Gw2 Open World Reaper Build

Overview

This is a high-damage, bursty build with high self sufficiency and carve damage. It is an excellent pick for farming open up earth and is relatively uncomplicated to play. This build focuses on a very high Chill uptime in order to maintain , a core damage modifier for reaper.

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Weapon Variants

Staff - ranged aoe for farming in groups

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

- condi cleanse

Utility Skills

- DPS option to replace if taking
- more condition cleanse & arctic
- destroys projectiles.
- pulls in mobs
- more life strength generation
- might and stunbreak
- minion with decent DPS

Aristocracy Skills

- tanky CC buddy

Minions Minions can provide extra bodies for defense, though their damage is very low. This should be run with the Decease Magic // Minion variant below.

Specializations

- combine with , , and to cede strong surface area damage for a simpler playstyle.
- provides an alternative playstyle; run across the gear variants beneath
- better Vulnerability uptime.
- if not running shouts or only to improve burst harm and arctic uptime which synergizes with .

Death Magic / Minions

If using several minions, Decease Magic can supplant Spite for a boost to defense, though this will drastically lower DPS. If using this, information technology is best to also take in Reaper.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; exotic gear with the aforementioned stats is fine.

This set up uses gear similar to that of Build:Reaper_-_Power_DPS. This makes information technology a practiced option for general PVE.

Variant Equipment

Gear

Runes

- budget DPS
, - used to fine-tune crit hazard

Sigils

- budget dps
- offers higher Chill uptime and an AOE impairment proc
- defensive options

Consumables

Food

Any ascended food is superior to whatever other food you lot could use. Steak for ability, flatbread for conditions. Upkeep versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
- farming
, - DPS
- defense force

Utility

(and variants) - farming
, - dps

Usage

Damage

Arctic Awarding

This build's impairment focuses on to get a powerful modifier against chilled foes. To exercise this, chill must be applied frequently. If taking , any arctic will likewise use Vulnerability. The post-obit skills utilise chill:

- i of the primary sources of arctic; use this any fourth dimension its available
, - if running them, these skills use chill in a big area.
- this skill is usually used as an opener due to its pull, just it too applies chill to annihilation information technology hits!
- the final hitting of the greatsword automobile-chain, this skill is essential to the build during shroud downtime
- applies chill in a large area and places an ice field.
, - if used in an water ice field, these can create Chilling Bolts, which employ chill when they hitting a target; if used inside a target'southward hitbox, this tin apply a considerable corporeality of chill very quickly.
- applies chill to any enemy feared, with no cooldown; this means will apply chill!
If running Focus: - applies some chill

Dealing Impairment

Most of the damage comes from Reaper's Shroud cheers to and together with the aforementioned . Equally such, the full general thought is to chill your enemy and have your pulsing skills dealing damage while you are in Shroud. A general rotation goes as follows:

has a long casting animation, you can enter Reaper's Shroud inmediatly after casting to skip information technology.
(consider casting for Stablity to ensure you practice not get interrupted during your high damage Reaper'due south Shroud).
inside your wells to brand use of the whirl finisher.
x5. Do non interrupt Shroud autos to benefit from .

If the enemy is below 50% HP, keep spamming Gravedigger. Oterwhise, cast greatsword autos. When your wells come up off cooldown, start again from pace ane.

If your life force is low, use afterward footstep 4 to generate some life forcefulness, use it again later exiting Shroud on step eight, then continue with greatsword.

Make certain your target is chilled before unleashing your loftier damage and Shroud autos. If following the rotation, your will cover that, otherwise employ before spinning.
Against bosses with a Disobedience Bar or breakbar, information technology is generally worth delaying the rotation until the bar breaks. Consider opening with and so . When the bar is almost broken, cast your wells and Nightfall and enter Shroud. If needed, finish off the bar with . Then do your Shroud rotation.
When dealing with groups of mobs, recollect will reset if at least one of them is below fifty% HP. Cleave them all.
Yous do not gain life force from nearby deaths while inside Shroud. Attempt to end off your enemies outside of Reaper'southward Shroud to replenish your life force.

Survivability

Remember that players can e'er sidestep and walk or contrivance out of enemy attacks. Non taking harm is always the better option because it conserves life forcefulness.
Stack blind, chill, and weakness on enemies to mitigate most of their damage.
If taking a lot of damage, information technology is possibel to apply as a second health bar. in shroud helps with impairment mitigation.
Utilize to cleanse weather. If more is needed, run or bring a dagger offhand for .
If downed, just utilise to get back up.

Crowd Control

MasterZi gave this build 5 stars • September 2020

This is actually such a disgustingly good build. You can facetank anything enemies try to hit you with while topping damage charts confronting groups of enemies or single targets. I like to run this build with minions, but that's just for aesthetic purposes. The raw survivability and AOE impairment of this build permit yous to mindlessly clear anything in the game, sometimes even solo-ing grouping content without worry. Unfortunately, you lack in-battle mobility, but information technology'due south a very pocket-sized price to pay when you have mounts.

Yonguy gave this build 5 stars • June 2020

It's a dandy build, every bit it doesn't allow the possibility of some of your enemies dying, and y'all end up losing the DPS. Offers more features for your Reaper's Shroud, causing more impairment. Information technology has a little less survival, but nothing very impressive. great construction for those who don't like using minions very much and want to quickly execute the goals of the open world.

Photoscore77 gave this build v stars • Apr 2020

Actually easy build with an extremely high damage and survivability in nigh all pve content.

