Guild Wars 2

I was reading the PvP threads and saw requests to “Remove Reaper chill access” and “Reduce bleeding duration of Deathly Chill”
Imo, Reaper needs love, not nerfs.
Thoughts?

Deathly Chill is perfect now. It was nerfed in the area where it was overpowered (pvp) and buffed in the area it was underpowered/useless (pve). Those people complaining are always going to complain until they can kitten on necros without taking any damage themselves.

Nerfed and buffed? Please explain.

The change made it less broken for pvp (it was) and useful in pve (where your chill would get overridden by everyone else’s chill, and the damage never happened).

It’s questionably useful for PVE. 1 bleed per chill is bad joke, and in any group with more than 3 people you won’t be able to pull off RS5-RS4 combo due to unending field overlaps. The only reason it still exists in PVE is becouse there’s nothing better for condi.

The whole reaper traitline is a joke for PvE anyways.

But then again, Robert Gee doesn’t design for PvE. He creates for PvP and PvE be kitten ed.

All the reaper traitline revolves useless shouts in PvE (except for Rise on condi necro, which can still be replaced by CPC), chill on a 2 second fear as a minor trait in Shivers of Dread (worse than worthless, utter garbage).

Useless grandmasters and adepts as chilling nova does nothing for PvE, augury even less, and the other one doesn’t even have a use. Of the grandmasters, Reaper’s Onslaugh affects RS1, which is a DPS loss over simply autoattacking on greatsword, and the other two were nerfed into irrelevance in PvE.

Plus a greatsword weapon riddled with long casts for proportionately low nmbers and HUGE aftercasts severely decreasing the DPS of attacks like Gravedigger.

Reaper’s Onsalught affects everything in Reaper’s Shroud, skills 1-5, and even ressing and stomping.

Greatsword actually does have good DPS in PvE, since you don’t have to worry about attacks being avoided usually. Most shouts have their uses as well there (Nothing Can Save You does not, but the rest do).

Decimate Defenses decimates the other major traits too.

I’ve found no compelling reason to go reaper in pve or wvw, necro seems to be better for power builds. I use reaper in spvp, but that’s because my pve or wvw builds doesn’t work with the trinket/rune selection in spvp.

Hesacon.8735:

I’ve found no compelling reason to go reaper in pve or wvw, necro seems to be better for power builds. I use reaper in spvp, but that’s because my pve or wvw builds doesn’t work with the trinket/rune selection in spvp.

Reaper is extremely good for condi builds. Look at the viper horror build for fractals and raids for more info.

People cry about everything that kills them while wanting their class buffed
nothing new, really