Reaper's Sweep

Spam the hell out of a 3 second knock down with this build. Thoughts, suggestions, or better uses of the elite?

Reaper's Sweep
Zealous Sweep
Staggering Force
Balthazar's Rage
Pious Fury
Aura of Holy Might
For Great Justice
Air of Superiority

SO many good elites now tho. Forms are real strong as is Vow of Str and Onslaught.

Seems a waste for just KD. Why do that when you can get adrenaline/ias/speed in one...

KD is fun though. I used this skill until I got a few other elites

Reapers Sweep seems to be purely aimed at PvP now. Before the 'buff' we had a high damage, ench stripping with possible deepwound attack. Now we have...this thing.

Damage looks... meh. You're hit hard by recharges too and AoS doesn't fix that.

Reaper's sweep is much easier to charge vs groups than erfshaker, and Erfshaker also doesn't actually hit the adjacent targets while this does. I think the elite still has potential, you are going to be giving up DPS, but perma KD still has a useful niche.

Why Staggering Force? I'd run Rending aura. Rending aura --> Reaper's Sweep ---> zealous . strips enchants

I'd keep Staggering and replace Balth's Rage with Rending Aura.
Cracked Armour is more useful than Burning I think. You would need to ensure you'd get more than an extra 28 damage from CA though in the relevant timeframe for it to beat the burning from BR. Not sure how useful the adrenaline gain is from BR; it is only once every 10 seconds (although 4 adren whilst under FGJ is nice).
Since you want both your FEs available for the chain, I'd replace Pious Fury with Heart of Fury or even Frenzy/Drunken Master.

but Balth Rage gives +2 adrenaline (4 under FGJ) for the initial Reaper's Sweep so you charge it in 1 hit. Are you sure that's a good idea? With Air of superiority it might be more than every 10s, but relying on chance is bad.

I wouldn't Pious Fury in PVE since Heart of Fury is easy to charge. People don't ball in PvP (or shouldn't).

I'd say it very much depends on the mob size. I don't mind attacking twice to charge an adrenal skill and if I were to have Dark Fury in my setup then I'd definitely swap it out.
SF has a shorter recharge than BR too.

Playing around in the norn tourney with something like this

Reaper's Sweep
Twin Moon Sweep
Staggering Force/Rending Aura
Dust Cloak/Whirling Charge
Balthazar's Rage
Heart of Fury
FGJ
AoHM? Air of Superiority?

TMS is basically doing the same thing as zealous sweep, except it recharges much more often for higher damage, but you need enchant fodder. Contingent on keeping FGJ up for high effectiveness. If you're hitting multiple targets under FGJ you just spend your enchant cycles on Reaper's sweep. Against a single target with FGJ you can fire off TMS for a 3 adren boost and still get AoHM triggers.

This could keep a single target on their feet 50% of the time (while FGJ is up anyway). Against just two targets (like zho + pet) it's perma KD, but I imagine the original build did that well enough.

i think reaper's sweep should just be changed back to how it was. dervs don't even need a kd since its the only one for dervs and they don't even want dervs to be spiking so you can't do much after you knock em down. so its pretty much just a snare that costs 8 adrenaline that you can slowly spam with adrenaline gaining skills. but there are better snares out there like aura of thorns or crippling sweep anyway. pretty pointless skill now if you ask me, besides dervs needed a skill that has a strong dmg, strips enchants, and apply deep wound with out enchantments and that skill did all of that at the same time.

and i don't even know what to do with this in pve.

Seems like a lot of casting, even if some of them are flash.

Aura of Holy might is the only thing with a cast, and thats at a 3/4 second cast. I want whatever drugs you are on that turns 3/4ths of a second into "a lot" of casting.

Reaper's Sweep
Wearying Strike / Victorious Sweep / Banishing Strike (link with normal attack chain for faster adrenaline gain)
Radiant Scythe
Rending Aura
Frenzy
Vow of Piety

The other 2 skills are up to your imagination. Basically 8 adrenaline attack skills screams for Frenzy and Vow of Piety is there to boost armor.