Guild Wars 2

PvE wise,it is..it is very good i think even using GS is awesome in PvE.

Now for PvP
I have done a bunch of testing and played every beta weekend,I will not break into any stats,traits or skills.Lets make it simple
Why do i take reaper trait line? Well because i want that awesome Reaper shroud,not shouts,not GS,but that shroud is epic.
Well if i want to have maximum out of shroud then ill need to take Soul Reaping trait line to enhance it to its full potential.
This leaves me with 1 trait line of free will,because Reaper and SR are obviously forced upon us.
And even this free trait line is most likely Spite cause it synergies well with the other two.
Alright now that we have a build,we would use Knight,Soldier or Marauder amulets.
Survivability is low,DPS is somewhat good if u can maintain you shroud for a long period of time,but that is more unlikely cause you get focused down in 90% of situations.Because when they see Reaper they know its gona be chill and spin to win,so yeah lets kill it with fire and magnets,u get bursted down in 5 secs without any chance for survival in team fights.
Reaper provides Chill and High DPS and thats all there is to it really.
Playing my causal Power or Minion Master Necro provides far better results than Reaper at the moment,You can’t DPS if you are dead.
My MM build you can see here
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZakhGaqxuawvGYvxx0QNb5LoCkDQBEA0Z4GyUA-TZRBwAcODA02focZANHCAAPAAA
It provides High DPS,Condition Removal,Epic Survivability,Some Movability as well as good CC
My Minions heal me,yes they die and explode,but my shroud is already full and ready to use that 50% crit 1 untill they have recharged.Or maybe even use it before my minions die so i can heal them and my party memebers.
You might wonder why i havent taken the glorious consume conditions,well i have good condi removal from minions as well as staff 4,then there is the fact that my HP doesnt really drop that much in most of cases.
Discuss,Prove me that Reaper is better than this glorious MM.
Make me play reaper.

Yeah reaper is very cool in open PvE. It’s a real pleasure to play it.

Agreed, the reaper is quite chill.

In Open PvE the reaper is great, in Dungeon deal just a little more damage than our old build with the Dagger+Warhorn, not enough to lose all our sustain by vampiric aura and the high numbers of hit the dagger grant us to proc the aura, expecially AoE, giving us damage and heal ad the Well trait to recharge them faster and deal more damage and have heal by them.

The GS is cool and work fine to spam vulnerability but in open PvE is more or less futile. Gravedigger is cool but if you want to spam it and deal more damage (only a little more) than the dagger you have to not even dodge or you will lose 1 or 2 Gravedigger, and you can use it only whyle the enemy is under 50% HP to deal good damage with it.

In sPvP I’ve tried it but the dps of RS maked me… sad… it’s not all that powerfull like we hoped and be forced into a melee range chill us more than the enemy, unless you’re against another melee class, but then you have to take the distance to not be stripped out of RS too quickly.

I tried also a good MM build. But it was Celestial or Condition.
Try the stacck 3 or better the Corrosive Poison Cloud, that give you a Poison Field and then active the RS and use the skill 4 in the face of an opponent. You will inflict 20-25 stack of poison, dealing a really good damage.

But I still prefer the old necro to the RS, for sPvP.

In PvE I will use the Reaper why it’s really Cool!