The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Hybrid damage, Sustain and Boon removal
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Easy
Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.
This build was last updated on March 28, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A Cele Reaper build for WvW roaming focusing on survivability and condition pressure. The build excels at quickly applying and maintaining a wide variety of conditions, especially Chill Chill.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Utility
For a less shout focused build you could pick up some of the following skills. If you're giving up at least 2 of your utility shouts be sure to also change your relic to something else, like 
恶魔女王古物:
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召唤血肉地虫 - ranged teleport and stun break, useful for disengaging or chasing down targets. -
腐蚀毒云 - this is both a defensive and offensive option. The damage is solid, but the true value lies in the AoE 
虚弱 application and the anti-projetile zone. This can be used to defend against both ranged and melee builds at the same time by standing inside the ring. -
鬼灵影步 - stunbreak and mobility tool that's great for escaping enemies, often by baiting them to chase after you (or even jump off the highground) but the long CD kind of makes it necessary to take a 2nd stunbreak with this. -
鬼灵圆环 - great CC that makes it hard for enemies to reach you or escape your damage.
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Variants
夺魂灭屠 makes the build a bit more bursty, pushing the Power angle over Condi.
Specialization Variants
Taking Blood Magic Blood Magic over Death Magic Death Magic is an equally viable option. Both are sustain focused specs, the key difference being that BM focuses on restoring health while DM is all about damage mitigation:
Equipment
Consumables
Food
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黑胡椒调味牡蛎汤球 - passive damage mitigation and great stats. -
碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - active damage mitigation.
碗装鲜肉冬菜煲 - budget version
Utility
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Budget:
紧密优质调谐水晶 either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW 
突袭宝箱s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.
Usage
General
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Build Life Force by killing critters or any PvE mob before fighting players. Spamming
"灵魂夺取！" while out of combat also works. -
Both weapon sets offer a decent mix of defense and offense.
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The Pistol/Torch sigils
超级洁净法印 and 
超级能量法印 are defensive. Between this and 
腐烂印记 you'll have some cleansing access on both sets. -
Staff, while being your more defensive/utility focused set, also has
超级地能法印 and 
超级厄运法印. The AoE ring from the Doom proc will always apply the 
中毒 from Doom too if you're in melee range of an enemy, turning weapon swapping into an instant source of burst damage. -
Weapon swapping isn't the only way to proc your on-swap sigils - entering and leaving
夺魂之幕 can also do it. This is important because ideally you'd get 2 procs per swap out of your sigils. You can see the weapon swap CD to the left of your skill bar even while in shroud, the 10s swap CD almost perfectly lines up with the 9 sec sigil proc CD. If you're in shroud, simply try not to exit until weapon swap is ready - this is your signal that enough time has passed for your sigils to proc again and you're free to exit shroud. -
"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 will still play, potentially baiting out dodges or other defensive CDs), and send it only on a CD of 5 seconds.- Using
"无尽苦痛！" right before CttB goes off could get rid of 
目盲 on you or 
圣盾 on nearby enemies without having to cancel the skill. Sometimes it's worth using this shout at the last moment even if you're not blinded, just to make sure that the elite connects even if you happen to eat a random blind in the last split second. 
"弱者退散！" could be used the same way as Suffer, being an instant skill. However this is less ideal, because while Suffer can transfer the blind and you get to reap all the benefits of landing that skill, YAAW actually misses. You basically sacrifice this skill to land your elite.- Casting
"死亡将临！" before the elite could further increase your chances of landing it, because it'll make the elite unblockable.
- Using
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On Staff try to use
腐烂印记 after 
凛冬印记 whenever possible in order to combo AoE 虚弱. These are also your two most dangerous skills on this set. -
Staff is more of a utility weapon, low damage but it has a condition transfer, a CC, snare, and adds much needed range to the build. The Chill Chill and
恐惧 are useful both for keeping distance when you're waiting for CDs and preventing enemies from escaping when they're trying to flee. -
If you're using
死亡冲刺 only for the mobility you should consider dropping out of shroud near the end of the animation. The very end of Death's Charge brings your character to a halt, we can cancel this by cancelling shroud. -
Entering shroud acts as an instant defensive measure:
- Transfers conditions to enemies on your next attack via
传播瘟疫. - Procs Lesser Enfeeble for 虚弱 from
衰弱帷幕 which strikes foes after a small delay. If Lesser Enfeeble connects it'll immediately transfer conditions with Plague Sending. This is a really powerful interaction that could save your life even if you're stunned, as shroud can be activated while sitting in a CC. 
幕化移除 removes one condition when you enter shroud and keeps cleansing you every few seconds while in shroud.
- Transfers conditions to enemies on your next attack via
Shroud
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Most of your burst comes from
夺魂之幕, where your damage is further increased by 夺魂灭屠 (if taken). -
Opening with
惊惧魔甲 is very common, as it helps getting your damage off uninterrupted while the damage reduction helps you stay in shroud longer.
惊惧释放 is the chain skill of this slot. This should only be used when either A) you need an emergency CC, or B) Infusing Terror is about to expire.
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死亡冲刺 should be used in the field created by
处决镰刀 for the 
冰霜光环 whenever possible. -
灵魂漩涡 should primarily be used on CC'd or downed targets (as 中毒 reduces the resurrection healing coming from their allies), but thanks to the permanent 
急速 while in shroud this skill is now much easier to land without any real setup. -
处决镰刀's a single target skill for the most part, as it only stuns one target. 惊惧释放 can 恐惧 targets long enough to prevent enemies from dodging this skill.
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Use autoattacks when eveything else is on CD, or drop out of shroud.