Guild Wars 2

We counter tempests if you have standard boon removals in your build. Even better if you are running condi.
We counter most condi enemies if you have standard condi transfers in your build.

Every other class counters us.

Here’s my take on Reaper Solo Roaming.

• You will almost never have the initiative against most other competent roaming classes. You will almost always be reactive and not initiating. Most fights are won if you manage to wrestle initiative during the fight. Sadly in the current patch, it is very hard to wrestle initiative against competent players of other classes.

• You do not have the same ease of access to sustain that most other classes and builds have. This is fatal because you can outplay the enemy, but he will just heal a lot more than you are capable of.

• As mentioned by others, you do not have active defenses. A lot depends on good shroud rotation and management. And shroud is sadly, easily kited by many other classes, easily depleted and not that easily replenished. You will lose a drawn out sustain fight against other sustain builds.

I won’t mention other points that have already been said like comparative lack of mobility. But the real killer to me for the past couple of patches was the lack of sustain compared to the sustain that the other classes have.

I’ve moved on to Dragonhunter for solo roaming now and am having a blast. The active defenses available on a DH coupled with frequently having the initiative in a fight is a refreshing change. Even though I just started learning DH for only a few days, I’m killing other roamers much more easily than when I was using a Reaper =/ That made me feel sad somewhat. 2 years of wrecking my brain to find the best build each patch and the best way to fight other classes with my Reaper, not being able to compare to 2 days of learning how to fight with Dragonhunter…

Arcaedus.7290:

It is going to be a bit difficult for you to down a dire or trailblazer’s condi chrono with this build but not impossible. Your crit chance and vitality are a bit low.

Here are tips that may help you:

Your gear – good benchmarks to aim for as a guard roamer are as follows: 2200+ power, around 50% crit, 15k+ hp, 2200+ armor, 200% crit damage. These are NOT absolute by any means, but I find straying from any one of these measures will kitten you as a guard roamer.

Your build – full melee is going to have trouble vs. any class that stealths frequently. I recommend picking up scepter in place of sword, or longbow in place of greatsword.

Your skills – Purification helps a lot more vs. Condi chronos than shelter. With shelter you MIGHT cure 1 condition through blocking, but with purification you’re just going to flat out heal 5k more hp. Also, JI doesn’t help vs. Condi chrono much (unless you’re ganking). Try ToF instead and rely on your f2, GS3 or Sword 2 for mobility. Condi chronos aren’t that mobile.

While fighting:

Watch for shatters – Always. Do NOT stay close to chronos when they have 2+ clones up. When they stealth, destroy those clones. When clones are down, get in melee range so you can hit them with smite condi.

Watch for blink – after they use blink is generally a good time to land your burst on them.

Count seconds – after about 3 seconds is when they’ll reappear from stealth. Take advantage of this with your blocks if possible.

Use your condi cleanses defensively. Do not smite condi after only having a couple stacks of confusion on you. Use each utility defensively except for ToF.

Use focus 4 on a clone. The clone won’t dodge, so this is a great way to cleanse 2 condis off yourself.

Stand still and do nothing – hard pressed on condi clear? Need to wait out that 2 second blind so you can cleanse confuse and torment? Standing still and not attacking will protect you from confusion and torment a little.

Against a good condi chrono you honestly probably won’t kill them. But you CAN stalemate them or cause them to retreat. I get this outcome about 75% of the time I fight one. Good luck!

Thanks for the insightful comments!
I always am not sure if I should kill the clones first or go after the real mesmer first =/

Also what is TOF?

I run with high fury uptime from my runes and meditation trait/utilities. So in combat I usually have around 50% crit chance. Is this good enough or should I just push for 50% base without taking fury into account?

Hello I’m new as a dragon hunter and am looking for tips to fight a WvW condi bunker chrono build.

Basically he is able to generate a lot of clones in a short time and apply torment + confusion bursts very frequently.

I run the below build currently which has a lot of condi clear but I don’t do enough damage to hurt him at all before I cycle through all my condi clear and die….

I would appreciate any advise on my build for general WvW solo roaming and any tips to fight a condi bunker chrono.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVEQNAR8dlsAhuhY5QwaIwPELJEVW+9fB41yGAJg8zH9XPA-TliDwAJUCCwEEiLCghnAgL1f+obY3+DUVawVJGUlBAA-w

gavyne.6847:

Hesacon.8735:

The only two classes that really give me grief are engineer and condi warrior, and they give everyone grief.

