Reaper - Celestial Reaper Roamer

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Focused on: Hybrid damage, Sustain and Boon removal

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on March 13, 2025.

Overview

A Cele Reaper build for WvW roaming.

Skill Bar

Staff

Pistol/Torch

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility

For a less shout focused build you could pick up some of the following skills. If you're giving up at least 2 of your utility shouts be sure to also change your relic to something else, like

Relic of the Demon Queen

:

• Summon Flesh Wurm
  - ranged teleport and stun break, useful for disengaging or chasing down targets.

• Corrosive Poison Cloud
  - this is both a defensive and offensive option. The damage is solid, but the true value lies in the AoE Weakness application and the anti-projetile zone. This can be used to defend against both ranged and melee builds at the same time by standing inside the ring.

• Spectral Walk
  - stunbreak and mobility tool that's great for escaping enemies, often by baiting them to chase after you (or even jump off the highground) but the long CD kind of makes it necessary to take a 2nd stunbreak with this.

• Spectral Ring
  - great CC that makes it hard for enemies to reach you or escape your damage.

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Specializations

Variants

• Reaper's Onslaught
  makes the build a bit more bursty, pushing the Power angle over Condi.

Equipment

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Celestial

Chest
Celestial

Hands
Celestial

Legs
Celestial

Feet
Celestial

Backpiece
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Amulet
Ritualist

Ring
Ritualist

Ring
Celestial

Staff
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Pistol
Celestial

Torch
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Consumables

Food

• Spherified Peppercorn-Spiced Oyster Soup
  - passive damage mitigation and great stats.

• Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew
  - active damage mitigation.
  • Bowl of Meat and Winter Vegetable Stew
    - budget version

Utility

• Superior Sharpening Stone
  ,
  Tin of Fruitcake
  ,
  Tuning Icicle
  or
  Magnanimous Tuning Crystal
  .

• Budget:
  Compact Quality Tuning Crystal
  either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW
  Skirmish Chest
  s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.

Usage

General

• Build Life Force by killing critters or any PvE mob before fighting players.

• Both weapon sets offer a decent mix of defense and offense, but they're mostly just stalling until you can go back into
  Reaper's Shroud
  for burst damage.

• "Chilled to the Bone!"
  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 will still play, potentially baiting out dodges or other defensive CDs), and send it only on a CD of 5 seconds.

• On Staff try to use
  Putrid Mark
  after
  Chillblains
  whenever possible in order to combo AoE Weakness. These are also your two most dangerous skills on this set.

• Staff is more of a utility weapon, low damage but it has a condition transfer, a CC, snare, and adds much needed range to the build. The Chill and Fear are useful both for keeping distance when you're waiting for CDs and preventing enemies from escaping when they're trying to flee.

• If you're using
  Death's Charge
  only for the mobility you should consider dropping out of shroud near the end of the animation. The very end of Death's Charge brings your character to a halt, we can cancel this by cancelling shroud.

• Entering shroud acts as an instant defensive measure:
  • Transfers conditions to enemies on your next attack via
    Plague Sending
    .
  • Procs Lesser Enfeeble for Weakness from
    Weakening Shroud
    which strikes foes after a small delay. If Lesser Enfeeble connects it'll immediately transfer conditions with Plague Sending. This is a really powerful interaction that could save your life even if you're stunned, as shroud can be activated while sitting in a CC.
  • Shrouded Removal
    removes one condition when you enter shroud and keeps cleansing you every few seconds while in shroud.

• Utility-dependent There's more to
  Spectral Walk
  (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 ⇒
    Spectral Recall
    when your enemies jump after you.
  • Activate SW ⇒ break line of sight ⇒ cast
    "Chilled to the Bone!"
    ⇒ 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 ⇒
    Necrotic Traversal
    (if using Flesh Wurm) ⇒ teleport back when they catch up to you.

Shroud

• Most of your burst comes from
  Reaper's Shroud
  , where your damage is further increased by
  Reaper's Onslaught
  (if taken).

• Opening with
  Infusing Terror
  is very common, as it helps getting your damage off uninterrupted while the damage reduction helps you stay in shroud longer.
  • Terrify
    is the chain skill of this slot. This should only be used when either A) you need an emergency CC, or B) Infusing Terror is about to expire.

• Death's Charge
  should be used in the field created by
  Executioner's Scythe
  for the Frost Aura whenever possible.

• Soul Spiral
  should primarily be used on CC'd or downed targets (as Poison reduces the resurrection healing coming from their allies), but thanks to the permanent Quickness while in shroud this skill is now much easier to land without any real setup.

• Executioner's Scythe
  's a single target skill for the most part, as it only stuns one target.
  Terrify
  can Fear targets long enough to prevent enemies from dodging this skill.

• Use autoattacks when eveything else is on CD.