Reaper - Power DPS

Reaper is a self-sufficient AoE DPS class that gets even better the less experienced its group is.

Reaper's niche is that it has a huge health pool for a DPS class, and sustains very high personal 急速, 威能, and critical chance. It also brings heavy CC and 易伤 similar to Holosmith. This makes it one of the best "solo carry" DPS classes, and it's very strong in disorganized groups that don't have dedicated supports providing 急速, 威能, 激怒, and so on.

Apart from DPS, Reaper can provide some party support through 吸血光环, and can bring utilities like 腐蚀毒云 and 鬼灵缚爪 to a dungeon/fractal group. It is also capable of stripping boons if needed.

Weapon Variants

• Staff can be replaced with Dagger/Sword or Spear for players that own Secrets of the Obscure or Janthir Wilds, respectively. These have higher sustained damage than Staff but lack cleave and the ability to prestack extra damage with marks.
  • Staff is chosen for its balance of DPS and lifeforce generation, and the ability to precast the marks during downtime for extra burst.
  • Sword is your highest damage ranged weapon, and cleaves.
  • Axe is the highest damage ranged weapon for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure, but isn't recommended.
  • Mainhand Dagger is the highest damage option and has good boonrip, but has the lowest lifeforce generation. Also provides a sizable heal.
  • Spear deals comparable damage to Dagger/Sword and brings an even bigger heal, stronger boonrip, and high lifeforce generation. It does deal lower damage above 50% though, so is likely to be less effective in real encounters.
• Only Sword offers any DPS as an offhand option. For players that do not own Secrets of the Obscure, Warhorn is the default choice, but other options can be taken if necessary:
  • Sword provides extra damage by sacrificing health, but provides some healing too.
  • Warhorn offers a bit of healing, a bit of CC, and good lifeforce generation.
  • Focus adds more boonrip.
  • Torch has the biggest CC.
  • Use Dagger offhand for a blind and condition cleanse. Be aware that dagger has no life force skill, making it more niche than the other options.

Skill Variants

Healing

• 鲜血法池 - your biggest heal, that also heals allies.
• 召唤血魔 - better DPS than 吸血纹章 when there are multiple targets.
• - if conditions are a problem.

Utility

When swapping out utility skills, don't replace unless it's absolutely necessary.

• - additional boonrip and unblockable attacks.
• - transfers conditions and helps with uptime.
• - AoE boonstrip.
• - AoE pull for easier cleaving. Also helps with uptime.
• - worth taking if uptime is good, but life force is a problem.
• - destroys projectiles.
• - 1200 range teleport. Can also bodyblock certain projectiles (e.g. Old Tom's poison whirl).
• - Personal stability and AoE condition cleanse.
• - if the party lacks might.

Elite

• - better burst damage than . Also useful for soloing Thaumanova heat room with your massive health pool.
• - if area CC is needed.

• 死亡冰寒 is poor damage against targets with no boons, so you could run 恶意坚韧 to boost your life force.
• 灵魂印记 can be replaced with 破势爆弹 if you are not using a staff.

Food

Utility

• or slaying potions

The logic behind this rotation is to maximise uptime by entering shroud as often as is possible, while trying to time , and with so that their pulsing effects benefit from the extra ferocity from and extra critical damage from . Other damage skills such as are used to fill downtime.

The buff from is maintained for as long as possible by spacing out , and during the shroud burst.

Simplified Rotation

As Greatsword is by far the strongest weapon, the full rotation can be simplified by camping it and also dropping a few of the less impactful skills:

Opener

1. - this triggers on each pulse, making the buff last for nine seconds

Reaper's Shroud

is only a small DPS increase over shroud autos, so to prevent being locked into the animation it can just be skipped. The exact position of skills is not fixed, but the idea is to never drop the buff from . To enable this, you need to cast no more than three auto chains after , and leave shroud immediately after. Aim to get 5-7 auto chains in (below 50% you may lack the life force to do 7).

