Condition Reaper

September 2024

Condition Reaper is a powerful DPS team fighter that has a lot of hard and soft crowd control and condition damage.

Introduction

The Death Magic variant provides better means to survive, even without a support, without giving up much damage. It is especially recommended for solo play.

Condition Reaper is a powerful DPS team fighter that relies on for both control and damage. This build combines Harbinger’s high damage with Core Necro’s survivability and control. While Condition Reaper is susceptible to CC, it shines when paired with a support.

Quick Tips

• Apply as much as possible while kiting away. This will inhibit the enemies attack patterns after you dodge their initial burst.
  Chill also applies a lot of pressure on this build, because it will apply due to Deathly Chill.
• Use Soul Spiral inside the field created by Executioner's Scythe. This will create projectiles applying .
• Use "Nothing Can Save You!" often to keep applying to your crowd control skills, following up with damage.
• Utilize no port spots often, they’re your best defensive and only chance against high burst builds like Revenant or Thief
• Enter Reaper's Shroud to tank minor damage while ned. It will apply around you and reduce damage taken.
• Stun break only when absolutely necessary, you have only 1.
• Use Spectral Walk and the return skill to shake off enemies chasing you.

Damage

Use the range of Staff and Pistol to deal ranged damage and soft AOE Crowd Control to maintain better positioning in a team fight.

Enter Reaper's Shroud to deal heavy melee damage. This can expose you to melee threats, so only use a few key skills, then reposition again to deal ranged damage with your weapons.

Each time we apply , we also apply .

Use Death's Charge (The last hit procs Path of Corruption) to corrupt boons on enemies to help with damage and overwhelm them with conditions.

Make sure you apply or use Vile Blast first to ensure you hit Oppressive Collapse reliably.

"Suffer!" should be used off-cooldown for damage. If you’re under condition pressure, however, make sure you hit as many targets as you can with it to transfer conditions and cleanse yourself.

Shroud usage is similar to that of Power Reaper: Use Executioner's Scythe followed by Soul Spiral to stack and . Use Infusing Terror so you don’t get CC’d during this combo. If your Weapon Swap is on cooldown, and you don’t need Shroud for health, you can use Shroud Auto-attack chains.

Crowd Control

is the main source of control, but you have access to hard cc under the form of fear from Reaper's Mark and "Chilled to the Bone!". You can stow your weapon to bait "Chilled to the Bone!" animation. While using it in melee might sound good to you as it stuns for longer and gives , you should not focus on hitting this melee range, see it as an extra bonus you might get in some rare cases.
In shroud Executioner's Scythe is a hard cc and spawns a frost field under the target whether you hit or not, so it will always deal good damage.

Mobility

Sustain

A lot of surviving on Necromancer involves kiting and staying alive by taking less damage. Use your range to get free damage on enemies. Spectral Walk will help you a lot against melee specs who will want to focus you.

Putrid Mark and "Suffer!" are your main cleanses. They’re also transfers so you need to make sure they hit for them to get their cleanse effect. Your other source of cleanse comes from staying in shroud thanks to Shrouded Removal.

Use "Your Soul Is Mine!" often, as it has a very low cooldown and, despite its high healing, will rarely heal you back to full health due to Necromancer’s high health pool. It is also good to use out of combat (especially in spawn at the start of the match) to stack life force.

Being in Shroud reduces power damage taken by 50% and Infusing Terror adds a 20% reduction for both power and condi damage. Note that reusing it to fear with Terrify cancels the damage reduction.

You can replace "Nothing Can Save You!" with Spectral Ring, to make it easier to lock onto a target at the cost of reliable unblockable and damage.