Guild Wars 2

Personally, I played only on pvp, and I loved it! <3

I tested only power builds (soldier or valkiry, with strength rune, strength sigil, and force sigil). First beta WE with necro so didn’t see the previuous reaper.

(Not native speaker, sorry for the upcomming mistakes and bear it)

1) The shouts :
I think in pvp, most of the shout are useless (compared to other spells, notably the spectral ones) exept the one who spawn minions, the elite one (kinda slow to cast, was interrupted most of the time, but still good) and maybe the one who permit to be unblockable.
In pvp imo (and more with the greatsword), a shout build would be unviable as long as it doesn’t give life force(and the trait that give “heal” on shout is a joke in 1v1).
The heal shout is useless compared to consume condition.

Maybe, with soldier runes it may be of some use, but as long as it does’nt give live force, I’ll probably go with spectral spells (breakstun+life force ftw!).

2) Greatsword
I will love it in pve! But, in pvp?
-Skill 1 : Meh. Does it job. is only it would give more life force or more chill?
-Skill 2 : Loved comming out from deathshroud like, “watsup? you down lol”. My enemies a little less (made a guy rage on reaper GS for a whole game <3).
Overall, I think it’s strong against unskilled or medium player, or linked after a cc, otherwise the animation is a big flashing “DODGE OR BLOCK NOW”!
Still loved it somehow. =)
-Skill 3 : Perfect as it is, the 3 kinda counterbalance the lake of life force regen and the vulnerability help a lot.
-Skill 4 : Nothing to say. Probably forgot to use it… =/
-Skill 5 : Good to pop enemy rolls. Or to make them slightly strafe to safety. Yeah, slow and unreliable imo. But when it hit its kinda good. Would prefer a dash.

I will probably use the greatsword over dagger anyway, but only because of gravedigger to make noobs ragequit. For more serious people, the dagger would be more reliable imo.

3)Reaper shroud :
Perfect! ewerything is awsome! Well, maybe the 5 is way too long to cast, but it’s a great roll bait.

4)Traits :
Relentless poursuit (and maybe augury of death but, meh), decimate defences, and Blitgher’s boon (or reaper onslaught but, meh again). Others are useless for a power reaper imo.

I think the reaper will be great in pve. In pvp, it’s fun, but I am not sure about it’s viability over the standar power necro.

I will still play it aniway.
I love spinning way too much.