How do you kill a good druid as baseline necro?

You can’t. Reapers/Necros got no chance in WvW against a good druid. Zero. no chance.

Lahmia.2193:

CynicalFred.9135:

“We don’t balance for wvw”
-The Gods

The ruined Chilling Darkness because of WvW.

They also nerfed fear wall because of wvw.
Did they buff anything for wvw?

Rirgul.5302:

I actually really like this idea. Even in PvE. Running Curses isn’t too bad anyway with the 30% Crit Chance you get from it and Rage Runes, which is comparable dps to Zerk when wearing Valk and using reaper. Really interesting.

Have u had a chance to try? How did it go?

But one thing i found about vanilla necro is that it was much harder to build lifeforce compared to reaper. Reaper had 2 traits that helped immensely with lifeforce generation.

I opted for warhorn and traited staff mainly for lifeforce reasons but it still seemed lacklustre compared to reaper

gavyne.6847:

Are you roaming on base necro by choice or because you don’t have HoT? It’s just strange to forgo added mobility, personal stab, more cc options, and more chill by playing base necro. Even if they ever so slightly boosted axe and finally righted lifeblast, I just don’t know how you could compete with even necro’s own elite counterpart.

I strongly recommend to try vanilla necro again if u r into wvw solo roaming. Most players have forgotten how hard our lifeblasts are. They forgotten how to time their dodge. I tried yesterday and dropped 3 daredevils in a row who used to kite and kill my reaper easily.

Zero Solstice.9754:

For offhands, I personally find that Warhorn is more consistent with the ambiguity of the daze and better against thieves, dagger is better against heavy conditions and decent against power builds slower than thief, and focus is better for higher burst damage when you aren’t the focus of an enemy (no pun intended).

I tend to like using Pack if solo, since Fury uptime is pretty important after stat-balancing is taken into account. Otherwise Strength is fine as always, as is something with higher defensive characteristics like Scrapper or Durability.

Sigils are pretty straightforward; Air and Fire are go-to for burst, but others like Agility and Rage with Axe and Shroud-swap can be potent and unexpected. I tend to enjoy the Agility sigils, since they feel like they have more play to them.

Thanks for the thoughts! This was very insightful.

Hearing you and a few others talk about roaming WvW with vanilla necro and having success made me give it a try again.
I must say I’m loving it.
A lot of players have forgotten how hard hitting our lifeblast can be =/

To all other fellow roamers, give vanilla necro a try!
I’m currently using a rather standard build that was kind of popular back before HOT and its still pretty decent!

Unholy fervor trait with axe hits like a truck and I highly recommend it.

I would love to have feedback from the more seasoned vanilla necro roamers on my build though and see where I can make it better!

I’m currently unsure about

• Off-hand (I can’t decide between warhorn, dagger and focus)
• Runes (Strength runes were my Reaper runes to proc blighters boon for sustain but now seems less useful on a vanilla necro)
• Sigil (Strength sigils again were for my Reaper and I wonder if there is a better sigil for vanilla necros, maybe fire or energy?)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBHhZakjGKvxObw2GYvxRtQRfj5oMih9IUCw5MAmBA-TlCFABNpUYJlEA8EAKZ/hrUCWwpAIN9BFq+TSKxQSZwmhBghQEAv7uMNiYuDA-w

Lahmia.2193:

But but but my precious bleed on chill.

Unfortunately in the current meta, sustain = win

Cecilia.5179:

CynicalFred.9135:

“We don’t balance for wvw”
-The Gods

Pretty sure they’ve never said that. The community just likes to think that, and when somebody complains about the effetiveness of a class in a part of WvW, people like to say that the devs don’t balance for that.
In truth, they never have bothered to add WvW only changes. However, SPvP is becoming more alien to WvW with every patch (no bunker amulets, fewer hybrid amulets). I think we should advocate for WvW to receive its own balance.

I would love that!
I am still upset anet made warrior adrenal health nerf only in pvp. And it was not even a big nerf.

The problem with balancing wvw though is that there are different game modes like zerg havoc duo solo troll

Opps did i say troll…

It wont be easy to balance wvw

CynicalFred.9135:

“We don’t balance for wvw”
-The Gods

T_T

trait master of corruption for 20sec BiP.
Trait Blighters boon for LF on boon applicatoin.

