I don't agree with any of that, reaper seems perfectly balanced right now.Every melee has options for moving around, each have their own pro/con, and who honestly cares about a 1-2-3 potency? Other melee also have their own personal mits such as third eye, riddle of earth, shade shift. Superior ranged atk? Our ranged atk requires the movement ability be used else it is a cast unlike other jobs instant use ability, harvest moon you get one use out of unless there is prolonged downtime.
Frankly you sound salty. Every melee has options, mnk being the exception with no ranged atk. And under no circumstance will you EVER be using arcane crest's heal instead of a healer's ogcd heal. The healing it gives is a meme and very very rarely does it feel impactful. It's a 10% mit that also happens to have a heal attached similar to summon's pheonix having a heal that they don't give a crap about. If I could cherry pick I would take a ninja point and click mobility over rpr's set distance leap, to ME ninja's mobility is superior as you have more choice with it as well as 2x charges. As a healer I would rather have a monk mantra to help me than a reaper's arcane crest. And people love a dragoon for it's crit buff alone. Does not seem to me like the other melee are lacking vs rpr.
It's balance on release is irrelevant, they buffed everything above it. It shouldn't have been top, it should not be buffed to be the top. No reaper I know is asking to be the top dps. We are asking to not be so far behind in dps when our job is supposed to be selfish similar to a samurai as Yoshi P said in the live letter pre release. That is what they intended and it is NOT what we have currently. RPR should be a bit below a samurai not dead last trailing a job that gives superior raid buffs.
Also just because YOU think it's in a good spot does not mean SE agrees, they just buffed it so it clearly wasn't good enough and now it's on live servers and they can see performance or lack thereof they will likely add some further buffs. The issue is they take months to do simple potency changes at the best of times. They could think RPR needs work and we wont know for quite some time. The second any buffs for the job comes out you are proved wrong.
You are a non reaper main who for SOME reason (I wonder what) just wants reaper to feel worse? Is other people being happy with their job so horrible sounding to you? Is it an ego thing you don't want to have to actually compete in dps with them or what?? What exactly would the issue be for you?