Reaper - Condi DPS

• Take advantage of your 死亡冲刺 to reach the green AoE if needed.
• 恶疾肆虐 helps to control the seekers, especially in later phases of the fight.
  • The seekers can also be used as a reliable means of "Epi-bouncing" should your group have a 2nd Condi Necro.
• Be very careful with when/where you use 黑暗抓攫 so you don't accidentally pull in seekers.

• Abuse the Adrenaline Mushrooms as much as possible.
• Place 瘟疫化身 on top of the Champions and use 恶疾肆虐 off cooldown to help mitigate mob presence.
• Use 死亡冲刺 for better mobility.

• Keep in mind that if you're about to do your shroud 5+4 combo and Gorseval begins his slam attack, you can use 惊惧魔甲 to prevent being knocked back whilst channeling (Assuming you aren't being given Aegis by allies).
• Use 恶疾肆虐 for the adds.
  • You can use 恶疾肆虐 to help speed up the Charged Soul phase, provided they are not inside Gorseval's hitbox when you use it.
  • You can use 恶疾肆虐 to clear orbs during the split phase as well. Just be aware that if the orbs are too far away Epidemic will either not reach them or target the walls instead (as they have an extremely large hitbox).

• 恶疾肆虐 can be pretty useful here.

• Take advantage of 恶疾肆虐 to kill adds as well as transferring the conditions from the champions back to Sabetha.
  • Try to save 恶疾肆虐 for after bombs are thrown to launch up cannon players to avoid killing the saboteurs too early
  • 恶疾肆虐 can generally be used twice when one of Sabetha's champions spawn. Once before 75% hp or so to help clear adds, and again at 25% to "Epi-Bounce" the conditions from the current champ back to Sabetha
• Keep an eye out for loose bandits when you're about to use 黑暗抓攫 and pull them in.

• 症状吞噬 will be very useful if you're unable to dodge the shake.
• Take advantage of 恶疾肆虐 to kill the Slublings. Pay attention to not kill your teammate who is clearing the mushrooms!
• Use 黑暗抓攫 to help pull slublings that are beyond the reach of your mesmer's pulls.
• If absolutely necessary, you could bring 腐蚀毒云 to mitigate some of the slubling's attacks.
• 惊惧魔甲 can be used to counter the 恐惧 after the CC phase but be aware that your 稳固 can be corrupted into a long 恐惧.
• Transforming into a Slubling will kill your minions. Consider taking the first mushroom so you can spawn the minions afterwards.

• 召唤血肉魔像 can be used to assist with CC'ing the saboteurs.
• As a fight centered around fighting large amounts of basic mobs, 恶疾肆虐 is very valuable here, try to use it as often as possible.

• When you get sacrificed, your minions die.
• Take advantage of the mobility of 死亡冲刺 to reach the fountains or for placing the AoE's.
• Matthias will usually move about too much to make 瘟疫化身 reliable, so bring 召唤血肉魔像 to help CC the sacrifices.
• You could swap dagger for warhorn here and take 瘟疫纹章. As you will frequently be afflicted with conditions on this encounter, using it in place of 致命虫群 can prove very effective.

• 恶疾肆虐 is extremely powerful here, be sure to use it to the fullest.
  • Be sure to use the Wargs that spawn as "Condi Batteries" and Epidemic off of it to groups of mobs nearby
  • At the end when you're fighitng Mcleod's phantasms, use Epidemic on the one you're NOT attuned to to still transfer conditions on it to the one you can damage for a large spike in dps.
• Better to use 召唤血肉魔像 over 瘟疫化身, as it is hard to make use of the full effect of Plaguelands before enemies die
• You are able to perform the "back warg" role with no major changes to your build, though you can swap out Soul Reaping in favor of running Spite.
  • Be sure to move properly so you remain inside the Warg's hitbox whilst you use the Shroud 5+4 combo so all of the chilling bolts hit
• Use 黑暗抓攫 to help stack mobs when your allies' pulls are on cooldown
  • Just be careful not to do so near mines, as they can knock you back in unexpected directions if you're not careful.

As a condi build, you'd be better of running a power dps build, but in the event you HAVE to play Condi Reaper here:

• Use 恶疾肆虐 to help deal with the phantasms that spawn (just try to wait and make sure they will die on top of KC before using it
  • You can also try bouncing it from one phantasm to another depending on how they spawn in the fight.
• If necessary you can use 黑暗抓攫 to help reposition the orb during orb phase
• Try to use 瘟疫化身 just before KC is set to return for the burn phase to ensure all the damage from Plaguelands can have effect.