BiP gives 10% LF per cast.

A diary found in a reaper’s lair.

Day 1

The gods have changed the world. I feel a stronger sense of attunement to the spectres but my minions appear to have grown weak… among my ilk i see joy in some and woe in others.

Day 2

I think to myself that it is just the sadness that we as a whole still isn’t able to hold our own in WvW solo roaming against many other classes that just have such incredible sustain and kiting ability. I feel despondent.

Day 3

I convince myself to stick with being a reaper and just try and find the best way to adapt to the changes. Bah! Not like I have much choice! Can a Reaper of darkness turn to the light? It was inconceivable.

Day 4

I’ve been hearing whispers by a necro by the name of Hesacon on roaming WvW with vanilla necro. Does he do this solo or with friends? With all the nerfs reaper has been enduring at the whims of the gods, perhaps using a vanilla necro for solo roaming might be better…bah! As if i would return myself to the lowly version of a necro! Hmmph!

Day 5

I started experimenting. Could a vanilla necro really be the answer to my woes? Could i really overcome all the other classes in WvW 1 vs 1 mortal combat? I just don’t see the light. Other classes are running such cheese and high sustain high damage builds…this is depressing…

Day 6

I encountered a perma evade condi cleansing condi bursting daredevil today…i feel helpless…

Day 7

I encountered a bunker condi bursting chronomancer today…life is sad…

Day 8

I encountered a hyper kiting power druid today. Is there any fairness in this world?

Day 9

I tell myself not to give up…not to give up…

Day 365

I tell myself not to give up…

http://gw2style.com/look.php?id=11799

Correct me if I’m wrong but right now only vampiric traits heal in shroud right?
With the huge amount of sustain/healing the other classes have access to, we totally need to be allowed all forms of heals to affect us while we are in shroud too.
Its not even OP now, its the bare minimum to survive better.

Query: does transfusion grandmaster trait in blood magic line heal yourself or heal your allies only?

Oslaf Beinir.5842:

btw you play on TC right, Eremite?

yep

Adrenal health buff had seen the rise of Berserkers…
I had nightmares fighting them this patch but now I hope to lay them to rest…
So I wrote an Ode…

An Ode to Kill a Berserker

Often times I ask myself
The meaning of a fight
A fight to settle debts gone by
A fight to see the light

Berserkers wallowing in time long gone
Now raised to stand with gods
With adrenal health granting eternal life
They stood above all strife

Thousands lay slained at their feet
With blood upon their hands
And many slowly grew berserk
For they were truly grand

But one fine night a Reaper came
And everything was changed
With scythe in hand and a deathly stare
The Berserker was laid to rest

Note: I got nothing against the guild or the player. just a random encounter when I was making the video! In fact I think they are an extremely skilled guild so it was my honor to finally beat one. Usually I am the one being beaten into the dust…

Oh and to add, I think he did use berserker stance. Towards the end of the fight at the 1min 31 sec mark he popped it.

Choppy.4183:

EremiteAngel.9765:

Thanks for the thoughts! I thought perhaps he didnt have an optimum build to fight me too. But thats what i like about roaming. Trying to find one build to handle most fights!

Happy to help. As to best tools a Reaper has against most Berserkers, I’d say chill. Provided you can kite/dodge when he uses Berserker Stance (gives pulsing resistance), then your chills will do awful things to him (keep him from landing bursts (sustain) and generally doing damage to you)

He’ll still have some clears, but on a condi Reaper you’ll have lots of reapplication and cover conditions to drown out those clears. It won’t be an easy fight if the Berserker is competent, but I personally wouldn’t call you an easy bag if you deny his close.

nods nods

On a separate note:

Sometimes when I re-watch my videos and fights against other opponents like in this fight, I often ask myself: did he perform badly because of his build, his skills, or my playstyle? Did he perform badly because he was bad or did he look bad because I happened to do the right things in the fight?

Frankly if I were to watch this for the first time like all of you with no background, I would say he was a terrible warrior too. I did get confirmation at the WvW forum from two of his guildmates that he is one of the best roaming warriors in the game though.

I feel possibly it was his build and my playstyle. He didnt attempt a single burst until the end when he connected with his GS burst because i felt i didn’t give him much chance to do so. I was always just out of reach when he was primed to activate his burst. Even the last GS burst that connected, i could have avoided but accidentally opened my guild panel and didn’t manage to leap away in time.

