Gerald_Tarrant: Signet of Vampirism is of little use to this build, since it no longer works in shroud and it's active effect can't be activated while you're in it. Blighter's Boon does the heavy lifting for that, but the trick with Reaper's Shroud is, as you said, to stay in shroud. That's where the immortality of the Reaper originates. I use Chilling Victory instead of soul eater because Reaper stacks an ASS load of chill condition applications to multiple enemies and does so quickly. This adds another stack of might (and another pulse of healing from Blighter's Boon) but also, grants ANOTHER 1% life force in shroud as well. Add that to Blighter's Boon and the sustain is absolutely outrageous, since life force becomes your health bar. You'll find that when you DO have to leave Reaper's shroud for any reason (your Reaper's shroud can get spiked down by large damage bursts and condi overloads) you will literally recharge it inside of 3 seconds by keeping up your attacks with Quickness. The sustain outside of shroud is likewise ridiculous. I use swords instead of GS because the sustain on swords outside of shroud will keep you alive for the 10 seconds (w/o alacrity) you need to be able to reenter it, and makes a nice ranged option since you won't have to stay in close because you're not using Soul Eater. Also, sword 5 is another fear, which will proc Dread in the Soul Reaping line. Get a warhorn on your 2nd weapon set (primary can be axe, as some have said, or even dagger works as long as you don't camp it; swords are the priority) and you've got back to back Dread procs outside of Reaper shroud. With a celerity sigil, you should have absolutely zero problems maintaining full uptime on quickness.

Even on full zerker/assassin gear, you'll mow through enemies without feeling the risk most glass cannons inherently have.

misterbrady100: Axe is really good for applying vulnerability to the target. Also, the shout healing skill has a short cooldown and is useful to use off cooldown to regen life force if you are having trouble with life force generation.

geistwolf776: Can’t wait to try this out,I just started a Reaper yesterday.Thank you for this guide!

hollowzangetsu: Finally, I was getting bored of ritualist . This came just in time. One question : What do you think of demolisher stats for open world?

dodoungpaitarofree: This might be a dumb question but which weapon can replace greatsword. Im bored.

lilbladeknight: Need to wait for SylvariReaper to approve this build; need his stamp of approval when it comes to reaper.

jokeswhisper: Bruh I hate Reaper just because it's one of the easiest classes to play and has one of the strongest dps output (at least in open world metas).

How come they don't nerf it to the ground? makes no sense to me.

Same goes for Mechanist.

Viraled: Reapers back on the menu boys

mantikas1: I am making all your builds =D the one with celestial pistol/sword scepter/torch was very good, lets see how this one goes. Thank you very much. Keep upgrading necro.

mayorez70: If you had to pick one solo build for Necro to complete all content which are you taking? This one, your Immortal Scourge or another?

*. Also, which build do you recommend for Necro WVW? *

StevenGersch: How do you feel this stacks up against the condi celestial reaper build you posted about a month ago?

MunkeeGamer: I know I've caught up to the greats because this is my current reaper build. I just run sword sword for the symmetry instead of axe sword. But other than that, I totally agree with all this, it's an incredible synergy for PvE

Balabah13: I would love to see something for Mesmer again, been gone from the game a couple years now and have been struggling to get back into mesmer as it was my favorite class back in the day. Although i cannot say a specific elite spec. I did see you post a troub build, but im not quite at the point of being capable of that one just yet. Maybe you can let me know if one of your previous builds you posted are still viable after all of the changes.

Sykasa: I am rocking a berserker Reaper right now that uses GS/SwSw. Going to try your variation of it.

Photoloss: Is the quickness from the elite shout still bugged to apply an abysmally short duration instead of the promised 10s (12s displayed in video due to boon duration bonus)?

blugan: Is there a solo build for core thief? Kinda like this? Thanks.

76garen: would you recommend the Immortal Amalgam or Immortal Reaper for the all time Immortal? or is there a more Immortal class or spec?

MD87685: Why is it that for higher raid benchmark numbers, people always press skill 4 & 5 in shroud instead of just auto attacking?

HowlN_: What addon do you use to still see the mouse position even in action camera?

trojanmanjeff: Toddlers play reaper and mechs

onyx1486: I'll stick with Lord Hizen for solo builds no one does it better

Apr 17 2026

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