Guild Wars 2

Okay, I’ll be the first to admit. I was wrong. And oh how delighted I am to say that. How wrong I am will be determined in the coming months. Though, I wasn’t too far off the survivability of the lich idea I had. Wrong about the shouts though. They completely changed what shouts do for necromancer. Which is fine. I have to admit I really like it.

But on to what this thread is about. I’m already concocting builds I could do with the reaper. And I think an extremely tanky, high damage reaper is not only possible but extremely likely. My first build isn’t that though, as I kinda want to wait and see the changes to blood magic first before I create a build.

Song of Fire and Ice: This will probably be my first build I run. Curse, soul reaping and Reaper. I’ll be focusing on chill and the duration increase with Lingering curse at range. Since I don’t want to drop the duration of my conditions I’ll probably be running Scepter/dagger and Scepter/focus. As for the traits? I’m not 100% sure yet. But I’ll be running Dhuumfire with the new chill damage trait as the name suggests. Depending on how its run I might run the valn adds crit chance trait for groups to benifit from heavy power teams, but it depends. I’ll be sure to be having fun with this type of build though.

Nuclear Winter: The idea of tanking is really cool. concept with the reaper. having a 10% damage reduction with poison and a 15% reduction with the reaper’s grandmaster minor could make a build on its own. But I’m looking more at the boon aspect of this. How this will turn out, I’m not sure yet but I’ll be happy to share the builds in the coming months.

Valkyrie victory: The concept of stacking tones of valn with the deathly precision trait is all too appealing to me. Running something like Valkyrie or Cavalier rather then berserker and still getting a 100% chance to critical hit sounds just too good to pass up in my opinion. This opens the door to very interesting stat gear we could see in the future.

What do you guys want to do? What are you most excited about? I have to say, I want to make a fire and ice build.