Guild Wars 2

Since the expansion, reaper has been great, the reaper specialisation answered most of the core necro issues, even going so far as to give us a couple of combo finishers .

However, i find myself getting tired of it, the combos we can pull off are very repetitive (RS #5/corrosive poison cloud + RS #4 etc) and i am just going through the motions when playing reaper.

I love reaper, necro is my main afterall, but i find myself spending alot of time looking for diff ways to play it when they simply arent there.

My builds vary all the time but i find im playing with mostly the same utilities (YSIM, Suffer,epidemic, corrosive poison cloud, signet of locust, chilled to the bone and wells when power oriented) and im trying very hard to enjoy GS power builds.

I play both condi and power reaper in pve and pvp.

Is it just me? Or are others looking to other elite specs to make the game more interesting?

P.s. im only mastery level 22 so not spent a tonne of time in HoT and this is my experience.

Mastery level 84 and I love Reaper. Best part of this expansion for me. Playing a regular Necromancer was mostly just auto attacking with a dagger and throwing a bunch of wells in my opinion, but now we can do so much more. It feels a lot more fluid.

Maybe after 800ish hours on necro the general slow pace of the class is catching up with me.
I will continue to play reaper, but im excited to play more of other classes.

That’s just how the game is really, it happens to every class.

This game is just so limited in its skill rotation and lack of customization.

In fact, Necro is actually one of the only classes that has a real rotation.

Ele and Engy sort of can too, but their “rotation” is most about utility than dmg.

Necro actually has to rotate through all 3 “Weapon sets” for optimal DPS, atleast for a condi build.

God forbid you play something that has to auto attack just to deal most of your dmg, like dagger necro, ugh.

Not tired of reaper, it’s still more fun than base necro. But I have been disappointed by the Greatsword’s performance outside of PvE. It’s a great PvE weapon, although quite boring due to 222222 spam. It’s just getting worse and worse for me in PvP/WvW. I’m mostly using Dagger/Warhorn now in PvP & WvW, however I really wanted to like GS for the style.

The more I see and experience fighting against other elite specializations, the more I realize how inadequate Greatsword is. And the Blighter’s Boon nerf early on, that really soured my mood and I haven’t recovered from it.

If Greatsword can be made better and more practical, I think it’ll make things better for me. It just saddens me that GS is severely limited and inadequate when fighting against most new elite specs in 1 v 1. In team fights its usefulness is also limited and quite situational.

In ZvZ which I initially thought it would work ok for frontline Reapers, I’ve found out short of some downstate Gravedigger cleaves, GS is like shooting blanks. You pop GS 4 like second nature, but it doesn’t really hit anybody because nobody sticks around for it to expand. You GS 5 to pull and either it misses, or someone’s got stab and are immune to be pulled. GS 1-3 attacks all require players to be standing still or be in downstate to connect.

I like the Reaper, I’m having fun with Reaper Shroud, and I find Reaper utilities & elite to be useful. It’s just GS & Blighter’s Boon nerf early on soured my enjoyment a bit.

• Equip death magic with all the minion traits
• Equip bone minions, rise, and you’re all weaklings
• Run into a huge group of mobs and start attacking
• Leave one alive
• Enjoy the show

It’s not the most effective setup, but it sure is the most entertaining.

I’ve started leveling/playing around with a Revenant with a friend and I have to say… Rev is a pretty fun class. That being said, even just playing Rev for a short time, if I switch back to my bruiser Reaper I remember why I main it and why I love necro so much. OP, I’ve also played a bit over 800 hours on my necro (out of 1200 total, so… big chunk of my GW2 time) and leveling an alt is a nice way to mix it up a bit. But for me, Rev is probably just going to be a casual character and my Reaper will be for heavy duty stuff.

Because long live Soldier Reapers

Not at all, the Reaper is something that has been missing with Necro since the first beta nerf. We have been in the basement so long it felt good to be out and finally enjoy the class for what it was meant to be. It still lags a tad with damage but I love the survivability and although I have an 80 of every class this is all I enjoy running now. I thoroughly enjoy every minute I’m on this class….well except when I use "2 and toss myself off a cliff lol!

A bit. I’ve been playing with other characters so its okay. I really wanted a support elite specialization for necromancer. Next time I hope.

Any time I log in, I’m very much looking forward to my Reaper. I haven’t been slamming GW2 as hard as I used to though, so I’m not really hitting burn-out levels.

I honestly think with any class, after 800 hours, you’re going to feel like you’re just doing a rotation through abilities. But at the end of the day, you’re playing an MMO, so it isn’t like DPS is going to be some super engaging experience that changes every fight. Boss mechanics are supposed to be that variety that force you to use your abilities intelligently. Trash mobs around the open world PvE areas aren’t really going to feel spicy unless you roll an alt, imo.

Or unless you just can’t get enough of that big swingin’ scythe.

I’ve only unlocked the first trait line in reaper so I haven’t really tried it yet. When’s a good time toc make the switch? Love it in pvp, can be unbelievably tanky at times.

Reaper is only one trait line and it is focused on greatsword, shouts, vulnerability, chill, and chill condition damage.

It seems like a lot when it is new but it does not do much for ranged damage, dagger, horn, scepter, healing, bleeding, poison, weakness, fear/Terror, wells, corruption, Signets, or Spectral skills. It only helps minions a little, maybe.

I believe it happen because you focus to much on one profession. Hoping from profession to another profession help a lot to relieve the monotony of playing. Reaper is focused on a really plain approach of close combat, in a lot of way it’s like playing a warrior. It doesn’t help when you look for originality.

So far I’m rank 107 in hot and most of the experience come from exploring with each profession the new map, revenant tyrian map completion and revenant story. (revenant thingy almost finished my tyrian masteries… and gave me the opportunity to see how they rework the personal story which is in a pretty good spot right now after more than a year of nonsenses. They did a good job here in both storytelling and fight balance)

<3 my Reaper, it’s my new main.

I’m not really tired of Reaper yet, plus the alternative is core Necro which is where good gameplay goes to die a boring, uninteractive death.

I got tired of playing necro for a second, and then i switched to phalanx warrior and realized that its not that necros are boring, i just played through it and turned the class to muscle memory. I do condi reaper in fractals and zerker in open world. I use every skill as a condi reaper, and a good number of them as a zerker, though far less. On the other hand there are some classes that use maybe 2 or 3 skills.

Sure, I guess engineer is more difficult than necro to play, but i also dont enjoy carpal tunnel.

Nope; I’m still loving it.