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Latest revision as of 19:48, 22 November 2024
Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Direct damage
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: 
Overview
Reaper is a self-sufficient AoE DPS class that gets even better the less experienced its group is.
Reaper's niche is that it has a huge health pool for a DPS class, and sustains very high personal 
Quickness, 
Might, and critical chance. It also brings heavy CC and 
Vulnerability similar to Holosmith. This makes it one of the best "solo carry" DPS classes, and it's very strong in disorganized groups that don't have dedicated supports providing Quickness, Might, 
Fury, and so on.
Apart from DPS, Reaper can provide some party support through , and can bring utilities like and to a dungeon/fractal group. It is also capable of stripping boons if needed.
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
- Staff can be replaced with Dagger/Sword or Spear for players that own Secrets of the Obscure or Janthir Wilds, respectively. These have higher sustained damage than Staff but lack cleave and the ability to prestack extra damage with marks.
- Staff is chosen for its balance of DPS and lifeforce generation, and the ability to precast the marks during downtime for extra burst.
- Sword is your highest damage ranged weapon, and cleaves.
- Axe is the highest damage ranged weapon for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure, but isn't recommended.
- Mainhand Dagger is the highest damage option and has good boonrip, but has the lowest lifeforce generation. Also provides a sizable heal.
- Spear deals comparable damage to Dagger/Sword and brings an even bringer heal, stronger boonrip, and high lifeforce generation. It does deal lower damage above 50% though, so is likely to be less effective in real encounters.
- Only Sword offers any DPS as an offhand option. For players that do not own Secrets of the Obscure, Warhorn is the default choice, but other options can be taken if necessary:
- Sword provides extra damage by sacrificing health, but provides some healing too.
- Warhorn offers a bit of healing, a bit of CC, and good lifeforce generation.
- Focus adds more boonrip.
- Torch has the biggest CC.
- Use Dagger offhand for a blind and condition cleanse. Be aware that dagger has no life force skill, making it more niche than the other options.
Skill Variants
Healing
- - your biggest heal, that also heals allies.
- - better DPS than when there are multiple targets.
- - if conditions are a problem.
Utility
When swapping out utility skills, don't replace unless it's absolutely necessary.
- - additional boonrip and unblockable attacks.
- - transfers conditions and helps with
Chilled uptime. - - AoE boonstrip.
- - AoE pull for easier cleaving. Also helps with Chilled uptime.
- - worth taking if Chilled uptime is good, but life force is a problem.
- - destroys projectiles.
- - 1200 range teleport. Can also bodyblock certain projectiles (e.g. Old Tom's poison whirl).
- - Personal stability and AoE condition cleanse.
- - if the party lacks might.
Elite
- - better burst damage than . Also useful for soloing Thaumanova heat room with your massive health pool.
- - if area CC is needed.
Template Code
Specializations
- can be replaced with if you are not using a staff.
Equipment
Assassin
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
x6
x12
x6
Equipment Variants
- You want to aim for ~2005-2010 precision (with ).
- would be a tiny DPS loss.
- or slaying sigils if you can benefit from the bonus (replacing ).
- If you don't have stat infusions, use
Assassin stats legs.
Impact Sigil Variant
If you want to benefit from , you will need to slot in more assassins pieces:
Assassin
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Berserker
Assassin
Assassin
Berserker
Berserker
x6
x18
- You want to aim for ~2155 precision.
Consumables
Food
Utility
- or slaying potions
Usage
The logic behind this rotation is to maximise uptime by entering shroud as often as is possible, while trying to time , and with so that their pulsing effects benefit from the extra ferocity from and extra critical damage from . Other damage skills such as are used to fill downtime.
The buff from is maintained for as long as possible by spacing out , and during the shroud burst.
Simplified Rotation
As Greatsword is by far the strongest weapon, the full rotation can be simplified by camping it and also dropping a few of the less impactful skills:
Opener
- - this triggers on each pulse, making the buff last for 12 seconds
Reaper's Shroud
is only a small DPS increase over shroud autos, so to prevent being locked into the animation it can just be skipped. The exact position of skills is not fixed, but the idea is to never drop the buff from . To enable this, you need to cast no more than three auto chains after , and leave shroud immediately after. Aim to get 5-7 auto chains in (below 50% you may lack the life force to do 7).
