Guild Wars 2

I’ve been enjoying the new Reaper in spvp, currently I’ve reached sapphire in league. Would like some critique on my current build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBmQD7kjGobTscTwzGgeTsgLYxZxvYYkKN0GeWQXtAQLA-TpRGABA8AAO4gAU+FAIqyAws/gBHBAA

I feel like no matter how much boon strip I take, rev, mesmers and ele reload their boons instantly so I just focused on cleanses and took close to death.

The build has perma swiftness and hold points extremely well, but cant do anything against bunker druid, Mesmer, ele.

The higher you progress, the more you’ll find that people will run all the meta cancer builds. Condi revs, bunker mes, bunker ele, etc.. At which time you’ll find that you need to be either condi build to help with condi pressure, or be a signet build so you can corrupt boons and have a chance at killing condi revs or breaking diamond skin. I would suggest traiting signet and going with signet build if you want to stay power-based.

You’ll see that for holding a point, nothing is better than bunker mes and bunker ele at the moment. While soldiers make you tanky, it’s not good enough. In team fights they’re still going to focus you, and you’ll still melt fast. In solo 1v1’s, lack of condi or corrupt boons will be a weakness for you.

I would recommend either go viper condi and scepter for condi pressure, or cele signet and dagger so you can corrupt boons, stack might, and have a chance at popping diamond skin or 1v1 a condi rev. Durability rune is the meta at the moment, it’s too good to not use it, so consider using it if you haven’t tried it yet.

Anyways reapers aren’t in a very good spot at the moment. You need good team support or you’ll have a very hard time. But as long as you’re having fun, keep trucking

A little while ago I played a marauder durability time build that I really liked. However it was very bad in duels and had poor pressure against the super bunkers unless in downcleave. Gavyne is spot on in his advice. Right now it’s best to play a hybrid build with good condi pressure and good physical pressure (to deal with diamond skin and for More cleave and whatnot). Personally I like viper with shouts and well of corruption a lot, but I think cele with spite is good too if you’re fighting a bustier comp. basically spread cancer chill to everyone whole being able to cleave their faces with high damage reaper shroud attacks and you’ll be able to be very impactful in teamfights.

I’ve never been very good at the scepter but I will give cele a go. Just wondering where the cond pressure comes from besides speccing deathly chill, since it uses dagger and no dhumfire. Also why is corrupt boon not part of the meta anymore?

You’ll be getting bleed and poison from staff with more poison from reaper shroud. Corrupt boon hasn’t been run since the change to signets corrupting. Corrupt boon has a pretty long CD and cast time, and now a days people aren’t running a lot of long duration different boons, just a few ones that can be applied very often.

I just switched from viper/scepter/durability to cele/dagger/durability and have had much greater success. Like others have stated the cele build plays around malyx and DS eles, a hard counter to condi necro

Thanks so much for your advice guys

For viper and cele I feel that any mainland is viable, and yes chill is the bulk of your condi damage.

I personally don’t think signet corruption right now is much better than corrupt boon since our boon strip potential has been much weaker without being able to have both spite and curses.

nearlight.3064:

For viper and cele I feel that any mainland is viable, and yes chill is the bulk of your condi damage.

I personally don’t think signet corruption right now is much better than corrupt boon since our boon strip potential has been much weaker without being able to have both spite and curses.

+1 to Corrupt Boon (I tried it on your recc, NL). I’ve been running vipers as well; Corrupt boon and soul marks with a viper ammy makes you the “bunker buster”.

The point of cele build is to be more durable and to play around bunker eles and malyx revs that resist your condis. Thus dagger is much more important than scepter. The number of games where dagger direct damage made the difference in killing an ele in a group fight is in the double digits.

nearlight.3064:

Personally I like viper with shouts and well of corruption a lot

Share this build? It sounds interesting.

