Reaper Discussion

[rxantos]

I guess something like Magus from Chrono Trigger.

[StriderShinryu]

As for positionals, I'm wondering if it might be a melee with no positionals but instead with more technical depth than the other melees like maybe having to actually directly control your partner and weave it's abilities in between your own attacks.

[SomeRandomHuman]

I’m really curious what reason the WoL has to become a reaper. I know it’s a new Zenos job, but that doesn’t seem like enough. I think the job quests will be really interesting.

I'm going to quote a great werewolf here: Not all children of the night are evil.

BLM and THM are all about overwhelming their opponents with destructive force through the black magic they practice.

Then as being a WoL they are immune to any form of tempering so it's not out of the realm of feasible to touch the void and control a lesser being. As for the job trainer and questline... well lets just say a vendetta is a powerful fuel for one's willpower.

[seros]

Animations are cool but this is probably something I'll cap and never touch again. A lil too edgy for my taste.

[Fland]

I’m really curious what reason the WoL has to become a reaper. I know it’s a new Zenos job, but that doesn’t seem like enough. I think the job quests will be really interesting.

It's confirmed that the job quest will start in Ul'dah.
Probably someone in the THM guild or involved with the guild introduce us to an NPC that have experimented with voidsents and trying to harness their power in different ways or something like that.

[Roda]

As for positionals, I'm wondering if it might be a melee with no positionals but instead with more technical depth than the other melees like maybe having to actually directly control your partner and weave it's abilities in between your own attacks.

I'm hoping it's this, as while I think the positionals mechanic is an interesting gimmick, I don't think it belongs on every single melee like it currently is.

[MagiusNecros]

Every melee DPS has positional would be nice to just not have them on a class so I am not wasting button on True North.

Half the time in dungeons as DRG I feel the damage increase is small and is only really noticeable to me on Monk.

Positional make sense on Ninja/Monk for striking the right spot but I feel with maiming weapons it isn't going to matter since you are piercing through them anyway.

[Gwenorai]

Very unlikely that Reaper won't have a positional. Perhaps the 'berserk mode' might have a true north kind of trait attached.

[Meillquei]

Usually when new jobs are announced, I'm kind of like "Ok cool. I'll level it to cap and probably never touch it again". But Reaper looks really exciting so far. I've always mained melee, so another melee job is definitely ok with me. Reaper is the first announced job where I might actually switch it to my main if it interests me enough. Definitely looking forward to it.

[Rymi64]

Oh I didn’t think of that. You are probably right. It would make sense. I guess I was just hoping to die for a bit and see the void lol

When people die in ff14 they don't go to the void they go to the aethereal sea. The void is the 13th shard