• Use 瘟疫化身 to help clear the first Bloodstone Shard in the "pre-event" it will be back off cooldown by the time the fight starts proper.
• Use 黑暗抓攫 to help stack mobs when your allies' pulls are on cooldown
• 恶疾肆虐 is an effective way to help clear bloodstone shards during the fight
  • Be aware that the tank needs to position Xera closer to the shards you want to clear
  • Also be aware that your group needs to kill any mobs that have spawned, mobs that are about to spawn (shown by the orbs graphic) will still be considered valid targets, and that you will always have one Epidemic projectile get "eaten" by the invisible hitbox in the middle of the area.

• 腐蚀毒云 can be used to mitigate the knockback projectiles from Cairn, but due to their travel path the situations where this is possible are generally slim (such as when the group is going for the first green circle, or when you are trying to rez an ally off stack.
• You can use Shroud and 惊惧魔甲 to mitigate the effects of Cairn's Spatial Manipulation attack (though it will still increase your stacks of Unseen Burden).
• 死亡冲刺 can be used as an extra means of getting around should you get displaced during the fight.

• 恶疾肆虐 is extremely powerful here, but be aware that the timing of its usage can depend heavily on when/where your team's tank moves MO around the area.
  • While the radius of effect for Epidemic is 900 units it can't hit the whole field so if possible try to hit at least 2 Jade Scouts/Soldiers with any given Epidemic
  • While conditions won't transfer to an "inactive" jade scout, they can still transfer if it becomes active whilst the Epidemic projectile travels through the air.
  • If a Jade Scout is about to reach the end zone, you're better off waiting an extra few moments before casting Epidemic.

• 恶疾肆虐 can be used to great effect during the "prisoner" phase. While as an invulnerable target Samarog will block Epidemic projectiles should Rigom be knocked back inside his hitbox, there is a sweet spot where Rigom can be targeted/affected by Epidemic and not have the projectiles be mitigated. By using Epidemic on Rigom and transferring his conditions to Guldhem you can achieve a one-player "Epi-bounce".
  • Alternatively, if Rigom is at the front end of Samarog's hitbox but still inside it you can use Epidemic on Guldhem and still potentially have it reach Rigom.
• 黑暗抓攫 can be used to help re-position Rigom near Samarog.
  • Be aware that if your timing is not good you will need to wait a short period for Rigom to stop being invulnerable before you can pull him.
• While 召唤血肉魔像 is powerful CC here, depending on your group's dps it may only be up every 2nd breakbar, so try to coordinate this with your other team member's large CC skills.
  • Just be aware that if you are targeted by Samarog's Brutalize attack it will kill any minions you have summoned (so try not to get fixated).
• Try to avoid using your Shroud combo just before or during

a break bar, as it will neutralize your damage.

• Be careful when positioning to place your ice field from 处决镰刀 so you don't step in the black Rapid Decay AoEs.
• 恶疾肆虐 can both be used to transfer conditions from the Saul clones to Deimos or vice-versa, as well as slow down/kill the Prides before the reach the real Saul D'Alessio.

• 恶疾肆虐 is a must have here to help deal with both the Tormented Dead and the Elite Flesh Wurms.
  • Additionally, you can also Epi-bounce whilst killing these if you have two Necromancers in your group. Communication is key here as they die very quickly once hit by the first Epidemic cast.
• Owing to the amount you'll be moving during this fight, it's better to bring 召唤血肉魔像 for more consistent damage as well as the on-demand CC for SH's breakbars.
• Be careful with your positioning/timing for using 黑暗抓攫 so as not to pull the Tormented Dead on to the group.
• Also be careful with how you re-position to use your shroud combo so you do not walk into the Soul Rifts.

• Most of the damage you will deal during this encounter will be burst based, so make sure you practice your shroud combo!
• 夜幕降临 is useful here to help protect Desmina from the Spirit Hordes by blinding them.
• 灵魂漩涡 is your best tool for dealing with the Spectral Rifts short of equipping an Axe for 恐怖之爪.

Statue of Ice - The Broken King:

• Be careful not to use your shroud combo on top of the ice fissures or in his frontal cone attack.

Statue of Death and Resurrection - The Eater of Souls:

• You can use 恶疾肆虐 here to help clear the Spirit Hordes, and bounce conditions between the Eater of Souls and the Twisted Spirit (the spider).
• 召唤血肉魔像 may be more useful here than 瘟疫化身 if group CC is low.

