Media Tour Reaper Impressions

[Taranok]

Man I'm surprised at how little discussion I'm seeing about Reaper here, what are people thinking of it?

For me, it looks like a class with significant button bloat straight out of the gate (32 buttons. 24 class skills, 6 role skills, sprint, LB), has at least one dead skill (Soul Sow/Harvest Moon. It was barely 2 years ago when the devs LITERALLY made the same mistake with Shoha for Samurai) and, well...it looks really cool? I've been wanting a proper battlemage after the disappointments that RDM and DRK were to me. However, I just can't get past the concerns of button bloat and creating another Chakra/Shoha mechanic that doesn't generate during standard content. Beyond that, I actually have to play it, otherwise I'm grasping at straws for how it will feel.

Also the pseudo-dot just feels weird. I get what it's trying to do, but I don't think the class benefits from having that mechanic. It already looks to be a moderately busy rotation. I'd have preferred they gave this mechanic to a class like DRK that is desperate for something to differentiate it from WAR at this point (instead of like, oblation) than throw it on RPR. It's also 2 buttons because the devs want a single target and aoe version, which I have long since stopped enjoying as it's a major source of button bloat to take low-use skills have a single target and AoE version. And I don't know why the devs keep doing this. SB was so good in this regard because you used abilities like Foul both for single target and AoE, keeping bars nice and compact almost across the board.