Guild Wars 2

Does anyone else think that a Condi Reaper has a lot of weak conditions?

It feels like Dhuumfire and Lingering Curse are up against each other, but neither are good enough to build around. Both traits want you to stick to a specific skill/weapon.

Reaper brings a lot of chill and poison, both which seem weak. You can ditch Soul Reaping for Spite to get great vulnerability application.

I don’t think the beta has the right runes and sigils for condi play, but has anyone had great success with Condi Reaper?

I’m trying out Dhuumfire and Chill right now and it seems alright. 1-2k burning stacks pretty easy, Shroud 4 stacks 1k-1.5k poison on all its targets, Chill ticks for like 350.

That’d be my main complaint. Chill doesn’t stack so it just ticks for 350. Which is pretty weak. I’d rather see Chill’s condi damage coefficient go up than see it become a stacking condition. Especially considering they heavily nerfed Chill uptime.

Chilling force and reaper’s might would work with strength runes, but there isn’t enough chill to take advantage of, and the chill damage is about as low as a condi gets. Also running spite in reaper conditions means giving up soul reaping, which isn’t even really doable because the soul reaping traits are all too important, or it means that we give up curses, which is silly considering that curses used to be the most important condi line, but now it is somewhat expendable.

There’s plenty of chill from Staff #3, Chilling Darkness on Dagger #4 (instead of plague sending), RS4 and 5 combo, Sigil of Hydromancy, Chilled to the bone, Suffer. Easy 25 vuln there from Bitter Chill in the Spite line. Poison and Chill are so weak though, and you can get the effects of them without speccing Condi.