Most of my fight videos I chose to show opponents that have beaten me before so I know that they were at least close to or better than me and I managed to best them in a fight or two.

This warrior destroyed me when we next fought so honestly, I would say he isn’t bad at all. Maybe he was just using the wrong build, not concentrating as much, or just not used to fighting a Reaper with my build/playstyle.

Oslaf Beinir.5842:

Having Flesh Wurm, chill and weakness up on a power warrior is the best thing to give you a better fighting chance and room to kite and corrupt.Weakness is especially important imho. Variety of conditions applied also helps! I think everyone could relate to that. However, we are still going to be fighting a disadvantageous fight vs decent Berserkers and even Vanilla Warriors thanks to their new and improves Adrenal Health.

That being said I do not want to undermined your hard work in the sample you provided above but…To be blunt that warrior was just terribly played (not landing a single burst or meaningful damage, wasting the taunt on thin air, activating healing signet with no cover boons and at close proximity, not being aggressive enough even with zerker stance on etc) and her traits were built quite wrong from what I have seen in the vid but you did manage not to get hit by a single burst or she just didn’t try to use any unless I haven’t noticed.

A few flaws in the build she used that I managed to catch

She had Rousing Resilience which would have been ok if paired with Eternal Champion but without it the trait’s value diminishes greatly.
Still RR is rarely traited for roaming and most warriors would opt to use the other 2 grandmaster traits in defense(Cleansing Ire and Last Stand)

Some times warriors can get away with using sigils that cleanse(purity, genorosity or cleansing) coupled with Brawler’s Recovery thanks to their quick weapon swap. The warrior did not even trait Brawler’s Recovery.

The only cleansing options she chose were Resistance via zerker stance and HS active and Savage Instinct which aren’t frequent enough. Even Signet of Stamina could have been a good pick with how scarce her condition management tools were.

That aside, fighting warriors is all dependent on their GM trait choices and weapons of choice that they pair with greatsword. fighting Sword(immob>100B) and Rifle warriors is much harder than Axe warriors. So you might want to experiment with more samples.

Still thanks for the demonstration, I think I will give FiTG a shot next time I decide to roam on my reaper all thanks to you.

Keep up the good stuff coming

Thanks for ur insightful thoughts!
I admit the warrior didn’t look good at all during the fight. but he was from BG’s QQ guild which is a collection of really strong roamers and he had a season 2 pvp legendary title. i did wonder if he was new to the class or did i really play well. So I asked around and had confirmations from 2 of his QQ guild mates in the WvW forum thread that he is one of the best warrior roamers though. But they also agreed that he wasn’t performing up to his usual standards.

Which brings me to my next thought. Did he perform badly because of his build, his skills, or my playstyle?
I feel possibly it was his build and my playstyle. He didnt attempt a single burst until the end when he connected with his GS burst because i felt i didn’t give him much chance to do so. I was always just out of reach when he was primed to activate his burst. Even the last GS burst that connected, i could have avoided but accidentally opened my guild panel and didn’t manage to leap away in time.

I agree rifle warriors are much harder. But only because their range burst is so hard to dodge. I can never seem to react in time.

Also FITG is awesome. I usually shroud and leap away when a berzerker gets in range and before he stuns. So even if he catches me with a stun, FITG would have negated it with the stability. And my subsequent leap would have brought me out of his burst reach. In the video i only entered shroud after i got stunned cause i was lagging while videoing and couldnt gauge the timing and distance that well. and i wouldnt have had to waste random dodges in fear that he will catch me with a burst while i was half way leaping. Otherwise he really would struggle catching a FITG 7 second stunbreaking stability leaping kiting Reaper.

Zero Solstice.9754:

EremiteAngel.9765:

Cecilia.5179:

Terror Reaper? People still use Terror? XD

The other 2 options in the curses tree aren’t that much of a game changer either. More boon corrupt on shroud 2 or shorter corruption CD…hmm nope.

Never undersell these two traits, especially Master of Corruption. There’s a reason why Terror sees so little play anymore: The other two traits are as highly, if not more competitive. With stability always running around, it’s better to have more boon corrupts to get rid of stability than it is to have fears deal damage when the target doesn’t have it. Also Master of Corruption gives the spec something Condition Necro has always lacked: sustain. More frequent Consume Conditions usages means higher HP recovery, as well as playing very well in the current condition-heavy meta.

