Guild Wars 2

Shouts good. Much better than the las BW.
Now the cast times are right and with the trait to reduce Cd they are manageable. Wouldn’t change them.

Reaper shroud fun as alway.

Traits okeish. The minors should apply chill on critical and 1 second slow to enemies you chill. the rest are ok, although the trait line seems to be for power builds same as the sword what leaves the reaper out of the condi group.

Great sword is underwelming anyway.
Damage seems ok and the change in gravedigger to recharge 100% is very nice as finisher.
However AA chain is really clunky and slow. Most of the times i can’t finish the 3 AA chain because of how slow it feels.
That’s why i propose the changes of chill on critical and slow on chill.
It’s really difficult to hit in PvE in BW2 even with those pet rocks that are the mobs right now, i don’t want to think in PvP or WvW.

If the foe is slowed and chilled from the first impact that would give the reaper a chance to actually use the sword. Otherwise the enemy only need to walk away.

The GS skills other than the slowness seems fine. Damage seems appropriate

But to be able to use the GS in anything than the punch bag mobs we need the slow and chill application.
right now GS seems really undesirable to equip i find more rewarding the staff AA and thats slow.

mmm i feel like chilling nova should just proc on crits, not crits on chilled enemies.
slow would be fun but i dont think necesary.
that said i dont think theres anything wrong with gs now, youve got quite a few chill options, i was actually able to hit people in pvp with gs this beta.
you can use gs 5 to chill, or use staff and either fear 5 with fear chill or 3 chillblains to chill stuff while your running into melee range.
or you can use suffer since that also chills, or theres chilled to the bone.
you’ve also got fear in ds and executioners for an ice field.
theres quite a lot of opening chills, and depending on your trait set up you can have chills on blinds or use things like dagger immob or warhorn cripple.
the great thing about reaper is necro isnt all about pressing 1 anymore, 1 shouldnt be the highest dps skill you have.