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Reaper - Power Reaper

This is a rough draft. Once adequately written, it will progress to the testing stage, where it can be rated by the community. You can help by proposing changes with a comment.

Focused on: Direct damage

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns buildsPath of Fire Builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on April 25, 2022.

Overview

A durable build with boon corruption and burst melee damage.

Disclaimer

No real reason to play this over the "Rise!" build at any scale, just throwing the build here until that gets nerfed.


Skillbar

Axe/Focus
Staff
Utility
Weapon Variants
  • Staff Greatsword is a good option for the utility of Nightfall and Grasping Darkness
Heal Variants
  • "Your Soul Is Mine!" extra life force, if needed


Traits


Variants

  • Spite Blood Magic massive survivability increase through Blood Bank at the cost of a small amount of damage/boon rip

Equipment

Head
Dragon
Shoulders
Dragon
Chest
Dragon
Hands
Dragon
Legs
Dragon
Feet
Dragon
Backpiece
Dragon
Accessory
Marauder
Accessory
Marauder
Amulet
Marauder
Ring
Marauder
Ring
Marauder
Axe
Dragon
Focus
Dragon
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Dragon
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18


Consumables

    • feast option with additional power and ferocity.


Usage

Overall Priorities

High
  • Wells
Moderate
  • Single target damage
  • Sustained pressure


Surviving

  • This build has high passive defense
  • This build has low mobility skill access
    • Make sure to drop your target when using Death's Charge for mobility
  • This builds has low active defenses
    • Reaper's Shroud gives an unlisted 50% damage reduction
    • Infusing Terror is an instant cast that should be used whenever entering shroud
      • Try not to use up all of your Life Force defensively, save enough for Soul Spiral if possible
Active defense priority
  • Deathly Swarm - for Immobilize Immobilize
  • Dodge
  • Reaper's Shroud
    • Infusing Terror
  • "Your Soul Is Mine!"


Detailed Explanations

Wells

  • Try to save your Well skills for the commanders call
    • If you aren't using voice communication, use your wells at the same time as the other Necromancers in your group
  • Cast Well of Corruption before Well of Suffering, due to the longer cooldown
  • Only use your Well skills at the same time, do not use one early and desync their cooldowns
  • When using ground AoEs like Well of Corruption or Well of Suffering, try to place them so that one edge is on the enemy group and the other edge is in the direction they are moving to
  • Immediately after placing both wells enter Reaper's Shroud to activate Death Perception and remain in shroud for the duration of the wells


Single target damage

  • Use Spinal Shivers Ghastly Claws Rending Claws to pick off isolated players


Sustained pressure

  • Start fights on Staff to maximize ranged uptime
  • Use Unholy Feast immediately after Weapon Swap Weapon Swap and use it gain immediately before swapping back
    • Delaying your Weapon Swap Weapon Swap slightly for the cooldown is fine
  • Enter Reaper's Shroud as often as possible in melee, particularly when Soul Spiral is off cooldown
    • Make sure not to put yourself out of position with Death's Charge, leaving shroud without casting it is fine
    • Make sure to trigger the flip skill Terrify before the 6 second duration of Infusing Terror ends
  • Save Lich Form until Winds of Disenchantment and other projectile block is used up.
    • Don't be afraid to drop form early if Deathly Claws is being projectile blocked.
    • Make sure to use Summon Madness while in lich form to activate Death Nova
  • Save Reaper's Mark to CC on your groups spikes
  • Combo the blast of Putrid Mark with the field of Chillblains when possible
Skill priority
  • Well of Corruption + Well of Suffering - always together, on call


Lich Form - only after projectile block is down
  • Grim Specter
  • Lich's Gaze
  • Deathly Claws
Reaper's Shroud
  • Soul Spiral
  • Death's Charge
  • Life Rend
Axe
  • Unholy Feast
  • Manifest Sand Shade + Nefarious Favor - procs Path of Corruption
  • Spinal Shivers - only on single target
  • Ghastly Claws
  • Soul Grasp - only if low on Life Force
Staff
  • Mark of Blood
  • Chillblains
  • Putrid Mark
  • Reaper's Mark


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 2 votes.
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5 stars
Soldier198 gave this build 5 stars • August 2023
Reaper is a competitive DPS option that combines boon stripping with melee spike damage. Damage potential outside of reapers shroud is a bit lacking due to Axe being mostly single target and GS having slow attack speed. In terms of combining both damage and boon strips though, reaper has the best of both worlds whereas other boon strippers that seek to also fill a DPS spot tend to perform notably worse damage wise. Downside is that Reaper needs a group which can consistently push melee in order to shine. Durability is high thanks to the damage reduction inherent in Reaper's Shroud as well as Shroud skill #3 adding an additional 20% damage reduction on top. The blood magic traitline if taken makes the build exceptionally resilient.
5 stars
Ryuk gave this build 5 stars • July 2022
A traditional build offering great damage potential and boon strip

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