Terror is simply too inconsistent and unreliable.

Thats true =)
You have a good point sir.
I guess that is why i seldom see terror reapers now XD

Ubik.8315:

She was just bad or wasn’t specced to fight vs high cc and condis at that point. Just slotting Eternal champion for stab on zerk mode would’ve made things easier for them.

And was it just me or did they not have cleanse on weapon swap either?

You’ll probably do fine against new zerk players or some who has their traits and utilities setup to kill NPCs in a zerg, but you’ll get torn apart by people who have figured out what tools the warrior has for a situation.

True but thats why i prefer roaming encounters =D
U run around with a build not knowing who u will end up fighting. Which is more fun than a duel where u build to counter ur enemy.

Warlord.9074:

EremiteAngel.9765:

Hi Berserkers!

I had felt really upset when the adrenal health healing buff was introduced for Berserkers because it made them so so strong that my Reaper had no chance.

But I’ve since tuned my playstyle and managed to win more and more fights against Berserkers.

I did a video of a fight below against a BG server’s QQ guild berserker with the legendary division PvP season 2 title.

I just wanted to know if I did well enough during the fight to say that I have a decent playstyle against Berserkers or was the Berserker making too many mistakes? She isn’t bad I feel, she came back later and destroyed me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRig2--QokM

If you want to duel a better warrior wisper me in game, if you lost to this warrior than GG that warrior is pretty bad.

I dont think she is bad cause she came back and destroyed me later. Perhaps like others were saying, she was not built to handle me in the fight.

My own experience though was that many berzerkers lose to me the first time but come back and destroyed me in the next few encounters.

Mayb they changed their build or their playatyle to counter mine

Choppy.4183:

You effectively used your fear to keep him from landing a burst for the entire fight, and not landing those bursts really hurt his sustain due to AH (as you noted). His damage output is also especially concentrated in his Primal State, so your fearing had the benefit of limiting his damage pressure too.

But just one skill would have completely turned the tables: Berserker Stance

If he’d used it, none of your fears would have touched him, he’d have had more opportunities to land bursts to gain sustain, his damage output would have been much higher, and your damage would have been cut right down.

So the general theory is right, but the person you were up against had so many tools he could have used to foil you, but didn’t use them. Beyond Berserker Stance, warriors have huge access to stability and stunbreaks (to mitigate your fear), and he could have used his Healing Signet active for a clutch burst.

Thanks for the thoughts! I thought perhaps he didnt have an optimum build to fight me too. But thats what i like about roaming. Trying to find one build to handle most fights!

Furajir.3815:

That guy was absolute garbo. Sorry. Necros of any build/makeup should be fodder and a free bag for a zerk.

Hmm…that is a little extreme…then which class will put up a fight against a berserker this patch?

Jackums.3496:

EremiteAngel.9765:

I guess I am not the only one mistaking OP’s post as referring to QQ guild in BG.

That said, Jackums you are from QQ? Could you let me know if the QQ guild berserker I fought in the video below is a new berserker? I just want to know if I’m fighting a decent berserker in the video and whether I just did things right during the fight or was the berserker just new to the class and so not really a good gauge of my playing style.

The QQ berserker had like Exalted Legend title which is PvP season 2 Legendary division…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRig2--QokM

He’s easily one of the best active Warriors in the game right now (insofar as roaming/1v1), so he mustn’t have been paying much attention when he attacked you the first time, or he expected you to be an easy kill and got himself killed. If you fought him again or set up a 1v1, I imagine the fight would’ve played out differently.

I can give you his character name if you want to duel him some time.

Here’s his channel if you want to see some videos of him playing seriously:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtostTO5S9dq7JE4cDuYlkQ/videos

His main is an asura, so I wouldn’t take him too seriously on his human alt.

Icic. Thx for ur thoughts too. U n beepbop are cool <3
I rather not duel though as it is possible for someone to build a counter against a build/class. and he later came back to destroy me so i can only fear the worst in a duel XD
Impromptu roaming still the best for me.

BeepBoopBap.2840:

EremiteAngel.9765:

Steelo.4597:

yeah the new adrenal health only activates on landing a burst which isnt blocked or evaded or something..

sincerely, a warrior main

Thanks for the confirmation!

