Reaper expectations

[Burningskull]

I really hope Reaper has a En Avant like skill that lets them move through the shadows. Like they fade into the floor really fast and slide to their new spot. OR, it has a gap closer where it fades into like a rift portal and reappears behind the enemy for a backstab like attack.

[Nyarlha]

Meanwhile, I'm hoping RPR have good /cpose.

What do you guys think we'll get?

[Warlyx]

Meanwhile, I'm hoping RPR have good /cpose.

What do you guys think we'll get?

[Lyth]

Edda/Avere for job trainer, Magus/Sice for /cpose options.

I really want to see Lost Impetus implemented in some form as a gap closer/movement ability. Three charges, blink forward and speedboost yourself.

[Shurrikhan]

Three charges, blink forward and speedboost yourself.

Out of curiosity, would the speedboosts ideally be independent but overlappable buffs, stacking and refreshing (e.g., Chi Torpedo, best reused at end of duration), or not stackable (and therefore best spread out that bit more)?

Personally, the first sounds the most fun to me, and also the most intuitive.

...Also curious if this game could even support, atm, having a single buff icon for multiple overlapping buffs that each fade separately. Is there any existing example of that?

Anyways, all that sounds great. My only twinge of regret would be that I likely couldn't also then have a Shadow Step of sorts, if only for fear of bloat (shared cooldowns with the above) or excessive capacity (cooldowns not shared). And I really do want a Shadow Step.

[Lyth]

I was thinking of Chi Torpedo, oddly enough. It could overlap, but it doesn't have to. Leap into the shadows in the direction you were travelling 10-15 yalms, go ethereal, and gain a temporary speedboost/knockback prevention for a few seconds.

As much as I would like to teleport behind opponents, this game tends to be a bit jank when it comes to movement. The dev team also likes designing wall-sized bosses, so you'd have some fights where you wouldn't be able to use it at all. Teleporting back to a previous position (i.e. Transcendence/Recall) is another movement tool that we haven't seen implemented yet, but tends to be more niche.

[Leonus]

Thats what I think too, but would be quite funny to have the chuuni character as the melee support. Would be quite ironic for those "im gonna main this before its even out" and watch how every other melee outdps(personal wise) them xD

This is what I think too.

It will be a selfish dos with levels kg build/spend gauge. Something akin to a level 1, 2, or 3 posession/fusion with the avatar. The longer you spend building the gauge (to a point) the more damage you do in the merged mode.

[Shurrikhan]

I was thinking of Chi Torpedo, oddly enough. It could overlap, but it doesn't have to. Leap into the shadows in the direction you were travelling 10-15 yalms, go ethereal, and gain a temporary speedboost/knockback prevention for a few seconds.

As much as I would like to teleport behind opponents, this game tends to be a bit jank when it comes to movement. The dev team also likes designing wall-sized bosses, so you'd have some fights where you wouldn't be able to use it at all. Teleporting back to a previous position (i.e. Transcendence/Recall) is another movement tool that we haven't seen implemented yet, but tends to be more niche.

Yeah, true. Dang.

As for teleporting back to a previous position, I imagine we'd be unable to see that in the vein of Recall (e.g., without a prior action / the clock always running), but Transcendence, Displacement, or Alter Time styles of design should be possible. Maybe something like cutting a rift into the air, seemingly by coincidence with a given attack, and then being able to step through every other rift back to the first/odd-numbered one?

[Jirah]

Eventually I’ll complain with the lack of weapons as it’ll repeat the same shabby treatment DNC and GNB got with their poor selection. Which would pour into all the ultimates aswell. For those keeping score at home just the shining trial weapons alone every other job has 20/20 while DNC and GNB have 2/20 and RPR and SAG will have 0/20 for probably deep into 6.3 or 6.4

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

i expect Reaper to be kind of like this (role skills not included):

- generic 3 button single target combo, that may or may not, generate ressources.
- 2-3 button AoE combo
- "possession" mode is just inner release in disguise (might need ressource to trigger)
- 1 ranged attacks for the lulz
- 1 defensive skill on a 90-120sec CD
- 1-2 gap closers
- 1 DoT, just because.
- at least 2 self healing abilities (one or both might need said ressource)

Honestly, i don't expect very much out of it, aside it being generic as usual, as much as it pains me to say this.

You realize Reaper is a melee DPS, right? It's not a tank so I dunno why you're giving it a tank rotation.

For gameplay maybe a mix of ninja/gnb/HW drk

Reaper expectations... well, here is my expectation of/for Reaper, and a thought that is going to make me livid, if it ends up beings the case...
Hot take: what looked like Reaper has a burst.. IS old Dark Arts, under a new name, a gauge instead of a ability, and void instead of darkness, while Reaper has a "fast" feeling sustained DPS, outside of its gauge-fueled burst; making it actually just the "band-aid fix" for Dark Knight...
I have a feeling of Apprehension towards, and expect/suspect that, Reaper just ends up being the literal replacement for Dark Knight, because Squeenix told the dev team to create a new edgy darkness subclass, for all of us discontent Dark Knights to ditch Dark Knight for and switch over to, so that we stop complaining about Dark Knight.

that said, I really will ditch Dark Knight for Reaper, if Dark Knight does not improve, and I bet that a lot of other Dark Knights will also ditch Dark Knight for Reaper, so bloody 72 hells...whether it was the intent of Squeenix or not, Reaper looks like it may be just the Dark Knight issues problem-solved blow-off.