Guild Wars 2

Hey all, I have been enjoying reaper very much over the past few weeks with Berserkers gear.

I love staying in shroud so I was wondering if I would be doing more DPS if I swap out my Berserkers for Vipers ? The burn with the auto attack looks nice.

I only do open world and fractals. I know there are better ways to play a reaper but I like being in shroud plus I don’t think anyone minds for the lower leveled fractals.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAR3YnMbCt0gtbC20As3glaBDKBEAmBUjh5Q1KuLOGXjA-TFSBQBl7BAQhDCAjUCCgrAglU/RkK/0juBls/ApAiYnF-w

Seeming as you’d prefer to stay in reaper shroud for as long as possible, as a personal play style, may i suggest Valkyrie gear. Provides a giant shroud pool to maximize time within shroud and it’s lack of critical chance is off-set by traits. The build linked above boasts 2482 power base, without might, 54% critical in shroud and a “Yuge” 282% critical damage boost. Weather the damage is equal, greater or less than vipers i dont know but it’s something to give a go to.

• when looking at the build, don’t forget to set the cruelty sigil stacks.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAR3djM0QTN2VDu1A7NWqFs4uYZcNClACAzAq2wcoaB-TFSBQBKZ/B9obgRKBBwVAQkK/K3DA4BHEALp+DpAiYnF-w

a few changes to the above post. might stacking is never an issue for reaper considering with this setup you gain 25 might just from basic attacking in shroud and with all of the might gen you have on this build you would be hardcore overkilling it without any real returns.

Also with this build you lie flat at 50% crit from death perception. You can go to 100 quite easily without losing power vitality or ferocity. Decimate defenses with a small change in soul reaping means an upkeep of 25 vuln which means 50% free crit. So there you go. 100% crit from traits alone.

You can swap the strength sigil for a sigil of air and do even more brutal damage once your gs sigil is swapped. Remember reaper shroud doesn’t scale with your weapon damage; it has its own damage scaling (that of a hammer iirc). So you don’t need to worry about which swap you’re on.

The goal in combat is to start on GS, use your 3 then swap to axe/focus and use 4 then 2. If the thing isn’t exploded utterly then you should have a massive amount of lifeforce from this combo. Minions are swapped in because they require the least thought and offer relatively okay damage and projectile blocking.
ordinarily not superior to wells, but considering the want to stay in shroud almost 24/7, minions may be the way to go.

Thanks sororita and murock ! Having tons of hp for lifeforce looks great. Will I be losing a lot of dps if I drop dhuumfire ? I think it does around 1.1k per tick.

@murdock I changed some utility skills and the reaper trait and was wondering what you think of it. I have been using “Your Soul is Mine” because I wanted even faster life force generation for when I get forced out of it plus I don’t think the blood fiend heals me when I am in shroud. I also took “Rise” because I just feel like the damage reduction helps keep me in shroud even longer.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAR3djM0QTN2VDu1A7NWqFs4uYZcNClACAzAq2wcoaB-TFSBQBKZ/B9obgRKBBwVAQkK/K3DA4BHEALp+DpAiYnF-w

ysim is just fine, rise is just fine, bloodfiend does heal in shroud iirc, and your link is the same as mine lol.
But honestly you can do whatever you want with the traits. so long as you can upkeep 25 might and vuln, your build will do asstons of damage in shroud.

Power builds have more flexibility in utility and trait choices as well as more sustain than condition damage builds. Feel free to change things up using the same equipment.

Save Viper’s for condition damage builds. Without bleeds, Viper’s hybrid power-condi is not so good.