Reaper Megathread

[Kahnom]

From the quick glance, Reaper is resources management focused job.
Only has 1 combo but A lots of ogcds to press, even more than DRG and SAM.
If you're already in love with heavy ogcds weaving like DRG or DRK, you'd probably love Reaper for sure.

[Arkdra]

From the quick glance, Reaper is resources management focused job.
Only has 1 combo but A lots of ogcds to press, even more than DRG and SAM.
If you're already in love with heavy ogcds weaving like DRG or DRK, you'd probably love Reaper for sure.

Huh? It has the fewest ogcd's by far, it's not even close.

-blood stalk/unveiled gibbet/unveiled gallows are all the same button and all do the same thing, single target spender for 50 soul. Grim swathe is the same thing except it's aoe
-gluttony which is on a minute cooldown.
-arcane circle which is their group utility damage buff, 120 second cooldown
-enshroud to enter lemure mode
-lemurs slice and lemures scythe which are only usable when enshrouded and are st and aoe respectively.

And then there's hells ingress, hells egress, regress, and arcane crest but this is all utility stuff and not strictly part of the combat rotation. This is really meager compared to the ogcd's that sam and drg are throwing out, and also current monk. Rpr is very much a gcd centric job.

[Kahnom]

Huh? It has the fewest ogcd's by far, it's not even close.

-blood stalk/unveiled gibbet/unveiled gallows are all the same button and all do the same thing, single target spender for 50 soul. Grim swathe is the same thing except it's aoe
-gluttony which is on a minute cooldown.
-arcane circle which is their group utility damage buff, 120 second cooldown
-enshroud to enter lemure mode
-lemurs slice and lemures scythe which are only usable when enshrouded and are st and aoe respectively.

And then there's hells ingress, hells egress, regress, and arcane crest but this is all utility stuff and not strictly part of the combat rotation. This is really meager compared to the ogcd's that sam and drg are throwing out, and also current monk. Rpr is very much a gcd centric job.

You've completely missed the point, I said "buttons to press" not "the numbers of all ogcds combined".
I ain't talking about the numbers of ogcds Reaper has, I was talking about while we're in combat.
It's downtime, to be more specific.
More buttons to press means less downtime.
As of right now, every melees have their own down time but Reaper looks like it has the least downtime among all melees.
So you will have something to press most of the time, more than when you played DRG or SAM, that's my point but obviously I haven't played Reaper yet so I don't want to get ahead of myself so this is just pure guess.

[Arkdra]

You've completely missed the point, I said "buttons to press" not "the numbers of all ogcds combined".
I ain't talking about the numbers of ogcds Reaper has, I was talking about while we're in combat.

Only has 1 combo but A lots of ogcds to press, even more than DRG and SAM.

Hmm.

It's downtime, to be more specific.
More buttons to press means less downtime.
As of right now, every melees have their own down time but Reaper looks like it has the least downtime among all melees.
So you will have something to press most of the time, more than when you played DRG or SAM, that's my point but obviously I haven't played Reaper yet so I don't want to get ahead of myself so this is just pure guess.

What does this mean? Reaper has fewer buttons to push than samurai. Reaper has less to keep track of than samurai. Reaper has a less complex rotation than samurai, assuming it goes live with the abilities shown. Both jobs have the same kit in terms of things to do during forced downtime/high movement (a ranged attack and a long channel). Reaper generates soul more slowly than samurai generates kenki so samurai will do more ogcd's per *insert duration of choice here* than a reaper will. Samurai also has a speed buff so they will just straight up be pushing more gcd per minute than a rpr will.

Reaper will have a busier opener probably, but even that's a maybe.

[KaTnIs]

You can turn into a "demon thing" for few seconds... makes it already my favourite job.

[TheoEsquire]

Expect the nerf, all you fair-weather-I-purchased-my-character-at-80-and-don't-know-what-a-tank-buster-looks-like players (you know who you are)

Change my mind...

[Makeda]

Reapers are OP

Expect the nerf,

Change my mind...

No.

If you have an opinion, explain it. Don't just rando-troll.

[Rainor]

So does anyone else not like how Reaper sprints when their weapon is drawn? It looks like you got a square gait going. small gripe but still.

[AnotherPerson]

So does anyone else not like how Reaper sprints when their weapon is drawn? It looks like you got a square gait going. small gripe but still.

I actually love how Reaper sprints. Then again, my Hrothgar already has a hunched back from regular sprinting so this is actually an upgrade. Lmao

[WhyAmIHere]

So does anyone else not like how Reaper sprints when their weapon is drawn? It looks like you got a square gait going. small gripe but still.

if you hate that, you'll especially hate how the weapon drawn animation looks if you take fall damage and maintain forward movement.
you're sideways running on air for a bit.