Could you also advise if I did well enough during the fight to say that I have a decent playstyle against Berserkers or was the Berserker making too many mistakes? She isn’t bad I feel, she came back later and destroyed me.

She is from BG server’s QQ guild (which is made up of very skilled players imo) berserker with the legendary division PvP season 2 title.

You did good, but Hadi (the warrior) was like asleep that fight or playing with his feet or something… He’s a really good warrior. I’ll be sure to show him this and kitten on him about it xD

Thanks for the thoughts! I was a little worried QQ will react negatively to this but u and Jackum have been really cool! Props to both of u!

Steelo.4597:

yeah the new adrenal health only activates on landing a burst which isnt blocked or evaded or something..

sincerely, a warrior main

Thanks for the confirmation!

Could you also advise if I did well enough during the fight to say that I have a decent playstyle against Berserkers or was the Berserker making too many mistakes? She isn’t bad I feel, she came back later and destroyed me.

She is from BG server’s QQ guild (which is made up of very skilled players imo) berserker with the legendary division PvP season 2 title.

Hi Berserkers!

I had felt really upset when the adrenal health healing buff was introduced for Berserkers because it made them so so strong that my Reaper had no chance.

But I’ve since tuned my playstyle and managed to win more and more fights against Berserkers.

I did a video of a fight below against a BG server’s QQ guild berserker with the legendary division PvP season 2 title.

I just wanted to know if I did well enough during the fight to say that I have a decent playstyle against Berserkers or was the Berserker making too many mistakes? She isn’t bad I feel, she came back later and destroyed me.

Korgov.7645:

It does not matter if a burst skill hits or not. Warrior gets the healing either way.

Using burst skills now causes adrenaline to be spent even if the skill fails to hit.

Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adrenaline

Oh I never knew that…my personal experience though was that if the primal burst hit, they start healing and healing and healing.

But if it missed, they don’t heal.

I really don’t think Adrenal health gets triggered if they miss despite what that website is saying.

I guess I am not the only one mistaking OP’s post as referring to QQ guild in BG.

That said, Jackums you are from QQ? Could you let me know if the QQ guild berserker I fought in the video below is a new berserker? I just want to know if I’m fighting a decent berserker in the video and whether I just did things right during the fight or was the berserker just new to the class and so not really a good gauge of my playing style.

The QQ berserker had like Exalted Legend title which is PvP season 2 Legendary division…

I guess I’ll just post back here though the discussion had moved a little off…

I did a video =D

of Reaper vs Berserker

Hope you all find it useful and entertaining. Personally I love the music.

In fact i just fought a QQ berserker earlier. It was a random encounter in vid below. In fact he came at me.

QQ guild is like a strong guild to me and i enjoy trying my builds out against them. I dont actively hunt anyone unless i thought he was really good and i wanted to try fighting more against him.

That thief hunting u prob shows that QQ is good for fights!

Hello all! Are u having trouble handling the berserkers’ insane sustain this patch?

I did a video to show how to fight Adrenal Health Berserkers this patch =)

I have nothing against the guild or the player in the video, just the first solo encounter I had with a berserker when I thought of making a video…

Note: It doesn’t guarantee a win, but gives you a good fighting chance.

well…seems like TC is taking a break this week

I’ve been having great success killing most berserker builds in 1 vs 1 (including similarly skilled ones who used to kill me) using a variant of my Terror-Reaper Fear build. The only berserker build I have trouble fighting is the gunflame build because although I see the primal burst, I can’t dodge in time =/

Anyway, I’m going to share the build and fighting style so that more Reapers can win berserkers. I mean this for WvW roaming.

• Terror-Reaper Fear variant build:
  http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAW7Ync0Al3gd2A+2A0bilgBLKpFAaAULhtQTIuIuEjiA-TFyXwAzPCA1UCaS3A9LCAg9HGq+z/HAQBlfAA-w

Berserker’s fighting style
Most berserkers this patch are running adrenal health. This adrenal health gives them insane healing IF they land their primal burst. They mostly fight by stunning you, followed by their primal burst. Some use immobilize before primal burst which is trickier for us to fight against.

