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Revision as of 16:02, 8 January 2024
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage and Control
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on January 08, 2024 and is up to date for the March 11, 2025 patch.
Overview
A Condition Reaper build for PvP that abandons some of the condi diversity and sudden burst potential of Procmancer to have higher survivability and group utility.
Skill Bar
Staff
Pistol/Torch
Utility
Skill Variants
Utility
For the optional slot (or even over Flesh Wurm):
- - area denial that can save your life and the
Fear has great synergy with various traits.
- - pulsing AoE Blind for survivability and Chill to put pressure on enemies.
- - stunbreak, defense against direct damage, and great Life Force generation.
- - condition cleansing and frequent AoE
Chill application.
- - great skill to use against opponents who rely on blocking skills to survive like Dragonhunters or Virtuosos, but also works well against the many projectile-reflects of Tempests.
- - low CD stunbreak with damage mitigation through
Weakness.
- - great burst CD, especially useful against targets that rely on
Stability. Can be used both defensively and offensively.
- - excellent anti-projectile skill which also brings
Poison and Weakness spam to the table, further mitigating damage as well as enemy healing.
Weapons
- Play Scepter/Dagger or Scepter/Focus instead of Pistol/Torch if you don't own the Secrets of the Obscure expansion, as Weaponmaster Training is necessary for the current set.
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Specializations
Equipment
Staff
Sigil
Sigil
Pistol
Torch
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic
Equipment Variants
Amulets
- - better defense against Power-based burst damage.
Sigils
- over - improves your condition cleansing. Getting rid of several non-damaging conditions on weapon swap also increases your chances of transferring damaging conditions with .
Runes
- - offers more damage if you don't need the passive movement speed boost from Lynx.
Relics
- - adds more Chill applications to the build, becomes better the more shouts you run.
- - adds burst damage to your elite skill by creating an AoE field beneath your target when used. Compared to Cerus it has the benefit of always spawning the pool under an enemy so you don't have to worry too much about positioning. The best thing about this relic isn't even the conditions but rather the strike damage it deals over just a few seconds.
Fury can make this proc stronger.
- - adds a strong offensive proc whenever you use an elite skill. Enemies under the eye can get hit multiple times, so the value of this relic goes up significantly if you can stun them right under the eye with
- - restores half a dodge roll's worth of endurance whenever you heal, improving your survivability. It's like a second Energy sigil.
Usage
General
- Use as often as possible, even out of combat. This is crucial for building Life Force (LF).
- On top of the Stability and AoE stun also applies
Quickness when it strikes an enemy target in melee range. Using this right before entering creates the perfect setup for your hard hitting shroud skills.
- has a very distinct animation which makes it easy to avoid, if you feel like that's going to happen then stow your weapon to cancel the channeling. This is also great for fake casting - you can use the skill, cancel it immediately with weapon stow (the whole animation's still going to finish, potentially baiting out dodges or other defensive CDs), and send it only on a CD of 5 seconds.
- Entering shroud procs , this is both defensive and offensive by nature. Being able to apply Weakness even when you're sitting in a CC could save your life, and instant offensive procs could effortlessly add extra pressure to your burst chains.
- Quickly following up with to corrupt more boons through is basically a 2 button burst combo that puts heavy pressure on every enemy around you.
- Entering shroud counts as a weapon swap and as such could proc and while on Pistol/Torch (if the sigils aren't on CD) which could then be applied to the enemy target via for increased burst and condition variety.
- The condition transfer from is yet another thing Weakening Shroud could trigger on its own.
- Ideally try to use inside the field left behind by to combo .
- Aside from and most of the cleansing is tied to trait procs like (when entering shroud) and (when leaving shroud).
- There's more to (SW) than just being a stun breaker with a bit of LF management, this skill allows for quite a bit of creativity. For example:
- Activate SW ⇒ jump off a cliff while being chased ⇒ when your enemies jump after you.
- Activate SW ⇒ break line of sight ⇒ cast ⇒ teleport back at the very end of the channeling (this makes it harder to avoid and reduces the chance of getting interrupted, although the outcome is going to be a bit luck based).
- Activate SW ⇒ (if using Flesh Wurm) ⇒ when they catch up to you. This works for stomping downed enemies as well, the channeling isn't interrupted by either of these teleports!
- When playing with Scepter, is best used on targets that already have several conditions on them to maximize damage and LF generation.
- is a great setup for this skill, allowing you to deliver burst damage in an instant.
- For mobility use the following sequence:
- just before Death's Charge finishes (the ending of DC brings your character to a halt, which can be cancelled by dropping out of shroud early)
- is a great skill for quickly setting up other skills like , or a shroud burst.
- On Staff try to use AFTER for a free AoE Weakness combo.
- and are the best skills to use with .
Shroud burst rotation example
- to your target
Top Streamers
- Twitch: Grimjacke
- Twitch: CarolinDnB
Ratings
Strong build that carries teamfight pressure, peel, slow, chill spam, and devastating cc from elite, shroud 5, etc if opponent has no stunbreak.
I never stopped playing this build and it's as good as ever. I don't get the doomers. It can dish out half a dozen condis in seconds while corrupting your boons, all of it AoE, most of it instant. What's not to love? And it's tanky AF.
Still the best way to play necro, but since the meta has shifted away from bunkers, towards the faster paced spike builds, the build tends to struggle against the more common match-ups, and struggles severely without a dedicated support. One of necromancers biggest issues as a whole is that it can hold its hp up for a long time, but struggles to recover it once it's gone. Has a lot of strengths to cover that weakness though, high cleanse, highest boon corrupt/rip in the game and high fear uptime
After the spears update and Janthir Wild, this build is strong but I'm no longer sure it can fall under "meta." While a lot of people run it, it just doesn't have the damage potential of something like Spearbender, Spear Virt, or even Spearbreaker. It's still a strong, balanced build with a niche in team fighting by providing a ton of AoE CC, but definitely weaker now with the spike builds.
Absurdly strong teamfighter that also hardly has any losing matchups 1v1. Hard carries teamfights with perma chilling and weakening enemies along with good hard CC and poison to deny rezzes, while also being able to take pretty much every 1v1 in the game except against vindi.
Tbh I too prefer Procmancer most of the time because it still has higher carry potential, but this is generally seen as the more competitive version of Condi Reaper now after several nerfs targeting the procs. I also end up switching to this in harder games because Procmancer can get bullied much harder without a support when facing high damage specs like Vindi. I think both can be 5 star builds in different scenarios, but right now this is the more popular version in both ranked and group play.
Feels like a generally worse version of procmancer. Definitely not a bad build, and this is a well made guide (which is the primary reason for bumping up the rating), but it feels like losing the strengths of the procmancer build in return for covering the weaknesses/making it a bit easier to play isn't super worth it. Maybe useful as a variant build in games where proc is hard countered, but otherwise just feels a bit underwhelming (unless I'm suffering from symptoms of skill-issue)
Very slippery and hard to kill, with great dueling capabilities thanks to Shroud and pistol, as well as good AoE control from afar through Staff. Particularly good against Scrappers, who you out-sustain, and thieves (Shroud 5 works even against stealth). It struggles when dueling classes with multiple dashes and blocks, such as Dragonhunter and Warrior (even with "Nothing Can Save You"). Ranger outranges and can be annoying to close the gap against
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