Power Reaper Roaming Build

GW2. WvW Build. Power Reaper WvW Roaming Build. Necromancer WvW. Small Scale WvW Build.

Role: Assassin

The Power Reaper is a heavy damage necromancer WvW roaming build due to the high critical damage and quickness while in Reaper Shroud. Because the Reaper Shroud requires melee range, your survival depends on your ability to kite and generate life force in between your engagements. Permanent swiftness from entering Shroud along with the Speed Relic allows you to disengage and keep up with your targets.

You deal more damage to chilled enemies, and chill is also a super powerful condition that debilitates enemies. Try to open with Focus 5 to chill and remove boons from your enemy, giving you a huge advantage at the start of a fight. Use Sword 3 to chase or to reposition in between burst combos.

Greatsword has great damage on the 2 and 3 skills, but they can be hard to land because of how slow they are. Use the Greatsword 5 to pull enemies in and cast the skill 3 while they are in the process of being pulled. Greatsword 4 is also a great defensive ability because the large AoE it creates will blind and remove boons from enemies, generally forcing them to get off of you.

While in Shroud you do damage with your 1 and 4 skills when in melee, but enemies will often try to disengage from you or CC you to waste your time during your burst. Save your Shroud 2 for after they dodge or use a mobility skill to stick on your target. If you use it too early and they create distance afterward, you will be stuck out of melee range and your Shroud will be wasted, but if you open from mid-range you want to use it to gap closer earlier.

Skill Rotation:

• Focus 5 > 4 > Sword 2 > 3 > Swap
• Greatsword 4 > 5 > 3 > Enter Shroud

Shroud Rotation

• 2 > 3 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 111 > 2

After leaving Shroud, repeat the skill rotation but start with Greatsword, then Focus, then Shroud.

Constantly cast “Your Soul Is Mine!” to generate Life Force even when out of combat. You can save Spectral Armor for a stun break, but because your Shroud is your main damage source, you can use Spectral Armor before you enter Shroud to tank a lot of damage and gain shroud while in Shroud, allowing you to stay in longer.

Weapon Alternatives

• Many weapons are viable: The default setup can be replaced by any of the following, just make sure to have at least one defensive/ranged weapon to use to kite in between your Shroud bursts. Use them in the following manner
• Weapon 1 Rotation > Swap > Weapon 2 Rotation > Shroud Rotation > Weapon 2 Rotation > Swap > Weapon 1 Rotation > Shroud Rotation
  • Spear:
    • Spear 4 > 3+ 4 > 2 > 5
  • Staff:
    • 2 > 3 > 4 > 5
  • Dagger/Warhorn:
    • 3 > 2 > 4 > 111
  • Axe/Focus:
    • 5 > 2 > 4 > 3
  • Sword/Sword:
    • 5 > 4 > 2 > 5 > 4

Alternatives

• Utility: for more chill instead of Flesh Wurm

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