Guild Wars 2

I tend to get bored of flavor of the month meta builds quite easily, so I generally make my own. Here are three “hipster” reaper builds that I feel are very viable in the current meta that represent each archetype (power, bruiser, condi) that you’d probably consider when organizing a team.

1. Durable Marauder Reaper: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZ6kjGozGsbTwvGgeTsgLYxVxuYYkKN0GeWQXtAQLA-T5AGABeXGAgnAA67PAA

This build is a sustainy power build that uses blighters boon and the overpowered esports durability runes to mightstack, get more boons, and be artificially more tanky than you actually are. I modeled it after the marauder hammer scrapper build thats used in EU tournaments. Compared to that build this one has a better a teamfight prescence with overall better cleave damage and can wreck kitten with condi transfers, but can’t 1v1 on side nodes as well. Very good sustain for a power build.

2. Wandering Corruption Spammer-http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYbjc0Q5N2cD+1A/NWMGs4eYQ8IS1EiC1qofWAYAA-TpA/QAx9HAlBAA

Use Corrosive Poison Cloud with Soul Spiral to potentially spike people for up to 28 stacks of poison. Very fun, and much higher risk/reward condi build compared to “Carrion Frostfire”. Warhorn is an option for better movement speed, but dagger will help you not kill yourself with your own condis in a fight.

3. Cele signets with a hipster twist- http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBLhF6kjGoyGsbTwzGgeTsgLYxVxt4Yk6M0GeWQXtAwCA-TZhHABgfEAA4UAEwDAY89HMqMAA

The reaper greatsword is perhaps the most detested new weapon in pvp. But when you tack it onto a build from the previous meta, it actual works pretty well since deathly chill makes it work as a hybrid weapon. It gives you enough burst to enable you to take down things that you wouldn’t be able to with celestial using staff or dagger, like druids. Leadership runes are chosen to help with mightstacking, condition duration, and to pump out a bit more condi clear. I think berserker runes and aristocracy and staff over GS are other viable options, and you’ll still get to feel hipster.

Well yeah, thats what I typically run. Just thought I’d share it with you all in case you guys are looking for fun new builds to play.

For the first build- I would switch out blood for sigil of strength on dagger, with Blighters boon it will heal for more. With maruader I like to go sigil of strength + air on dagger and air + fire/energy on staff. I think blood is a waste with blgihter boon, and air adds very significant damage.

Also you’re better off with the other two traits rather than the augury of death if your elite is your only shout.

The hipster twist build looks fun. Thanks for posting goign to try it out

I was playing something similar to #2 a couple of days ago, and just got splattered by a couple of daredevils and a herald all night : ( Granted, I’m bad, but I just wasn’t sure how to survive through the burst.

@cam thanks for the sigil advice! I’m generally pretty lazy and uncertain with sigils because they’re not as integral to the build as runes are but I will note that. The tooltip might be bugged but I generally use both rise and chilled to the bone. I wish I could fit in suffer and the heal shout too but I need to cleanse condis and suffer ironically isn’t very good at that compared to untraited plague signet I’m afraid.

@dead the thing about reaper builds is that they’re all situationally strong at different things. Marauder and wanderer and carrion all have very high damage but are weak to daredevil and herald burst. Celestial doesn’t have enough damage to kill Druids or bunker mesmers but it handles burst comps a lot better. My marauder build is probably the strongest in teamfights compared to the other two provided it has support but can’t 1v1 unless it’s stacked with life force and warrior counters it pretty handily.

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@cam thanks for the sigil advice! I’m generally pretty lazy and uncertain with sigils because they’re not as integral to the build as runes are but I will note that. The tooltip might be bugged but I generally use both rise and chilled to the bone. I wish I could fit in suffer and the heal shout too but I need to cleanse condis and suffer ironically isn’t very good at that compared to untraited plague signet I’m afraid.

even with 2 shouts I think the other traits will do more for you than the shout trait, but I could be wrong, all three are viable with 2 shouts. I definitely recommend the CC reduction trait when against other Reapers. That trait -33% chill and -66% in shroud is huge vs them

And yea rise is borderline OP and a must bring with marauder’s amulet.