Bloodsown Circle should fall off as soon as you hit 8 stacks

[Rongway]

because one of the optimal rotation openers for reaper is - Shadow of death> Arcane Circle, Soul Slice Tincture, Soul Slice > Plentiful harvest, enshroud

That doesn't answer my question.

You know that after using Arcane Circle, you must wait 6s before you can use Plentiful Harvest. So why would you plan a rotation that doesn't wait 6s after using Arcane Circle before using Plentiful Harvest if it's not worth the empty fraction of a second waiting for Harvest to be usable?

[Avenheit]

it would also help with players that play with high ping or the Aussies that made many friends on NA and don't wanna transfer when Materia DC drops.

[Avenheit]

That doesn't answer my question.

You know that after using Arcane Circle, you must wait 6s before you can use Plentiful Harvest. So why would you plan a rotation that doesn't wait 6s after using Arcane Circle before using Plentiful Harvest if it's not worth the empty fraction of a second waiting for Harvest to be usable?

I don't theory craft these openers. Jeez. I'm just trying to maximise my dmg and this minor change would benefit not only rpr players, but those with high ping or players from other countries. I don't know how more simple I can't make this statement.

[wereotter]

I don't theory craft these openers. Jeez. I'm just trying to maximise my dmg and this minor change would benefit not only rpr players, but those with high ping or players from other countries. I don't know how more simple I can't make this statement.

If you can't plan on when it will be up, then your ping will be even more at play when it comes to entering enshroud mode. As it is right now, you know it will be 2-3 GCDs from when you activate Arcane Circle until you can use it. You can plan what skills you're going to use, and do that consistently rather than doing something like using Gluttony, and then having Plentiful Harvest become available before you can use both your Gibbet and Gallows attacks.

Basically this doesn't help out for ping, and doesn't help increase your damage.

[Avenheit]

If you can't plan on when it will be up, then your ping will be even more at play when it comes to entering enshroud mode. As it is right now, you know it will be 2-3 GCDs from when you activate Arcane Circle until you can use it. You can plan what skills you're going to use, and do that consistently rather than doing something like using Gluttony, and then having Plentiful Harvest become available before you can use both your Gibbet and Gallows attacks.

Basically this doesn't help out for ping, and doesn't help increase your damage.

it's literally nothing to do with planning.


I'm just doing the opener rotation. have you played reaper? do you know about the early enshroud opener?

[Rongway]

it's literally nothing to do with planning.

It has everything to do with planning. You know exactly how long you have to wait after using Arcane Circle before you can use Plentiful Harvest, so pick an opener that lets you wait that long. The Balance rotation guide even says

[Plentiful Harvest] will clip if you GCD is faster than 2.47 or you have high ping. If the clip here is bothersome or over a quarter of your GCD cast, use the Early Gluttony opener.

so if the rotation you want to do clips, drop some skill speed, eat the clip, or do the other rotation.

[wereotter]

it's literally nothing to do with planning.

It has everything to do with planning. You know exactly how long it will be from when you activate Arcane Circle until you can use Plentiful Harvest. It's the same literally every time.

have you played reaper? do you know about the early enshroud opener?

Yes, and yes.

[MagiusNecros]

I'm just doing the opener rotation. have you played reaper? do you know about the early enshroud opener?

Just post it. Imma Quad Enshroud Reaper lemme see what you are going on about. Show me your receipt.

[Avenheit]

Just post it. Imma Quad Enshroud Reaper lemme see what you are going on about. Show me your receipt.

Shadow of Death > Arcane Circle > Soul Slice > Tincture > Soul Slice > Plentiful Harvest.

That should allow you to see my gripe.


Balance Discord and other reaper players in game seem to understand what I'm getting at. For the life of me, I can't understand the level of resistance I'm encountering on these forums. It's really unwelcoming

[Rongway]

Balance Discord and other reaper players in game seem to understand what I'm getting at. For the life of me, I can't understand the level of resistance I'm encountering on these forums. It's really unwelcoming

I directly quoted, from the Balance, the part where they said if your skill speed is too high or your latency is too high you should do the other opener.

The change you're asking for won't fix anything. Here's why.

If they change Bloodsown Circle so that it ends immediately when you reach max stacks, there might be an opening line where Harvest gets used just one or two GCDs later. However, if Bloodsown Circle ends immediately "when you reach max stacks", its duration will be variable, and you cannot with 100% certainty predict whether Harvest will be ready on the next GCD or the one after that. So then instead of a single opening line where Harvest gets used as soon as possible, there will be two opening lines where Harvest gets used as soon as possible because they have to account for Sacrifice capping out at two different times. Then the people who are annoyed that they only ever get to use the opener where Harvest is two GCDs after Circle will get upset that they can't use the opener where Harvest is one GCD after Circle and they'll ask for Arcane Circle to just unlock max Harvest outright. Then we have to have this whole conversation all over again.

That's where we already are. There are two opening lines, one for people who can use Harvest at a certain time and one for those who can't, and the Balance authors recommend that people who can't do the first opener should do the other opener. So just...do the other opener.