Guild Wars 2

Scrapper has ridiculous survivability for the amount of damage they put out and are going to be mandatory for all PvP teams unless a change is made.

Please look at some of their defensive abilities. Thanks.

If I see one more necro name with death or demon in it I might freak out.

It’s almost as terrible as mesmer names: xx Mesmerizing Illusionzz xx

Jesus.

This is what works for me, I made it as a list to organize my thoughts a little, not to be a list making jerk:

1. Run a mixed dps Amulet, not just pure condi. Viper or Cele. I much prefer cele in the current meta, viper is too squishy.

1a. Signets. If you are not running a signet build then you are not competitive. Plain and simple.

2. Run Dagger

3. Use signet of vampirism early on in the fight right before a burst. SoV -> reaper 4 is a good combo, but you can blow your poison if you screw it up. SoV -> Warhorn 5 and dagger AA is good too. Don’t underestimate how much damage the SoV active can do. It gives an extra couple hundred damage per hit, so use things that hit very quickly because its only up for a short time.

4. If this goes right, you should get them below 90, hopefully closer to 80. This next step is critical: APPLY POISON AND CHILL. 33% healing reduction from poison is huge. Chill increases the cooldowns of all of their skills, which screws up ele tremendously. Landing these two is hugely important.

5. Then, cover the poison with other condis and burst the crap out of them. If all goes well you will be able to keep them below 90, at which point the fight becomes pretty easy. Corrupt important boons, CC when appropriate, and burst, burst, burst.

Good luck.

Edit: Also, in soul reaping – take death perception over dhuumfire while running cele. Helps a lot with physical dps.

Reaper main here: This is a l2p issue. Learn to time your reaper skills better. You shouldn’t be spending a whole lot time in shroud beyond dropping 2 4 and 5 anyway unless you’re super low on HP or need cleave/stab. You’re not trying to play power reaper are you? Condis should be doing most of the work, even as cele.

Besides, if your opponents try to kite you that just means you are sitting on the point capping/decapping/defending uncontested, which is the entire point of the game.

Even if this was not a l2p issue, it is so far down on the priority list for balance priorities I hope Anet doesn’t even look at this post. The last thing we need is them to screw with necro more.