Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow Necros/Reapers,

I was wondering if a Minion Master Reaper would be viable for PvE ( Raids, open world).
I really like the concept of summoning minions/pets and I really want to play one as a Necro/Reaper main. I also love Condimancer builds a lot as well, but I hate Power necros/reaper builds, since I believe in the theme of a Dark caster to be all about DOTs.

With that said I was curious to know if playing a MM/ condi build be something that is ok? Any advice is welcome.

Totally a fun build, I leveled exclusively with MM, and it was fast and fun. Probably one of the best open world builds in the game. It’s beefy, good damage, kinda hard to not do good. The only complaint I’d have was it was a little easy/repetitive. You basically mash dagger 1 and steamroll. Vets are easy, and Champs are soloable with some skill.

As far as raids go, I’d probably go with a condi build over MM, but hey it’s your playtime. Do whatever floats yer boat.

Actually both I’d think are viable. I myself am using Curses, Death Magic and Blood Magic with Epidemic and minions. Pretty good for PVE. I won’t be surprised if you swap Curse for Reaper, it’ll simply be the power counterpart to the condition minion master.

MM is more suited for ranged I think but I don’t see why you couldn’t use reaper with it. It is annoying at times chasing your mob down with melee if your minions aggro first. Minions are a little to tanky and hold aggro too well to make it hard to fail using them for PVE, even in HoT.

Seems to me you can marry your desire to play Minions with Condi … I do and the strategy is quite good.

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useful in raids, carries hard in fractals

Purecura.1795:

I was wondering if a Minion Master Reaper would be viable for PvE ( Raids, open world)?

yes

Full condi + minions in open world PvE feels like cheating. You’re basically an immortal cloud of death. SW farming is just wrecking everything that moves.

curse/death/reaper with chill/fear dmg + parasitic contagion + rise + shout trait + rabid. Just aggro everything and melt it all with 100% rise uptime and op heals.

Probably not the most efficient of builds but can liven up farming a bit.

MM is easy mode. You can play it effectively with many builds in many situations. Now that minions do not get wiped by AoE, they are very strong.

Best solo build. Alongside ranger, MM necro is the other best solo class out there in HoT.

As far as optimal for instanced PvE, not really. But PvE in this game is a joke anyways so have fun with whatever you enjoy.

Viable? Sure, anything is viable. Ideal? Not at all.

My main is an mm reaper and has been for a few years now (mm anyway lol reaper still new )… It works super well for me in all areas (pve pvp wvw etc) I can solo most anything without hesitation. I worry little in pvp type settings and do well. There are some draw backs to the build that are not for everyone however. In open world it is required that you swap to your speed boon on the fly and change back before engaging because you are painfully slow otherwise. Also there are various situations that a minion can aggro when you don’t want it. Oh yeah and forget about being sneaky lol you are an army that is seen from a mile away lol. Despite its flaws I will never trade out my mm love it the best.

MysticalAbyss.8047:

My main is an mm reaper and has been for a few years now (mm anyway lol reaper still new )… It works super well for me in all areas (pve pvp wvw etc) I can solo most anything without hesitation. I worry little in pvp type settings and do well. There are some draw backs to the build that are not for everyone however. In open world it is required that you swap to your speed boon on the fly and change back before engaging because you are painfully slow otherwise. Also there are various situations that a minion can aggro when you don’t want it. Oh yeah and forget about being sneaky lol you are an army that is seen from a mile away lol. Despite its flaws I will never trade out my mm love it the best.

yeah i kinda agree painfully slow describes it, but you can counter this by using axe/dagger for a ranged option for secondary weapon set, and use trait Quickening Thirst.

My necro is reaper/blood/ death, meant for a pve tank