GW2 Reaper Necromancer Elite Specialization

Dulfy 15 Comments Aug 9, 2015

All about the Reaper Necromancer Elite Specialization to be released with Heart of Thorns. Updated for beta weekend 3.

The Reaper elite specialization can be obtained at level 80 and requires access to Heart of Thorns. It give the necromancer access to Greatsword, 6 shouts, and Reaper’s Shroud. It utilizes the Greatsword weapon at melee range with chills and other conditions to slow down the enemy.

Contents

1 Greatsword Skills
2 Shouts
3 Reaper’s Shroud
4 Traits
5 Combat Animations

Note on tooltip damage numbers: The damage numbers are level 80 while wearing exotic Berserker armor/accessories with Runs of the Scholar. (2333 power, 1095 toughness, 1095 toughness, 1852 precision, 952 ferocity, 95 condition damage). No traits are selected. This was done to standardize the comparison of abilities across multiple elite specializations.

Greatsword Skills

If you are looking for a new greatsword to go with your reaper, feel free to check out the Greatsword gallery located here.

1. Autoattack Chain	2. Gravedigger	3. Death Spiral

4. Nightfall	5. Grasping Darkness

Shouts

Reapers have access to six shouts, with two of them being the healing skill and the elite utility.

Your soul is mine! (Heal)	You are all weaklings!	Suffer!

Nothing can save you!	Rise!	Chilled to the bone! (Elite)

Reaper’s Shroud

Reaper’s Shroud is the new F1 skill granted to Reapers. Activating it will unlock 5 new skills much like Death Shroud.

Autoattack	Death’s Charge	Infusing Terror

Soul Spiral	Executioner’s Scythe

Traits

To play with traits, use the Specialization calculator developed by that_shaman

Minor

Shroud Knight	Shivers of Dread	Cold Shoulder

Adept (Pick one)

Angury of Death	Chilling Nova	Relentless Pursuit

Master (Pick one)

Soul Eater	Chilling Victory	Decimate Defenses

Grandmaster (Pick one)

Blighter’s Boon	Deathly Chill	Reaper’s Onslaught

Combat Animations

Video of Combat Animations on all races/gender.

Timestamps of specific gender/race combos are also available under the video description on youtube.

Asura Female – 0:00
Asura Male – 1:11
Human Female – 2:25
Human Male – 3:41
Sylvari Female – 5:01
Sylvari Male – 6:15
Norn Female – 7:25
Norn Male – 8:41
Charr Male – 9:55
Charr Female – 11:11

Ragner Isha

Would we be seeing posts for chronomancer, tempest and dragonhunter?
- Dulfy
  
  Yup, for the Revenant as well if I can get that done
  - Ragner Isha
    
    Cool! Thanks Dulfy!
  - Hadi The Edgemaster
    
    i know this is off topic but i really hope there is some better combat for revenant otherwise that class is going to be worthless trying to play Zerk. Almost all the skills are useless and have no support for fighting against classes with stealth or any real condi clears. I know it’s still in beta but right now it aint looking pretty. So far im only liking tempest.
IchbinVol

The Necro GS needs work, imo. It has ONE chill, and its at the end of a very slow auto attack. Don’t get me wrong, its nice doing big dmg, as a necro, without the need of conditions. Still, it’s very lacking, compared to other GS classes.

The Shroud Knight, on the other hand, is probably the most fun, and bad ass thing I’ve played, in the game. Debating on changing my trait lines, to include Soul Reaping, to extend & empower my shroud.
- Geo DePuppeh
  
  I totally agree with you on there, where as the gs auto attack should be a bit faster. But, with Chill, don’t forget you also have utilities that apply Chills. I’ve managed to work out and synergised with the utilities. Maybe you should try it, I guess it’s just me lol
  - Jessie Norvis
    
    I don’t know about that guys, your forgetting about the Elite Skill which induces 10.5 seconds of Chill, and the shouts, Reaper Shroud skills, and within the Specialization yourself. What about Sigils that give longevity to conditions. The Reaper is a very powerful Specialization, a little to powerful if you ask me.
- frazalicious
  
  gs is total rubbish i found, your better off using staff with its massive chill aoe and dagger/warhorn or axe/warhorn for the better life force gen and jumping in reaper shroud for the epic melee cleaves.
- Pandavenger
  
  Or you know, you go into reaper shroud chill them, and then refresh chill uptime by alternating between shroud and your autos? Classes aren’t supposed to be press 1 and done lmao
  - IchbinVol
    
    This was a very old commnt, and since then, they’ve addressed my issues. I guess I was right, since the fixed it…. lmao. :/
ITIarathon

Hello Dulfy, I have put all the tooltips for the Elite specs together in this album.

http://itiarathon.imgur.com/

Hope this helps!
Bearodactyl

I always felt like shouts should be instant… just me tho.
- Hall
  
  I think of them more as curses than shouts on the reaper. And curses would have some sort of casting time.
- Gareth Martin
  
  Shouts are you speaking. Go on, say any of the shouts names instantly.
  - linguisticallyinept
    
    aside from heal skills (does RaO still have a cast time now that its a shout?) shouts are instant cast, i believe the logic behind it is that you can shout whilst swinging your sword
    
    i agree with bearodactyl, it seems (and has seemed weird since it was announced) that every reaper shout has a cast time, it feels like a different skill type shoehorned into ‘shouts’

GW2 Reaper Necromancer Elite Specialization

Greatsword Skills

Shouts

Reaper’s Shroud

Traits

Combat Animations

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