Reaper - Power Greatsword

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The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great.

Focused on: Direct damage, Control, Sustain.

Designed for:

Open World

Expansions required:

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

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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

• - if you don’t need condition cleanse.
• - if running Blood Magic.

Utility Skills

• - more condition cleanse.
• - a minion that distracts enemies, deals decent damage, blinds, and chills.
• - pulls enemies, chills, and generates life force.
• - if having trouble surviving.
• - destroys projectiles.

Specializations

Variants

• - a good choice if running Spectral skills.
• - 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

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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

• ,
  , and
  are your highest damage skills. Fight in melee and use these skills to rack up dead bodies.
• is an insane damage boost. Go into it any time you are above 50% life force for permanent Quickness and extremely high AoE damage.
  • Never interrupt your shroud autoattack chain.
• Once your burst damage skills are exhausted, you should fall back on
  , 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
  ,
  and
  are all unavailable, just camp in greatsword and press all your buttons.
• Axe deals poor sustained damage but provides
  , a strong burst damage skill. You can open with
  for burst damage before swapping to greatsword. You can also swap to Axe and use
  before and after
  .
• If you don't need a stun break, you can use
  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
  as a second health bar.
  in shroud helps with damage mitigation.
• Use
  to cleanse conditions. If you need more condition cleanse run
  or bring a dagger offhand for
  .
• If you go down just use
  to get back up.