Statue of Darkness - Eyes of Judgement and Fate:

• You can use 恶疾肆虐 here to help kill the Minotaur if it spawns, just make sure both the Minotaur and the Eye are both vulnerable to attacks to ensure this works.

• 夜幕降临, 吞噬黑暗 and 孱弱之血 will also help remove conditions when Dhuum gains them.
  • It's "safe" to do about 2 Scepter auto attack chains during the Vortex attack Dhuum does so don't push your luck and try to do more.
• Should you happen to be "afflicted" with the bomb, you can use 死亡冲刺 to help get away/back to the group faster.
• You could use 召唤血肉地虫 to help take some of the Deathling aggro off the Reaper of the Chaos Planes, but only if no-one else is clearing them.
  • Summon it on the "line" between the center of the room and the Reaper, and Deathlings will aggro onto the Wurm as they run into it.
• Should you be chosen to do the "green circles" be aware that it will kill your minions every time you do this, so it might be wise to not use any minions in favor of other skills.
• You can use 夺魂之幕 and 惊惧魔甲 to help mitigate the damage you take outside of the dome during the final 10% phase.

No Pain No Gain:

• Take 增益腐蚀 to eliminate the boons that bosses will apply to themselves
  • Even without Alacrity, this will always be off cooldown before boons are reapplied.

Social Awkwardness:

• Be careful with how you position whilst using your shroud combo. While you need to be inside of a target's hitbox to ensure all chilling bolts hit this also makes it likely that you will force other players out of the hitbox.

Flux Bomb:

• Similar for Social Awkwardness, be careful how you position for your Shroud Combo (and by extension all of your damage) should you be the chosen target of the flux bomb
• Also be aware that as it applies blind, be sure to not let it negate any important skill casts like 恶疾肆虐.

Fractal Vindicators:

• These can be dealt with almost immediately by utilizing 恶疾肆虐.
• You can also make use of 夜幕降临 to help temporarily deal with their attacks by causing widespread blind.

Mists Convergence:

• It's down to chance which you get, but if an entity spawns (Jade Maw Tentacle, Mossman, Champ Rabbit) you can employ 恶疾肆虐 to perform Epi-bouncing at single target fights.
• You can use 夜幕降临 to blind the Jade Maw's Tentacle and prevent it knocking back your group.

• You can use
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  to teleport up to the 4 panels in the rotary energy wall segment from below, and use a combination of 鬼灵影步, Flesh Wurm, 症状吞噬, 暗影疾速, and some quick movements to hit all 4 panels.

• Underwater Combo:
  • Has a similar cadence to the terrestrial rotation, with spear in place of greatsword, and trident in place of sceptre.
  • 致命盛宴 to group up mobs and begin dealing damage.
  • 处决镰刀 -> 灵魂漩涡 inside hitboxes for Chilling Bolts
  • Immediately leave shroud and use Spear 2 and 5 for more Chilling Bolts.
  • Weapon swap and spam trident skills. 冰结深渊 deals an astonishing amount of damage on condi reaper.
• 夺魂之幕 prevents you from transforming into a dolphin (this doesn’t serve much purpose, it’s just amusing).
• Use 鬼灵影步/致命盛宴/暗影疾速 to stack up Swiftness before advancing through the dolphin segment.

• Placing a Flesh Wurm between Mai Trin and Horrik can block his fire projectiles, lowering damage done to your group

• 鬼灵缚爪/黑暗抓攫 can be used to assist in stacking the golems in the split phases in the Anomaly fight.
• 腐蚀毒云 can be used to block the projectile knockback attacks from the JT golems.

• 召唤血肉地虫
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  can be used to teleport up most of the first trap section with the wind gusts
• It can also be used in tandem with a White Mantle Portal Device to teleport your party up to the boss room from the right arm seals, and functions well enough as a bone fiend alternative.

• Use 腐蚀毒云 to block both firestorm projectiles and the projectile attacks from the Molten Effigy.
• In the event that you need to mitigate the Enrage from the secondary boss (usually Firestorm), your minions each remove the stacks of enrage at the same rate you do, leading to a vastly reduced time taken to remove enrage stacks for every minion you have equipped.
• 恶疾肆虐 can be used to deal with the Dredge the Firestorm summons in its 2nd form.