1. ⇒ ⇒ x4
2. - you can queue this during the cast of the previous skill to ensure no autoattacks sneak in
3. ⇒ ⇒ x3

Greatsword

Cast and as soon as you . Otherwise complete auto chains and use whenever it is available - completing an auto chain refreshes its cooldown, and if your target it below 50% health, it has no cooldown at all and should be spammed.

When your shroud has a ~3s cooldown remaining, repeat the opener.

Dagger/Sword Rotation

Opener

Opener

1. 夜幕降临 - this triggers 烟花古物 on each pulse, making the buff last for nine seconds
2. "弱者退散！"
3. Weapon Swap
4. 与世隔绝
5. 黑暗法池
6. 苦难法池
7. 悲痛欲绝
8. 千疮百孔
9. 夺魂之幕

Reaper's Shroud

1. 死亡冲刺
2. 生命撕裂 ⇒ 生命劈裂 ⇒ 生命收割 x2
3. 死亡冲刺
4. 灵魂漩涡 - you can queue this during the cast of the previous skill to ensure no autoattacks sneak in
5. 生命撕裂 ⇒ 生命劈裂 ⇒ 生命收割
6. 死亡冲刺
7. 生命撕裂 ⇒ 生命劈裂 ⇒ 生命收割 (optional)
8. 处决镰刀 - this skill deals extra damage when the target is below 50% and 25% health, so you can use the extra auto chain above if this would put your target below the threshold, or if it lines up with a break bar.
9. 解除夺魂之幕

Spear-to-Greatsword

1. 腐坏纷争
2. 斩草除根
3. 与世隔绝
4. 千疮百孔
5. 黑暗劈砍 - make sure that Perforate has ended before using Distress
6. 悲痛欲绝
7. 千疮百孔
8. Weapon Swap
9. 掘墓剑斩
10. 死亡漩涡
11. 夜幕降临
12. 黑暗法池
13. 苦难法池
14. 黑暗抓攫
15. 夺魂之幕
16. Repeat Reaper's Shroud Rotation

Greatsword-to-Spear

3. - a single auto is optimal if you're fast enough
5. Weapon swap
10. - make sure that Perforate has ended before using Distress
16. Repeat Reaper's Shroud Rotation

The full loop cycles between Reaper's Shroud ⇒ Spear-to-Greatsword ⇒ Reaper's Shroud ⇒ Greatsword-to-Spear ⇒ Repeat.

Below 50% health, the rotation changes very slightly (see below for details).

Rotation Explanation

Necromancer's Spear is one of the less complicated spears. Most of your weapons skills build up stacks of a powerful lifesteal buff called Soul Shards that caps at six stacks. consumes these stacks for a burst of damage and healing. and generate four and two stacks, respectively, so these are used for the first . generates six stacks, and so it is used both to recharge, and power the second . You may gain different numbers of stacks depending on the number of enemies nearby, but this doesn't change your rotation.

Above 50% health, the rotation boils down to the following:

• Every time you swap to Greatsword (or exit shroud to it), use each available skill once.
• Every time you swap to Spear (or exit shroud to it) use all available skills once, refreshing with the flip skill of and using it a second time.
• Use off cooldown.
• Always whirl inside the boss so you hit with every whirl finisher from .

Below 50% Health

When the boss is below 50% health, your rotation changes due to having no cooldown. All this means is that you can use an extra time.

Equipment Variants

• You want to aim for ~2005-2010 precision (with 超级精确法印).
• 超级学者符文 would be a tiny DPS loss.
• 超级夜幕法印 or slaying sigils if you can benefit from the bonus (replacing 超级武勇法印).
• If you don't have stat infusions, use Assassin stats legs.

Impact Sigil Variant

If you want to benefit from 超级冲击法印, you will need to slot in more assassins pieces:

萨菲尔假面

AssassinHead

卓加肩章

BerserkerShoulders

卓加紧身衣

BerserkerChest

卓加绑臂

BerserkerHands

BerserkerLegs

BerserkerFeet

AssassinBackpiece

AssassinAccessory

AssassinAccessory

BerserkerAmulet

AssassinRing

AssassinRing

BerserkerGreatsword

Sigil

Sigil

BerserkerStaff

• You want to aim for ~2155 precision.