Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if someone tried the new Reaper in fractals? What was the level? how did you find it? How was life force generation? How did you deal with the “no range option”?

Thanks

Worked great. I had plenty of range, it wasn’t a problem. Staff is available to you. It doesn’t lock you out of it. I only did a 10, but I had put my necromancer’s armor in my inventory prior to the beta so I had 60 ar I could have gone up to a 40 fractal if I wanted to. Reaper needed some buffs but it wasn’t worse than a necro it was still better.

Ran Full berserker and could fight most bosses in melee just fine. But I fight them in melee with core necromancer anyway..

Thank you. That’s encouraging.
When you say staff for range, you can’t use it in Shroud. The new shroud is only melee and we can’t access the old shroud with the reaper trait. Right?

I tried it in a scale 10 because I didn’t have the foresight to save enough ascended gear to get more AR.

I liked reaper’s shroud for the AoE damage. Also, the stability was great on the asura fractal.

Greatsword felt pretty useless, but they’re buffing it.

For range I just used staff. You can always swap weapons between fights depending on the situation. Reaper can still use all the weapons so the melee shroud isn’t really an issue. Just make sure you have the right weapon for each situation.

I’m definitely planning on using reaper at the very least because of reaper’s shroud. The lack of death shroud’s range is easily dealt with. It just depends on the situation. Worst case scenario you can always switch your specialization in the middle of a run if you really need to.

Jahran.8456:

Thank you. That’s encouraging.
When you say staff for range, you can’t use it in Shroud. The new shroud is only melee and we can’t access the old shroud with the reaper trait. Right?

Melee isn’t hard to achieve in fractals at all. I don’t know why people are so scared of it really. With Reaper’s shroud you have quite a large hit box and can easily move into your foe’s blind spots. I do it all the time when using dagger/warhorn on my necro. if things get bad, just move out of its range and spend some time camping with your staff.

And now, you can’t use Death shroud and Reaper’s shroud. You have to choose one or the other before entering combat.