Guild Wars 2

Build: JCbroe Mender
I saw Eura beat a Reaper yesterday on ESL but the fight was Reaper pov for only a second.

I just don’t understand the animations and when I should go offensive vs defensive

What is his “Condi Bomb” what does that really mean and what should I look for to anticipate it.
Scenarios: Assume all CDs and full life force and AS ready or a couple of seconds till ready

If I see him first at ranged

If he opens up on me first at ranged

If I see him first in melee

If he opens up on me in melee

When he’s in shroud, kite. When he’s not, burst.

I havent played a ton with that build. The major condi bomb is shroud 4 within a chill or poison field. Stay at long, long range as long as possible. Reaper stab is predictable so use lb4 to out range him for as long as possible and unload all the lb dmg you have. He will use shroud 2 to gap close. if you see this, swap to your alt weapon and use the movement skill to run away. GS and staff are better than sw/d for this since theres no delay on the movement. Continue to kite. This works best with a build with higher dmg.

No matter who opens or at what range you start, you want to stay at range unless youre playing a weird maul build. If you have to fight on point this will be harder. For this situation, try to stay JUST out of range of shroud 4 when he enters shroud. Avoid the bolts that shoot out with the gs block or the staff 5. If you are just out of melee range your block wont proc the kick. You must dodge shroud 5 if he uses it, it’s pretty easy to see. Remember that entering ca clears condis. cast a few ca 2s even when you have very few condis as it procs a few seconds later.

Paprikaspice.8462:

I havent played a ton with that build. The major condi bomb is shroud 4 within a chill or poison field. Stay at long, long range as long as possible. Reaper stab is predictable so use lb4 to out range him for as long as possible and unload all the lb dmg you have. He will use shroud 2 to gap close. if you see this, swap to your alt weapon and use the movement skill to run away. GS and staff are better than sw/d for this since theres no delay on the movement. Continue to kite. This works best with a build with higher dmg.

No matter who opens or at what range you start, you want to stay at range unless youre playing a weird maul build. If you have to fight on point this will be harder. For this situation, try to stay JUST out of range of shroud 4 when he enters shroud. Avoid the bolts that shoot out with the gs block or the staff 5. If you are just out of melee range your block wont proc the kick. You must dodge shroud 5 if he uses it, it’s pretty easy to see. Remember that entering ca clears condis. cast a few ca 2s even when you have very few condis as it procs a few seconds later.

thanks to both of you.

Never let him/her close

Keep them at range, I destroy reapers.

Generally, Reaper players trying to get all of their damage skills onto you from both of their weapon sets, then pop into Reaper Shroud and “wombo” through their damage skills after getting stability up (5→2→4→auto).

What this would look like for a reaper is to start in staff, land their bleed mark, poison/chill mark, and fear mark (which also chills because Reaper), get close enough to you to hit you with their weapon swap procs, swap weapons, use their AoE bleed and scepter 3 torment, then go into Reaper shroud, which will put some weakness and bleeding on you and corrupt one of your boons, and do their Reaper combo.

If they start in their Scepter set, the full combo would just sort of be the reverse of starting in staff.

So, scepter skills are difficult to dodge to some degree, but if you learn the animation for marks, you can start to negate damage you take by dodging the important marks (the fear mark and the poison/chill mark).

Besides that, you want to try to save your Celestial Form until the Reaper goes into shroud and uses some skills. You’ll get fully cleansed of most, if not all of their damage, then you can drop a few heals on yourself, leave astral form, and kite around pressuring them, waiting for their reaper shroud to drop until you unload a Bristleback burst on them.

That’s the gist of how a Reaper fight will usually play out, anyhow haha.

Longbow at max range and start ploinking away. They’ll have to engage you in order to survive.

thanks fellas, I appreciate the help