Reaper Megathread

[Kolsykol]

I just have the same hotbar and hud for everything and try to make it as identical as possible.
Obviously that's not possible 100% but I try and have it make logical sense and match similar abilities.

[Drkdays]

I just have the same hotbar and hud for everything and try to make it as identical as possible.
Obviously that's not possible 100% but I try and have it make logical sense and match similar abilities.

Isn't this what everyone does? xD

[AnotherPerson]

What if the reason why we get Soulsow and all these changes to ranged skills on melee jobs is because Endwalker's encounter design ends up having a lot of instances to get out of range for a lot of AoEs on the boss? I mean, RPR has a lot of mobility between jumping in and out, RDM has 2 charges on mobility, NIN has a couple more gap closers. MNK has multiple stacks of thunderclap, and it's purely close ranged DPS job.

Isn't this what everyone does? xD

Can Confirm.

[Taranok]

What if the reason why we get Soulsow and all these changes to ranged skills on melee jobs is because Endwalker's encounter design ends up having a lot of instances to get out of range for a lot of AoEs on the boss? I mean, RPR has a lot of mobility between jumping in and out, RDM has 2 charges on mobility, NIN has a couple more gap closers. MNK has multiple stacks of thunderclap, and it's purely close ranged DPS job.




Can Confirm.

You will never, and I can say never, cast Soul Sow if the boss is up. It is flat out a DPS loss over even a baseline harpe. (600 potency/3 GCDs = 200 potency/gcd, harpe is 300).

As for complaints about Reaper, I really hate the "of Death" abilities. A DoT that exists to insist upon itself. I feel the class could have both the ST and AoE versions of those abilities and literally nothing of value would be lost beyond the whole: "More soul gauge from killing enemies under this effect" part. Which could honestly just be a trait for any threated enemy dying. Soul Sow/Harvest Moon 100% needs to be reworked as well. It has the exact same problem as Monk in HW (Chakra) and SAM at Launch ShB (Shoha). A button you only press once, maybe twice during the course of a 10+ minute fight is not, and never has been, fun, or interesting. It just contributes to needless button bloat.