Guild Wars 2

I mean, people dislike and or find sub par just about evething except the Shroud.

Any chance we can get away from the god awful slow and hard hiting design that has no place in the blow you up NOW meta?.

How would you like the NEW reaper to be?.

More damage on GS autoattack and Gravedigger. That’s about it.

So much for “back to the drawing board”

The theme of reaper is decent. The thing is not everything should be slow. Look at Reaper’s Shroud as an example, 4/5 of the abilities have the horror theme of chasing you down, and there is RS 5 for the slow, huge hit that is extremely rewarding for pulling it off. But overall the theme is fine, its just I don’t think they did everything they should have, why doesn’t the horror monster have a defensive skill?

2 of the shouts need to be changed heavily, I’d really like to see Rise removed and changed into something like “You Can’t Kill Me!” (insert better shout name here) which gives say, 1s-2s of block baseline, which also scales with people hit, and breaks stun. Need active defense, and Reaper of all things should have it, monster movie villains are hard to kill.

A few things need QoL/usability improvements, GS1 needs to be faster, GS2 needs more damage, fix a few traits, touch up the shouts, we’re good to go.

Reaper along with chronomancer are probably the best elite speciailzations shown off compared to thier base classes. So I don’t think a complete rework is necessary, I’d just like to see more damage, and more debuff pressure from reaper traits.

Tempest and dragonhunter need far more work than reaper though, some of their traits are utter kitten.

Well, the problem with reaper now is that it isn’t hard hitting. At all. Just slow.

Reaper just needs quality of life fixes. For instance just having great sword 5 be more reliable would do wonders.

nearlight.3064:

Reaper along with chronomancer are probably the best elite speciailzations shown off compared to thier base classes. So I don’t think a complete rework is necessary, I’d just like to see more damage, and more debuff pressure from reaper traits.

Tempest and dragonhunter need far more work than reaper though, some of their traits are utter kitten.

this!

Also, I have played reaper in WvW the whole evening and I can’t remember having had that much fun in WvW ever! Love the concept, not so happy about the numbers, but that’s an easy fix.

Bhawb.7408:

2 of the shouts need to be changed heavily, I’d really like to see Rise removed and changed into something like “You Can’t Kill Me!” (insert better shout name here)

How about, “I Am Become Death!”?

Blaine Tog.8304:

Bhawb.7408:

2 of the shouts need to be changed heavily, I’d really like to see Rise removed and changed into something like “You Can’t Kill Me!” (insert better shout name here)

How about, “I Am Become Death!”?

Not bad. I tend to leave serious names to other people, I’m only good with puns.

The design philosophy is rubbish because dd eles can be as tanky as a reaper, but they have some of the best mobility around. If Anet insist on making us slow and immobile, then we need to truck very very hard. Otherwise give me the mobility and stop making excuses.

Bhawb.7408:

Blaine Tog.8304:

Bhawb.7408:

2 of the shouts need to be changed heavily, I’d really like to see Rise removed and changed into something like “You Can’t Kill Me!” (insert better shout name here)

How about, “I Am Become Death!”?

Not bad. I tend to leave serious names to other people, I’m only good with puns.

An invuln shout would be awesome. No reason not to give us one seeing how endure pain and signet of stone exist. Thing is would you get more block/invuln time for each enemy struck?

Blaine Tog.8304:

How about, “I Am Become Death!”?

Please say this out loud.

lol

Khristophoros.7194:

More damage on GS autoattack and Gravedigger. That’s about it.

So much for “back to the drawing board”

He didn’t say it needed a long time on the drawing board.

But seriously, the only thing wrong with the reaper is that the Greatsword 1 and 2 don’t deal enough damage, 3 and 5 are hard to aim, and chill traits need numbers buffs.

The design is good, it’s just not balanced very well at the moment. Which is an easy fix.

i kinda feel the nerfs to our chill application, and chill itself are sorta moot now. I feel that GS REALLY needs a big increase in damage, and before people say “but then it’d replace dagger as our power weapon!”, dagger only has the AA, the two is a heal and the three is something you’ll only ever get off against someone not paying attention. Dagger also has much more LF generation, and can be mixed and matched with one of our other offhand weapons, like warhorn. So yes, GS needs to outclass dagger in Damage, not LF generation, unless under specific circumstances when you hit a group of enemies with 3.

RS is just perfect, no complaints, RS1 could hit a BIIIIITTTT harder but other than that, i love it.

