Reaper Discussion

[linayar]

I'd like to hope that's just because the job is a still a work in progress.

It's one thing to strip away your glams, but removing racial features is just silly.

That's how it should be in my opinion. Once you become the host of your avatar, it should be more about becoming the avatar, not remaining as what you were.

Japanese interview: https://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/202105150024/

Part 1 unofficial English translation: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...about_new_job/

Q: You mentioned something about filling a special meter and going into something like a “possession mode”? Can you tell us more about it?

Yoshi: I don’t want to say too much as we had not finalised everything and it is still subject to changes. Attack will fill your meter and you will be able to transform into possession mode at your will…… something like that. But really, we are still testing if that’s the best way to implement the jobs so please just take that as a concept for now.

Q: We have seen avatar helpers in the game already: summoner using the pet system as well as machinist summoning robots. Is Reapers going to have a different system?

Yoshi: Yes, it will be different. It will not be a pet. It is part of the design philosophy of the game that each job had a different play style so this job will be different as well. We keep this concept in mind when designing the reaper.

Q: Will reaper be a pure DPS? Or more of a support DPS?

Yoshi: We have pretty much decided on that already but will share that information at a later date.

Q: Will Reaper had more than 1 minion to aid them?

At the moment, FFXIV had pushed our system storage to the max in terms of player’s movement and graphics. When we told the designers about summoning multiple minions, they were really pissed and told me that we must change it to 1 minion no matter what (laugh).

And being honest, merging the minion with the player’s character in special mode actually makes it easier to maintain in terms of system/graphic storage, we want players to really look forward to the merge system. We put a lot of effort to ensure all races’ identities and personalities will still stand out even when they are in the special mode.

That last sentence is interesting. I guess I can kind of see it from the trailer, but also kind of don't, but maybe I'm just not watching it carefully enough.