Tips on how to fight them

• Run Foot in the grave trait. This trait is godly in the current meta, not just against most stun-heavy berserkers.
• Use Shroud 2 to kite. Every time they get near you, enter shroud and leap away from them. This makes it a lot harder for them to land their primal burst especially if they get close to you with a shield block.
• Don’t dodge their stuns, save your dodge for the primal burst. Use your Shroud 2 to kite away from them, making them waste their stun or miss or just not be able to use it effectively.
• Use elite shout or staff 5 to stun/fear them if they gap close using their greatsword.
• Do a random dodge if he is near you with a greatsword cause its primal burst has no tell-tale sign and is pretty instant small aoe.
• Always try to corrupt their stability and resistance
• Use fear wall only when you made sure they got no resistance/stability up otherwise you are going to waste it
• Keep poison up with scepter 3 as much as you can

I hope the above tips help. If you guys got more tips to share, please share!

Hi all! I added a new build:

• Corrupt-Spectre Build : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRUQNBHhZ6kjGo8Gs4Gw3GgeTsYMYR/sAwAIuHGELiUBhqwQA-TVSDwATOFAKUCCwE0M1fot/AjnAgUlBPV6BSfQAAEA25O35RPaA-w

Pictures of my new Reaper running this build =D
https://gw2style.com/look.php?id=11799

I’ve been experimenting with the FITG trait and this build has work very well for me in many fights. Solo roaming. Try it!

It is basically synergy between spectral and corruption utilites and heal, 7sec stun-break, weakening shroud, fury. So I called it the Corrupt Spectre.

I even have moments where I escape outnumbered situations with this build =/ (escape as in juke out of combat with spectral walk, wall and reaper dash and teleport to camp when outnumbered =D)

2nd week in a row where the scores are neck to neck. I think we got a winning Tier.

Oslaf Beinir.5842:

The build link does not seem to be working for me ?

That is weird. Seems to be working for me. Maybe you could check the thief’s reddit link and find his build there in the comments section

I have never tried a condi warhorn build but i imagine it will work well with perplex runes

Lightsbane.9012:

my first tip would be to run condi transfers, then watch as they melt themselves.
then when you kill them remind them that they are running the most obnoxious and easy build to run since perplexity anything.

true, but don’t forget to stop attacking after you transfer if they are doing evades like DD 3. Because every evade will clear a condi.

I know the general knee jerk reaction would be a no, so thank you to those who gave the trait a try!

I’ve been using a variant of my Terror-Reaper build to quite good success using the FITG trait. I’ve been winning fights that I would have lost previously.

For those who think flashing shroud isn’t viable, think back on what you do when you fight your opponent. For e.g., what happens when a thief blinks in on you with venom and turns you to stone? You either stun break and fight back (potentially wasting an early stun break utility, or you shroud and when the stun is over, which is quite long, start to fight back, but then a good thief would have stepped back out of range of your melee reaper). With FITG, you break stun instantly with your shroud to protect you, which drops weakness and bleed on the thief, allows you to fight back instantly, forcing the thief to withdraw from you early and on the back foot.

Just a possible scenario. But think back on all the fights with different classes on when you got stunned and used your shroud to soak the damage without retaliating. Imagine now with FITG you can still tank with shroud and counter-attack immediately or dodge if you can’t tank the incoming damage.

Give this build a try =)
It has good synergy between 7 sec shroud flash, stability, stunbreak, weakness, fury.

I think I should be clear that I mean this for WvW solo roaming and mainly 1vs1 fights.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAW7Ync0Al3gd2A+2A0bilgBLKpFAaAULhtQTIuIuEjiA-TFyXwA/fAA0vIAA2fogyvhq/M/IAUTJoJdDkCAm1AA-w

How many of us run Foot in the Grave?

Condi Reapers: FITG? and give up all the extra DPS in Dhuumfire?
Power Reapers: FITG? and give up all the extra DPS in Death Perception?

Ever since Reapers had stability, I’ve not used FITG.

In the past when I was running Necro, FITG was like awesome.
I would like to share that it still is.

There are many builds out there roaming in WvW with Hard CCs and what not. Imagine a traited 7 second stun breaker.

It helps immensely. Examples below can all be dealt with with utility stun breakers. But often I find myself lacking enough stun breakers to deal with all the hard CCs freely available nowadays.

For example: fighting berserkers now require you to dodge their primal bursts to prevent their insane healing. FITG helps immensely to break stun and dodge when they got so many stuns.

