Dragoon or Reaper?

Hello everyone. I Just finished MSQ with my ninja and am preparing to level other jobs as well as do the extra stuff post-MSQ. And while I am loving ninja, I still wish to level one heavy armor melee job. I have always liked Dragoon but is Reaper very nice as well? Anyone with lvl 90 on both can comment on them? Appreciate it thanks

Imo, you should try both jobs first, them being fun/boring is relative and depends on each one's tastes. Its better that you try them for yourself and then decide

If you ask about performance:
Dragoon right now is a bit underpowered while Reaper is overperforming like crazy dealing comparable damage to SAM/BLM before adding RPR's raid damage contribution. Reaper is right now the DPS top dog but thats going to change for sure the question is "when"
Another side effect is that while DRG is still considerably popular, RPR is popular to the extreme to the point that unless you have a premade, youll have trouble finding groups for EX content and similar due to how many they are (unless they dont mind about having duplicates, but most want 1 job only), and being that strong only makes them even more used

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Originally Posted by Bhearil

Imo, you should try both jobs first, them being fun/boring is relative and depends on each one's tastes. Its better that you try them for yourself and then decide

If you ask about performance:
Dragoon right now is a bit underpowered while Reaper is overperforming like crazy dealing comparable damage to SAM/BLM before adding RPR's raid damage contribution. Reaper is right now the DPS top dog but thats going to change for sure the question is "when"
Another side effect is that while DRG is still considerably popular, RPR is popular to the extreme to the point that unless you have a premade, youll have trouble finding groups for EX content and similar due to how many they are (unless they dont mind about having duplicates, but most want 1 job only), and being that strong only makes them even more used

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Thanks for the reply. I still find dragoon fun. have been dragoon main since ARR. Am trying ninja now though for a change so my Dragoon is still lvl 80 haha. Just wanted to know how others who already has both at 90 find their experience with both and how fun they find both in contrast to each other :)

Reaper has no annoying animation locks.

The answer to 'Which job to play?' in this game is always;

Yes, all of them!

Enjoy ^^

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Originally Posted by IckeDerTyp

The answer to 'Which job to play?' in this game is always;

Yes, all of them!

Enjoy ^^

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haha. yes i guess if you are active enough you will eventually level them all through the course of the expansion :)

i cant say anything for reaper but DRG is probably the most straight forward melee dps right now, the combo is simple, the rotation is only about weaving between your combo, thats about it.

i heard that reaper is the highest dps right now which is the reason iam not going to play it for now, they are so going to get nerf later on. unlike SAM, reaper is not selfish dps class.

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Originally Posted by gumas

i cant say anything for reaper but DRG is probably the most straight forward melee dps right now, the combo is simple, the rotation is only about weaving between your combo, thats about it.

i heard that reaper is the highest dps right now which is the reason iam not going to play it for now, they are so going to get nerf later on. unlike SAM, reaper is not selfish dps class.

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Well, monk isn’t a “selfish” dps either, yet their DPS is something else too huh? Granted, reaper is a tad overpowered at the moment

I enjoyed lvl 80 reaper more than lvl 90 reaper.

Reaper are going to get nerfed, and also you'll be yet another Reaper.

Reaper is also incredibly dull when synced, which is important imo to some degree since you'll get synced down when you do roulettes a lot and older content in general.
Even people who love the Job generally tend to admit to this.

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Originally Posted by popotaro

Well, monk isn’t a “selfish” dps either, yet their DPS is something else too huh? Granted, reaper is a tad overpowered at the moment

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MNK is also op atm and will most likely get nerfed.

Dragoon is still very fun. Reaper suffers from lack of abilities to do at lower levels. The kit comes together at higher levels and feels good. Dragoon doesn't have that issue once we get to lv 60, 70, and 80 because they have a lot more oGCD actions to weave around. The gameplay smooths out much quicker. Different APM for 2 jobs, and different focuses.

Personally, I'd choose Reaper because I am more aesthetically inclined to their Lv 90 Gear (and they have a working HAT on Hrothgar no less!). I'm just a bit disappointed from losing the Blood of the Dragoon blue aura animation. However, Dragoon is still a close second because the gameplay is still fun.

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Originally Posted by Garet

Hello everyone. I Just finished MSQ with my ninja and am preparing to level other jobs as well as do the extra stuff post-MSQ. And while I am loving ninja, I still wish to level one heavy armor melee job. I have always liked Dragoon but is Reaper very nice as well? Anyone with lvl 90 on both can comment on them? Appreciate it thanks

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The correct answer

If you play with a controller reaper

If not dragoon

Button bloat for dragoon Is crazy.

