Reaper - Balanced Condi Reaper - MetaBattle

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Focused on: Condition damage and Control

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Secrets of the Obscure builds

Difficulty: Easy

Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.

This build was last updated on June 05, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.

Overview

A Condition Reaper build for PvP taking a more "balanced" approach than Procmancer, opting for extra survivability via either Death Magic or Blood Magic.

Skill Bar

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility

The utilities in this build are highly flexible, but you should aim to keep at least 1 stunbreak on your bar. Viable alternatives include:

鬼灵影步 - stunbreak with great kiting potential that could be immensely useful when it comes to shaking off enemies that are chasing you. The CD is rather long however, so we recommend taking a 2nd stunbreak too when playing this.
召唤血肉地虫 - another stunbreak and some vertical mobility. Being able to disengage to the highground can be invaluable for your survival sometimes.
黑暗法池 - pulsing AoE Blind for survivability and Chill to put pressure on enemies. Works well is just about any situation.
腐化法池 - unblockable AoE boon removal that could cover an entire capture point on some maps.
增益腐蚀 - great burst CD, especially useful against targets that rely on 稳固. Can be used both defensively and offensively.

Weapons

Scepter over Pistol - an equally viable option with better teamfight potential. Scepter with 诅咒萦绕 on Curses is often used in organized 5v5s (tournaments), while the Pistol variant remains popular in ranked because it's easier to survive on it thanks to the extra CC/Weakness application. Of course Scepter can be extremely powerful in ranked too especially in teamfights with AoE boon removal traited, but it's a harder version of the build.
Play either Dagger or Focus offhand instead Torch if you don't own the Secrets of the Obscure expansion, as Weaponmaster Training is necessary for the current set.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

Replacing Blood Magic with Death Magic is also a viable option. Both of these are defensive specializations - Death focuses on damage mitigation while Blood gives you more healing:

Equipment

Staff

Empty slot

Sigil

Pistol

Torch

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Amulets

腐朽项链 - better choice if the enemy team has more condi specs than power, due to the higher HP but lower toughness. Consider replacing 逃脱法印 with 智慧法印.

Sigils

野性法印 over 逃脱法印 - makes the stun from "严寒刺骨！" even longer when used on Staff.

Runes

唤灵师符文 - offers more damage if you don't need the passive movement speed boost from Lynx.

Relics

There are plenty of viable options here, especially if you're playing a less shout-focused version of the build:

恶魔女王古物 - improves your healing reduction from 中毒 and adds more sources to the build. Great at pressuring high sustain builds like supports.
阴鬼古物 - adds burst damage to your elite skill by creating an AoE field beneath your target when used. Compared to Cerus it has the benefit of always spawning the pool under an enemy so you don't have to worry too much about positioning. The best thing about this relic isn't even the conditions but rather the strike damage it deals over just a few seconds. 激怒 can make this proc stronger.
塞鲁斯古物 - adds a strong offensive proc whenever you use an elite skill. Enemies under the eye can get hit multiple times, so the value of this relic goes up significantly if you can stun them right under the eye with "严寒刺骨！".
冒险者古物 - restores half a dodge roll's worth of endurance whenever you heal, improving your survivability. It's like a second Energy sigil.

