Is Reaper the perfect job?

[Veritas-Ancora]

So I was thinking about how RPR functionality and I can't figure out a single thing about the job I've wanted to change.

Maybe add more functionality to Enshroud?

Maybe an Enshroud-specific DoT (1 minute) so players have to swap between Communio and a DoT?

What are people looking forward to seeing?

[HikariKurosawa]

Samurai, black mage, ninja, dragoon, etc. This game is full of extremely highly refined jobs. It's amazing. I don't know how they are going to improve them for dawntrail. Maybe focus on refining the low level experience and quality of life? Most jobs at level 90 are absolutely amazing to play.

I love this game.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Samurai, black mage, ninja, dragoon, etc. This game is full of extremely highly refined jobs. It's amazing. I don't know how they are going to improve them for dawntrail. Maybe focus on refining the low level experience and quality of life? Most jobs at level 90 are absolutely amazing to play.

I love this game.

I would definitely love the L50/60/70/80 jobs reworked a bit, but that also complicates the lower-level bosses. If we're making it easier to do, it'll damage content. If we have too many buttons at the lower levels, new players will quit.

[Icecylee]

Have you ever played reaper below level cap? Especially in the ARR-HW levels??? It's definitely not *perfect*, even if it's pretty fun once it hits 90.

[Mayhemmer]

Weirdly, I like RPR a bit more prior to lvl 86, when you unlock Lemure's Slice and Scythe. I have an issue with skills you're meant to weave inside of a window in which you're already hasted. I always unavoidably clip the gcd a bit when I have to use Slice/Scythe, not by an egregious amount, but enough to make it feel weird, and Enshroud as a whole feels a bit... underwhelming to me? I feel like it should feel a bit more impactful, but it all goes by so fast.

Like if it weren't for that little nitpick of Enshroud gcd being 1.5s, I think it would feel a lot better to play for me.

Definitely is at the top of my list for jobs that need to have some of their abilities moved around at lower level ranges, though. There's no reason you should not have Arcane Circle at level 60 when almost every other job with a party damage buff gets theirs prior to that.

[Lyth]

Most jobs have gameplay issues below level 90. They'll likely need to adjust skill acquisition on all jobs at some point, but I suspect the levelling system itself may need a review beyond level 100, alongside alternative entry points for new players after 7.x.

There is a Reaper wishlist thread for 7.0. The core gameplay doesn't really need a lot of changes, but there are some minor things that could be looked at, like creating opportunities for an opening Double Enshroud, workarounds for Gluttony drift, and bringing more value to the Soulsow/Harvest Moon actions. A second charge on Ingress/Egress or more movement actions in general would be great too.

[Arohk]

So I was thinking about how RPR functionality and I can't figure out a single thing about the job I've wanted to change.

Maybe add more functionality to Enshroud?

Maybe an Enshroud-specific DoT (1 minute) so players have to swap between Communio and a DoT?

What are people looking forward to seeing?

Here are a few Problems with Reaper:

Arcane Circle & Plentiful Harvest - don't share the same Hotkey
Enshroud & Communio - don't share the same Hotkey
Hell's Ingress/Egress & Regress - don't share the same Hotkey
Having to stand still to use Harpe, & using Shadow of Death in the middle of a combo feels clunky.
A negative resource gain over time, you require some skillspeed because Shadow of Death doesn't generate Soul Gauge on use.

[Keichi]

The reaper is ok, but probally not perfect (like Mayuri-bleach sayed, perfection is a dead end^^).

The reaper feels ok with lvl 60 and is fast with lvl 90. And, most skills feels right/ok.
Where the problems with him is, that his aoe has practicly no reach. Its the same as with samurai or monk, where you need to be very close to a group of enemy, to hit them (even, when he should have a little higher reach, because he use a Stick weapon).

The next problem is, that you need more or less 2 whole skill Bars, for using all of his core skills. I dont know how it is with controller, but it hurt the finger, when you need to press a extra Button the whole time. Because his void skills are loading very fast (and at last for me didnt it feels right to set them in the main Bar).

My biggest complain for the moment is the harvest moon skill.
It is one of your strongest skills. But is practicly useless in a fight, because the loading time is to long. And, by bossfights did it not feels right to load it, when you have a phase, where you can not reach the Boss with close combat, because, the Single target fireball skill is faster to cast and has with 2 Hits the same potency, as harvest moon (who looks like the aoe Version of this fireball).

Aside if that, would it be maybe nice, to slow down his shroud Mode a litte, because he feels a little to fast (same speed or faster as the monk, with this heavy weapon?). And the flames looks nice. But are so eye catching and shiny, that its hard to even see the movement of the chara. Maybe reducing the flames effect a little would be nice to.

[Zairava]

I wouldn't say it's perfect, but it definitely is one of my favored jobs to play (at level cap, and before you get enshroud it is pretty boring honestly) outside of Black Mage. I like needing to maintain Death's Design while doing the rotation.

I don't know what could really be done past button consolidation as some users have mentioned before me, so I'm a bit interested to see if they will do anything that expands upon it.

[Neoyoshi]

As someone whose been playing Monk and only Monk since launch; i couldn't really say.