Reaper - Condi DPS

Spirit Vale

Salvation Pass

Stronghold of the Faithful

Bastion of the Penitent

Hall of Chains

Fractals

A condition damage build for Necromancer that sacrifices the versatility of Scourge for higher damage. This build also brings large amounts of short-range cleave without having to rely on 恶疾肆虐, and its frequent application of 目盲 and 冰冻 make it effective at mitigating damage in mob-heavy fights.

Variants

• For those who do not own Secrets of the Obscure, Dagger/Sword can be replaced by another Spear at a small DPS loss (or a single one, at another small DPS loss).

Skill Variants

Healing

• 吸血纹章 or 召唤血魔 for a little more damage. 吸血纹章 is slightly more DPS, but can hit targets other than the one you're attacking.
• "灵魂夺取！" is the only bonus source of life force generation you have, which may be necessary on some encounters.
• 鲜血法池 is your biggest heal in encounters without incoming conditions, and it provides a small amount of support.

Utility

Replace "无尽苦痛！" if you need any of the following:

• 瘟疫纹章 for condition cleansing teammates and a strong condition transfer.
• 鬼灵缚爪 for defiance damage on fights with numerous adds and a 1200 24px Range 拽起.
• 腐蚀毒云 if projectile absorb is needed.
• 恶疾肆虐 if in an encounter with numerous adds spawning.
• 召唤血肉地虫 is your go-to blink skill should you require quick mobility.
• 召唤影魔 If you need more life force, shadow friend can help.

Elite

• 召唤血肉魔像 for good crowd control (or in any situation where a boss is too mobile to make use of the full damage potential of 瘟疫化身).

Trait Variants

• Use 寄生蔓延 for strong self heal at a dps loss.
• Use 霜冻凯歌 if you find yourself starved of life force.

Specialization Variants

Spite variant (instead of Soul Reaping)

Spite gives access to self-generate 急速 and 威能, enabling you to easily maintain 25 stacks once a target is below 50% health. Use this in situations where you're completing a solo role (for example, doing Back Wargs at Escort). It also grants you far more vulnerability application.

Food

• • , or for a cheaper alternative. Swap your weapons stats for Viper's to still achieve maximum duration.

Utility

• • or for a cheaper alternative

Rotation

**Condi Reaper'**s damage mostly originates from , which is also applied from via . By properly using Ice Combo Fields, you get multiple procs of this trait by using and Whirl finishers from and . In addition, applying and will also apply via and respectively, boosting damage from any skill that applies those conditions. As has a 3-second internal cooldown, spreading out your sources of ( and ) is also beneficial. Despite its name being "Condi Reaper" the build mostly behaves as a hybrid, dealing ~40% of its total damage as Strike Damage.

Finally, entering or exiting counts as a weapon swap, meaning that we can trigger and twice on each loop while only having them on a weapon set.

Perforate combo

Spear uses a very important combination of skills.

• ⇒ ⇒ ⇒
• fully stacks Soul Shards and resets 's cooldown, however, it is an instant cast skill, meaning that it can be used in the middle of another animation without interrupting said animation.
• doesn't start its cooldown until it finished casting.
  • Meaning that you can perform while 's cooldown hasn't even started, thus missing the cooldown reset.
• In order to avoid this, you can use a Filler skill or start a single Auto-Attack after has finished casting (and thus, started its Cooldown), then cast in the middle of the animation of the Filler skill or Auto-Attack.
  • If you choose to start an Auto-Attack, make sure to cancel it as soon as possible with .

Spear and Dagger rotation

Opener

Begin on Spear.

• Abuse the Adrenaline Mushrooms as much as possible.
• Place on top of the Champions and use off cooldown to help mitigate mob presence.
• Use for better mobility.

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

• 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 to mitigate the effects of Cairn's Spatial Manipulation attack (though it will still increase your stacks of Unseen Burden).
• can be used as an extra means of getting around should you get displaced during the fight.

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

• Use 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.
• can be used to deal with the Dredge the Firestorm summons in its 2nd form.

Standard:

• blocks the bouncing orbs that leave behind the damaging AoEs at Skorvold.
• 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.
• will, in most cases, insta-break a Viraastra clone during the determination phases
• blocks both Arkk’s and Viraastra's red orb attacks (specifically the ones that cause knockdown/apply damaging AoEs on the ground.
• allows you to pull all 4 additional mobs that spawn with both of the mini bosses in the Arkk fight.

Challenge Mode:

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

• is useful for lowering the total ground needed to be covered with the wisp at the start of the fractal.
• You can 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.

• Take advantage of your to reach the green AoE if needed.
• 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 so you don't accidentally pull in seekers.

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

• Use 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 to help stack mobs when your allies' pulls are on cooldown
• 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.

• 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 for more consistent damage as well as the on-demand CC for SH's breakbars.
• Be careful with your positioning/timing for using 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.

• You can use Arrow right.webp to teleport up to the 4 panels in the rotary energy wall segment from below, and use a combination of , Flesh Wurm, , , and some quick movements to hit all 4 panels.

• Arrow right.webp 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.

• You can use 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.
• 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
• 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)
• can be used to help mitigate the boons Amala applies to herself during several phases of the fight.
  • , and will also help with this.

• Using 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 to allow it to hit her.
• can hit the Sorrows in the dark phase of the CM fight, and is effective for dealing with their break bars. Two necros with should be sufficient to kill the Sorrows with damage instead, removing the need to break them at all!

• The stability from 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.
• Arrow right.webp 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.
• cancels both bosses’ healing “attack”
  • This applies to any kind of pull, though results may vary occasionally
• = 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)

• Keep in mind that if you're about to do your shroud 5+4 combo and Gorseval begins his slam attack, you can use to prevent being knocked back whilst channeling (Assuming you aren't being given Aegis by allies).
• Use for the adds.
  • You can use to help speed up the Charged Soul phase, provided they are not inside Gorseval's hitbox when you use it.
  • You can use 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).

• When you get sacrificed, your minions die.
• Take advantage of the mobility of to reach the fountains or for placing the AoE's.
• Matthias will usually move about too much to make reliable, so bring to help CC the sacrifices.
• You could swap dagger for warhorn here and take . As you will frequently be afflicted with conditions on this encounter, using it in place of can prove very effective.

• 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.

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 here to help clear the Spirit Hordes, and bounce conditions between the Eater of Souls and the Twisted Spirit (the spider).
• may be more useful here than if group CC is low.

Statue of Darkness - Eyes of Judgement and Fate:

• You can use 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.

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

• , 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 , 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:

• Using a combination of Arrow right.webp and 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 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 to help deal with the mini Ooze's.
• Be sure to remember to swap out for for the final Anomaly fight, as there is little usage for it.

• 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)
• 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 to blind the burst damage from the warriors)

• Underwater Combo:
  • Has a similar cadence to the terrestrial rotation, with spear in place of greatsword, and trident in place of sceptre.
  • to group up mobs and begin dealing damage.
  • -> inside hitboxes for Chilling Bolts
  • Immediately leave shroud and use Spear 2 and 5 for more Chilling Bolts.
  • Weapon swap and spam trident skills. deals an astonishing amount of damage on condi reaper.
• prevents you from transforming into a dolphin (this doesn’t serve much purpose, it’s just amusing).
• Use // to stack up Swiftness before advancing through the dolphin segment.