Reaper has some big problems

[MagiusNecros]

It's just Dragoon's Heavy Thrust with the extra effect of +10 Red gauge if something dies. I've fooled around between using it and not using it and you could probably live without the extra 300-600 points of damage.

It's only useful in trash packs when it comes to building gauge.

[Lyth]

DD is a fairly critical part of RPR's burst setup. If you don't understand why it's there, you don't understand the job, period. If you want a simpler job that you don't have to worry about burst setups and filler GCDs, SAM is a much better alternative, giving more dps for next to no effort.

[MagiusNecros]

DD is a fairly critical part of RPR's burst setup.

Curious. Does Determination interact with DD at all?

[Sequora]

Caster and ranged balanced should be addressed before melee “issues” are addressed.

At least you’re not getting locked out of parties.

[Lyth]

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I can't say that I've encountered any groups locking out caster and ranged players, given that there's a mandatory raid spot for each subrole. If anything, I've seen groups sitting waiting for a dedicated ranged slot to fill. And they are giving a global dps increase to both ranged and caster players.

All DPS jobs should have parity on rdps. There's no good reason not to, outside of players acting on their own self-interest to secure extra raid spots for themselves.

[GhostZukin]

Am I the only one who wishes Reaper could just become a selfish DPS job? Aesthetically, it always made more sense to me, and they did talk about before how they wanted Reaper to have personal damage closer to Samurai, anyway.

[MagiusNecros]

It should be the most selfish. It's the Zenos job. Buff Reaper. Gimme the Zenos damage.