Power Reaper

February 2025

Introduction

Power Reaper is a powerful and resilient DPS Build with high cleave damage and abundant Crowd Control. While in , the Reaper can give itself permanent and even when auto-attacking. Power Reaper can be a forgiving build for beginners, but it requires good positioning and encounter knowledge to maintain a smooth rotation with maximum damage.

Build Fundamentals

Your Spear Loop doesn’t change at all during the entire rotation, and you can invert the order of some skills while having the same DPS output. Below is an example:

• Addle Extirpate
• Isolate Perforate Distress Perforate
• You can either use Addle first and then Isolate as long as you don’t use the second activation immediately.

Skip if you have entered Shroud while in Spear and the enemy is above 50% life. Instead, do an extra autoattack chain and .

• When you and you’re in Spear, continue with its loop and after you Weapon Swap to Greatsword, use until is off CD.
• When you and you’re in Greatsword, use and until is off CD. Then Weapon Swap to Spear.

Enter and exit regularly to increase damage via . While in , avoid incoming damage to keep your Life Force as high as possible; this ensures a smooth, continuous rotation. Deal damage with Greatsword and Spear.

Before entering always place , , and  to maximize burst damage. Never delay entering or using any of the Well skills with this combo.

Prioritize using against foes below 50% health, as striking a foe with low health instantly recharges this skill. The last part of the Greatsword Auto-attack chain () also recharges .

You still want to always use when the enemy is below 50%. It deals further damage even below 25%.

Build Specifics

To upkeep , open the fight with and . Do not use immediately after you enter , but only after a few Auto-attack chains and . After using , you can use Auto-attack chains and again. Make sure to use  before leaving (if you’re on Spear and enemy is above 50% life, skip this and use Extirpate) to maximize uptime.

gives you 3 stacks of and reduces incoming damage. Since using will not cancel any skill, activate it when you’re about to receive damage to maintain Life Force. A second activation of the skill will trigger , fearing the foes around you.

Always use off cooldown in melee range for bonus damage. It has no cast time so it can be used at any time, even while casting other skills. It also serves as a personal stun-break, so delay it if you’re expecting incoming CC.

has a long aftercast that can be canceled by pressing auto-attack and again to start another .

You can replace with one Auto-attack chain for almost no DPS loss. Remember that finishing one Auto-attack chain in Shroud will reduce the CD of all Shroud skills by 1 second. Always finish Auto-attack chains to maximize damage.

Extirpate boonstrips surrounding targets on first hit, and also has a delayed boonstrip after 4 seconds.

Crowd Control

• Addle

Alternatives

Utility Skills

can be replaced with other forms of utility. Some options are:

• for extra CC or pulls.
• (aka “CPC”) for projectile destruction.
• or for boonstrips.

Elite Skill

is your default choice for bosses with long phases or CC bars but it can be replaced with:

• for higher burst in fast phases where it can be precast. When precasting, use and instantly exit.
• is a niche choice that provides excellent AOE crowd control alongside some boons and damage.
  • Overall it deals lower damage than and less single target CC than , but it has a much shorter cooldown than Flesh Golem’s , so replace it when you need smaller but more frequent CC.

Weapons

You can use Staff instead of Spear. The DPS difference is small and might be useful if you need better cleave damage or to gather stacking sigils faster. The priority of skills to use in rotation when you use Staff are the following:

• and
• You can use the other Staff skills during the rest of the rotation (never in the opening) instead of Spear skills. If you’re about to delay entering , just use  and .
• Avoid using Staff Auto-attack chains as they can result in a DPS loss.

Sigils

For encounters at night time, you can replace your with for a slight DPS increase.

You can also use in areas where you can kill multiple mobs that grant stacks. Once you reach 25 stacks, you can stay on Greatsword.

Gear

If you cannot afford Precise infusions yet, you can change your Legging’s stats into Assassins’s. This will make you reach 100% Crit Chance with almost the same maximum damage output.