Power Reaper

October 2024

Introduction

Power Reaper is a powerful and resilient DPS Build with high cleave damage and abundant Crowd Control. While in Reaper's Shroud, 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 Executioner's Scythe if you have entered Shroud while in Spear and the enemy is above 50% life. Instead, do an extra autoattack chain and Exit Reaper's Shroud.

• When you Exit Reaper's Shroud and you’re in Spear, continue with its loop and after you Weapon Swap to Greatsword, use Gravedigger until Nightfall is off CD.
• When you Exit Reaper's Shroud and you’re in Greatsword, useDeath Spiral and Gravedigger until Nightfall is off CD. Then Weapon Swap to Spear.

Enter and exit Reaper's Shroud regularly to increase damage via Soul Barbs. While in Reaper's Shroud, 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 Reaper's Shroud always place Nightfall, Well of Darkness, and Well of Suffering to maximize burst damage. Never delay entering Reaper's Shroud or using any of the Well skills with this combo.

Prioritize using Gravedigger 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 (Chilling Scythe) also recharges Gravedigger.

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

Build Specifics

To upkeep Relic of Fireworks, open the fight with Grasping Darkness and Nightfall. Do not use Soul Spiral immediately after you enter Reaper's Shroud, but only after a few Auto-attack chains and Death's Charge. After using Soul Spiral, you can use Auto-attack chains and Death's Charge again. Make sure to use Executioner's Scythe before leaving Reaper's Shroud (if you’re on Spear and enemy is above 50% life, skip this and use Extirpate) to maximize Relic of Fireworks uptime.

Infusing Terror gives you 3 stacks of and reduces incoming damage. Since using Infusing Terror 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 Terrify, fearing the foes around you.

Always use "You Are All Weaklings!" 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.

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

You can replace Death's Charge 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

• Grasping Darkness
• Executioner's Scythe
• Addle
• Summon Flesh Golem Charge

Alternatives

Utility Skills

"You Are All Weaklings!" can be replaced with other forms of utility. Some options are:

• Spectral Grasp for extra CC or pulls.
• Corrosive Poison Cloud (aka “CPC”) for projectile destruction.
• Well of Corruption or Corrupt Boon for boonstrips.

Elite Skill

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

• Lich Form for higher burst in fast phases where it can be precast. When precasting, use Summon Madness and instantly exit.
• "Chilled to the Bone!" is a niche choice that provides excellent AOE crowd control alongside some boons and damage.
  • Overall it deals lower damage than Lich Form and less single target CC than Summon Flesh Golem, but it has a much shorter cooldown than Flesh Golem’s Charge, 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:

• Reaper's Mark and Chillblains
• 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 Reaper's Shroud, just use Reaper's Mark and Chillblains.
• Avoid using Staff Auto-attack chains as they can result in a DPS loss.

Sigils

For encounters at night time, you can replace your Superior Sigil of Force with Superior Sigil of the Night for a slight DPS increase.

You can also use Superior Sigil of Cruelty 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.