Reaper Megathread

[MagiusNecros]

Bit of forewarning that Hellsgate snapshots your current position until you reappear and has no iframes. Be careful using it when avoiding AoEs or cleaves in fights. Regress also has double the range as Hellsgate. 30y.

I very much enjoy the Castlevania Dracula vibes I get from it with warping behind the boss and back again. It's very *NOTHING PERSONAL KID*.

Dbl harpe is possible if you back into a wall which I like if you need to be at range for a while.

I'd treat it like Elusive jump But with more control.

I still think Macro'd Shukuchi is still the best dash in the game. Hellsgate is great because of the fakeout you can do. It's a monster in PvP both as an ambush and as an escape option.

[Makeda]

No opinion yet on what tuning the class might later need, but it is the most fun I've ever had on a melee DPS in FFXIV.

Good chance for it to be a main choice for me.

[shiroxkatsuya]

I wonder if it'll actually calm down like it did with SAM, becaues lol.

I saw one other dps the entire first day that wasn't Reaper, one.
And it's more or less the same still.

Edit: Getting synced on Reaper is kinda bad tbh, I got Garuda in leveling roulette and got synced to lvl 46.

Just damage debuff + 1 2 3 combo?

Perhaps a bit too empty at lvl 46?

Yeah low level reaper is not exactly dripping with excitement, the job at max is a blast though.

[Lyth]

Agreed. The current setup for Hell's Ingress/Egress is extremely intuitive. Snapshot or not, I've had a couple of extremely close calls where the ability has just saved me on pure reflex when I'm just learning a new mechanic. This is literally Tracer movement, except without reversing damage in the process (maybe next expansion). S tier.

[Reinha]

LOVE this job so much. The aesthetic of skills, the void warp, the weapon, the transformation, the swushh swyshh sounds when you attack, the mini TBN. I had high expectations for Reaper and it turned out even better. The only annoying part (visual) is the lack of weapons and especially good looking ones. Some of them look too bulky.

I'm very satisfied with the rotation. The building and spending of two resources reminds me of DRK. While I'm not usually a fan of positionals, this time you can choose when you use those skills as they are not a part of the main combo. They instead combo with the oGCD skills in a unique way and I didn't find it hard to get used to using those skills together. It kind of feels like you are dancing with your demon.

[Lyth]

I've defaulted to keeping the weapon hidden when sheathed, simply because I dislike how they look when folded. Hey, if I can glide through rifts using power of the void, it makes sense to pull scythes out of Hammerspace.

The AF scythe looks fantastic, and the starter one isn't too shabby until you get to it.

[Kolsykol]

I've defaulted to keeping the weapon hidden when sheathed, simply because I dislike how they look when folded. Hey, if I can glide through rifts using power of the void, it makes sense to pull scythes out of Hammerspace.

The AF scythe looks fantastic, and the starter one isn't too shabby until you get to it.

Imo they take up too much space, I also don't like the cloak on the artifact gear altho I also don't like cloaks in general in MMO's.
It feels too much like your character is a rectangle of cloth and you can't see them unless you look at their front.
Feels like the whole design is hidden from your sight.

[Makeda]

I've defaulted to keeping the weapon hidden when sheathed, simply because I dislike how they look when folded.

Folded?

Just glam for a different Scythe. I rather like the starter one:

[Lyth]

That one seems to be the exception to the rule. As far as I've seen, virtually every other scythe has part of the blade snap off, such that it looks more like an axe when sheathed. The token scythe is another exception, although it doesn't look like a scythe at all.

The starter one is great, though. Easily beats out most of the chainsaw ones that you end up with while levelling.

[MagiusNecros]

I only like the starter Scythe, Moonward for looking like a buzzsaw and primarily the promotional Death Scythe for the Collectors's Edition which is also the scythe used by Orcus in the Job Quest for Reaper.

Soulsow/Harvest Moon I only like between pulls and after the end of your Enshroud burst. Most of the time I forget the skill is even there.