Gear for Reaper

[Bermag]

New player and need to get som better gear. Some of my stuff are still < lvl 80.

Berserker or something else?

I am kind of slow and bad at dodging so I get hit a lot so maybe Celestial or something else is more survivable than a pure damage focus?

[Hefutoxin]

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

Celestial is a bit of a trap. It can be fantastic if your build can utilize all the stats. If your build can't, it ends up being rather weak.

If you don't like Berserker's, then use Marauder's.

You definitely want to work on your dodging. Reaper can take more hits than most, but it can't take them all.

[SinisterSlay]

berserker is ideal if you are going power reaper. The open world power reaper has a decent amount of healing on it to help. You can get exotic berserker gear for Karma from cursed shore.
https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Power_Greatsword

An alternative is to go minion master and focus on death magic skill. Great for face tanking pretty much anything.

[cowinspace]

Are you using your shroud? Reaper can regen life force fairly quickly so you should be popping in and out all the time.

[Nibbie]

For open world/solo stuff I mainly use Valkyrie on my Reaper. It is Berserker stats, but instead of Precision you get Vitality. This gives you a lot more tankiness at the cost of crit chance, and also increases the capacity of your Shroud (which scales off Vitality) for even more tankiness. As Reaper you can easily get +50% crit chance from a single trait (Decimate Defenses), and between that and potentially generating Fury (+30% crit chance), you don't really need a lot of Precision to get 100% crit.

[Bermag]

Hmm now when I have checked stats rather than healing builds then Celestial seems like a Jack-of-all trades set.

Marauder or Valkyries might be better options. Probably lean more towards Marauder.

I have been trying to figure out set bonus or are there none? i.e. bonus if you wear X number of items of a set?

Yeah I should work on dodge but I am old and slow :)

[Yagger]

Celestial is fine for open world on any class, but marauder/berserker is the best choice for power

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Bermag:

Hmm now when I have checked stats rather than healing builds then Celestial seems like a Jack-of-all trades set.

Marauder or Valkyries might be better options. Probably lean more towards Marauder.

I have been trying to figure out set bonus or are there none? i.e. bonus if you wear X number of items of a set?

Yeah I should work on dodge but I am old and slow :)

There are two things you are looking at with armor.

Stat Prefix (Berserker, Marauder, Valkyries) and the Runes you can slot into them. Runes are the "Set" stuff.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune

Generally, you can just buy 6 of one Rune off the trading post to slot into your armor.

[Azrub]

Originally posted by Nibbie:

For open world/solo stuff I mainly use Valkyrie on my Reaper. It is Berserker stats, but instead of Precision you get Vitality. This gives you a lot more tankiness at the cost of crit chance, and also increases the capacity of your Shroud (which scales off Vitality) for even more tankiness. As Reaper you can easily get +50% crit chance from a single trait (Decimate Defenses), and between that and potentially generating Fury (+30% crit chance), you don't really need a lot of Precision to get 100% crit.

Correction: fury actually gives 25% critical chance in PvE and 20% in WvW and PvP.
Ideally, you want to aim for 75% critical chance with food to always crit with fury buff.
Also, there is no point in giving up critical chance if you are not already overcapped, so Marauder>Valkyrie for the average power builds.

[Bermag]

Btw why are Berserker's Exalted gear double the price (onm trading post) of Berserker's light antique? Same stats.

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Bermag:

Btw why are Berserker's Exalted gear double the price (onm trading post) of Berserker's light antique? Same stats.

You want "Zhed's" armor if you want cheap, light armor with Berserker stats.

Exhalted gear is crafted.
Antique is from PvP track rewards.

[Bermag]

Yeah I looked at Zhed's as well. However all I saw had used upgrade slot. Very cheap though.

Does not make sense that prices arte that diffferent between Exalted and Antique when they have same stats. Zhed's I can understand because many will probably just search for Berserker

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Bermag:

Yeah I looked at Zhed's as well. However all I saw had used upgrade slot. Very cheap though.

Does not make sense that prices arte that diffferent between Exalted and Antique when they have same stats. Zhed's I can understand because many will probably just search for Berserker

Used upgrade slot is meaningless. Just add another upgrade to it.

Zhed's is a drop. You get it randomly from anywhere.
Exhalted needs to be crafted. It's not a cheap craft.
Antique is from PvP track reward chest. You can think of it as the trash part of the reward.

Each of those sets has a different skin. Endgame is "Fashion Wars".

[LSD]

Originally posted by Hefutoxin:

Antique is from PvP track rewards.

Nah light antique is from the obligatory expansion armour collection (in this case EOD).

Some gear has a "part of a collection" tag on it. If it's onerous to collect/craft, then the price will be higher than other gear.
You just want the stats, so go for the cheapest option available, which is stuff with the Zhed's prefix in the name.

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by LSD:

Originally posted by Hefutoxin:

Antique is from PvP track rewards.

Nah light antique is from the obligatory expansion armour collection (in this case EOD).

Some gear has a "part of a collection" tag on it. If it's onerous to collect/craft, then the price will be higher than other gear.
You just want the stats, so go for the cheapest option available, which is stuff with the Zhed's prefix in the name.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Light_Antique_armor

LSD might be the only person who would burn imperial favor and research notes to sell antique armor on the Trading Post. The rest of the population gets them from the PvP reward track.

[LSD]

Originally posted by Hefutoxin:

Originally posted by LSD:

Nah light antique is from the obligatory expansion armour collection (in this case EOD).

Some gear has a "part of a collection" tag on it. If it's onerous to collect/craft, then the price will be higher than other gear.
You just want the stats, so go for the cheapest option available, which is stuff with the Zhed's prefix in the name.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Light_Antique_armor

LSD might be the only person who would burn imperial favor and research notes to sell antique armor on the Trading Post. The rest of the population gets them from the PvP reward track.

"Burning"? You're "burning" your reward track if you're spending it on EoD, papi.