Guild Wars 2

Hello.

I would kindly ask for any tips and combos on beating druids as a reaper, meainly 1v1 but also 2v2 if its good.

-What is worth dodging? what will i facetank but can minimize?
-How to break his heal combo?
-Can i win with 0 lifeforce ?
- Is it worth in risk/time?

Edit:
Druid is staff+GS, both new pets, probably most run roms valkyrie version. For necro im assuming carrion with 0% lifeforce.

You can beat most Druids right now if you play well as a necro:

-If the Druid is running Healing Spring instead of TU or HaO, fighting them as a condition Necro is not worth it

Taking Relentless Pursuit over Chilling Nova nullifies Druid’s ability to kite with immobs from Ancient Seeds or Entangle.

-Dodge the Bristleback barrage skill, this is the biggest nuke that most druids have.
-Dodge the Smokescale Smoke Assault.
-Save Fears and CCs for when the druid enters Celestial avatar.
-Save your biggest condition attacks and corrupts for after the Druid has entered celestial avatar (almost all druids run the full condition clear and stunbreak on entering CA). Basically, you need to land a large condition bomb + fear chain after the Druid has entered celestial avatar.

-If the Druid is running Greatsword, avoiding Maul and the #5 stun.

-Although almost all Druids run Staff, you should kite them anyway, because the staff DPS isn’t great and Glyphs require melee range (and do 1-2K damage + various effects)

-The Bristleback pet is extremely inaccurate past 600 range, so much so that you can strafe the full barrage by running parallel. It also can be LoSed for the most part (it will randomly fire into walls and whatever and not change positions).

Risk/time/engagement circumstances:

-It is not worth it to assault a node a Druid is sitting on generally.
-It is worth it to 1v1 a Druid on a neuted node.
-In my opinion, Druid is worthwhile to focus in 2v2s and 3v3s, but most likely not as much in 4v4s or 5v5s.
-The fight will be harder with 0 life force, and even harder if you are running Wurm over Spectral Armor.

Sources: 3k ranger games, 1.5 necro games at pretty high MMR.

Not much really. What you want is to be in the Druid’s face (unless they run sword/dagger. then…well…. wait? idk) and out pumping them. Keep poison on, that shiny heal reducing debuff, and if possible keep sustained burst (not one shot). I find hefty condition pressure to shut them down, especially if I load em with trash conditions like cripple or immobilize. I haven’t seen a heal combo >.> they usually die in one spite signet+staff nuke. You can, but its going to be the most horrific event you ever did fight. Its only worth your time if they aren’t a heal TANK. If they use amulets with toughness or healing power, just walk away. Its so dang time consuming.

On the off note, call in your local thief =P. I love shooting me some druids.

The druid have to kiye hard to win this match. The druid can’t realy fight on baste vs reaper most of the time. But, with enough moving around druid can grind repaer to death but it will take alot of time.

The secret for killing a druid is poison uptime +rapid CC, repaer can do both.

You explained it better >.< All I know is I haven’t lost a fight to them, but I suck at explaining anything non-Thief. Meh struggles.

Killing druids is one of the easiest things to do as a reaper. Just sit on their face and spam chill.

is this serious or troll? because reapers are the hard counter to druids, the amount of chill and condis they put is insane.

All you have to do as a reaper is avoid the celestial form #5 and the pet burst and even so you can still win easily vs a druid.

That really depend on the build…a bunker druid can face tank a druid easily

kill the druid before bristleback kills you.
Most damage comes from bristleback autoattack, not f2 because spike barrage misses most of the time even if you don’t dodge it.