• Using 夺魂之幕, the passive damage reduction/mitigation and stability from 惊惧魔甲 allows you to brute force through the steam walls toward the end of the fractal.
• 黑暗抓攫 is a useful pull for relocating the Veteran Molten Dredge Protector who makes the Weapon Core invulnerable
• 腐蚀毒云 blocks both the fire tornados and the fire AoEs during the weapon test boss

Standard:

• Reaper can solo capture the capture points between boss 1 and 2 through clever usage of 黑暗抓攫, 惊惧魔甲, 鬼灵缚爪 and 夜幕降临 to move the ads out of the capture areas and keep them out.
• You can use
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  to Teleport up to the capture areas to avoid the aoes on the path leading up to them
• If in a bind, you can use 夺魂之幕 to “eat” damage from Ensolyss’ hallucination stomp attack, the hallucinations “dying” after this finisher will replenish any life force lost this way. Just be aware, it most likely won’t protect you from being hit by all 5 simultaneously.
• Try to maintain your Life Force, as it can be a deciding factor that allows you to survive during the capture phases.

Challenge Mode:

• Condi Reaper can easily perform as poison kiter at Siax, allowing your team to focus on damage rotations without worrying about the poison or hallucination spawning AoEs.
  • To guarantee aoe aggro, make sure your kiter is the only player in the boss room when the fight starts. To ensure this, have other players stack on the mistlock and only run in when the first break bar starts.
  • The game logic behind this is as follows:
    • Siax can only target the hallucination attack on players within the fighting area
    • Siax targets a player as the first breakbar begins.
    • Once targeted, the "fixation" for this attack will only change once the current target goes down/dies.
• Aside from this, you can Scepter auto attack at range (this is the only time it’s ok :P), and use 增益腐蚀 to deal with boons and 恶疾肆虐 to deal with Hallucinations as needed.
  • Additionally, you can save your Shroud combo for dealing with the Hallucinations the spawn during the split phase.

• You can use 黑暗抓攫 to cancel any given attack a Sand Binder is doing (this is because their attacks are only able to be cancelled by pulls, and their breakbars are also immediately broken by pulls.
• 腐蚀毒云 can block the following in the Amala fight:
  • Lyssa staff autoattacks
  • Melandru Earth Elemental boulder throw
  • Grenth Staff attacks (used after teleporting to a flesh wurm)
  • Grenth Flesh Wurm attacks
• 恶疾肆虐 is effective for the following:
  • Killing the excess Lyssa clones
  • Epi-bouncing off the Melandru Earth Elemental
  • The Priestesses of Lyssa, Melandru, Grenth and Balthazar's extra minions.
  • Clearing the wurms during Grenth phase (don’t use Epidemic if there are shambling horrors up)
• 增益腐蚀 can be used to help mitigate the boons Amala applies to herself during several phases of the fight.
  • 夜幕降临, 腐烂诅咒 and 孱弱之血 will also help with this.

Standard:

• 腐蚀毒云 blocks the bouncing orbs that leave behind the damaging AoEs at Skorvold.
• 夺魂之幕 can mitigate the damage from the red skull attacks that require allies to get inside the dome
  • Only do this if an ally is unable to get to the dome and you need to stay alive. This does not mean you can stop the attack occurring and affecting your allies by going into Shroud.
  • This also requires that you have roughly 60% or more Life Force remaining.
• 召唤血肉魔像 will, in most cases, insta-break a Viraastra clone during the determination phases
• 腐蚀毒云 blocks both Arkk’s and Viraastra's red orb attacks (specifically the ones that cause knockdown/apply damaging AoEs on the ground.
• 鬼灵缚爪 allows you to pull all 4 additional mobs that spawn with both of the mini bosses in the Arkk fight.

Challenge Mode:

• 恶疾肆虐 is very good for dealing with the Anomalies that spawn during the Arkk fight.

• 腐蚀毒云, if placed correctly, can block all 5 projectiles sent out by the Elemental Source that cause the fires to go out (this is done by aiming CPC at the top part of the “spire” that makes up the base of the elemental)
• By using 恶疾肆虐, you can kill the first set of Icebrood Crystals before you enter the room (only useful if still waiting for other players to arrive/not be afk/you get there first)
  • The combo is as follows:
    • 死亡束缚
    • 吞噬黑暗
    • 孱弱之血
    • 鲜血力量
    • 恶疾肆虐
    • 致命虫群

• Using 夜幕降临 can essentially make a tentacle unable to attack for its duration due to the multiple applied blinds (hard CC can also cancel their attack)
• Be aware that the terrain makes 黑暗抓攫 difficult to use, due to somewhat uneven floor panels
• Epidemic may target “invisible hitboxes” in this fight, so plan accordingly.
• Using hard CC on the Jade Elementals can remove their passive projectile reflect (though they can still cast a manual Magnetic Shield. Make sure you remove their reflect before using 黑暗抓攫/致命虫群.