90 dragoon here leveling Repear to main because dragoon on controller is crazy stressful on top of jump lock. On PC you would have blast with dragoon.I still love my dragoon to death.

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Well, monk isn’t a “selfish” dps either, yet their DPS is something else too huh? Granted, reaper is a tad overpowered at the moment

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I donno, seems like SMN is right up there with RPR.

Play reaper because it starts at level 70. That way if you don't really like it, you're only stuck with it for 20 levels. And if you do really like it, you can get to endgame faster.

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Well, monk isn’t a “selfish” dps either, yet their DPS is something else too huh? Granted, reaper is a tad overpowered at the moment

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yes but still below sam, at least thats the overall opinion so it is fine.

basically sam as selfish dps would be the highest dps kinda make sense, they offer nothing to party but their own damage. any class that has utility like party/raid buff etc shouldnt be higher than sam in theory at least

reaper has party/raid buff and also their overall dps is higher than sam doesnt make sense

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Originally Posted by Vortuna

I enjoyed lvl 80 reaper more than lvl 90 reaper.

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Why's that?

Reaper is the most satisfying melee dps job that they've ever designed. The gap closer/extender itself says it all.

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Originally Posted by Kolsykol

Reaper are going to get nerfed, and also you'll be yet another Reaper.

Reaper is also incredibly dull when synced, which is important imo to some degree since you'll get synced down when you do roulettes a lot and older content in general.
Even people who love the Job generally tend to admit to this.



MNK is also op atm and will most likely get nerfed.

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MEH, I'm liking the gameplay so far (at 90) so I dont really mind about the nerf it will surely get. About MNK being nerfed.. I dunno.

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Originally Posted by Quintessa

I donno, seems like SMN is right up there with RPR.

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...what? This is sarcasm right?

I levelled both to 90 after my tanks and spent a lot of time last expansion on DRG but honestly, if I could only play one, I'd pick RPR. DRG is still fun but it feels more methodical to me, perhaps because I'm more experienced and know the optimal rotations but RPR feels a little more fluid in what I'm doing. I mained GNB though for most of last expansion and RPR feels somewhat similar in terms of it's DPS playstyle. I say level both though and see for yourself.

in the end the only way to really say what you like more is to lvl both of them.
i'm a dragoon main since 5.0 and i still love the job a lot. but i have to say that little i've played with reaper also is fun. dragoon is straightforward but has a lot of ogcd's. movement is great with both jobs. never understood people talking about dragoon animation lock (yeah i know it was bad in the past).... its gotten a lot better with the enhanced double jump. and the also fastened jumps overall at some point. stardiver (is that the english name?) does have one but with that you have a small timewindow to work with.

I have both DRG and RPR at lvl 90. To me RPR felt more fun simply cause it's new. However it's quite simple and before lvl 80 it was very boring to level. I have a problem with Soul Sow, Harvest Moon, and Harpe, but other than that it plays fine. Unless I'm lagging then the Enshroud phase is a pain.

DRG however... is a lot harder to appreciate. DRG has probably the best job evolution in the game. All of it's stuff helps build to different stuff that normally effect other stuff. As such, DRG didn't change at all from ShB. It just got easier to do the stuff in ShB in EW. Thus even when you get your new animations for old abilities it kind of feels somewhat boring as you are basically still doing the same rotation as the last few years. But at the same time it's a very good rotation and really shouldn't be changed you know? The level 90 ability looks cool but you only get it every 11 button presses during single target, and every 7 button presses in your AoE rotation. As I said DRG has the best evolution by far so it would be very hard to mess with the rotation, but only getting new potency and new animations for old abilities does seem a little boring.

I have DRG at 90 and RPR at 81; DRG is still good if you liked it before, it just has more of the same. I feel like it's a nice clean job with good progression through levels. It continues to be my favorite melee DPS

RPR at level 81 feels more like a level 60 job. It's fairly straight forward and maybe a little _too_ clean. I haven't played it synced, but I imagine that it may feel a little dull at lower levels. That being said, it's going to be added to my list of "chill" classes with RDM and DNC. Those are what I play whenever I just want to relax given how generally simple their gameplay is.

DRG still feels like performing a piano solo though and feels really really good.


I'd suggest picking up RPR if you're looking for a simple class or DRG if you're looking for something a little more engaging.

Reaper and its even controller friendly

Wanna be like 80% of the playerbase right now?
Play Reaper and get the Ktiseos Maiming set, bonus points for showing off how unique you are in Limsa.
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