Guild Wars 2

I played Spectral reaper in PvP the whole last BWE. I loved it. I played it as a might stacking build with either Celestial or Marauder. I prefered Celestial because of the room for error but someone better could get away with Marauder. The best part was that spectral grasp was totally viable since you’re a melee class. It was nice to have an extra interrupt too. Lich Form is a spectral skill and get’s cooldown reduction but it doesn’t really fit in the Reaper playstyle that well.

This is what I ran most of the time but I played around with sigils/runes a bit.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhF6kjGo1Gs2Gw4GgeTsgLYxZxuYYkqLEHeWQtpAQLA-TZhFwAAOCAj2fQwDA4wpAwZZAA

Well, I didn’t tried it during the last beta week end but, don’t you think that the fact that the spectral mastery trait is in the soul reaping spec make this spec even more mendatory due to your own arguments?

Though, spectral mastery and spectral skills will obviously be usefull for the reaper, especially if you expect being hitten.
Vital persistence is a trait that you use to maximize your shroud duration when you don’t expect to take damage.
While spectral mastery is used for the same reason when you expect to take damage.
That’s the very difference between these 2 traits. The 2 of them have their niche use and because the actual meta is focused on signet, player tend to overestimate vital persistence and underestimate spectral mastery.

Vital persistence is very overrated by this community.

It isn’t the must take trait everybody here seems to think it is. Spectral Mastey is pretty fantastic. Traited Spectral walk is fantastic. Traited Spectral Armor gives you great sustain, and Traited Lich is a useable elite that fills in gameplay gaps for your reaper.

nekretaal.6485:

Vital persistence is very overrated by this community.

It isn’t the must take trait everybody here seems to think it is. Spectral Mastey is pretty fantastic. Traited Spectral walk is fantastic. Traited Spectral Armor gives you great sustain, and Traited Lich is a useable elite that fills in gameplay gaps for your reaper.

I agree about Spectral Mastery being underrated but I’m not sure Traited Lich was that great with Reaper. I much prefered the new Elite Shout in sPvP. It fit really well with what I wanted to be doing. Namely hitting multiple targets in team fights. In WvW or some other format (courtyard?) I could see lich being better but nailing 3 targets with “Chilled to the bone!” seemed to be more effective for making big plays.

Dristig.9678:

nekretaal.6485:

Vital persistence is very overrated by this community.

It isn’t the must take trait everybody here seems to think it is. Spectral Mastey is pretty fantastic. Traited Spectral walk is fantastic. Traited Spectral Armor gives you great sustain, and Traited Lich is a useable elite that fills in gameplay gaps for your reaper.

I agree about Spectral Mastery being underrated but I’m not sure Traited Lich was that great with Reaper. I much prefered the new Elite Shout in sPvP. It fit really well with what I wanted to be doing. Namely hitting multiple targets in team fights. In WvW or some other format (courtyard?) I could see lich being better but nailing 3 targets with “Chilled to the bone!” seemed to be more effective for making big plays.

I think, lich is supposed to fill the lack of ranged DPS. But yeah, I’d rather see all transformation skill being rework into something that is not a transformation skill. It’s personnal opinion but Lich is just an horrible skill (be it the visual design or the skills themselves). Not that I have better opinion of any other transform elite skill…