First of all, i like reaper, fighting with a Scythe is a pretty cool concept for us edgelords. But there are a few things that really annoy me about the job and why i currently play Viper as my Main DPS.
Nevertheless, every time i get a Reaper in my Party and i see it, i get really really mad, but also know WHY that is the case.
The Nr.1 Problem With the jobs is "Shadow of Death" and "Whorl of Death"
Both these skills feel terrible in in their mechanic and application.
They feel slow and clunky and here is why:
The Animation time of "Shadow of Death" is roughly 1.5 seconds, but it has a 2.5 seconds global cooldown, that means every time you use it, your character just stands there for a second staring at the enemy giving you this awkward moment and making you not wanting to use this skill at all.
There is also the problem of fight duration, if you fight an enemy that dies faster than 30 seconds(doing fates?), using "Shadow of Death" is a dps loss, but you also feel like you are missing the 10% damage buff.
My suggestion to this problem is:
Make "Shadow of Death" and "Whorl of Death" an Ability, and make it Cost 3000 MP, just like Dark knights "Edge of Darkness"
This will obviously prevent spamming the skill, but also makes the flow of the job feel a lot better and less clunky.
In Addition make "Gallows" , "Gibbet" & "Guillotine" restore 1000 MP each.
Nr 2, the Button Bloat
Reaper has an overabundance of buttons that should be consolidated into one Combo.
"Hell's Ingress" & "Hell's Regress".
I understand the concept but this is a completely useless skillset,
there should only be "Hell's Ingress" (Teleport forward)
I never use the Backwards teleport, because like on every other job(dragoon, Redmage) it is a suicidal ability that brings you more harm than good.
After using "Hell's Ingress" , the button should turn into "Regress" to teleport back to your original position instead of using the other skills, maybe with a small delay to prevent fat fingering.
"Arcane Circle" & "Plentiful Harvest" .
Should be consolidated into the same Hotkey.
"Enshroud" and "Communio"
Should be Consolidated into the same Hotkey
The Cooldown of "Enshroud" must also be removed to make it possible to fit two combo chains during a 20 second buff window.
There is always this awkward moment when Enshroud ends and you have to wait to use it again, the timing is so bad because the Enshroud combo takes 8.5s (or 11s with Harvest)This is not in line with the usual 2.5 seconds global CD.
Viper does not have a cooldown on Reawaken(Ouroboros) which has a much better flow of combat, you can just use it again the moment you are done with the combo chain.
So these are not world moving changes but just my thoughts on reaper.
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Nevertheless, every time i get a Reaper in my Party and i see it, i get really really mad, but also know WHY that is the case.
The Nr.1 Problem With the jobs is "Shadow of Death" and "Whorl of Death"
Both these skills feel terrible in in their mechanic and application.
They feel slow and clunky and here is why:
The Animation time of "Shadow of Death" is roughly 1.5 seconds, but it has a 2.5 seconds global cooldown, that means every time you use it, your character just stands there for a second staring at the enemy giving you this awkward moment and making you not wanting to use this skill at all.
There is also the problem of fight duration, if you fight an enemy that dies faster than 30 seconds(doing fates?), using "Shadow of Death" is a dps loss, but you also feel like you are missing the 10% damage buff.
My suggestion to this problem is:
Make "Shadow of Death" and "Whorl of Death" an Ability, and make it Cost 3000 MP, just like Dark knights "Edge of Darkness"
This will obviously prevent spamming the skill, but also makes the flow of the job feel a lot better and less clunky.
In Addition make "Gallows" , "Gibbet" & "Guillotine" restore 1000 MP each.
Nr 2, the Button Bloat
Reaper has an overabundance of buttons that should be consolidated into one Combo.
"Hell's Ingress" & "Hell's Regress".
I understand the concept but this is a completely useless skillset,
there should only be "Hell's Ingress" (Teleport forward)
I never use the Backwards teleport, because like on every other job(dragoon, Redmage) it is a suicidal ability that brings you more harm than good.
After using "Hell's Ingress" , the button should turn into "Regress" to teleport back to your original position instead of using the other skills, maybe with a small delay to prevent fat fingering.
"Arcane Circle" & "Plentiful Harvest" .
Should be consolidated into the same Hotkey.
"Enshroud" and "Communio"
Should be Consolidated into the same Hotkey
The Cooldown of "Enshroud" must also be removed to make it possible to fit two combo chains during a 20 second buff window.
There is always this awkward moment when Enshroud ends and you have to wait to use it again, the timing is so bad because the Enshroud combo takes 8.5s (or 11s with Harvest)This is not in line with the usual 2.5 seconds global CD.
Viper does not have a cooldown on Reawaken(Ouroboros) which has a much better flow of combat, you can just use it again the moment you are done with the combo chain.
So these are not world moving changes but just my thoughts on reaper.
Continue reading...