Power Reaper

October 2024

Introduction

This Reaper build is a strong option for players looking to make a significant impact in World vs World battles. With its unique blend of area damage, unblockable boon removal, burst damage, crowd-control and sustained pressure the Reaper excels at breaking up enemy squads, disrupting formations, and applying pressure where it’s needed most.

Build Fundamentals

Your role in the group is to create very-high damage areas though your AoEs and Reaper's Shroud.

In organized squads, your Wells are the most important skills to coordinate and they are, usually, only used when the Commander calls for them. It is vital that the Reapers do regular voice callouts about the remaining cooldown of Well of Corruption for the Commander (such as “wells 15, wells 10, wells 5, wells ready!”). Communicate with your group to gain an advantage over the enemy.

Combo together your Nightfall, Well of Corruption and Well of Suffering for AoE boon corruption and strong damage, followed up by entering Reaper's Shroud and using Soul Spiral and Death's Charge for additional cleave.

Outside of Shroud, Unholy Feast is a great non-ground targetted boon removal skill.

Use Spinal Shivers, Ghastly Claws and eventually Death Spiral to focus a single target. Specifically, Spinal Shivers can deal a lot of damage and remove the target’s boons – following up with Ghastly Claws can often guarantee a kill on a squishy enemy.

Use Gravedigger as much as possible to cleave enemies, especially great on downed targets!

Build Specifics

While in Reaper's Shroud, use Infusing Terror to gain and damage reduction.

Use Grasping Darkness to pull enemies into your AoEs.

Wells

Wells are ranged, pulsing area attacks. This means to get maximum value out of them, it’s very important to place them correctly. Try to place your Wells slightly ahead of your enemies’ movement direction instead of their current position so that they run through them and get hit multiple times instead of being able to easily run or evade through them.

Always use Well of Corruption before Well of Suffering as it has a longer cooldown and because it is always best to corrupt boons first then deal damage. Removing from the enemy is very important!

Alternatives

Skills

You can change "Nothing Can Save You!" for a stun break such as "You Are All Weaklings!" or Spectral Walk if you struggle with survival.

Your healing skill "Your Soul Is Mine!" can be changed to Consume Conditions for additional condition cleanses on yourself or Signet of Vampirism.

Traits

Speed of Shadows can be exchanged to Unyielding Blast if you deem gaining and removing , and when entering Reaper's Shroud not necessary. As an alternative to Speed of Shadows, you can always pick Relentless Pursuit.