Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, here are some notes of today’s Reaper livestream showing all the traits, greatsword skills, and shouts. Tooltips of skills are also included.

In rough draft atm but will be revised to include more info soon.

http://dulfy.net/2015/05/15/gw2-reaper-necromancer-elite-specialization-livestream-notes/

Thanks, I can’t await the delicious tears of all non-necro mains.

Thanks!

I’m going to make a reaper melee condition build I think… I can feel it in there somewhere, just have to work it out… Maybe sinister gear with scepter/GS. 100% chill and weakness uptime will be awesome group support I hope.

Really excited. Thanks for the hard work, Dulfy.

Thank you dulfy, as usual.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Thanks!

I’m going to make a reaper melee condition build I think… I can feel it in there somewhere, just have to work it out… Maybe sinister gear with scepter/GS. 100% chill and weakness uptime will be awesome group support I hope.

The autoattack and dhuumfire kept 3-4 aoe burn stacks, with the 100% condi duration on scepter this could turn into around… 6-7 stacks of “permanent” burning doing 3.5-4k dps without the autoattack’s damage. Then you can go out, use epidemic and have 12-14 aoe burning for 2 – 3 9k aoe ticks… oh right, also chill might be doing the same damage current burning does. Based on the demonstration on the guardian (with carrion) burning did 4.5k per tick at 6 stacks. Hope that stops people from crying about condi being ruined due to the redistribution of terror/lingering etc…

Thanks Dulfy, you’re a credit to the GW2 community.

In my opinion, the two biggest surprises?

• There might actually be a condition spec in Reaper, since the new Death Shroud can do rapid AoE burning, and traited chill will presumably scale with condition damage.
• Blood Magic was singled out as a trait line that’s still under heavy work, and siphons now heal through death shroud! Progress!

The shouts look like they run a pretty wide spread for what they can do. A chilling condition transfer, minion summon, AoE weakness & might spike, Boon rip & unblockable… Something in there for everyone, really. And the new elite skill is such good control.

Softspoken.2410:

Thanks Dulfy, you’re a credit to the GW2 community.

In my opinion, the two biggest surprises?

• There might actually be a condition spec in Reaper, since the new Death Shroud can do rapid AoE burning, and traited chill will presumably scale with condition damage.
• Blood Magic was singled out as a trait line that’s still under heavy work, and siphons now heal through death shroud! Progress!

The shouts look like they run a pretty wide spread for what they can do. A chilling condition transfer, minion summon, AoE weakness & might spike, Boon rip & unblockable… Something in there for everyone, really. And the new elite skill is such good control.

Now if it just was 60-80 seconds instead of 120…

I’m ok with 120 second cooldown, since we can trait for cooldowns. I just hope it stays this awesome at release.