Guild Wars 2

Made a Sylvari Reaper, so I could not test it. How was it at the end?

So anybody tried? Or what do you think about it?

The skill has a similar cd to CttB, short cast time, 18s of aoe unblockable chill and poison, plus you can keep using your skills while it lasts.

Its a decent skill, I would use it over Plague maybe, but I don’t think it fills a similar role to CttB as much.

I actually used this elite in wvw wearing PVT gear taking the traits that made poisoned and also chilled foes do less damage to you this along with protection made me quite the tanky individual however with most alll tanku builds my damage suffered abit. I was still able to used death perception and decimate defenses with PTF and PVF gear for similar effects. The Reaper of Grenth with vuln on chill with pulsing vuln in DS/RS caused me to inflict tons of vuln on MANY targets allowing my party of well necos to absolutely destory bomb sites.

It was a bit strange when the chill applied only after 3~4 seconds but for the rest the effect was very nice, it had much synergy with my might/vuln build. I found it better then CttB.

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll be sure to try that myself the next time.

Wth can’t i access this in Pvp?

punahou.3986:

Wth can’t i access this in Pvp?

It’s a racial skill. You can’t use those in pvp to avoid advantages or disadvantages depending on your race.

Tim.6450:

I found it better then CttB.

Shhhh!!

Well it’s very different

I wasn’t a fan. I did some preliminary testing and number-crunching before the beta rolled out, and found it just feeling mediocre. That said, I ran a much glassier reaper, so I can see where the reviews differ.

If you’ve got a group of players around you where you can afford to spend the utility slot doing it, are running a tankier build, and are anticipating longer-duration fights, I can see it working fairly well. Otherwise, I’d rather take LF/CttB depending on your needs. I found myself liking CttB a lot in small havoc by the end of the weekend due to how effective it was at preventing stomps and locking groups of targets down for the rest of my allies to rip though.

I just wish they’d rework shouts to not having the scaling CDR, reduce the base traited CDR, and reduce the base cooldowns a little bit. Even if it nets a higher minimum-possible cooldown, having CttB at 100 or even 90s would make a big difference in regards to trait desirability, I think.

It’s actually really good after the condition changes to poison and the chill is nice. In condition builds for wvw (as it is allowed there still besides pve) its an interesting swap over plague. It’s actually one of those racial skills that sort of synergies well with necs.
On reapers, poison can stack insanely high giving some interesting outputs from a reap condi build.

Unless you’re running some kind of poison duration/condi duration build, Reaper of Grenth will only maintain one stack of poison/chill if the target isn’t very close, which is still pretty underwhelming considering plague does a better job and applies stability while also giving extra skills/utility.