Guild Wars 2

Simple logic can tell you that its normal that GS deal more dmg then Dagger but …… who would care about logic, right? I can understand that daggers deal great dmg on thiefs but if they deal more dmg on necro then where is my stealth and backstabs :P I would love to play necro as a bruiser, close combat warrior-ish Reaper but it seems that it just wont happen. Everysingle time when you will try compare yourself to warrior or guardian , your utilities will drag you to the bottom pvp and pve wise. I dont know if u agree with me but it is how I see things atm.
Also the sad thing is, we get promise of a great Reaper we buy the expansion and our dream will not be there. What happens next ? Shall we all switch to shatter mesmer , with the best burst in the game, stealth, dazes ( stuns if traited ) and distractions all over the place ? Also funny ( its also making me very angry ) is necros vs guardian , u turn his boons into conditions via corrupt boons and then he convert them again into boons. I am asking where is my second corrupt boon skill to make it even or even erasing boon skill. The more I play this game as a necro the more things makes no sense to me.

I think that the Reaper will be a disaster like shouts they showed to us lately. They already nerfed Curse Tree Trait Chilling Darnkess by giving it internal cooldown ( i believe its 5 sec now from 0 cooldown ) Also thing to note is change of chill mechanic. I think that the whole necro community will be dissapointed as they are now. Anet give a kitten bout the necro. If this will continue and Anet will force me to switch to other character ill stop playing this game. Its a shame that I have to make alts that I dont wanna play in order to get a party and with my beloved necro I can only solo dummies in the mists. Truth is Anet continues to diminish necro as a class.
Also thing to remember is introduction of new resistance boon – it will be a counter to our chill theme reaper , also mesmer can go back in time, elies will be immune to whatever immobilize you have, and get even more conditions cleansing.

Remember that burning last very very short, its only 3 sec , maybe u will get 5 stacks of burning on target. I would either focus on tankiness and crit dmg and then gain crit chance through Reaper trait or I would go full conditionmancer with bleeds/poisons/ torment/ fear. Cause having 1k condi dmg while applying only burning to a target is not strong ;/ If you want condi dmg with reaper spec u should consider something like this:

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgQGqAK8Aeg~

Weapons : Scepter ( sigil of bursting) / Dagger ( sigil of corruption – its extra 250 condi dmg) and Staff ( bursting and sigil of torment ) Stats – Rabid
Armor – Rabid, rune of undead ( it gives your almost 400 free condi dmg )
Amulet + Back – Rabid
Rings + Trinks – Dire+Rabid

Raw stats: 3k armor , 21k hp, 2300 condi dmg , 35% crit( with runes on undead and corrupted sigil 25 stacks ) Remember that u will still stack might so it will give your even more dmg.

For utilities go for blood is power, epidemic and well of suffering.

Conditions that will apply dmg: Bleed , Poison , Chill, Torment, Fear.
Also u will stack good amount of vulnerability ( free dmg buff for conditions )
With Reaper form u could feel a bit like a melee conditionmancer outside the Reaper u just use staff scepter etc oldschool stuff. Burning from Dhuumfire is not good enough to go for it ;/ Chill will be a lot better especially that u got trait that it ticks for more dmg while target is below 50% hp. It also scale with Spite trait Close to Death.

I fear that no precision in condition/power hybrid build may be hard. Also hybrid without curse tree is kinda weak. But numbers seems nice on the spreadsheet. Cheers mate.

The " stance " idea is quite nice in general. However I already see the problem with ppl that can keep you always at a distance. Shouts got some minor range of around 600 if I remember correctly. Stances would only work if you would fight in melee range. Necros does not have the mobility to make a good use of stances unless there would be some stability / stun breaker/ swiftness stance. Also the other thing is how long the stance would last and how it would be activated. We can go further with your idea, tweak a bit of stance effects and maybe make them usable while you are in Reaper form.

Personally I would go for “zero” precision build.

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgQB2AVoBvQ~

Weapons Staff( sigil of fire , energy )/GS (sigil of frailty, ice ) – Valkyrie stat

Armor – Valkyrie stat ( runes of strenght , hoelbrak , I went for ice )

Jewelry – Cavalier

Build has 2150 power , 27k hp , 2,7k armor, 4% crit ( thats not a problem ) aaaaand 215% crit damage.

We focus on applying chill , we get ( thanks to the trait ) stack of vulnerability on the target and thanks to other trait we get free crit chance on that target. Simple as that.

Utilities: Consume Conditions, Well of Corruption, Spectral Grasp, Spectral Armor, Elite skill – New Reaper Shout because it gives us temporary condition resistance.

It will be fairly weak to heavy condition builds. But thats why we got staff s4, thats why we got ConsumeConditions and an elite skill.

The vulnerability we can stack up is insane, basicly whatever we will do we will stack it by doing it.

Might will stack on its own thanks to Spite spec ( Reaper’s Might, Siphoned Power )