Reaper - Procmancer

• Twitch: Drazeh

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Skill Variants

Utility

For the optional slot:

• 鬼灵圆环 - area denial that can save your life and the 恐惧 has great synergy with various traits.

• 召唤血肉地虫 - a potentially life-saving positioning tool.

• 鬼灵铠甲 - stunbreak, defense against direct damage, and great Life Force generation.

• "无尽苦痛！" - condition cleansing and frequent AoE 冰冻 application.

• "死亡将临！" - great skill to use against opponents who rely on blocking skills to survive like Dragonhunters or Virtuosos, but also works well against the many projectile-reflects of Tempests.

• 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 - Scepter remains a viable option especially for people who don't own the Secrets of the Obscure expansion. You lose a CC but gain a boon corrupt, however Scepter is a slower weapon and the damage requires some setup which makes it less ideal under pressure.

There are plenty of strong options for the off-hand slot:

• Torch over Dagger - while Torch is a strong weapon, it comes with several tradeoffs in this build. Torch increases your condition diversity, improves Life Force generation and adds a CC (single target), however it's going to cost you a condition transfer, 目盲 synergy (several traits in the build are centered around this condition) and AoE 虚弱. Torch offers more damage but lowers your survivability and trades AoE soft-CC ( 目盲, 冰冻, 虚弱) for single target hard-CC (a knockdown).

• Focus over Dagger - adds more boon removal, burst damage and Life Force management tools to the build while retaining the synergy. It offers no survivability tools however.

• Off-hand Sword over Dagger - ranged CC, life steal and application. Solid choice both for defense and offense but offers very little condition pressure. It's more of a utility weapon.

Variants

• 传播瘟疫 improves your survivability and could even translate into more damage sometimes, but you have to give up some valuable 冰冻-related trait synergy by dropping 寒冰暗幕. This becomes a more attractive option when NOT playing with off-hand Dagger - losing a 目盲 application by taking a different weapon would weaken Chilling Darkness while Plague Sending could compensate for the loss of Dagger's condi transfer.

Variants

• 防御瓦解 makes it a bit harder to build Life Force but increases your burst damage, especially in shroud.

• 死亡占卜 adds a bit of life stealing to the build for slightly higher sustain.

Equipment Variants

Amulets

• 狂暴项链 - better defense against Power-based burst damage.

Sigils

• 逃脱法印 over 智慧法印 - improves your condition cleansing. Getting rid of several non-damaging conditions on weapon swap also increases your chances of transferring damaging conditions with 腐烂印记.

Runes

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

Relics

• 阴鬼古物 - creates an AoE field beneath the target of your elite. 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！".

• 夺魂者古物 - adds a 冰冻 proc to every shout. Worth considering due to trait synergy, especially when playing with at least one utility shout (but preferably more).

• 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.

General

• 恐惧 and 目盲 both apply 冰冻, and Chill applies 易伤 + 流血.

• 冰冻 is the most important condition in the build. Not only because it gets your condi procs rolling but also because of the sustain tied to 霜冻凯歌.

• Use "灵魂夺取！" as often as possible, even out of combat. This is crucial for building Life Force (LF).

• 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.

• Entering shroud procs 恶灵附体 and 衰弱帷幕, these are both defensive and offensive by nature. Being able to rip boons and apply 虚弱 even when you're sitting in a CC could save your life, and these are great instant offensive procs as well which could kickstart your burst chain.

  • Quickly following up with 死亡冲刺 to apply Blind and 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/Dagger (if the sigils aren't on CD) which are instantly applied to the enemy target via 恶灵附体 for increased burst and condition variety.

• Ideally try to use 死亡冲刺 inside the field left behind by 处决镰刀 to combo 冰霜光环.

• Cleansing on this build is rather limited and often tied to offensive skills such as 腐烂印记 and 致命虫群, skill #4 on both weapons. Other than that you've got 鬼灵影步 but depending on what 3rd utility you took this may or may not be the only stunbreak in the build so use it wisely.

• There's more to (SW) than just being a stun breaker with a bit of LF management, this skill allows for quite a bit of creativity. For example:

  • Activate SW ⇒ jump off a cliff while being chased ⇒ when your enemies jump after you.
  • Activate SW ⇒ break line of sight ⇒ cast ⇒ teleport back at the very end of the channeling (this makes it harder to avoid and reduces the chance of getting interrupted, although the outcome is going to be a bit luck based).
  • Activate SW ⇒ (if using Flesh Wurm) ⇒ when they catch up to you. This works for stomping downed enemies as well, the channeling isn't interrupted by either of these teleports!

• When playing with Scepter, is best used on targets that already have several conditions on them to maximize damage and LF generation.

  • is a great setup for this skill, allowing you to deliver burst damage in an instant.

• is one of the strongest skills in the build due to its synergy with various traits. It's valuable in any situation from surviving enemy focus to pressuring multiple targets.

• For mobility use the following sequence:

3. 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)

• is a great skill for quickly setting up other skills like , or a shroud burst.

• On Staff try to use AFTER for a free AoE combo.

• and are the best skills to use with .

Shroud burst rotation example

2. to your target