Shouts, i am with Bhawb’s opinion, i think they have their uses, but need a cast time and cooldown reduction. And rise needs to ACTUALLY do something.

Other than that, i think we just need some projectile destruction and we’ll have FINALLY be in a spot to truly be feared. And some reliable stability outside of RS.

Traitwise, chilling victory needs to have the ICD removed. Same with chilling darkness. The Shout and GS traits will only get stronger IF their respective skills get stronger and worth using. So….we’ll just have to see. Had a fun duel tonight with my ele friend. He used dagger warhorn and I used GS/staff, me using Soul reaping, Death Magic, and the reaper line. Was fun, fought for 15 minutes and eventually called it a draw because we couldn’t kill each other because of our sustain. And I made him run off point a lot during that fight.

I think reaper needs back to the drawing board. They tried making a slow melee specialisation. To counter kiting they promised that chill would be the solution but they give reaper barely any chill because chill is “too strong”. The trait that applies the most chill for necromancer? It’s in curses. The shout with most chill application in comparison to it’s cooldown? “flash freeze” the elementalists one. Our elite? Reaper of grenth applies an equal amount of chill for the cooldown and does not have a cast time of 2 seconds. So I think they have to go back to drawing board to either make less relient on chill or improve chill application.

The spec and especially the new shroud ‘feels’ great to play that’s why many people are impressed by it, but as far as numbers and utility go i’m far from being convinced.

Greatsword needs some work.
Life fore generation in RS is a big concern.
Chill is mostly useless.
Shouts are a mixed bag.
Extra utility in RS is nice but I don’t like that they forget to give the base class some love too.

Not necessarily ‘back to the drawing board’ but it definitely needs some heavy tweaking.

Blaine Tog.8304:

Bhawb.7408:

2 of the shouts need to be changed heavily, I’d really like to see Rise removed and changed into something like “You Can’t Kill Me!” (insert better shout name here)

How about, “I Am Become Death!”?

I’m a fan of Yogg-Saron shouts he uses in Ulduar and think they would fit perfectly the Reaper. GW1 Norn shouts just sound…hillarious.

What if our pitful Elite was named “Bow down before the Death!” and in addition enemies affected would perform /kneel when stunned?

For reference:

https://youtu.be/L3mpw4Y7Pjg

TheLastNobody.8319:

i kinda feel the nerfs to our chill application, and chill itself are sorta moot now. I feel that GS REALLY needs a big increase in damage, and before people say “but then it’d replace dagger as our power weapon!”, dagger only has the AA, the two is a heal and the three is something you’ll only ever get off against someone not paying attention. Dagger also has much more LF generation, and can be mixed and matched with one of our other offhand weapons, like warhorn. So yes, GS needs to outclass dagger in Damage, not LF generation, unless under specific circumstances when you hit a group of enemies with 3.

RS is just perfect, no complaints, RS1 could hit a BIIIIITTTT harder but other than that, i love it.

Shouts, i am with Bhawb’s opinion, i think they have their uses, but need a cast time and cooldown reduction. And rise needs to ACTUALLY do something.

Other than that, i think we just need some projectile destruction and we’ll have FINALLY be in a spot to truly be feared. And some reliable stability outside of RS.

Traitwise, chilling victory needs to have the ICD removed. Same with chilling darkness. The Shout and GS traits will only get stronger IF their respective skills get stronger and worth using. So….we’ll just have to see. Had a fun duel tonight with my ele friend. He used dagger warhorn and I used GS/staff, me using Soul reaping, Death Magic, and the reaper line. Was fun, fought for 15 minutes and eventually called it a draw because we couldn’t kill each other because of our sustain. And I made him run off point a lot during that fight.

the fact it was a stalemate proves reaper spec is junk you are a necro… you should kill ele’s you can kill an ele as a base necro!!!!!! so how is reaper fine?

the reaper is overall too slow and the chill doesn’t make up for that nor does the broken leap.

in many cases i see myself forced to use the 25% movement speed in shroud trait to hit my autoattacks to not get kited, signet of locust doesn’t help here because signet passives don’t work in shroud sadly.

if you want to compare hambow to reaper, hambow also needed that 25% movement speed to hit attacks.

solution? make locust passive work in shroud.

Tyriark.7825:

Blaine Tog.8304:

How about, “I Am Become Death!”?

