Reaper - Power Greatsword

The Official API is experiencing issues; skill, trait and item data cannot be loaded at the moment.
Note: Please note that builds will default to plain icons, these may not be as accurate. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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

Focused on: Events, Solo content, Aoe, Direct damage, Survivability.

Designed for:

Open World

Expansions required:

This build is up to date as of October 13, 2019.

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 .

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

• - 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 .

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.

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

18x

Mighty Infusion

Optimal Damage Variant

The Optimal Damage Variant is the best damage gear for this build. It's overkill in most cases and is only recommended for players that prefer the glass cannon playstyle.

6x

Superior Rune of Strength

18x

Mighty Infusion

Marauder Variant

For a tankier option you can run the Marauder Variant. You will lose some damage but gain a moderate boost to health. This variant is recommended for most Open World players.

6x

Superior Rune of Strength

18x

Mighty Infusion

Variants

• provides even more sustain at the cost of damage.

Consumables

Food

• or
  for more damage.
• for playing with groups.
• is a good budget option.
• for more dodges.
• is a fantastic food for farming open world. It's cheap, provides a moderate boost to both damage and survivability, and increases magic find significantly.
• for more healing.
• is a great option when you do not need any extra damage or sustain.

Utility

• or
  is your best damage option.
• is a great budget option.

Usage

Damage

• 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.
• , , and 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 , 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/warhorn deals poor sustained damage but provides and , 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 .
• 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.