Guild Wars 2

I’m bored to heck and back of Spite/Reaping/Soul Reaper. BOOORING.

I’ve been mucking about with off-meta builds this BWE.

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I’ve never tried poison as the primary source of damage before, nor Orrian runes. However, this seems to be very effective.

The reason I like this one is the sting in the proverbial tail – while Spite is a go-to for many builds, adding in Death Magic allows a reaper to enter DS at the same time as quickness procs.

This results in hilarity.

For larks, try:

Mark of Blood > Chillblains > RS2 (combo weakness, 8s base) > RS5 > RS4 (for AoE chill, though if poison field is still up that’s fun too). It’s good fun, and obvious other combos exist (Staff 4 for AoE weakness in teamfights).

However, the real fun starts when you’ve nearly lost. Either you proc quickness while healthyish, or the killing blow procs Unholy Sanctuary. If that happens, you can hit high burning stacks hilariously quickly. It’s like being a class that ANet cares about (i.e. guard or ele)

Pros:

• -10% damage from chilled
• -10% from poisoned
• Everyone is poisoned or chilled
• Last Gasp + 5s quickness = lolz
• Not dependent on might stacking

Cons:

• No might stacking (boooo)
• No escapes (as per)

I have tried the build with Spite instead of DM, and had roughly approximate results – the might stacking boosts burning and poison damage to high levels, which is effective. However, Unholy Sanctuary and quickness has caught a surprising number of players out.

What are your off-meta builds? The weird stuff that works?

Mesmer runes with Warhorn 4 results in 4 seconds of daze and on its own is almost enough to entirely deplete a break bar. It’s really, really dumb. Just right proper for combat in this game.