Reaper Megathread

[Taranok]

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

The 'of Death' abilities are awful. They exist to be annoying and literally nothing else. If those abilities were removed, the only time you'd care is if an add spawned mid fight (or trash pulls). This isn't a situation like WAR's storm's eye, where it basically exists to provide some extra texture to what would otherwise be a 1-2-3 rotation, this is Mutilate, but for Reapers. You throw it up whenever it falls off (or is about to) and otherwise forget about it.

Those 2 abilities and soul sow represent the worst aspects of Reaper's design in terms of buttons, and having reaver fall off for doing anything wrong is the reason I hated Tsubame-Gaeshi's implementation.

[shao32]

I personally enjoy the use of oGCD to activate and combo Gibbet, Gallows and Gillotine, its like a reverse continuation and i particulary enjoy it, it's not hard to get use to it either and i hope it doesn't change, it's a unique feacture that reinforce Reaper identity and the gameplay itself is extremly adaptable with the soul stacks and the gauge cost allowing yo being able to hold stuff to fit it easily as the combat demand.

For now im having a really good experience with RPR, the job feels so tactical and complex but at the same time giving enough room to adapt any time it's really good, i still think soulsow is a bit strange but considering the rest stuff i have to handle i give it a pass.

[ScarecrowJames]

Job is very easy. In fact I feel like it doesn't have much to do in its kit. Im actually disappointed in it. I could have sworn some streamers were saying "its complex" or "lots of combos"

[Kolsykol]

Job is very easy. In fact I feel like it doesn't have much to do in its kit. Im actually disappointed in it. I could have sworn some streamers were saying "its complex" or "lots of combos"

Have you seen how some of these people play?
It's painful and hurts my soul.

With that said I think if you only spend a short while with it at lvl 90 I could see why you'd be super hype and think it's fun.
After you spend a lot more time on it tho I think it begins to sink in.

Reaper isn't awful or anything it's just not as hype as I thought, it feels like it's spectacle and kinda meh beyond that.
I am actually more hype about leveling DRG after MNK and SAM.

Edit: And yeah I dunno what people are talking about with '' complex ''.
What complexity exactly?
It's very very simple.
I do like that you don't have to use your spender on CD but that's not really complexity that's flexibility.

[Juzjuzz]

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.

Same here it's a bit anoying tbh and the soul gauge fills very fast so i'll have to use my stacks as fast as possible.

Job is very easy. In fact I feel like it doesn't have much to do in its kit. Im actually disappointed in it. I could have sworn some streamers were saying "its complex" or "lots of combos"

The streamer didn't have a lot of time to get used to jobs, one i saw said that he had to rush un order to get everything he need to make all the videos. So yeah a new job (and one that can be confusing at the begining) will often be hard to understand.

Edit: And yeah I dunno what people are talking about with '' complex ''.
What complexity exactly?
It's very very simple.
I do like that you don't have to use your spender on CD but that's not really complexity that's flexibility.

Reaper is not complex it's new and easy to understand when you get past all the edgy names for the mecanics. At best the job can be confusing with all the edgy names.

For complexity i only see as a hard problem to resolve. The more steps you need to resolve a problem in a limited amount of time, the more complexity you get. It all depends on who you ask, some can resolve a problem that seem very complex to other very easly.
So just someone saying "the job us complex" is very vague if you don't know to who you talk, his level and in what conditions he played.

[ScarecrowJames]

I do like Reaper but I am not sure if I will main it though. Only time will tell. My biggest complaint is really Shadow/Whorl of Death. Its not hard to keep up but it just feels annoying to apply. I think that is because I was a Ninja Main(shb) so Im used to Armor Crush refreshing huton.

[MagiusNecros]

Whorl of Death is amazing in Raids. You can tag all the mobs and swim in gauge as everyone kills everything for you.

[Tracewood]

After setting this up on the PS5 and having to redo my hotbar because I forgot to upload settings from PS4 to server like an idjit, I'm starting to like the flow of this job. It's very much like old DRG with some RDM mechanics.

It doesn't feel as bloated as I thought, once I set things in my controller hotbar I see where I errored and now things are starting to flow.

Wish our DPS buff was a "set it/forget it" because I've found a few times after maining SAM/MNK/newDRG that I forget to reapply Shadow/Whorl of Death. Or at least a longer cooldown, I try to apply it twice to get close to the full minute so I can focus on combos.

[Tulzscha]

Yeah the Soul Reaver stacks disappearing on any ability use feels like a bug, but it encourages thinking ahead which I like. Also enjoy the debuff for the same reason, I need a job with more management since SMN was dumbed down. The job's pretty fun so far imo. If I played melee at all before EW I might find it boring but I'm not even 80 yet so it's all new and flashy to me.

[Kolsykol]

I get it about Soul Reaver I don't rly like that you lose them either.
On the other hand, the Job is already so insanely easy that maybe there should be something punishing people for not paying any attention or just spamming buttons?

It doesn't bother me that much but I do get it.
At the same time I kinda also feel like does it really need to be even easier?

It wouldn't bother me if they made it so you didn't lose the stacks but I also think that players should be able to make the wrong choices and screw up, when you essentially can't screw up unless you're doing it intentionally then I think it becomes a bit ridiculous.