• Using 瘟疫化身 within a second of Ai dashing to the side of the arena to perform her multi-part projectile attack will give it enough time to apply all stacks of conditions before she moves again (with the exception being if she reaches a phase hp threshold). It is best to drop Plaguelands at the location where you will break her though.
• Be aware that her hitbox is a little weird. You will need to jump if you're using 鬼灵缚爪 to allow it to hit her.
• 恶疾肆虐 can hit the Sorrows in the dark phase of the CM fight, and is effective for dealing with their break bars. Two necros with 恶疾肆虐 should be sufficient to kill the Sorrows with damage instead, removing the need to break them at all!

• 鬼灵影步 is useful for lowering the total ground needed to be covered with the wisp at the start of the fractal.
• You can 恶疾肆虐 the Champion Oakheart during the Bloomhunger army phases, effectively making it an effective "Condi Battery" to help account for the buildup time of your Condi damage.

• Using a combination of
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  and 鬼灵影步 allows you to solo the southern turret room: https://gfycat.com/DazzlingBlaringHart
• Use Flesh Wurm to teleport part way through the heat room, making getting to the end safer.
• For the two southern doors in the eastern room, you can use 恶疾肆虐 in tandem with sufficient conditions on the door to destroy the portal behind the door (which controls completion) without breaking the door and releasing the enemies inside.
• During the Subject 6 fight, keep in mind that even if it is blocking you can still use unblockable attacks on it. As such, you can use 恶疾肆虐 to help deal with the mini Ooze's.
• Be sure to remember to swap 恶疾肆虐 out for 召唤影魔 for the final Anomaly fight, as there is little usage for it.

• 召唤血肉地虫
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  allows for teleporting to the top of the “Guitar Hero™ ” segment before the Old Tom fight, and 腐蚀毒云 can be placed at the top to block the projectiles.
  • General Tip: You can interact with the first panel and dodge forward at the same time to continue moving to the second panel, then do the same thing with your 2nd dodge to solo all 3 panels without the need for teleports.
• Placing 召唤血肉地虫 inside of Old Tom’s hit box blocks all of his Poison projectiles until the Flesh Wurm/Old Tom is slain.
  • This also works to block the lightning ball attacks from the Raving Asura.

• The stability from 夺魂之幕 can be used to prevent yourself from being knocked off of the interaction panel at the start of the fractal, allowing allies to focus on protecting you instead of camping the switches.
• Be sure to use the SAB boom box to pop your minions if you’re going into the bomb run segment to avoid unwanted aggro.
• 召唤血肉地虫
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  can be used to teleport up to the panels that activate the lava buckets in the final boss, and is generally always off cooldown in time (even without a Chrono).
  • The specific advantage of this being you can place it up next to the switch in advance, meaning you can teleport up immediately as soon as the boss enters the required area.
• 黑暗抓攫 cancels both bosses’ healing “attack”
  • This applies to any kind of pull, though results may vary occasionally
• 寄生蔓延 = Never die in the final fight due to how damage scaling works while the boss is under the effects of lava. (x10 more damage, x10 more healing)

• 恶疾肆虐 can be used on Siegemaster Dulfy to easily cleave down her siege weaponry, deals with those pesky ballista shots (can also Epidemic from mobs onto siege/doors to progress faster later on)
• 黑暗抓攫 allows you to alternate pulling mobs with your teammates, meaning there’s always a pull off cooldown for grouping up the Ascalonians you encounter throughout the fractal (this also combos well with 夜幕降临 to blind the burst damage from the warriors)

• To prevent aggro’d minions keeping the Grawl Shaman on his pedestal, keep a Super Adventure Box (SAB) Boom Box in your inventory; using it will “pop” all your minions and stop them holding aggro (this works in any fractal where you are not transformed)
• By using Shroud/Mistlock, Necro has a simplified version of the skip from the mini boss to the final boss. Jump off the edge, let the Mistlock absorb the lethal damage then use Shroud to safely get to the platform (there is a safer way that preserves the Mistlock, but this is technically faster).
  • Once you activate the checkpoint, you can then /gg yourself to avoid your allies having to wait for you to get out of combat
• Minions contribute to the degrading of the Grawl Shaman’s lava shield separately to you, so more minions = faster shield degradation