Usage

General

恐惧 applies Chill Chill, and Chill applies 流血.
Every shout skill inflicts Chill Chill via 夺魂者古物. Shout skills become more powerful in melee range.
Use "灵魂夺取！" as often as possible, even out of combat. This is crucial for building Life Force (LF).
- Start using this skill the moment the game starts, even before the gates open.
"弱者退散！" and "无尽苦痛！" are 2 instant shout skills you can use even while stunned or casting other skills. This is important because with Suffer you could even transfer 恐惧, effectively stunbreaking yourself while CC'ing others, and both skills can be used as fodder to quickly get rid of 圣盾 or 目盲. Let's say you were casting your elite but got blinded - Suffer can transfer the blind, while the other shout can be sacrificed to consume it (the shout will miss but your elite will land). Same goes for Aegis, altugh this time Suffer's also going to miss.
When playing with Blood Magic, dodge rolling in combat creates a 次级鲜血印记. The effects of this are negligible, the important part is that it can be used in a similar manner as the 2 shouts mentioned above - you can get rid of blind and Aegis just by dodging, and then immediately follow up with something without the fear or missing.
On top of the 稳固 and AoE stun "严寒刺骨！" also applies 急速 when it strikes an enemy target in melee range. Using this right before entering 夺魂之幕 creates the perfect setup for your hard hitting shroud skills.
"严寒刺骨！" has a very distinct animation which makes it easy to avoid, if you feel like that's going to happen then stow your weapon to cancel the channeling. This is also great for fake casting - you can use the skill, cancel it immediately with weapon stow (the whole animation's still going to finish, potentially baiting out dodges or other defensive CDs), and send it only on a CD of 5 seconds.
Pistol version: Entering shroud procs 衰弱帷幕, this is both defensive and offensive by nature. Being able to apply 虚弱 even when you're sitting in a CC could save your life, and instant offensive procs could effortlessly add extra pressure to your burst chains.
- Quickly following up with 死亡冲刺 to corrupt more boons through 腐化之道 is basically a 2 button burst combo that puts heavy pressure on every enemy around you.
- Entering shroud counts as a weapon swap and as such could proc 厄运法印 and 暴露法印 while on Pistol/Torch (if the sigils aren't on CD) which could then be applied to the enemy target via 衰弱帷幕 for increased burst and condition variety.
- The condition transfer from 传播瘟疫 is yet another thing Weakening Shroud could trigger on its own.
Ideally try to use 死亡冲刺 inside the field left behind by 处决镰刀 to combo 冰霜光环.
Your best sources of condi cleansing are 腐烂印记, "无尽苦痛！" and 传播瘟疫. These are also offensive by nature as they transfer your conditions, not just remove them.
- With the Death Magic variant you periodically keep losing conditions while staying in shroud too.
On Staff try to use 腐烂印记 AFTER 凛冬印记 for a free AoE 虚弱 combo.
腐烂印记 and 死亡冲刺 are the best skills to use with 智慧法印.
Pistol-only 恶毒爆冲 is a great skill for quickly setting up other skills like 哀嚎射击, "严寒刺骨！" or a shroud burst.
Scepter-only 腐化盛宴 is best used on targets that already have several conditions on them to maximize damage and LF generation.
- "无尽苦痛！" is a great setup for this skill, allowing you to deliver burst damage in an instant.

Mobility

The rune gives you a passive 25% movement speed boost.
Use the following sequence in shroud to move around the map faster:

夺魂之幕
死亡冲刺
解除夺魂之幕 just before Death's Charge finishes (the ending of DC brings your character to a halt, which can be cancelled by dropping out of shroud early)

Damage Shroud burst rotation example

Pistol burst combo example:

痛苦浪潮 could serve as an opener as it has a very low cast time and doesn't really require setup, but it could also be used after Vile Blast.
恶毒爆冲 to set up Oppressive Collapse (OC), which has a much more visible animation and would be harder to land. Note: OC in general works best against slowed/stunned targets - the AoE ring spawns under your target the moment you press OC, so enemies with 奔驰疾速 or mobility skills could even escape the ring before the skill finishes. If they manage to leave the ring in time they'll avoid the CC.
重压崩溃
哀嚎射击

Scepter burst combo example:

"死亡将临！" for unblockable attacks.
痛苦浪潮
重压崩溃
腐化盛宴 + cast "无尽苦痛！" right as FoC is about to go off. Suffer will inflict several conditions on the target instantly while also drastically reducing the chance of FoC missing due to a 目盲.

Blasting

When playing with Blood Magic, 腐烂印记 becomes usable even out of combat - if you drop it at the feet of an ally, the mark triggers.
This is quite useful because now you get to contribute to 迅捷 and 潜行 stacking before fights!

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