Guild Wars 2

Hi all, I recently made a necromancer because I heard reapers were great for open world farming but I am having trouble putting together a build and weapon sets to use in HoT areas for gathering hero points.

As of right now, I’m using full zerker w/ dagger/warhorn and scepter/focus and I swap to staff for VB night meta events where there are lots of mobs to tag or for dragons stand events. But, I feel like my ranged options are really weak. Is staff a condi weapon? And if so, should I be using condi on my necro instead of zerk? I’m running spite/blood magic/ curses right now with wells as utilities, but I dont know what weapon sets to use and I feel like I’ve already wasted many transmutation charges and I’m worried about putting wrong sigils in my zerk weapons that are condi based, etc.

Also, is there going to be a major shift in gear / runes / sigils for my build when I unlock reaper? I’d rather gear up for reaper instead of having to change loadouts completely.

Physical Damage:
(Main)
- Greatsword
- Dagger
- Axe
(Offhand)
- Warhorn
- Focus

Condition:
(Main)
- Scepter
(Offhand)
- Dagger

Staff is a utility weapon and should never be considered for damage. Don’t use a scepter/dagger set in beserkers gear, you’ll do no damage.

Reaper ranged options are.. not perfect, but whatever. If you need range for an encounter slot in lich form, or if the encounter is longer than 30 seconds you’ll have to resort to axe, or just suck it up, get your stability and use “Rise” and tank the damage in reapers shroud, use the blinds on Greatsword or rely on your wells leaching damage to keep you healthy.

You don’t need to use transmutaion charges to change your gear, just how it looks.

Made some quick builds in 30 secs, this is roughly what to aim for. Improvements can be made.

Standard power Reaper, adjust from here:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAodRjk0QLNWTDO2A7NWwFspiQToKANACAtg4r4XsMC-TpAXAAw+DdZAA

Power reaper gives you 100% crit chance with no effort if you’re running zerk, so you don’t need soul reaping.

Standard Condi Reaper, adjust from here:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQJAroCN3Y1NUKGs4eYRMJGFAGAJAA-TxRFQBtTPQ/U/phK/yiSQfdCAc3+DA4BAQKgFVWB-e

You don’t need reaper to play condi necro, it doesn’t really add too much damage, around 1k dps and good burst from RS#4. The trait slot can be used for utility instead.