- ⇒ ⇒ x4
- - you can queue this during the cast of the previous skill to ensure no autoattacks sneak in
- ⇒ ⇒ x3
Greatsword
Cast and as soon as you . Otherwise complete auto chains and use whenever it is available - completing an auto chain refreshes its cooldown, and if your target it below 50% health, it has no cooldown at all and should be spammed.
When your shroud has a ~3s cooldown remaining, repeat the opener.
Dagger/Sword Rotation
Opener
- - this triggers on each pulse, making the buff last for 12 seconds
Weapon Swap quickly to cancel the aftercast
Reaper's Shroud
Each time you enter you do the same rotation.
- ⇒ ⇒ x2
- - you can queue this during the cast of the previous skill to ensure no autoattacks sneak in
- ⇒ ⇒
- ⇒ ⇒ (optional)
- - this skill deals extra damage when the target is below 50% and 25% health, so you can use the extra auto chain above if this would put your target below the threshold, or if it lines up with a break bar.
Dagger-to-Greatsword
- (if available)
- (if available)
Weapon swap- - a single auto is optimal if you're fast enough
- Repeat Reaper's Shroud Rotation
Greatsword-to-Dagger
- - a single auto is optimal if you're fast enough
- Weapon swap
- (if available)
- (if available)
- Repeat Reaper's Shroud Rotation
The full loop cycles between Reaper's Shroud ⇒ Dagger-to-Greatsword ⇒ Reaper's Shroud ⇒ Greatsword-to-Dagger ⇒ Repeat.
Below 50% health, the rotation changes slightly (see below for details).
Rotation Explanation
Above 50% health, the rotation boils down to the following:
- Every time you swap to Greatsword (or exit shroud to it), use each available skill once.
- Every time you swap to Dagger/Sword (or exit shroud to it) use all available skills once, separating the sword abilities and their flip skill with another skill use.
- Use off cooldown.
- and ⇒ have long cooldowns and so are only used once each loop.
- Always whirl inside the boss so you hit with every whirl finisher from .
Below 50% Health
When the boss is below 50% health, your rotation changes due to having no cooldown. As ⇒ deals lower damage than , you omit these skills from your loop and do two or three extra s while on Greatsword (how many depends on how fast you are).
- Even though isn't used for damage below 50%, it triggers , so should be used if this buff drops.
Staff Rotation
Opener
The opener is pretty flexible, but will determine which part of the loop to move on to next. In fractal CMs, it is useful to be prepared to vary the opener by when bosses open their defiance bars - if they open immediately (e.g. Skorvald or MAMA) then starting on Greatsword means you can immediately use , but if the defiance bar appears a bit later (e.g. Siax) you can start on Staff and spam marks before switching to Greatsword for CC into your burst.
- - this triggers on each pulse, making the buff last for 12 seconds
- Weapon Swap quickly to cancel the aftercast
Reaper's Shroud
Each time you enter you do the same rotation.
- ⇒ ⇒ x2
- - you can queue this during the cast of the previous skill to ensure no autoattacks sneak in
- ⇒ ⇒
- ⇒ ⇒ (optional)
- - this skill deals extra damage when the target is below 50% and 25% health, so you can use the extra auto chain above if this would put your target below the threshold, or if it lines up with a break bar.
Staff-to-Greatsword
- Weapon swap
- ⇒ ⇒
- Repeat Reaper's Shroud Rotation
Greatsword-to-Staff
- ⇒ ⇒
- Weapon swap
- - the order of marks doesn't strictly matter, but if you drop
Alacrity then Reaper's Mark might not be off cooldown in time when you exit Reaper's Shroud. Thus we use it early just in case. - Repeat Reaper's Shroud Rotation
The full loop cycles between Reaper's Shroud ⇒ Staff-to-Greatsword ⇒ Reaper's Shroud ⇒ Greatsword-to-Staff ⇒ Repeat
Rotation Explanation
Above 50% health, the rotation boils down to the following:
- Every time you swap to Greatsword (or exit shroud to it), use followed by .
