About, Sage, Summoner, Monk and Reaper...

[Soge01]

How are you guys liking the "four" (lol) new job classes so far? While I haven't personally touched Monk and Summoner yet to see how I feel about the changes, so far I've gotten Sage to lvl 80 and I'm having blast! And while I feel Sage is a but unnecessarily too busy in some places I quite like how it feels so far and I think if I reorganize my hot bar a bit more here then to finally get a fee things to mesh better when pressing buttons I think I'll be able to play it perfectly! :3

As for Reaper, I've only gotten it to lvl 72, but it feels quite nice. Applying the debuff/booster skill to an enemy can be kind of annoying at times when I'm on a hacking and slashing roll, and I don't really like how both teleporting forward and backward skills share a cooldown, but other than that it feels really nice to tear enemies apart.


So what is everyone's else's experiences with the 4 job classes so far?

[EZGIL]

only 73 sage but really enjoy it so far. I like busy.
72 reaper but also enjoying it so far.. anything with a dash I like.

[Genbe197]

I got reaper to 85 and sage to 83, I absolutely love both, the eb and flow of sage with the precast button for insta cast heal and sheer amount of AOE you have is nice its also nice to people able to run around and dodge all the things while insta casting heals to keep your dps who dont dodge alive. I have carried several dungeons just for being able to do this. Its akin to AST lightspeed.

Reaper is VERY dull at 60, semi dull at 70, but once you get two charges and your reaper form it picks up and is quite fun, I am only 85 so I havent even goitten the second shroud (void) yet

Monk has imrpoved so much, the lack of having to dance back and forth every three seconds is nice and now they have a nice builder finisher ontop of rotating their combo chains. I only have it at 80 and did so before endwalker so I havent played it much beyond target dummy fighitng.

Summoner I got to 81 so no AOE skills yet and you REALLY feel it. AoEing outside of bahamut and phoenix before 82 is boring asf, Im not sure if it gets better at 82 so I am just going to put faith in it. One phase I do not like is phoenix going from A->B A->B phase to A->A->A like bahamut was a bit lame. Other than that losing the dots and the fear bahamut will stop attacking mid burst phase is nice.

[Bixillarla]

Got my Sage to 78 today and am loving it. It is lot of fun. Just unlocked reaper have not done anythign with it yet but I am not much into melee classes. Havn't checked out Summoner or Monk yet.

[Silver-Strider]

MNK at 87 and it feels a lot slower to play due to lack of stuff to weave. Sure, the Blitz system is better than maintaining GL ever was but losing our oGCD and most of our positionals wasn't worth it.

[nighttimebunny]

78 smn and love it. might main it.

[Deceptus]

Summoner at 90 now, and it just FLOWS SO DAMN NICE.

Love it.

I don't even care if the numbers are good or not, it is just a joy to play.

[Issaella]

New Coke SMN just feels beyond awful and since it was my favorite DPS job pre-EW I have zero desire to even log in at this point. I didn't think they could make a healer that felt worse to play than SCH, but they really turned the clunky/over-complicated dial up to 11 on SGE, so I guess if I want to main healer this exp it will exclusively be regen healers. I really don't get it, why play a job that takes 3 buttons presses to do something a WHM/AST can do in 1 or at most 2 actions? MNK is down with BRD in the bottom of the DPS list for me, so any improvements are just lipstick on a pig, I only leveled it for the amaro. And Edgelord just doesn't appeal to me at all. So yeah... pretty much 10lbs of disappointment in a 5lb bag so far. Since Friday I just log on in the morning when the queue is under 100 to send my retainers off, stare dejectedly at my Gearsets and then go do Xmas stuff.

[Kyssa]

I've not gone far on Sage- only 81, but I like it. I'm looking forward to working her up.

I've decided to main my Summoner though and am close to 87. It's a little more simple than I feel I should it be- but I imagine it'll see some tweaking. Overall, I really enjoy it.

[Hiragawa]

I find Reaper to be wicked enjoyable. Sure, it's not the most complex job around, but it's quite smooth once you've leveled up enough. The debuff we apply is essentially just an on mob version of other jobs damage up buff, with the added bonus of giving us resource on kills, so it was easy enough to learn to apply. The mobility alone with the back and forth warp gates coupled with the free ranged attack has been a godsend during trials, and the upgraded Arcane Crest is bloody fantastic. It feels like they built the job to work purely around using your standard combo as little as possible, and the resource gauge stacks with rolling cooldowns to keep it going without building play well into that.

Communio, while flashy and packing a nice punch, does feel a tiny bit awkward to use when you first hit 90 since suddenly you're ending your Enshrouded period with a cast time instead of a final instant. Other than that, I think the only thing I'd really like to see is an eventual trait to allow us to somehow get a soulsow proc akin to Deep Meditation.