Reaper expectations

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Originally Posted by AC9Breaker

one trend Ive noticed, whenever new classes are released they are over powered and/or broken compared to other classes so they will typically be nerfed come the x.1 patch drop. That being said, I think it reasonable to expect Reaper will be broken or overpowered on launch, it will be considered the Chad DPS. Sam mains will cry. Monk Mains will cry. Que times for dps will be even worse.

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It depends, when samurai was released it was "okay" but monk was still better, Red Mage quickly become the "Rez mage" walking meme, and while DRK was released on quite good state (mostly due to a MAGIC raid with a tank that is good against magic), AST was so bad that had to be buffed constantly until it was broken op as hell.

They tend to err on the weaker scale usually then buff it on the following patches if needed

I suppose this is more speculation than expectations but idk why, it looks like Reaper has alot of multi hit attacks or an attack that seemingly does damage to the enemy more than once within a gcd but maybe that's wishful thinking. They seem to avoid making alot of multi hit moves (only ones I can think of it DRK's level 60 move and Dream within a Dream on Ninja)

I would love seeing more multihit attacks that actually register as multihit attacks (i.e. Phantom Flurry's stream of numbers) rather than just giving you out a single number. Go for that 99-hit combo juggling the enemy between you and your fang-blob.

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Originally Posted by Lyth

I would love seeing more multihit attacks that actually register as multihit attacks (i.e. Phantom Flurry's stream of numbers) rather than just giving you out a single number. Go for that 99-hit combo juggling the enemy between you and your fang-blob.

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I'd like to see more skills like Phantom flurry myself. Not only is it a channeled attack but you can press it again for a finisher or different attack altogether.

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Originally Posted by Lyth

I would love seeing more multihit attacks that actually register as multihit attacks (i.e. Phantom Flurry's stream of numbers) rather than just giving you out a single number. Go for that 99-hit combo juggling the enemy between you and your fang-blob.

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Sounds like a concept for a proper Assassin job, which I would really enjoy.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

I hope we can customize the voidsent to a couple of different models!

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Hate to burst your bubble... but they already stated in an interview that there's just going to be the one.

Maybe I’m just crazy, but I think Reaper may be a sign of giving some normal jobs instant death abilities like Blue Mage, and possibly inviting BLU into the normal scheme.

I say this because other than Marluxia in Kingdom Hearts, Reapers have never really had a basis in Final Fantasy, other than appearing in the animation of Instant Death spells. It would honestly be weird not to give Reaper an instant death skill.

I think in EndWalker this might also be practical in more complex high level dungeons (if they up the ante). Right now everyone knows it’s normal to just pull wall to wall and burn the trash. Well, if endwalker’s trailer is anything to look at, there’s gonna be a lot of trash to fight in the “final days”. With more enemies to kill, Instant death becomes something more of a practical mechanic.

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Originally Posted by wereotter

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I don't know. I think the voidsent would look pretty dapper in a top hat, but that's just me.

I never understood why this game is lacking in the way of job action animation glamours. Warcraft's glyph system always seemed like a simple enough concept to implement.

Personally I'm expecting people to make Mass Effect-related macros for it.
Like say, "ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL" or something.

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Originally Posted by Bhearil

It depends, when samurai was released it was "okay" but monk was still better, Red Mage quickly become the "Rez mage" walking meme, and while DRK was released on quite good state (mostly due to a MAGIC raid with a tank that is good against magic), AST was so bad that had to be buffed constantly until it was broken op as hell.

They tend to err on the weaker scale usually then buff it on the following patches if needed

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It was the same with Dancer too. It's damage was so low even with our buffs to consider that all our basic combo tools got a potency buff by 50 points each back in 5.1.