Reaper Megathread

[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.

[JeromeMercedes]

Does reaper get any OGCds? At 70 it feels basic as hell sense you cant weave anything.

[Daralii]

Does reaper get any OGCds? At 70 it feels basic as hell sense you cant weave anything.

Blood Stalk, Grim Swathe, Gluttony, and Enshroud are the only OGCDs I think.

[Arcflare]

My biggest gripe with Reaper so far is that doing literally anything else other than using Gibbet and Gallows after you get Soul Reaver stacks will eat the stacks. This feels like an oversight more than intentional design but it still feels awful to deal with. Theres no reason using Bloodbath should eat the stacks.

I think Soul Reavers, instead of being a buff, need to be changed to an actual resource which you can stack and Gibbet and Gallows should be changed to OGCD's as resource spenders. This change would make the job feel much more fluid throughout its rotation instead of making its basic combo feel like its just really bad filler when you have nothing else to do because the basic combo feels so insignificant. Im only level 81 so far but based on the description of abilities acquired down the line it doesnt look like that will change but i could also have missed something.

[Blindheart]

Got to 80 on this today. This is the worst issue. Soul reaver should stay up unless we use one of those 2 skills or the tome runs out. I constantly forget to do the debuff on single taget fights and i go to reapply it before using a soul reaver action and then i loose the skill

My biggest gripe with Reaper so far is that doing literally anything else other than using Gibbet and Gallows after you get Soul Reaver stacks will eat the stacks. This feels like an oversight more than intentional design but it still feels awful to deal with. Theres no reason using Bloodbath should eat the stacks.

I think Soul Reavers, instead of being a buff, need to be changed to an actual resource which you can stack and Gibbet and Gallows should be changed to OGCD's as resource spenders. This change would make the job feel much more fluid throughout its rotation instead of making its basic combo feel like its just really bad filler when you have nothing else to do because the basic combo feels so insignificant. Im only level 81 so far but based on the description of abilities acquired down the line it doesnt look like that will change but i could also have missed something.