Guild Wars 2

Decimate Defense changes everything O_o. I’ll definitely start using it together with gravedigger. Thanks for all the great answers!

Thanks for all the feedback! I’ll go through it more in detail over the weekend. Just one question though. Decimate Defenses, I understand that it stack critical chance, but for how long are the stacks active? Is it until the enemy is dead or do they decay over time?

Targuil.3741:

I don’t know about warrior in same situation, but I was hitting 27-33k gravediggers every 2 seconds when the boss was below 50%. Assuming nothing else and 4 whole gravediggers in that time frame, it would already be on scale of 120k. From what I see, your problem is that you focus too much on reaper’s shroud instead of your weapon skills (Mainly dagger auto and gravedigger).

Wow! That’s massive damage! How were you able to keep up the critical chance to ensure every Gravedigger hits home? I relied on DS due to the 50% extra crit chance.

I just read that weapon boosting traits also covers DS, so in this case Unholy Fervor in Spite could give 10% damage boost to the build! The vulnerability loss won’t most likely matter due to having so many players in a raid. An axe would then be the primary DS weapon, but what about the offhand? Warhorn for Locust Swarm for that extra damage in DS and Wail of Doom as a stun?

I have tried a few times against the Vale Guardian with some friends, but haven’t managed to beat him yet. I then started looking at how much damage I was giving out per 9s (time between blue teleport circles) as a Reaper and I concluded something around 60-70K (with 25 stacks of might). When I compared my damage to my friend who plays a Greatsword Warrior, she could do up to 90-100K within that time period in the best case scenarios. That is a huge difference! And as a Reaper I can only maintain that damage size while in shroud, which means every 30 seconds or so I will have a downtime of 10 seconds.

Here was my setup at the time:

Traits:
Spite:
Spiteful Talisman/ Rending Shroud/ Close to Death

Soul Reaping:
Unyielding Blast/ Vital Persistence/ Death Perception

Reaper:
Chilling Nova/ Chilling Victory/ Blighter’s Boon

Equipment:
Berserker stats (not all ascended)
Sigil of Force and Air
Strength Runes
Plate of Roasted Cactus (+100 Ferocity, 33% Chance to cause might on critical)
Superior Sharpening Stone (Gain power equal to 6% of your toughness, Gain power equal to 4% of your vitality)

Utility skills:
Well of Suffering
Well of Corruption
Rise

Elite:
Flesh Golem

So my question to you all, how can we as Reapers reach higher heigths with our damage?

The first thing that came to my mind was of course getting full Ascended armor for those few more stat buffs. Also putting power infusions into the armor, weapons, rings, amulet and backpack would give an extra 12*5=60 power.

What about the trait Close to Death? After the boss has hit 50% health, will it compensate the damage difference in the end (20% more damage)?

Could the use of more minions increase the damage more than wells does?

What else could we tweak?

I don’t usually use it, but I will check if I was at the time ^^.Thanks for the reply!

I have been using the sigils Air and Force for my Reaper now for a while. I noticed yesterday when I was looking at my stats, that during Reaper’s Shroud my power went down compared to my Reapers normal state. I checked to see if it was my power from my current weapon that got removed while in shroud, but that wasn’t the case. I suspect it being the Sigil of Force, but I can’t check it until later today. Can anyone confirm if it is due to the Sigil of Force? Is it not active in shroud form?

I’ve seen the Blacktide hackers a few times as well during the past week, then it was two, a mesmer and a thief. I reported their actions, but as far as I know they are still at it. Well, now there isn’t much to capture anymore for them since Blacktide basically has upgraded most keeps in all maps to tier 3 and soon probably towers as well. So please throw them to another tier already. We are clearly outmatched against them. Blacktide is ruining WvW in tier 9. It’s already hard enough trying to revive a server which is deserted without them demoralizing everyone in it.