So I’ve got nearly 4 sets of ascended armor, so I decided to try a light armor class because playing my warrior was getting stale. However, I’m mechanically challenged as I suffer from chronic wrist pain. It was suggested that I’d try necro since the rotations are pretty easy. I tried power reaper, but the greatsword felt too clunky and hated when I missed that one 50% minion with my gravedigger throwing off the rest of the fight. So I’m looking for some advice about condi reaper which is gaining popularity in higher level content like raids and T4 fractals. I figured viper gear swap won’t be too hard, but I don’t have any shards for the trinkets. I do have the amulet and the legendary back piece. Would my damage output still be fine with sinister rings and accessories? Also what runes do I use? I asked this in chat and there was a huge debate between thorn and berserker.
You can absolutely use some sinister accessory pieces to fill out the set until you get the rest. Content was cleared with a set like that. It might not be the absolute best but it is certainly good enough for raid and high end fractals.
Theres minmal difference between exotic viper and ascended, so you could just go exotic viper for trinkets…some sinister trinkets are also ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whyFJPzbAGU
Theres minmal difference between exotic viper and ascended, so you could just go exotic viper for trinkets…some sinister trinkets are also ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whyFJPzbAGU
There is a difference in cost though. With every viper exotic you put on you need to make up that agony lost in other slots. He said he wants to do high level fractals and 150 is needed when ever Mia Trin daily comes up.
The two builds I’ve played with are pretty similar. Really just runes and a sigil swapped with different accessories. It is basically the two most popular builds one being with Berserker Runes and the other with Trapper. The 5% extra condition damage from Berserker is added on to your Condition damage and does not effect the base. On the calculator it is 36 apart but the back pieces don’t exactly have stats yet so it might be 37.
This build’s gear is easier to get since it does not require all the viper gear to hit bleed and poison cap. I find it more fun with the added effect of being hit by a poison foe increases your condition damage by 50. Walking into aoes on boss fights for a single tick of damage or his passive aoes will trigger it. Find myself purposely taking damage which is fun and able to keep up 200 extra Condition damage through a whole fight with the odd time hitting 250.
Plays pretty much the same way but as said before you need all the raid only vipers to get full ascended. Which if you want to get 150 AR is pretty much needed to not take a gold hit with higher level AR infusions. The damage is a bit lower but you do not need to take damage to make your damage do its full potential. Without any thrones stacks this build does do more damage but after you get one stack they are about equal with two pulling ahead.
All and all they are both really solid ways to go. Thorns to me is just a tad bit more fun and our two main conditions being 100% duration is nice.
If you plan on using a general build (i.e. one armor), go with Berserker runes. Thorns is good in raids, but only there. If you also run fractals, Thorns will be useless in comparison
Also, for fractals I run berserker rune + tuning icycles, just because those 10% duration don’t really matter in there whatsoever. lol
