Reaper needs additional buffs.

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All DPS are selfish.

And I wouldn't call RPR a selfish DPS since their raid buff has to be used to even use PH alongside having a low CD weak shield that gives the party a HoT which they probably should of kept if their damage is going to be as low as it is.

And to get the most bang for your buck the whole party has to hit something to get a full power PH.

Reaper is very middle of the road and is very reliant on Enshroud/GibbetmahGallows for it's damage. Otherwise it's a wet noodle.

You can also make the argument that Reaper probably has lower damage because it suffers from ranged tax because it can Harpe from a distance and warp in and out of bad situations if it needs to.

I don't get what your point is here and feel like I'm just going to repeat myself with this response

When I say selfish DPS, I'm talking about SAM who uses the party members around them to shine by putting the most they can in raid buffs. RPR was advertised to be similar to this with high personal DPS, so my expectations were that it would be just under SAM, and at the lowest, maybe competing with MNK for that 2nd spot as an alternative to taking a SAM in a DNC comp

You can call RPR whatever you want but the design intent of RPR was to be more selfish than not

What it is at now is pathetic for having the personal DPS that it does and one of the weakest raid buffs in the game. I don't know where it stands at the moment but clearly it does not perform anywhere near what it was advertised to ever since patch 6.08