Reaper is a dead class?

[POWER]

I'm new to the game, so I wanted to ask experienced players.
I like the necromancer and two-handed swords, so I chose Reaper to play.
The only cool thing he has is Reaper's shroud. Reaper's "Shouts" look very weak, and two-handed sword abilities are too slow and many people prefer other weapons.
Is it possible to effectively play PVP and fractals using shouts and a two-handed sword?

[Nibbie]

Don't do PVP so can't speak to that, but Reaper is perfectly fine elsewhere. It isn't really the 'best' option for much, but it definitely works, and was buffed quite a bit recently.

In general Reaper is really good at taking care of mobs, but not that great at bosses. The greatsword is slow, but hits quite hard, and can easily group up enemies and blind them to safely eliminate them. Reaper Shroud also hits pretty hard, gives you some mobility and lots of safety, and has great cleaving ability. The shouts are relatively weak, but also pretty low cooldown, and one of the traits lowers their cooldown more, and lowers it even further for each enemy you hit (the heal skill's cooldown can be as low as 13 seconds). There isn't much better for solo open world content, due to its upfront damage combined with its tankiness, and most solo content has lots of groups.

The main issue with bosses is that you don't get life force from them dying like you do with mobs to power your shroud (something some of the recent buffs were aimed at helping), and until they get below half you don't have any other strong DPS options. You also don't have any team utility as a Reaper; you can't act as the quickness or alacrity bot or provide other unique services for your team while doing dps like other options can.

[Aerine]

yes you can, its not meta class but you can use reaper in pvp and pve

the shouts are pretty terrible and you only use "chilled to the bone" and its mostly in pvp but thats not really a problem
for weapon you'll gonna use staff and greatsword for pve, you can change the greatsword with axe and warhorn for pvp, greatsword have more burst damage and axe/warhorn have more utility so its depends on your playstyle

for PVP its still good up to gold 3 just beware of thief because they can delete you easily
for fractals power reaper is pretty good, you can even carry your team if you're good enough
because fractals is mostly about cleave and burst damage and reaper is good with that
for raids and strikes as long you know what you're doing you'll be fine, reaper doesn't have the highest damage but their damage isn't terrible either, you still can get top 1 dps in pugs if you're good enough

and lastly you need to learn combo field for reaper, because that's your mainsource of damage

[DarkSlayer197]

Could make a necro joke....
But that dead horse has been beaten so hard that even a necro couldn't raise it.

And with that, I earned myself a cough and a boo.

[Peter]

I'm in platinum currently and found a reaper kicking asses, but is pretty rare to find one, maybe after Anet nerf spellbreaker, ele, mesmer we will see more of them.

[RotherHans]

I lyke my Big-Reapas Goth waifu and everybody else can take a hike...

[MaGicBush]

Zero issues in pvp as a Reaper here.

[Vyse]

one of my hated PvP Class.. Reapers just wont die because of the broken shroud lmao

[tryhard + mute all]

Don't play it

[Ve]

as some others have said; yes, you indeed can.

GW2 is such a casual game that i wouldn't concern yourself with meta. You get new meta from off-meta so that's why i stay a off-meta gamer in games. Play what you want and have fun!

[pikupupu]

Reaper is not dead in PvP. Can always make a build that can counter others :D

[POWER]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I will continue to play as a Reaper :3

[SaeLipa]

Every class can play almost any content. just half the endgame raids needs a bit of real meta, on everything else you dont need to be optimal on anything

[Hemi]

Greatsword Reaper is my new love recently.

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Power_Greatsword

It destroys everything in PvE, and it's soooo much fun to play.
I run it with staff as 2nd, and even with ranged AoE you chew up everything.

[CyberDown]

I do whatever I want. If someone needs me to be something i can swap to it, so long as the stats are good.

Never been an issue, but then, I dont run specific raids, nor do i roll with a coordinated guild in PVP.

Outside of that, it really is "anything goes just have fun"

[MaGicBush]

Originally posted by Hemi:

Greatsword Reaper is my new love recently.

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Power_Greatsword

It destroys everything in PvE, and it's soooo much fun to play.
I run it with staff as 2nd, and even with ranged AoE you chew up everything.

Yea I just switched to great sword and staff. Pretty fun! Throw out all the aoe dots, and then switch to great sword and run in.