Reaper speculation thread

[Reksanden]

They also seemed to enter a similar state to good 'ol Ranjit. Not a 1-1, obviously, but that's cool as hell. There wasn't nearly enough shown to demonstrate how they'd function AS a melee DPS besides the obvious, though.

As for lore, 99% of voidsent stuff either has them being invasive, or specifically bound. This seems far more mutual, so I'm super curious what comes of it.

[StriderShinryu]

Super edgelord and in play it sort of looked a lot like HW Dark Knight meets ShB Dark Knight. They did say it played completely differently from anything else but I didn't feel that at all from what we saw. I'll certainly give it a shot once it's out but I'm not really sold on it yet. If they release some Maiming sets that skew towards Reaper I could at least see using some of the gear pieces on my DRG though.

[Reinha]

Let's gooooo

[Raikai]

I'll be making my new main. Looks like a builder spender job. Probably build up to your voidsent mode for big deeps. Super edgy and dark. I hope it's fastpaced and not super reliant on positionals.

I think the job hits all the right notes. Scythe, voidsent familiar, trance mode, maiming gear, and will have that Dark Knight aesthetic players would have liked in HW.

Seems very Dark Souls/SMT inspired.

Can't wait for it.

It seems like it! My only issue with the build/spender model in FFXIV (prime example being DNC) is that you literally hoard 80% of your resources for a burn phase, leading to a certain inflexibility when it comes to spending them. Granted, DNC has the issue of that resource being gated behind 2 layers of RNG, which adds to the necessity of hoarding it.

Nevertheless, I'm excited! I wonder what DPS role it will fill... Of a "selfish" like SAM and BLM or if will be in the same box of DRG, being a maiming job too.

[Bhearil]

Looks cool but problem is that most of job trailers look cool. Im more interested on what are they gonna do with the gameplay.

Shiny cool animations wont keep people playing for long if gameplay is not good. DRK on Shadowbringers is a good example: Cool animations but poor gameplay

[MagiusNecros]

I just hope they make the level syncing low level dungeons not suck.

[Katie_Kitty]

They also seemed to enter a similar state to good 'ol Ranjit. Not a 1-1, obviously, but that's cool as hell. There wasn't nearly enough shown to demonstrate how they'd function AS a melee DPS besides the obvious, though.

As for lore, 99% of voidsent stuff either has them being invasive, or specifically bound. This seems far more mutual, so I'm super curious what comes of it.

Reaper's job quests are definitely going to be ones I plan on paying attention to. I'm very interested in how the WoL ends up channeling a voidsent and even allowing it to take control.

[VentVanitas]

They just got Reaper from GW2 and put it into FFXIV? Good. Reaper is one of my favourite specs from GW2. I'm interested to see how the channel phase will work in game.

[ChazNatlo]

I'm in agreement with all of the above, and I'll throw in some massive confusion over the whole summoning Voidsent stuff. The Voidsent have always been big ol' villains in the game given their whole "kill everything in sight and eat as much aether as possible" deal. Cloud of Darkness? Evil as hell Voidsent that wanted to destroy Eorzea, we kicked the crap outta her in the Crystal Tower series. Diabolos? Stupidly powerful Voidsent summoned by Mhach, was sealed by Amdapor because they couldn't kill him, he broke free and eventually absorbed Scathach to become Diabolos Hollow and we killed him in the Void Ark series. And those are the big ones, there have been minor Voidsent everywhere and they've always been a problem. But nah, we're just gonna channel a Voidsent and let one possess us. This Job better have some fantastic lore backing it up because it sounds equal parts stupid and dangerous. Imagine making a deal with the XIV equivalent of freaking demons and letting one possess you. Brilliant idea, Derplander.

I'm assuming it's similar to the Summoner or the Black/White mage. This stuff is bad but we're trusted enough that they believe that we won't use any more than needed. Alternatively the voidesent we partner with has gained enough of their original sense of self that they want to be helpful.

Personal opinion, It isn't the job I want (I believe I am on record desiring a Sword Mage/Mystic Knight) but in as far as they've made an edgelord with a farming implement demon summoner, it has promise. I mean, we were always going to get an edge lord scythe user eventually, it may as well be good.

[Arkdra]

I'm hyped as hell but the trailer didn't show much. 3 basic green combo hits (and it wasn't even a 3 hit combo, it was 1-2 a few times and then a random 1-off but it definitely wasn't the same as the other 2 hits). The voidsent popped up to do the same attack twice and it looked like an ogcd based on how it was clipped by a gcd attack the second time they used it. A self-buff that changed their appearance and let them spam an attack.

So then, from what was shown, I am going to guess that Reaper will fill a bar. Once the bar fills, they can trigger beastmode which will change their basic attacks up a bit for the duration. That would make it different from the other melee dps while also being vaguely similar to dragoon (build eyes to get into nastrond phase) so that sets up a niche for the maiming archetype. I also think this mode will get a deathflare/confiteor style ender.

Alternately, beastmode just lets you spam that 1 attack like fell cleave or bloodspiller and I will nope out of this boring job.

I think this also means they will have a relatively simple combo flow, because doubling up on animation work is hard. Like, 1-2-3-4-5 or maybe 1-2-3 then 1-4-5. Or maybe 1-2-3, 1-2-4, 1-2-5. Along these lines I think the voidsent is going to fill the same role as jumps do for the drg, so we'll get like 4 or 5 sorta low cd ogcd's to spam, since lots of ogcd's is kind of drg's thing (and it has to be because their gcd is so slow). I also do not expect reaper to get a speed increasse.

I will guess they get 2 positionals. I will also guess they get 2 dots, 1 long duration and 1 short. With the long being it's own gcd and the short being a the combo ender that compels you to alternate combo's.