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 .

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 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 , and for AoE boon corruption and strong damage, followed up by entering and using and for additional cleave.

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

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

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

Build Specifics

While in , use to gain and damage reduction.

Use 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 before 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 for a stun break such as or if you struggle with survival.

Your healing skill can be changed to for additional condition cleanses on yourself or .

Traits

can be exchanged to if you deem gaining and removing , and when entering not necessary. As an alternative to , you can always pick .