustained damage but provides Ghastly Claws and Locust Swarm, two high-damage skills. You can open with these skills before swapping to greatsword. You can also swap to axe/warhorn and use these skills before and after Reaper's Shroud.
If you don't need a stun break, you can use "You Are All Weaklings!" off cooldown for might.

Survivability

Remember that you can always sidestep and walk or dodge out of enemy attacks. Not taking damage is always the better option because it lets you conserve life force (and maintain your
bonus if applicable).
You can stack blind, chill, and weakness on enemies to mitigate most of their damage.
If you're taking a lot of damage you can use Reaper's Shroud as a second health bar. Infusing Terror in shroud helps with damage mitigation.
Use Consume Conditions to cleanse conditions. If you need more condition cleanse run "Suffer!" or bring a dagger offhand for Deathly Swarm.
If you go down just use Life Leech to get back up.