Please say this out loud.

lol

One of the scientist that worked on the atom bomb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac

unlucky.9285:

TheLastNobody.8319:

i kinda feel the nerfs to our chill application, and chill itself are sorta moot now. I feel that GS REALLY needs a big increase in damage, and before people say “but then it’d replace dagger as our power weapon!”, dagger only has the AA, the two is a heal and the three is something you’ll only ever get off against someone not paying attention. Dagger also has much more LF generation, and can be mixed and matched with one of our other offhand weapons, like warhorn. So yes, GS needs to outclass dagger in Damage, not LF generation, unless under specific circumstances when you hit a group of enemies with 3.

RS is just perfect, no complaints, RS1 could hit a BIIIIITTTT harder but other than that, i love it.

Shouts, i am with Bhawb’s opinion, i think they have their uses, but need a cast time and cooldown reduction. And rise needs to ACTUALLY do something.

Other than that, i think we just need some projectile destruction and we’ll have FINALLY be in a spot to truly be feared. And some reliable stability outside of RS.

Traitwise, chilling victory needs to have the ICD removed. Same with chilling darkness. The Shout and GS traits will only get stronger IF their respective skills get stronger and worth using. So….we’ll just have to see. Had a fun duel tonight with my ele friend. He used dagger warhorn and I used GS/staff, me using Soul reaping, Death Magic, and the reaper line. Was fun, fought for 15 minutes and eventually called it a draw because we couldn’t kill each other because of our sustain. And I made him run off point a lot during that fight.

the fact it was a stalemate proves reaper spec is junk you are a necro… you should kill ele’s you can kill an ele as a base necro!!!!!! so how is reaper fine?

Oi oi, calm yourself. If I had just swapped some stuff around I know I would’ve killed him. I had chilling victory on instead of decimate defenses, and if I had taken the 25% movement speed trait he wouldn’t have been able to avoid me. The main thing I was trying to highlight was the fact I was sustaining so well to keep matching him and constantly force him off point.

I do agree with you reaper needs tweaks and adjustments, mainly to damage and our chill application needs to be unnerfed, as well as give us some projectile destruction so we force an engagement on people who use long range specs (corrosive poison cloud would be great for this. But the good thing is that this is a beta, so they are more willing to listen to change and concerns….least I hope so.

I think chilling victory should also add like 3 seconds of weakness to the proc when hitting a chilled foe. Simply because base necromancer has better debuff pressure right now than reaper, since reaper is forced to take spite and soul reaping for direct damage and sustain.

The thing I found is the defenses are basically not there. Make GS 4 move with the player not be put on the floor for someone to just run out of. Ive been trying out valk gear but the cast times are so long for the necromancer that it becomes hard to dodge things. I dont know if it was a latency issue or dodge not stopping these long casts for whatever reason but i found myself being hit by most of the hard hits. Spam dodge while channeling something like gravedigger to dodge a charge, dodge not going off and still getting hit by the charge is frustrating.

For a spec that specializes in groups of enemies the defense abilities just arent there. GS number 4 isnt reliable and chill doesnt do enough to be worth anything unless your vuln stacking. Ive seen 10k crits with RS 4 and 7k gravedigger crits. I think GS needs to be slightly quicker in cast times and it would make the GS feel so much better. I dont really see any problems in RS other than signet of locust not working in it so if you want constant movement speed you have to also pick up the movement talent for DS/RS.

I might look into going axe dagger with my offset. Get some range and reliable condition removal+ blind and weakness application (at least for pve which is what this post is mainly about).

It needs some tweeks, i like the concept though. What do you guys think if gravedigger had a short range teleport on it? You teleport and then start to channel gravedigger… I think it would be pretty cool at least even if it doesnt happen.

Petrol.9086:

Tyriark.7825:

Blaine Tog.8304:

How about, “I Am Become Death!”?

Please say this out loud.

lol

One of the scientist that worked on the atom bomb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac

Thank you. If the phrase “I am become death” doesn’t chill your blood, you need to study history a little more.

(Though frankly I’d be cool with the Necro speaking the full line “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” even if the skill is only officially named the first four words.)

Blaine Tog.8304:

Petrol.9086:

Tyriark.7825:

Blaine Tog.8304:

How about, “I Am Become Death!”?

Please say this out loud.

lol

One of the scientist that worked on the atom bomb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac

Thank you. If the phrase “I am become death” doesn’t chill your blood, you need to study history a little more.

(Though frankly I’d be cool with the Necro speaking the full line “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” even if the skill is only officially named the first four words.)

Based on the cast times to our other shouts, a shout that long would need to be instant cast.