Is power reaper usable?

Is power reaper usable?

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Posted by: Demongale.3916

Demongale.3916

Im a returning player and i was wondering if power reaper with gs is usable in high end PvE content like raids and fractals or if I am forced into using the viper/condi build

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Posted by: Vitali.5039

Vitali.5039

It’s usable but not performing as condition build or other professions.

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Posted by: Rangerdeity.5847

Rangerdeity.5847

if you wanna play power necro dagger axe is a better alternative than the almighty gs.

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Posted by: Azamanaza.5740

Azamanaza.5740

I go GS + Staff in fractals.

I dont have the best of gears, but I once saw my guy crit 25k with grave digger.
Conditions at that time were:
- boss under 50%
- full vuln
- full might and prolly had some ferocity.

I believe the idea of a GS reaper is staying in reaper form.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vREQJAWRn0ICV2gl2AO2Ac4glfBjKL8FCWxJxn4VEKpFA+AA-e
More autos as Reaper, the longer you stay in reaper. Even longer, if you dodge.

You can also go for the Signet route, ditching the 20% more damage when target is below 50. You have passive LF gain.

The builds i mentioned above are “selfish” builds.

To be a supportive power reaper, ditch Spite and go for Blood Magic + Wells + Traited Wells.

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Posted by: Prince Vingador.8067

Prince Vingador.8067

Its possible yes, u just need to have a dedicated player healing u and rezzing u, in pvp at least.

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Posted by: Dadnir.5038

Dadnir.5038

I go GS + Staff in fractals.

I dont have the best of gears, but I once saw my guy crit 25k with grave digger.
Conditions at that time were:
- boss under 50%
- full vuln
- full might and prolly had some ferocity.

I believe the idea of a GS reaper is staying in reaper form.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vREQJAWRn0ICV2gl2AO2Ac4glfBjKL8FCWxJxn4VEKpFA+AA-e
More autos as Reaper, the longer you stay in reaper. Even longer, if you dodge.

You can also go for the Signet route, ditching the 20% more damage when target is below 50. You have passive LF gain.

The builds i mentioned above are “selfish” builds.

To be a supportive power reaper, ditch Spite and go for Blood Magic + Wells + Traited Wells.

Somehow it pain me to see someone happy to do a 25k crit with gravedigger while “fullbuffed”. That’s 12.5k dps… And that’s mainly the issue of the power reaper.

The answer to OP’s question is that it’s useable, yes, however there is high probability that your team will ask you to use something else. In game it’s less a matter of what’s useable than a matter of what’s optimally usefull for your group/party/raid.

If the necromancer or reaper had an unique buff or debuff that benefit the whole raid, the usability of the reaper wouldn’t even be a question but, as it stand, it suffer from a “not so good” dps and a total lack of usefull thing that would benefit the raid part as a whole.

That’s why I’m proposing over and over and over simple change that would benefit the necromancer in PvE like :
- Changing rending shroud so that it reduce foes toughness instead of applying vulnerability.
- Changing lich form into a lich aura that improve damage and condition damage of your allies for a short time.

Simple changes like these would make a necromancer always usefull in PvE end game and thus usable whatever damage they decide to focus on.

No core profession should be balanced around an optional elite specialization.

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Posted by: Glott.7239

Glott.7239

Can you dig kitten with a spoon? Sure, but you’r probably better of just using a shovel. But let’s just see what will change with the expansion, if anything.

Edit: What’s up with the censor? I was just typing “a” and “hole” and the filter thinks i’m trying to insult someone

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Posted by: Substatic.6958

Substatic.6958

CReaper is barely usable unless you get very lucky with fields, PReaper is flat out dead.

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Posted by: Anchoku.8142

Anchoku.8142

Please just wait until the 22nd.

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Posted by: Zefiris.8297

Zefiris.8297

In raids: Absolultely not, power reaper is way, way, way too weak for that. If you do not have a guild that is fine with carrying you and you not contributing, you may be able to play it, but you’ll be a leech on your guild, mostly. Pugs will most likely kick you.

In fractal pugs, if you do your rotation really well, you’ll do as much DPS as other bad players with bad builds, so it’s generally mostly fine. But do expect a kick if you try challenge mote runs with this performance, unless the rest of the group isn’t exceptional

tl, dr: it’s possible to play a power reaper, but you’re essentially handicappying yourself if you do so.

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Posted by: Tobias.8632

Tobias.8632

On raid dummy the numbers for power reaper might be low, but I feel like it might do decently in actual raids because I see a lot of meta classes pulling sub-14k dps over an actual fight, or 16-18k dps when it’s a meta dragonhunter playing their class properly. Considering all power reaper has to do is autoattack with dagger and drop wells and sometimes use shroud and then press 2 a lot for packets of 30k damage over about 2 seconds I’d imagine the numbers at the end of the fight might be pretty decent, it seems like it’d be much easier for reaper to hit closer to their raid dummy benchmark.

Has anyone actually tested the valk reaper build in a no-requirements pug group with arc dps running?