Note that when signets are traited, signet of the locust is an aoe boon corrupt + heal + might stacks on 24 sec cd. Popping signets at the right time give you good burst windows. Also I like to take Suffer along with signets, it gives me an additional condi transfer in this bunker & condi heavy meta.

gavyne.6847:

Note that when signets are traited, signet of the locust is an aoe boon corrupt + heal + might stacks on 24 sec cd. Popping signets at the right time give you good burst windows. Also I like to take Suffer along with signets, it gives me an additional condi transfer in this bunker & condi heavy meta.

It’s hard to argue with the utility of SoL, but I prefer corrupt boon because it’s unblockable and you don’t need to trait for it.

Dristig.9678:

nearlight.3064:

Personally I like viper with shouts and well of corruption a lot

Share this build? It sounds interesting.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBmOD7kZTobTsmGwvGgeTsQNYSBgBQKLuDWCXhUxgawlC-TJBIABAcRA2uMgAPBAw3fAA

Note that credit for most of this build goes to Salamander. He basically gave me the basic idea and I tweaked it a bit to fit my playstyle a bit better. Axe can be swapped to dagger or scepter, corrupt boon works over well of corruption, I just like the well for converting stability/quickness on chronomancer rezzes if their precog is up, making it a great source of downcleave. Dhuumfire works over death peception, and you can change runes/sigils as you’d like, though I’d generally reccomend either durability runes (the ones I go with since they’re OP) soldier runes for some more support, or berserker runes for more damage.

So far it works really well and has great sustained pressure and survivability, but it is weak against burst comps. I ate a 9K vault the other day, so I’d switch if you’re fighting double thief.

nearlight.3064:

Dristig.9678:

nearlight.3064:

Personally I like viper with shouts and well of corruption a lot

Share this build? It sounds interesting.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBmOD7kZTobTsmGwvGgeTsQNYSBgBQKLuDWCXhUxgawlC-TJBIABAcRA2uMgAPBAw3fAA

Note that credit for most of this build goes to Salamander. He basically gave me the basic idea and I tweaked it a bit to fit my playstyle a bit better. Axe can be swapped to dagger or scepter, corrupt boon works over well of corruption, I just like the well for converting stability/quickness on chronomancer rezzes if their precog is up, making it a great source of downcleave. Dhuumfire works over death peception, and you can change runes/sigils as you’d like, though I’d generally reccomend either durability runes (the ones I go with since they’re OP) soldier runes for some more support, or berserker runes for more damage.

So far it works really well and has great sustained pressure and survivability, but it is weak against burst comps. I ate a 9K vault the other day, so I’d switch if you’re fighting double thief.

What he said. Here’s how I run it. Death magic gets a lot of hate but it’s the only thing that makes viper viable. It works in this bunker meta because we’re replacing the “win-more”dps trait-line (Spite) with a “win-always” dps amulet. I used to run spectral armor over corrupt boon, but after nearlight suggested it to me, I’m hooked. The build we linked is a real “bunker buster”. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBmOD7kZTocTs8GwbTgeTsUNYSDgAwJLeDOCThUvgZQlC-TpBFABCcQAY4CAceZA23fYhHAAAHBAA

Highly unfashionable but i really like using greatsword as my alt weapon with usually scepter and focus . “nothing can save you” + greatsword will deal with diamond skin then i can drop the condi bomb with well of corruption etc . I really take alot of satisfaction out of fighting tempests they tend to panic as they are not used to losing health quickly once you get them sub 90% its gg they drop in seconds .

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So on the power train a guildy recommended this build that seemed ridiculous but it absolutely destroys a bunch of SoloQ classes. I am killing thieves by accident and druids became a joke. Down cleave with Greatsword is highly underrated. Lich seems crazy in this meta but 8-10K auto auto attacks are no joke.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAndRnc0A12gF3AebCc4gFcBL+K2FDjUdh4wzCqNFAaBA-TpBFABiXGghDBACHBgS2fYgTAAAPAAA