Reaper Megathread

[Merryl]

I barely got to touch it this morning... So maybe I'll be able to figure things out later lol. I could have sworn I felt some monk elements in there? Dragoon just feels smoother with rotations. Reaper felt more like it was resetting the bar too often.
I might have to swap out the aoe slots for the avatar buttons. But I don't want to make solo play too awkward either, cause that's mostly what I do...I solo this game.

[Daws]

I was able to play about an hour of RPR before work and while I wasn't blown away by the feel of the rotation, it is only level 70. I know things get spicy at 80 so I plan to push for that and then see if I stick with it. That said, the animations are so sick and I love the mobility/teleports.

Anxious to get back to it!

[Kolsykol]

I saw one DPS today that wasn't a Reaper lol, one.

Edit: I did get it to 80 with some FC mates, it's fun but imo it feels a bit '' floaty '' for a lack of a better term.
It doesn't have a lot of impact imo.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, and it probably does moreso at 90 with the big finishers in Shroud.>
The floaty feel could be argued as fitting with the whole ghost theme etc.
But it does feel like the attacks are kinda just spinning around with not much impact ( again imo ).

But actually I kinda wanted to play MNK towards the end I just wanted to ding 80 and go back.
Again tho Reaper was fun, but it didn't completely blow me away.
The visuals are really great but ofc you'll get used to them and then I think the gameplay isn't that interesting at least not at lvl 80.

I do like however that it has some freedom it's not as on rails in the sense that you don't have to use everything on cd ( multiple stacks is a great idea imo, adds flexibility ).
But it did feel kinda repetitive imho.

I barely got to touch it this morning... So maybe I'll be able to figure things out later lol. I could have sworn I felt some monk elements in there? Dragoon just feels smoother with rotations. Reaper felt more like it was resetting the bar too often.
I might have to swap out the aoe slots for the avatar buttons. But I don't want to make solo play too awkward either, cause that's mostly what I do...I solo this game.

Not sure what you mean with MNK, but yeah it did feel a bit looped.
It could be argued that all DPS are looped to some extent, but it just felt more obvioust to me on Reaper.

I'll lvl it to 90 and maybe I'll like it more, but I kinda feel like the visuals carry it a lot and that when the visuals get old It'll be less fun?
Will have to wait and see.

[Hazama999]

Unlocked it and played around with it a bit and lemme just say, it has been a while since I played a job that has felt "incomplete" right out the gate. Now, obviously, I wasn't playing with RPR's full kit since I'd just picked it up at 70, but yeah that definitely felt... interesting.

I took it to a dummy and a few minutes later when I had understood the "flow" of the job, I thought "...aaaand that's the end of it for now."

[Sauteed]

Unlocked it and played around with it a bit and lemme just say, it has been a while since I played a job that has felt "incomplete" right out the gate. Now, obviously, I wasn't playing with RPR's full kit since I'd just picked it up at 70, but yeah that definitely felt... interesting.

I took it to a dummy and a few minutes later when I had understood the "flow" of the job, I thought "...aaaand that's the end of it for now."

That's kind of how I feel about it right now. I'm running msq on pld right now, but will get back to rpr maybe Sunday afternoon.

[Maxilor]

Unlocked it and played around with it a bit and lemme just say, it has been a while since I played a job that has felt "incomplete" right out the gate. Now, obviously, I wasn't playing with RPR's full kit since I'd just picked it up at 70, but yeah that definitely felt... interesting.

I took it to a dummy and a few minutes later when I had understood the "flow" of the job, I thought "...aaaand that's the end of it for now."

Unfortunately this is par for the course with a lot of jobs feeling incomplete before they hit Max Level.

DRK comes to mind as that class feels incomplete until you get The Blackest Night at a very high level as well as your complete AOE Combo.

[Kolsykol]

Unlocked it and played around with it a bit and lemme just say, it has been a while since I played a job that has felt "incomplete" right out the gate. Now, obviously, I wasn't playing with RPR's full kit since I'd just picked it up at 70, but yeah that definitely felt... interesting.

I took it to a dummy and a few minutes later when I had understood the "flow" of the job, I thought "...aaaand that's the end of it for now."

It does feel very empty at 70, when you get Enshroud it gets a bit better and you get more skills in Shroud later too.

But yeah my reaction was also '' that's it? ''.
It really feels like it's a visual spectacle but not much else to it.

[Tracewood]

Maybe it's my hotbar set up but it feels kinda all over the place. Also now I have to apply the damage buff to enemies unless I missed the AOE version, I need to redo my hotbar when servers are back to normal. It feels powerful, but it's a bit of a button bloater right now.

[Kalocin]

I kinda love it, very fun but it doesn't really feel like a full job until 80, 76 at the earliest with gluttony since you need to work around the CD. By 78 you'll be using the 1-2-3 combo significantly less

[MagiusNecros]

Most jobs are designed around level cap for raids. It's why it feels empty. Especially at lvl 50. It slowly adds things as you level to not overwhelm you. I find the "Death" attacks to be annoying but SoD even at low level is STRONG.

The builder spender is simple and it's generally build gauge and spend gauge while keeping DD up. And SoD/WoD doesn't break your combos either. I find it very flexible. And Harpe is just as strong as Slice/SoD. So you have an answer to any situation I feel.

Arcane Crest is ridiculous for a DPS on such a low CD. And Bloodbath on this job is pretty amazing IMO.