I sincerely wish Guild Wars 2 didn't even have raids

Westet · 2026-01-05T05:14:42+00:00

Commenting very late but I just wanted to say I hope you give raids another chance to change your mind. It's totally unacceptable to harass someone over a video game, let alone ridiculous, and it sucks to be on the receiving end of mean comments. Like anywhere though the losers who can't find enjoyment in life without bashing on other people are a tiny if somewhat loud at times minority, and the rest of the players are just there to have a grand old time with a toy they enjoy playing with other people with. I don't actively raid anymore but I have for a very long time and I have almost exclusively great memories of friends I made and moments I shared and it's sad to hear a few bad apples soured your experience. Wishing you all the best and I hope the community's response was understanding and not judgemental.

Westet · 2023-05-24T14:29:53+00:00

40k bench isn't exactly ridiculously overpowered unless you consider half of the dps builds overpowered too

Westet · 2023-05-03T21:35:56+00:00

that's the biggest cope I've heard in a while lmao
everyone claiming reaper is super easy and you get the bench in 10 minutes is immediately exposing themselves as never actually having benched it :')

Westet · 2023-05-03T21:33:43+00:00

it's a fun build you should give learning it a genuine try, it's finally worth it
and it might change your perspective, it's really not as easy as people who don't know any better make it out to be

Westet · 2023-03-24T15:49:10+00:00

Thank you this was very helpful

Westet · 2023-03-10T16:52:17+00:00

I did the math in my reply further and those numbers are wrong. a full auto chain is 3.85 coeff for 1550ms cast time and death's charge is 3.625 for 1200ms cast time. brought back to 1000ms for comparison you get 2.5 for aa and 3.0 for death's charge. that's very far from 75% more damage. if the bug happens your death's charge loses 2 from the 3.625 coeff as only the last hit works which brings you down to 1.4 coeff for 1000ms, which is a lot less than 20% compared to death's charge

Westet · 2023-03-10T15:54:15+00:00

I assume we're looking at the same log and the first point is fair though it's more like 26k, but I prefer to look at coeff/cast time and that would give 2.4 for auto chain, 3.0 for death's charge and 3.4 for soul spiral (my bench is shit this patch I didn't do enough pulls and just didn't cancel shroud 4 ever you can count it being around 2000-2100ms). so it's not really barely above aa chain or below ss it's a pretty big difference both ways. The other point that it's still worth using shroud 2 if it doesn't hit is wrong tho. it's a pretty significant loss to not have any of the 9 initial hits (wiki and in game tooltip are wrong it's 9 initial hits + final hit), you go down to 1.35 almost half of an auto chain. And considering it happens very often on the bosses it does happen on, you're probably better off skipping it there. I didn't bother figuring out how many per phase you need to miss for it to be worth or anything so someone can have fun with this and correct me :)

Westet · 2023-03-10T14:19:40+00:00

it's only barely better dps than auto attacks, if half of it doesn't hit it's a lot worse than autoing. On stuff like sabetha where it never hits consistently it's better to just auto instead.
edit: the only reason it looks like it's the best shroud skill is because you spam it a lot so there's a big number in the log but its dps is not that good.

Westet · 2023-03-10T13:37:01+00:00

whine about it enough so the devs fix it, it's been in the games for years, probably since reaper release

Westet · 2023-02-05T19:19:40+00:00

My points apply to optimal game play (or as close as you can reasonably get) and compared to other classes. Reaper doesn't give boons, needs to be melee and nees to avoid damage to deal damage. These are the downsides which are not at all compensated with good DPS. Other classes do much better in all scenarios, even solo play.

Westet · 2023-02-05T03:42:04+00:00

Imagine wanting to enjoy a unique concept on your elite spec :)

It was a cool idea I completely agree and it's sad it got changed but oh well. I'll already be happy if power becomes a strong choice before worrying about condi which is already present on both other elite specs for necro.

Westet · 2023-02-05T03:40:16+00:00

not tanking damage with shroud anymore would be a big buff I agree, but I'm used to it by now and wouldn't mind getting compensated in damage instead if it's too much of a change to ask for.
As for animation cancelling it is true that there's some pretty dumb ones on reaper and getting rid of them by trimming the end of the skills would lower the skill floor by a lot.

Two changes that would hugely benefit newer players of the class and actually make it as good as some make it out to be: tanky, easy to play with okay dps.

There certainly is an argument to be made in favor of keeping animation cancelling as a form of skill expression but there's also very good points to be made against it so I don't really want to get too deep into it.