For example: fighting chronomancers require you to negate their shield stuns and dazes. Again, FITG helps.

For example: fighting druids. the last thing you want happen to you is knockback + immobilize. FITG helps.

For example: fighting scrappers with their hammer aoe stun, okay maybe not too useful here since they don’t have that many stuns. But enough to out-heal, drag out the fight, force out your long-cool-down stunbreak utilities, and then stun and hammer whirl in your face.

For example: fighting tempests with their focus knockdowns, air overload, static buff, yes the pros are running scepter focus now. DD Tempests are so yesterday. FITG helps.

For example: fighting daredevils with their basilisk venom dual that turns you into stone upon contact. FITG helps.

For example: fighting dragonhunters with their spear of justice that just pulls you into a ton of traps, FITG helps

For example: fighting reapers…um…not sure…I try not to fight them…because we are like…the same…slow and weak in WvW roaming

Give FITG another try! and watch your fights become easier!

I’ve been seeing variations of the Dagger/Dagger Death Blossom Condi Daredevil more and more in WvW…Basically they spam Dagger/Dagger 3 Death Blossom and evade around you while hitting you with bleeds and other condi.

Omgosh…so many Ds in this build…

D/D DB Condi DD

Something like what this person posted here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWars2Builds/comments/4ap37z/wvw_roamer_daredevil/

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vZIQNAoYVn8lCFOh9OBWOB0PhFqiaO77+wvLCCgDw7C

It is quite a cheesy build, but I’ll share some tips on how to win against them

I don’t know how other classes handle such a thief, but I’ve fought them quite a few times recently. I lost the first two encounters with thieves on such build, but with the below fighting methods, I’ve not lost against such builds in the next 5 fights.

So I thought I would share some tips with fellow Reapers:

• Their fighting method: They will use gap closers like steal etc. to get into melee range, then spam DD 3 Death Blossom and evade around you, dealing massive condi application

Tips:

• Keep them at range Their dagger 3 Death Blossom is a small radius attack and requires them to be in range. Use your shroud 2 to leap away from them every time they gap close

• Don’t attack them when they are doing DD 3 Most of them trait for condi removal on evade. So if you hit them while they are doing DD 3, which is an evade, you end up helping them to remove condi

• Transfer condi back to them There is a small window while they are doing DD 3 where they land on the ground and are not evading. Time your transfers well and do the above, get away from them, don’t attack them if they are evading, and watch them die on their own condis.

Sarrs.4831:

EremiteAngel.9765:

Isn’t it commonly understood that a bow preceding a fight meant that it was going to be a no-stomp duel

no

the only assumption you can ever make in wvw is that people on the other teams will try to attack you, try to down you, and try to stomp you

then why the bow? it makes no sense.
Are they like bowing in the hope that if they lose, the winner will let them res?
And then if they win, they can just stomp and run off laughing?

morrolan.9608:

EremiteAngel.9765:

Are we seeing the start of a new dawn?

This ending week, T1 has been neck to neck among all 3 factions right till the end!

and TC won it by the tiniest of margins.

Only cause BG are going back into hibergate mode.

Also by balance you mean no-one moving into T1 which leads to it getting stale, how is that a good thing?

To be honest, it certainly did feel that way as BG was leading by a fine margin going into the weekend but tapered off during the working days.
It was like they switched off after Saturday and Sunday. But hey maybe the people in that server plays that way and don’t have the time/resource to plug away throughout while TC and DB just kept plugging through all the days.

So rather than say TC won because BG turned off, I would give more credit to TC and DB for fighting on through all the days.

Isn’t it commonly understood that a bow preceding a fight meant that it was going to be a no-stomp duel where both sides would res and continue dueling and fighting one another.

I guess many don’t share this opinion.
Why bow in the first place?

Why not just fight on sight as a normal roaming encounter would turn out?

Hi all! When Reaper Hoods were introduced with the Reaper profession, I was so excited and eager to design my own Reaper!
But there was a slight problem. When you put on the Reaper Hood, chances are you will look pretty similar to any other Reaper.

After months of observing other Reaper Hood designs and mulling over what mine should look like, I finally came up with one that I really liked!

http://gw2style.com/look.php?id=11799

or album below:

http://imgur.com/a/jnj1M

I would love to see more Reaper Hood designs too so post away and share your Reaper Hoods too!