Guild Wars 2

I didn’t get to play BWE1 as much as I’d like, but I did spend some time playing as a Reaper and think overall it’s fantastic. I played a Zerker Reaper mostly in PVP. It felt very satisfying to hit so hard, Gravediggers crit for ~5k and feel like something my opponents don’t want to be near. It’s going to take some getting used to Shroud Knight, but it feels satisfyingly faster (in attack speed) than original Death Shroud.

I do think some more stat combos would open a lot more builds for Reapers in particular. One of the interesting things they have is lots of crit chance boosts via traits. For this reason, I found myself wanting options of Power + Ferocity + X where X is not Precision, or builds with only a small amount of added Precision (in PVP in particular where you can’t mix armor types). Strong contenders for extra stats I think would be Condition Damage, Toughness, or Vitality.

Also, I found myself wanting to do a lot more testing the elite specializations in Stronghold and PVP in particular, but felt myself discouraged from doing so because I could not keep any Reward Track progress or Rewards. It would be really cool if for BWE2, you could enable elite specializations for non-beta characters in PVP only so we can play test the specializations while still getting to earn rewards.