Guild Wars 2

I’m not really sure what the Reaper is trying to accomplish. There has been the obvious problem of the GS power not compensating for its speed, but even beyond that I feel like it’s just another trait line, without giving any meaningful addition. The shouts are incredibly underwhelming in effect and in cast/cooldowns. They’re just shout versions of what we already have.
The Reaper Shroud is pretty good but I think there should be a better synergy between it and the GS. The theme is apparent, but the execution is not. GS needs some LF gen on auto attack, and that combined with a boost in speed will make it a great companion to the new shroud.
Chronomancer is the template that should be used for all elite specs. The insane utility it has both personal and party wide is what I expect from each elite spec, and with the Reaper it just doesn’t exist. More of the same boring, strictly dps dealing Necro that we have had for years.

The Reaper

GS:

• #1 slow aa with low power ratio, but thats fine, every gs works like this, but i think you missed to give it life force on aa?! ö.ö
• #2 nice dmg but the whole animation takes almost 2 sec leaving it with a horrible dps – make the animation 100% faster!
• #3 nice skill, draining tons of life force and stacking vuln at a low dps cost. fine with that, but fix it’s cleave.
• #4 flawless and awesome
• #5 flawless and awesome

RS:

• #1 laughtable dmg and applying traits only on the last aa makes it just horribly weak. it’s worse than a mesmer sword aa T_T
• #2 remove the slide – just make yourself whilr that scynte and destroy projectiles AND blind meanwhile for lets say 2-3 sec – also give it a decent damage (not burst, but decent)
• #3 flawless and awesome
• #4 triple the damage so it becomes useful …
• #5 flawless and awesome

Shouts:

• “Your soul is mine!” (heal) increase the heal and life force gain by this skill – remove the damage
• “You are all weaklings!” (might and weakness) remove the dmg and reduce it’s cd by 25-50%
• “Suffer!” (chill and condi transfer) 2 sec chill, 1 condi transfered, low dmg, long cd. woah, this shout needs a huge amount of love – chill dura is fine, transfer 2-3 conditions to enemies, increase the damage by 100-200% and leave the cd at 30 sec.
• “Nothing can save you!” (vuln and unblockable) remove the dmg and give this skill super speed in addition to the unblockable. increase cd from 35 to 45.
• “Rise!” (minions) heh – nothing you can do to fix this horrible mess :P
• “Chilled to the Bone!” (elite freeze) pretty ok imo, maybe reduce the cast time or increase the dmg a bit, but overall a good skill.

I’m not a main necro myself, but I’m a pve player who plays all the classes and knows that they are capable of. And necro needs some love to become more welcome in pve. For example the RS projectile absorb (maybe even reflection) is a thing that makes him more welcome. More utility shall be seen, less “dmg, minions, conditions”.