[7.x] Reaper Design Ideas

I'm curious to know what job additions RPR players would like to see in the next expansion. We'll likely gain 2-3 actions/action upgrades and a couple of traits. The question is how you would build off of the existing gameplay loop with those actions.

Issues

• Gluttony drift is one point that comes up quite often, and could be addressed with a traited second charge. This may make the opener more clunky, however, because you're now forced to burn off not one but two Gluttonies within the first minute. The middle ground to this could be to have you start at one charge on initiating combat, with a maximum capacity of two charges.
  
• A second area that could be improved on is in finding a way for the player to Double Enshroud on opener. You could put a traited 50 Shroud on Harvest Moon (up to once every X seconds), but the downside to this is you might force downtime just for the sake of getting an extra Shroud off later on in the fight, which is a bit silly.

Alternatively, you could also introduce a new action that gets you some bonus Shroud in the opener.

New Action Concepts
There are a lot of really interesting Void themed concepts that you can take from the Oracle of Darkness' moveset. Return is a particularly neat concept, in making a 'save point' that you return to at a later point in time. We have this already as a movement skill with Regress. But what if you could save a 'resource state'? What I'm suggesting is that you could 'snapshot' your current Soul and Shroud (HP might be controversial) up to some maximum value, and then rewind time when you've used up those resources to get them back. That, in conjunction with your first Plentiful Harvest, might be another way to set up a double Enshroud opener.

I'm also a big fan of the Oracle's Spell-in-Waiting/Relativity mechanics with delayed effects, but I think those would be much better suited for a time-magic orientated DoT based caster.

What I would like to see on Reaper would be some partial fusions with your voidsent avatar outside of Enshroud. NIN has a passive that gives them a native 10% movement buff when no other buffs are present. What if you could sprout wings and glide at will? Or perhaps levitate while dashing, like Magus from Chrono Trigger?

Other possibilities for new actions include Veil Asunder (aka 'A test of your reflexes') or Loghrif's Apocalypse as a single target melee finisher.

Customization
One point around customization. I've always felt it was a bit of a missed opportunity that we never discovered the personality behind our Voidsent companion. One thing that might be neat is having a choice driven side-story that lets you 'design' your Avatar/Enshroud appearance/backstory, which unlocks the ability to change the design up at will at the aesthetician on completion.

Just turn us into a selfish DPS already, I feel like I'm griefing when doing 70 ultimates (and even 80 at times)

Death's Design should also be turned into its PvP incarnation, or heck, just turn it into a Wildfire-like ability (Wildsoul)

I think the job needs a little more to do between burst and should lean into the double enshroud window.

Currently we force a double enshroud window with death's design filler. You could make it less "jank" by creating a two minute cooldown that gives you more actions to do during the first enshroud window. Maybe a communio combo? Then after you do your "super" enshroud window plentiful harvest will come off of CD right on time and you do your second window. You could also tie this super enshroud window to arcane circle "communio 2 ready buff or something" if you want to cut down on button bloat. There is a precedent for this type of addition, like the confetti combo being added to replace the post-req phase goring combo on old paladin, or ogi-namakiri being added to samurai which replaces a filler phase every two minutes.

I wouldn't want this to make double windows "braindead" though but maybe that's asking too much since that's currently a common complaint about RPR, it being too easy to do the rotation.

RPR desperately needs more stuffing between 1-70 it is a bore to play compared to every other job (SMN clearly withstanding)

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Originally Posted by Jirah

RPR desperately needs more stuffing between 1-70 it is a bore to play compared to every other job (SMN clearly withstanding)

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Leveling reaper is what convinced me the devs don't playtest new jobs at low levels.

So I don't main reaper and haven't played it a whole lot since launch but I do have some thoughts.

1. You get a weak version of enshroud at 30 and gibbet/gallows in the teens. Side note, there's no reason any job shouldn't have its filler rotation in the teens.

2. Enshroud can be used when you have 10 shroud gauge. Every 10 gauge you consume gives you one GCD in enshroud. Communio can only be used if you entered enshroud with at least 30 gauge. So if you have 70 gauge and use enshroud, you have 7 GCD's in enshroud you can use.

3. Consuming a void shroud gives you a buff. Two stacks of this buff is required to use communio.

4. Communio no longer ends enshroud automatically, it just consumes one lemure shroud and four stacks of the void shroud buff.

