Guild Wars 2

Hi folks,

so Im playing a Reaper. Actually I only made the Necro a month before HoT because I saw they were getting a greatsword. Big fan of the greatsword in any game really, add the necro flavour to it and its really attractive to me conceptually. I’m pretty much new to GW2 PVP but I picked it as my way to acquire armor skins.

So, can someone give me pvp build tips for a power reaper using greatsword as one of his weapons. I really hate the idea of playing range weapons only and honestly if I cant play my greatsword then I dont see a reason to play the reaper at all. My current build revolves around the standard spite/SR/reaper with GS + staff or GS + scep/horn, my amulet is either cavalier or berserker. I also like to use shouts as utilities. This build can work but it works slowly and what Im encountering more and more in pvp are folks with massive burst either via direct dmg ( 15k gun flame crits followed by 5×2k volley crits for example ) or via condi bombs with powerful hard cc. My supposedly tough reaper is pretty much helpless against such burst and can only try to fight it off if I have full lifeforce bar.

Does anyone think a GS power play can be successful or am I just gonna have to suck it up and die alot on my way to those armor skins? Thanks