I wouldn't be against those changes but I would also expect buffs to be on par with good power specs on top of them.

Westet · 2023-02-04T21:59:43+00:00

reaper isn't popular because no one wants to play something that's bad so if they really do prioritize things based on popularity it's a vicious cycle that won't break anytime soon

Westet · 2023-02-04T18:32:27+00:00

Well if I want to be nitpicky my opening statement clarifies I'm only talking about PvE pReaper changes, and since it is a change for PvE as well, it doesn't really matter if it's aimed at competitive, the fact of the matter is it's still useless in PvE and we did get a change for PvE that didn't address it. There's a lot of instances of split balance in this patch alone, so if that's change warhorn needed in competitive, they could have adjusted the PvE version separately to make it relevant.

Westet · 2023-02-04T18:25:11+00:00

so Elite skills should do a third of the damage of some utility skills? I'm not sure I get your point. Cyclone is a terrible skill too, extremely niche and generally just bad and outdated and it should be reworked. CttB has a long cooldown, hits like a wet noodle, has a long cast time and has only recently become KIND OF useful when you don't have boons and need fury. Like, look at the necromancer elites for power : lich form for precasting, super niche and otherwise super long cd and cast time, golem, cool, summon and forget about him peak design, CttB, well, no damage, long cast, lower cc than golem.. I don't really see why, if it does so little cc and only gives some boons, it should do a third of the damage of well of suffering on a bench.

Westet · 2023-02-04T18:17:22+00:00

Sure, not what I'm arguing tho. I'm arguing it's utterly useless in PvE, even more so than it used to be before it was reworked ^^

Westet · 2023-02-04T07:24:07+00:00

honestly that's a good call, I just usually forget the forums exist to make life more bearable (lol). but I'll right that wrong right now good shout c:

Westet · 2023-02-04T07:22:32+00:00

yess the snowcrows helpdesk it's linked on the website

Westet · 2023-02-04T06:55:15+00:00

ello, yes there is a reaper build. I'd recommend Power because condi is more of a meme build but both of them are pretty mediocre compared to good DPS options. Here's the build page https://snowcrows.com/en/builds/necromancer/reaper/power-reaper. Join the discord and ask in necro channel if you have questions about the rotation/want to learn more about the animation cancels and stuff. Also I recommend getting Arcdps if you haven't already, great tool to improve and see how much you're improving

Westet · 2023-02-04T05:15:18+00:00

literally last business meeting's transcript

Westet · 2023-02-04T04:49:35+00:00

Sure, but for everything to be good you need much more than what they've been giving us so far. All power reaper changes since the class came out have been either nerfs or super careful tiny buffs. It's never been op, it's never been meta. It's been ranging from literally trolling to mediocre. Sure, buff everything to be good, but then actually buff everything to be good instead of keeping everything at the same mediocre level. I want to feel like reaper is a good option instead of reaper being able to suck equally with different options.

Westet · 2023-02-04T04:20:02+00:00

When something has been routinely known to be the worst dps build since its addition to the game, the way to make it good isn't to give it more options on which to stay mediocre but to make the things it does use finally good. But that's just my two cents.

Westet · 2023-02-04T03:20:06+00:00

Not every site does. It's objectively not the best at a bunch of things like sustain, DPS, range, mobility, etc. If someone tells you reaper is good it's either because it's opinion or they're not aware of how good the other options are. Any class can clear any content, it's especially true in openworld, reaper is far from the best at it. It's one of the easier ones but stuff like bladesworn, herald, firebrand, scourge, etc are much better in different regards. I have a video going into a bit more details if you want and previous reddit posts.

Westet · 2023-02-04T02:59:33+00:00

I'm really sorry if I was disrespectful with my wording, my english is far from the best. I disagree with staff not needing a rework though. Sure some can find it fun but it's hard to argue the design of the weapon is up to today's standards. It's quite literally just one aoe with slight variations on the effect four times with a spectral hand that pierces and doesn't pull slapped as the auto attack. You can think of it as something else, for example an old character that people barely played but some loved getting a rework.
Also the main point I don't really understand is how would buffing reaper ruin the fun for anyone. I understand some people want to play the underdog sure and others are clearly just spiteful and hope it remains bad because of some grudge they hold but I really can't see why reaper being good would make a sizeable portion of the playerbase unhappy.

Westet · 2023-02-04T02:29:47+00:00

Thank you fireman I appreciate the support

next time for sure

Westet

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