Melee classes are sad in CC

[SirShady]

An AoE Heavy/Bind is nice, but it's really not a huge boon in most teamfights. Silences, stuns, and poly are MUCH more powerful even if they're single target. You're not usually going out of your way to hit multiple people with it either since you're more about harassing the backline anyway. Not to mention the bind isn't available unless you're in LB. The teleport, however, IS great. Makes Reaper one slippery pain in the butt and able to stick to their targets relatively well. Great at helping you waste people's time/resources too if they focus you since it's an easy escape against most jobs.

I'm not too sure what you mean by "one of the best playmaking LBs". It's useful for screwing people up on the wind map, that's for sure, but outside of that and guard breaks in general, the 2 second fear isn't usually that good. Other classes do a much better job of cc'ing targets for their team as it isn't tied to their LB (again, jobs with stuns/silences/poly) and can be followed up instantly be the user. I really would love for the to speed up the LB animation... The difference between Reaper and the other "top tier" DPS jobs, are that they do a much better job at pressuring and bursting a single target. Reaper just beats you down over time with their demonic wiffle bat and hopefully soaks up attention while praying when they get their next LB their teammates will be able to capitalize off it.