Guild Wars 2

TL;DR Soldiers, Dire, or hybrid? (Condi soft cap / Toughness cap)

I’m torn between a Soldiers build or a Dire build. In addition to this I have a few questions that I haven’t been able to find solid answers for…

What is the Condition ‘sweet spot’ (a good place to hit then stack another stat)
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What is the Toughness/Armor ‘cap’?

Using this build: http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgQD_AHYBqg~

Knowing that Corrupter’s Fervor will stack to 300 toughness, would I cap myself at 300 below the established cap? Or would I benefit from the extra 300?

And finally, how beneficial would it be to stack condi as a reaper over power? Since the only damaging condi we get is Chill(specced) & Poison. Would stacking power be better?

I know, so many questions, but I’m no good at theorycrafting and napkin math. Thank you in advanced for all the replys.

P.S. No I will not “Go Zerk”.

Condi reaper, no dhuumfire?
Soul reaping probably better than deathmagic because of its better traits for shrouded abilities and losing 2% less shroud a second > 300 toughness + -20% condi damage especially since its % based and you stacked a load of vit.

Lets pretend I’m sticking to the build I posted.

Edit: or rather I’m building around that spec, and depending on the answer to the toughness question, will switch out of Corrupter’s Fervor.

If you go hybrid take celestial, spite, SR, and reaper with signets and dhuumfire. Take staff and/or offhand dagger on one of your sets to compliment plague signet.

there wouldnt be any point trying to run that build as condi as a reaper because of the lack of dhuumfire. iirc the trait grants you +300 toughness so anything that works from modified toughness gets changed, including deathly strength.

Also toughness has no established cap iirc because of how damage is calculated i just has diminished returns thus becomes less effective than putting stats else where eventually.

The reason condi reaper would need dhuumfire is because of the lack of other conditions when in the form as well as with balthazar runes and sigil of smouldering you can ramp up around 4.5k aoe burning.

Personally, for Condi, I’d go with something like this:

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgQFrAKkBqQ~ – SR could be swapped to Spite as an alternative.

As far as I see it, Blighter’s Boon is the most powerful trait Reaper has access to and in current form, I’d slot it in nearly any PvP build.

It just has too much synergy with things like Eles, Engis, Guardians (Empower…), heck even Mesmers to pass on it.

I forgot to mention that this is strictly for PVE

Underking.2694:

I forgot to mention that this is strictly for PVE

then slot whatever you want.

Personally I would go for “zero” precision build.

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgQB2AVoBvQ~

Weapons Staff( sigil of fire , energy )/GS (sigil of frailty, ice ) – Valkyrie stat

Armor – Valkyrie stat ( runes of strenght , hoelbrak , I went for ice )

Jewelry – Cavalier

Build has 2150 power , 27k hp , 2,7k armor, 4% crit ( thats not a problem ) aaaaand 215% crit damage.

We focus on applying chill , we get ( thanks to the trait ) stack of vulnerability on the target and thanks to other trait we get free crit chance on that target. Simple as that.

Utilities: Consume Conditions, Well of Corruption, Spectral Grasp, Spectral Armor, Elite skill – New Reaper Shout because it gives us temporary condition resistance.

It will be fairly weak to heavy condition builds. But thats why we got staff s4, thats why we got ConsumeConditions and an elite skill.

The vulnerability we can stack up is insane, basicly whatever we will do we will stack it by doing it.

Might will stack on its own thanks to Spite spec ( Reaper’s Might, Siphoned Power )

Nouitra.1378:

Personally I would go for “zero” precision build.

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgQB2AVoBvQ~

Weapons Staff( sigil of fire , energy )/GS (sigil of frailty, ice ) – Valkyrie stat

Armor – Valkyrie stat ( runes of strenght , hoelbrak , I went for ice )

Jewelry – Cavalier

Build has 2150 power , 27k hp , 2,7k armor, 4% crit ( thats not a problem ) aaaaand 215% crit damage.

We focus on applying chill , we get ( thanks to the trait ) stack of vulnerability on the target and thanks to other trait we get free crit chance on that target. Simple as that.

Utilities: Consume Conditions, Well of Corruption, Spectral Grasp, Spectral Armor, Elite skill – New Reaper Shout because it gives us temporary condition resistance.

It will be fairly weak to heavy condition builds. But thats why we got staff s4, thats why we got ConsumeConditions and an elite skill.

The vulnerability we can stack up is insane, basicly whatever we will do we will stack it by doing it.

Might will stack on its own thanks to Spite spec ( Reaper’s Might, Siphoned Power )

Thank a ton, this is actually something I’ll be keeping in mind.
I actually found a build myself just by playing around with intothemists
Carrion Armor & Weapon
Dire/Soldier’s Trinkets
Soul Reaping: Unyielding Blast, Vital Persistence, and Dhuumfire
Spite: Bitter Chill, Rending Shroud, Close to Death
Death Magic (Reaper on release): Putrid Defense, Deathly Strength, Corrupter’s Fervor
Reaper: Chilling Nova, Chilling Force, Deathly Chill

Sigil of Chilling & Peril (Reaper GS)
Runes of Ice

Bowl of Garlic Kale Sautee & Potent Master Tuning Crystal

I fear that no precision in condition/power hybrid build may be hard. Also hybrid without curse tree is kinda weak. But numbers seems nice on the spreadsheet. Cheers mate.

What gets me is that since Reaper Shroud inherits the abilities tied to normal shroud skills, Reaper Shroud 1 will apply Burning, Vuln, AND stack Might, on AUTO ATTACK. That, to me, is insane in addition to the cleave it will be getting.

Remember that burning last very very short, its only 3 sec , maybe u will get 5 stacks of burning on target. I would either focus on tankiness and crit dmg and then gain crit chance through Reaper trait or I would go full conditionmancer with bleeds/poisons/ torment/ fear. Cause having 1k condi dmg while applying only burning to a target is not strong ;/ If you want condi dmg with reaper spec u should consider something like this:

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgQGqAK8Aeg~

Weapons : Scepter ( sigil of bursting) / Dagger ( sigil of corruption – its extra 250 condi dmg) and Staff ( bursting and sigil of torment ) Stats – Rabid
Armor – Rabid, rune of undead ( it gives your almost 400 free condi dmg )
Amulet + Back – Rabid
Rings + Trinks – Dire+Rabid

Raw stats: 3k armor , 21k hp, 2300 condi dmg , 35% crit( with runes on undead and corrupted sigil 25 stacks ) Remember that u will still stack might so it will give your even more dmg.

For utilities go for blood is power, epidemic and well of suffering.

Conditions that will apply dmg: Bleed , Poison , Chill, Torment, Fear.
Also u will stack good amount of vulnerability ( free dmg buff for conditions )
With Reaper form u could feel a bit like a melee conditionmancer outside the Reaper u just use staff scepter etc oldschool stuff. Burning from Dhuumfire is not good enough to go for it ;/ Chill will be a lot better especially that u got trait that it ticks for more dmg while target is below 50% hp. It also scale with Spite trait Close to Death.

It all depends but its possible to get around 5.6k damage aoe burn from dhuumfire along with the chill damage and a few poisons, bleed and fear damage. pve of course.