Everything You Need To Start Playing Power Reaper in World vs. World

-- Power Reaper has taken a backseat in many groups recently due to its yellower, more supporting alternative the Scourge, but is still a great option for groups that need to remove boons while remaining competitive on damage. In this video, I'll cover the essentials of what you need to play Power Reaper for your first squad, discussing gearing and trait choices, basic rotations and skill combos, and your overall role in a group. The goal of these guides is to give you the knowledge and skill to play a profession effectively, and discover the finer points and advanced techniques later on.
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-- Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:23 Squad Role and Profession Mechanic
01:42 Rotation Example
02:20 Weapons and Gearing
03:44 Utility Skills
05:29 Spite Traits
06:15 Soul Reaping Traits
07:11 Reaper Traits
07:57 Step By Step Rotation
09:23 Personal Skill Combos
10:55 Lich Form Skill Combos
11:43 Outro
-- Music Attribution
Intro is:
Elestrals Trailer Theme (Lofi Cover) by ‪@GlitchxCity‬.
Gearing/Utility is:
Diamond/Pearl Route 209 (Lofi Remix) by ‪@GlitchxCity‬.
Outro is:
Celestia by Ghostrifter bit.ly/ghostrifter-yt
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All other music from Master Planned Music.

[@Balttizar]

Such a great video. Thanks again Sheff for putting in the hard work.

[@GW2Aech]

Nice guide Sheff

[@NotBIast]

Very nice guide keep it up

[@gamingfanforlife290]

nice job

[@cube6149]

Great video. Sub

[@Skrunklybunk]

Reaper S-tier dps especially for pressing 1 B)

[@sheffplaysgames]

Shroud 1 in skill lag is kinda crazy, as long as you can get into Shroud in the first place. But the GS autoattack chain is no slouch either. I think it's an underrated lag build, honestly.

[@C0ldZilla]

emm...whats the point to have reaper in group if we have more usefull scr with more usefull buffs and transcendence?

[@jeff-yp2bk]

0:23 he explains it pretty well. It's not really replacing support scourge in squad, think of it as off dps

[@C0ldZilla]

@@jeff-yp2bkoff dps ? what. 😃

[@jeff-yp2bk]

@@C0ldZilla just like, not pure dps, good dmg with good utility

[@sheffplaysgames]

You need damage professions in a WvW squad that do enough damage to punch through Protection and barrier. That's Holosmith, Dragonhunter, and Berserker. But there's damage professions that augment that spike -- not quite enough damage to do it themselves, but have enough cleave damage, or overall utility to create and confirm downs. That's Reaper and DPS Spellbreaker. Scourge is not "more useful". It's a support profession, not a damage profession. In a squad, they fill different roles. So it's not useful to compare them one to one.