5. Shadow of death can be cast in enshroud with its GCD speed buff and doesn't consume an orb.

6. Soulsow grants 10 shroud gauge per second.

7. You exit enshroud either by pressing the enshoud button again or when you've used all the lemure orbs.

8. IMO adding a passive to infernal slice that has a chance to reset the cooldown of soul slice could be interesting.

9. I love your idea of adding a cooldown that snapshots your current resources to be brought back later. That would be insanely fun.

The basic idea is making reaper a bit more flexible. There may be instances where its better to farm up to 100 shroud gauge, enshroud, blast through gibbet/gallows and finish with a double communio. Alternatively, there may be instances (like if you die right before a buff window) where you need to get communio off ASAP but can't farm up 50 gauge. You can get 30 and blast off communio and you won't be totally thrown off for the rest of the fight.

An evolution of the voidsent we have could be great actually (Something like the one of Zenos). It may follow a certain logic cause it will become stronger just like us, so the form may change, alongside a few animation change for the red Gibbet/Gallows ?

Single target variation of Glutony ?

Single target variation of Communio ?

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Originally Posted by Jirah

RPR desperately needs more stuffing between 1-70 it is a bore to play compared to every other job (SMN clearly withstanding)

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Lv 70? Honestly I don't think RPR is even fun until its lv 90 exactly.

It will be boring. Trait to upgrade the first attack of the combo after doing the 3rd. Single target version of communio. A second finisher bolted on after this/communio that is only usable when under the effect of arcane circle to ensure it's burst window only. A trait that makes your cones circles (or they switch it up and make the circles cones).

The general trend seems to be adding more abilities with falloff damage rather than having an ST/AOE version of various abilities, so I personally don't think we'll see a ST version of Communio. As far as ideas for 7.0 I don't have any crazy ideas but I think a 20 or 30 sec oGCD that gives a bit of gauge would be neat. RPR's a pretty GCD heavy job which is fine but one more oGCD wouldn't hurt.

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Originally Posted by SargeTheSeagull

Leveling reaper is what convinced me the devs don't playtest new jobs at low levels.

So I don't main reaper and haven't played it a whole lot since launch but I do have some thoughts.

1. You get a weak version of enshroud at 30 and gibbet/gallows in the teens. Side note, there's no reason any job shouldn't have its filler rotation in the teens.

2. Enshroud can be used when you have 10 shroud gauge. Every 10 gauge you consume gives you one GCD in enshroud. Communio can only be used if you entered enshroud with at least 30 gauge. So if you have 70 gauge and use enshroud, you have 7 GCD's in enshroud you can use.

3. Consuming a void shroud gives you a buff. Two stacks of this buff is required to use communio.

4. Communio no longer ends enshroud automatically, it just consumes one lemure shroud and four stacks of the void shroud buff.

5. Shadow of death can be cast in enshroud with its GCD speed buff and doesn't consume an orb.

6. Soulsow grants 10 shroud gauge per second.

7. You exit enshroud either by pressing the enshoud button again or when you've used all the lemure orbs.

8. IMO adding a passive to infernal slice that has a chance to reset the cooldown of soul slice could be interesting.

9. I love your idea of adding a cooldown that snapshots your current resources to be brought back later. That would be insanely fun.

The basic idea is making reaper a bit more flexible. There may be instances where its better to farm up to 100 shroud gauge, enshroud, blast through gibbet/gallows and finish with a double communio. Alternatively, there may be instances (like if you die right before a buff window) where you need to get communio off ASAP but can't farm up 50 gauge. You can get 30 and blast off communio and you won't be totally thrown off for the rest of the fight.

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Hell no never pls never ever.

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Originally Posted by Lyth

Customization
One point around customization. I've always felt it was a bit of a missed opportunity that we never discovered the personality behind our Voidsent companion. One thing that might be neat is having a choice driven side-story that lets you 'design' your Avatar/Enshroud appearance/backstory, which unlocks the ability to change the design up at will at the aesthetician on completion.

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I would absolutely love this, especially with where we're currently at in the MSQ. Expanding on this, I would like for reapers to actually be able to summon their voidsent avatar as a companion eventually, where it could either enhance our skills or assist with managing the reaper's job gauge.