Guild Wars 2

I’m sure this has been discussed previously, but oh well.

I’ve just finished acquiring the pieces of the reaper line I need for my build and I’m trying to figure out which of these two is better: I’m using full valkyrie armor/weapons with zerker trinkets and consumables in order to bring crit chance to 50% (raised to 100% after using one of the above two traits). I’m trying to figure out which of these is a better choice

1) Decimate Defenses w/ Dhuumfire: 25 stacks of vulnerability is insanely easy to get with the reaper, so the 50% crit chance boost from decimate defense is extremely solid when fighting bosses, especially with Dhuumfire packing a bit of an extra punch. However, this does not scale as well when there’s a ton of mobs that don’t have as much vulnerability

2) Death Perception w/ Chilling Victory: 50% crit boost no matter what and I gain might and life force every time I hit a chilled foe, but there’s no dhuumfire.

Since killing multi-group mobs is a reaper thing anyway and it’s never really been that difficult, I feel like the first option is the better of the two. However, I always appreciate some feedback

Decimate and Dhuum for PvE.

DP and CV for PvP.

I’ve played with both. And I have to say it honestly depends on you. I find that going the second option is easier to sustain yourself with while the first option is a bit stronger. The first option is a bit riskier though as generally speaking if you’re using decimate defenses you want to use weapons outside of shroud such as dagger or greatsword.

I like both of them personally.

I like Decimate and Dhuum simply because with Decimate we can have that awesome crit chance both in and out of shroud now.
Here is my current build attempt:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAR3dnMbCtbilbCu0A0bilfBLOJGFriUZhvwwCKpFA+AA-TBSBABbcQAoZ/BCeAAmpE8Klf4pbAT1fA4KAEA4A43fz3+G88zP/8zP3v/+7v/+bpAiYrF-e

In my opinion, dhummfire is pretty much always better than DP for reaper. The exception is when you don’t really have much might stacking on a build without condition damage. IN pve, decimate defenses is always better. In pvp, DP might be better than DD, but dhummfire is still better than DP for the majority of builds as explained above. Deathly perceptions main strength is life blast spam.