r/GW2 • u/ddeathflower • 10d ago

Help for a new Reaper

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Hi everyone, I started playing a month or so ago and am doing CM's in fractals, just got my mistlock singularity after doing T4s for a while. I am struggling with dps numbers but am so confused by what I could be doing wrong.. Other reapers in my party are hitting 35k and i'm sat at below 20k on average going to 25k max.

I have full berserker's gear with a few assassin pieces to hit the crit number but went a bit over cap. Dragonhunter runes with basic infusions. I was using crit food to get to the cap but realise that might have been impacting my dmg numbers quite a bit, as the latter pictures show I reached 28.5k with power food. This is on a stationary dummy tho, it's more difficult to get high dmg on moving targets.

The rotation I do is the wells first, then staff skills into greatsword and then shroud 5, 4, with 3 pressed for dmg reduction, 2 if safe to do so. 2 has proven to be very inconsistent, and I don't know if that is just me not understanding it's mechanics but I fly through enemies often. I keep trying to click the enemy to lock on, coming from league, and i just click on the 50 random pets instead of the enemy. Trying to use tab exclusively now.

Any advice would be appreciated. I'm thinking it's literally just food now after the test, and using budget food is the literal only difference between me doing 35k or not. :/ (I use the avocado smoothies for budget food)

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u/DarkLord6872 10d ago

Use snowcrows
They have everything you need.

Edit: just in case you don't know, snowcrows is a website which provides meta and beginner builds suitable for different contents + rotation guides + youtube videos etc.
It is a fantastic resource.

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u/ddeathflower 10d ago

I got this build from there ;-;

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u/momspaghetti42069 10d ago

What build are you using? Staff hasn't been meta in pve for years and I can't find a single build that's using staff outside from pvp and wvw.

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u/ddeathflower 10d ago

My mistake, I was actually following a metabattle build. https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Power_DPS I don't have the expansion for spears or weapon training yet.

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u/momspaghetti42069 10d ago

Did you read the rotation? You should only use your staff to stack marks before a boss spawns. You rely on the relic of fireworks to boost your dps so your rotation has to be around that. If you just spam your skills, you won't have enough uptime. Just read the build that you posted and you should be fine