MuffinGuru gave this build 5 stars • Nov 2019

Undoubtedly S-tier in Open World, or whatsoever difficult solo content for that matter. It is the just truthful "afk build", whilst however dishing out respectable DPS. The only build that comes to mind capable of holding a candle to Minion Master in terms of solo-power is a toughness- geared, defence- traited, veteran Spellbreaker.

Painbow gave this build 5 stars • September 2019

Fantastic build for open-world. Great outburst and sustained damage, bang-up self-benefaction coverage, and good survivability.

Kaihan gave this build 5 stars • May 2019

The Undisputed Champion of the Open World. Let's face it, we all have bad days on GW2 and whenever I'm down and out, I always come back to this build and go on to wreck whatever was giving me trouble. You melt mobs and solo champions for breakfast. For an easy combo, I come across a mob, -->cast Grasping Darkness to make certain the enemies are grouped-->drib Nightfall-->get into Reaper's Shroud-->Infusing Terror for stability--> Soul Spiral and by then, well-nigh things are expressionless. --> Life Rend will finish any else is standing. If I demand to fight at range, I switch to Axe/Focus. But the dazzler of this build is that sustain mostly passive and you lot'll automatically generate and so much healing you lot simply have to avoid enemy fields. Only retrieve, utilise Reaper'south Shroud whenever Lifeforce is maxed out and off cooldown. When yous're out of Reaper's Shroud, you should exist focused on generating Lifeforce through Axe 2, Focus iv, Greatsword v & three. Instead of "Rise", I use Signet of the Locust for 25% speed increment, purely for utility. Post-patch I also apply Axe/Focus instead of Axe/Warhorn. Focus 4, Soul Grasp, generates plenty of lifeforce. Too Focus 4 & 5 have 1200 range.

A cracking build for just about any content in the open up world. Consider removing one of the minions for "You Are All Weaklings" shout for instant 10stacks of might since it got buffed in contempo patch.

Darkrayne gave this build 5 stars • December 2018

This build is probably the unmarried all-time Open up Globe build in the game correct now. If you struggle with it for some reason, possibly y'all're learning the play style or something, use Marauder gear instead of Berserker so you take more health and use the Claret Magic trait line instead of Death Magic and then you take more cocky healing. Yous'll kill things a little slower but you lot'll exist able to survive anything in open globe a lot easier. Once you've got used to playing it, utilize Berserker gear and the Decease Magic trait line. This build, and all Necro builds, become a lot meliorate once you take the 5th downed skill from Living World Season 3. Once you have that skill, left on passive, getting back up when downed is extremely easy because you bleed tons of health when using the 1st downed skill. If you are using it before then, it is less effective but nonetheless a cutting above the rest.

Nacho Replay gave this build v stars • September 2018

Astonishing open up world build for reaper, actually good sustained DPS, and some good outburst. Vulnerability tin can be gained very apace and easily maintained to 20+. Survivability is good but not best, using "Infusing Terror" during shroud helps a bit. Condition cleansing is very nice with this build and "locust swarm" is very useful for speed when kiting is needed to avoid damage. Although at times i do adopt using offhand dagger for "Deathly Swarm" when additional condition cleansing is needed.

Chinkeeyong gave this build 5 stars • September 2018

Hail to the king. Open world is where Reaper shines and this is the best open up earth Reaper build: information technology trivializes the vast majority of open up earth content and can solo dungeon paths and depression fractals with barely any effort.

With the recent change to both Death Perception and Reaper's Onslaught this is by far one of the most powerful open world builds. Yous are able to get 100% crit run a risk extremely quickly and can maintain 20+ stacks of vulnerability and a adept corporeality of might by yourself while too having permanent quickness in shroud giving it extremely loftier outburst in open world when compared to other classes (who cannot provide these boons to themselves and maintain such high damage). This is due to the fact that in open world y'all can non count on getting these boons from others and reaper is in a unique position where it can give itself these amazing boons by itself on superlative of getting a 100% crit chance very hands. It as well helps that the boons/vulnerability stated above are granted simply as part of your harm rotation and y'all practice not need to worry about self buffing during fights as the they just roll in naturally.

Screaming gave this build 5 stars • July 2018

This build is capable of dealing decent sustained harm and good burst, though the burst isn't anything to write home virtually and information technology should exist noted its survivability is a tad bit overstated due to its lack of active defense force and that every time you get damaged in shroud decreasing your effectiveness. Nevertheless though, it'southward not bad. It'southward capable of sustaining around 20 or fifty-fifty 25 vulnerability depending on variant used too as a decent amount of might. Information technology should exist said that for open world, the Soul Reaping variant is in my opinion better and more useful, as Soul Reaping has much more synergy (Vulnerability, crit hazard in shroud, longer and more frequent access to shroud) with the rest of the build, as Curses doesn't really bring you anything useful for open up world.

Antherios gave this build 5 stars • July 2018

I created an business relationship just to praise this build. I've e'er played a Warrior with Power build and I'grand used to kill Veterans with 30% of my wellness left, and having a difficult fourth dimension against Elites, and not existence able to handle some Champions at all. With my new necro alt I tried this build and oh boy ... "Striking fear into the hearts of trash mobs" indeed. If you play it decently it steams rolls any Open up World content, and if you are great at information technology, no PVE mob can stand in your mode. Its amazing how my necro with exotics is doing more than harm than my full ascended, double legendary wielding GS/Dagger Warrior. TL;DR: This build played properly renders nearly all PvE content to a walk in the park.

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