- A full auto chain resets , so after one chain use it again then use your burst skills.
- Use off cooldown.
- Every time you swap to Staff (or exit shroud to it) you spam all your marks and either weapon swap or enter shroud.
- Always whirl inside the boss so you hit with every whirl finisher from .
Below 50% Health
When the boss is below 50% health, your rotation changes due to having no cooldown. Follow the rotation as above, but replace the Greatsword auto chain with a single .
- Your life force generation is lower below 50% health, as you no longer use Greatsword autos.
Spear Rotation
Opener
- - this triggers on each pulse, making the buff last for 12 seconds
- Weapon Swap
Reaper's Shroud
- ⇒ ⇒ x2
- - you can queue this during the cast of the previous skill to ensure no autoattacks sneak in
- ⇒ ⇒
- ⇒ ⇒ (optional)
- - this skill deals extra damage when the target is below 50% and 25% health, so you can use the extra auto chain above if this would put your target below the threshold, or if it lines up with a break bar.
Spear-to-Greatsword
- - make sure that Perforate has ended before using Distress
- Weapon Swap
- Repeat Reaper's Shroud Rotation
Greatsword-to-Spear
- - a single auto is optimal if you're fast enough
- Weapon swap
- - make sure that Perforate has ended before using Distress
- Repeat Reaper's Shroud Rotation
The full loop cycles between Reaper's Shroud ⇒ Spear-to-Greatsword ⇒ Reaper's Shroud ⇒ Greatsword-to-Spear ⇒ Repeat.
Below 50% health, the rotation changes very slightly (see below for details).
Rotation Explanation
Necromancer's Spear is one of the less complicated spears. Most of your weapons skills build up stacks of a powerful lifesteal buff called 
Soul Shards that caps at six stacks. consumes these stacks for a burst of damage and healing. and generate four and two stacks, respectively, so these are used for the first . generates six stacks, and so it is used both to recharge, and power the second . You may gain different numbers of stacks depending on the number of enemies nearby, but this doesn't change your rotation.
Above 50% health, the rotation boils down to the following:
- Every time you swap to Greatsword (or exit shroud to it), use each available skill once.
- Every time you swap to Spear (or exit shroud to it) use all available skills once, refreshing with the flip skill of and using it a second time.
- Use off cooldown.
- Always whirl inside the boss so you hit with every whirl finisher from .
Below 50% Health
When the boss is below 50% health, your rotation changes due to having no cooldown. All this means is that you can use an extra time.
Notes
- Use off cooldown.
- Never interrupt your autoattack chain.
- In real fights, you won't always be able to make full use of because taking damage in Shroud will reduce your remaining life force. Anticipate this and break your rotation if needed so that you can build up enough life force to resume the normal rotation.
- Whenever you you can use it to cancel the animation of the last autoattack for a slight DPS increase.
- If possible, bind a key to Stow Weapon and use it to cancel the animation of immediately after the damage number appears. This shaves 200-300 ms off the activation time, which translates to a big DPS increase when the boss is under 50%. You can do the same by quickly queuing an autoattack and then cancelling it with . Both these methods take practise, so feel free to skip if you find yourself struggling.
- is a DPS loss if the aftercast is not cancelled. You can cancel the aftercast by entering or weapon swapping. Feel free to save this skill for CC or the pull.
- The casts of and are easy to interrupt by entering , so don't be too quick with it.
- In fights with adds or trash mobs, you can reset 's cooldown by hitting adds under 50% health. Take advantage of this to push out more casts while the boss is over 50% health.
- On some bosses, you can prestack marks with a staff for slightly better burst damage when the fight begins. You can do this on Siax, Skorvald, Viirastra/Artsariiv, Mursaat Overseer, Slothasor, Samarog, Gorseval, Vale Guardian, and Keep Construct.
- You can't get healed while in . If needed, delay your shroud by a little bit if you know that you're going to be healed soon.
CC
Miscellaneous
- Use or for boonstrip.
- Since has no cast time, you can weave it in during your shroud rotation for stability and damage reduction. The damage reduction will also reduce the loss of life force.
- You can jump as you cast , then for a long jump.
Ratings
Comments
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