Guild Wars 2

So i’m planning on making a weakness reaper tank come HoT release.

i’m thinking rabid weapons and trinkets with knights armor. What i dont know is the 3rd trait line to pick.

I know Reaper trait and curses for weakening shroud. Then i dont know to go soul reaping for the crit chance in shroud to keep stacking weakness or going death magic for the extra toughness and 20% dmg reduction from corrupters ferver.

Part of me thinks to focus more on weakness and go for the crit as well as staying in DS longer.

Any thoughts?

as always:
what game format?
pve? spvp? wvw?

if you’re just playing around with friends or soloing in a casual setting, then, yet again, “as always”, play how you want, i’d suggest Death Magic because with Death Nova, you can use Bone Minions for a semi-decent AoE weakness

otherwise, my first “thoughts” on reading this were just….
unfortunately, Daredevil will be far more efficient at “weakness tanking” if that becomes a thing
rather than soaking damage from toughness/death shroud, they’ll be evading damage entirely
and if that wasn’t bad enough, they get a spammable AoE weakness skill….
6 seconds of weakness for 3 initiative
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Weakening_Charge

The thought was for raids, looking over the traits again, I think for best dps with condi and weakness as the primary priority I should go with all rabid, but having a set of knights gear should help with some survivability.

For solo death would be good for the added toughness.

Yea weakening charge is really strong, combine that with some blinds and the thief will be really strong as controll.