About Reaper.

[Avidria]

allow me to clarify:

fun rotations are not inherently complex
reaper's rotation is largely not fun
it's not unique either
this circles back to homogenisation

I spoke nothing of having to be an expert at a class; it's simply too basic
it is the bard of melees

I personally find it a lot of fun and struggle to think of how you could add complexity to what we have now without entirely changing the feel of how it plays. And for what? There are some minor tweaks I'd make to the job, but making it more complex (whatever that would actually mean for it) certainly isn't one of them.

[dspguy]

this isnt an issue strictly with reaper, other jobs have it as well, but arbitrary button bloat from abilities that do the same thing, share a recast timer, but one for st and one for aoe.

shadow/whorl of death

soul scythe/soul slice

...just keep the aoe one, give it it's st counterparts potency, and x% reduced potency on all other targets. that syntax is literally already in reapers toolkit with communio

I'm fine with that, as long as they add in the ability to shut off the AOE portion. There are circumstances where you don't want to AOE and get hate on other people's stuff. I'm thinking cases like Bozja where someone drags in a Tier V enemy into the FATE hoping people grab hate.

[SenorPatty]

You have to be careful when balancing these things, spend too much time in the empowered state and that just becomes the norm and any time you spend out of it will just feel worse in comparison.

Very true. I think this could be alleviated if, in a future expansion when they tweak jobs, they added a second enshroud that looks and operates (in a short time frame) than the first one.

[Shurrikhan]

CLEARLY a bigger truck. And I am not alone in that sentiment. Idc how strong it is relative to other reaper skills, it is meant to be the hardest hitter and it is.. but it could hit harder since for myself and many others it is lacking that oomph

I'm not sure how the third hardest hit in the whole game "lacks oomph", though? It's 1100 relative potency under Death's Design.

It falls behind only Technical Step and Ogi Namikiri (1265+ relative potency, increasing with crit modifier), and both are on twice as long an effective cooldown.



Would you really prefer Communio hit for twice its bonus over combo effective average ppgcd (460) --for 1540 potency-- but be available only every other Shroud / have a 2-minute cooldown?

[Tracewood]

When is reanimating a corpse or stealing an item eviler than constructing a demonic version of yourself and letting it possess your body?

Baffles me in FF6 Locke used to begrudgingly correct people calling him a thief with "Treasure Hunter". With a bit of creative writing they could give us THF, but call it something else like "Buccaneer" or "Scavenger" and throw a gambling theme (chucking exploding dice, conal AOE cards, etc).

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[Magiqa]

Could use some minor tweaks but overall I think its a fun class. Also please change the “plehb” sound from harpy

[ElizanderNorisse]

Fun job. One of my favourites now.

Bonus for being a Garlean job.