Quote Originally Posted by ShinyChariot View Post
Things will always change when you get into different tiers. Warriors can haphazardly rend into a group of 5 with no repercussions in Bronze. You do that in higher tiers, you're gonna die. Gserpent is valid when he says you have to bait out CCs before you go do anything nuts. But on different tiers, none of that makes sense because nobody even thinks about that or has to do it. And the enemy has to have an established strategy to even get the proper reactions out of them, but if they don't even have that, what are you even trying to bait? They're blind and can't smell, what's the use of dangling bait in front of something that can't react to it at all?

People can mention a billion benefits a job has in higher tiers completely missing the fact that such layers of meta may not exist in other tiers.

RPR can spam their LB and keep them in fear/bind and focused on you so your team can clean them up. It's not gonna work if your team is trash and won't capitalize. No matter what you play in this game, you're never going to turn anything around by yourself (Unless SAM) and your spammable LB that's the only melee LB that doesn't end in just one big damage. You actually have to do things. You're not getting POTG every time.

Just because your team can't take advantage of the advantages you're giving them, doesn't mean RPR is bad.

Maybe you're not a good teammate, Maybe your entire team is an uncoordinated mess.

You're never always going to get everything out of a RPR LB, that's why you can use it so often, spam that line AoE that recharges it, get some kills and assists to tack some DPS on that skill. Newsflash, sucky RPRs probably can't keep this on cooldown or don't even know it gives LB

Me personally, I always keep barrier for before I teleport in and use cone heavy into LB, I make sure my team is around me so they can pick up the pieces like pigeons, I make sure I use AoE bind first on one of them, go ham for a few seconds, if they're walking away from me, guess what? The teleport gives me movement speed, I've done enough melee damage or my timer is running out (which you should be paying attention to like MNK's Earth Reply), I teleport away and use Communio. If I feel like I'm gonna get my cheeks smashed, I accept I did enough with the Debuffs and retreat. Maybe fire off a Communio with Harvest on my way out, which does great damage as well. Then get back to charging my LB.
what tier are u playing reaper at? My highest experience before getting burnt out was gold 1 right before platinum but it sounds like we have differing experiences because i almost always get focused and thats regardless of whether or not i was successful at baiting ccs or not. Another reason we are asking for change is truly feel without bias that our LB is one of the most easily punishable LBs by far.