5 Reasons Why You Should Play Reaper/RPR

[@DrakenGunslinger]

5 reasons to play edgy botanist

[@Blazingbeard]

Botanist the one true bestest class. It is Warrior and Reaper combined in 1.

[@toastee5421]

Despite the job being advertised as "Edgy DPS", the amount of scythe twirling makes me feel like I'm Sailor Moon and it's the best thing ever watching your Reaper do pirouettes more times in a rotation than does a Dancer.

[@yanewstepdad1355]

Became my favorite class the day it was announced being how i love scythes as a weapon and the Grimm reaper in general! Might even run it again on my second account

[@kinaitoamanaki5244]

about disadvantage and a big one: is the hardest job to recover on uptime. Once RPR is dead since your tools need to constantly dps enemy, not to mention that you will loose all the gauge to make the maximum uptime, is like "forgivable on mistakes rotation, heavy punishment on recover" unline NIN that is totally the oppose on that, hurajin makes you to recover pretty nice while your forgivenes rotation mistake is heavy punished.

[@StriderZessei]

Yeah, but as a nin, missing a GCD can throw off your entire burst window. It's not forgiving.

[@minkim002]

And missing enshroud during your group’s burst window devastates RPR.

[@Magguscaster]

@@StriderZessei Missing shroud or even a double shroud with full arcane circle resources on death means you literally do jack nill for dps compared to a NIN waiting 5-6 extra seconds for Mug or Trick attack to come back up for a full window.

[@lyconxero457]

Playing Reaper and maining it through Endwalker really showed me that the FFXIV devs can do some amazing things with completely original jobs going into the future. Unlike Sage which seemingly necessitated a lot of influence from Scholar, Reaper is it's own beast entirely and is amazingly fun to play. This gives me hope that they will continue to add completely original jobs to the game going forward, or at least ONE completely original job per expansion paired with a tie-in job that has new unique elements.

[@DustyCryptid]

Great video! I tried FFXIV about 2 year ago and got to about lvl 50, but have been wanting to give it a go. Definitely gonna give a reaper a try this time around!

[@zen_7748]

Reapers when the tank dies during a trash pull and they're next on the aggro list: Arcane Crest + Bloodbath + Second Wind + AoE weaponskills It's basically a less potent but longer lasting Bloodwhetting. Perfect for buying the healer time to revive the tank and heal them, as well as keeping the group from wiping.

[@just_radical]

Reaper is super fun and I love it, but only at level 90. This is part of the problem of it starting at 70 and having a very simple kit. Hydaelyn forbid you get synched below 70 and go thru a dungeon with only your 1-2-3 combo and 1 OGCD to weave. It's kit is sparse enough that you really do want Enshroud and Communio just to stay awake. It feels like playing SAM without Midare, NIN without a trick attack window, or GNB without the Gnashing Fang Combo. Empty and devoid of joy.

[@obviouslykaleb7998]

you mean sam without kaiten D:

[@infinitybutton6271]

@@obviouslykaleb7998 That hits home

[@DontTrustThemSnakes]

Said so much to be so wrong

[@DontTrustThemSnakes]

@@obviouslykaleb7998 that's why I don't sam. They ruined nin in hw, Sam in end Walker and I assume they will ruin reaper when the next xpac comes out. Funny how that happens, nin was good, Sam came out so nerf nin, reaper is out so nerf Sam etc etc. Tbh this would be fixed if jrpgs would realize its the 2020's and stop with tab combat in favor of action

[@celphalonred1999]

@@obviouslykaleb7998 fukk Kaiten🙂

[@EloquentTroll]

I barrelled through a lot of the game as White Mage with friends, and at a certain point my friends wanted to play Healer, so I picked up Reaper to open it up, and dang I picked up so quick.

[@lancelot717]

I feel like a lot of the problems RPR has are artificial to be fixed as later patch content. Like, you could easily solve the burst awkwardness by making Soulsow give 50 Enshroud gauge and lowering the potency/removing the aoe altogether. The Soul gauges moves all have stacks already too so theres no reason to have them be uninterruptable else you lose your gauge, the time limits on the stacks are already generous enough you can hold them between phases in P3S.

[@jameysotelo540]

My one complaint about rpr is where is my gosh darn voidsent hug animation yoshi p i want a hug from time to time from my voidsent Beyond that i really love this job so much fun to play and learn and tbh at least to me i still find myself learning more on how to optimize the class compared to a lot of other classes which i like that and it feels busy which i prefer jobs that keep me busy and not sitting there pressing 123 over and over

[@minamishiina9149]

If you care about optimization, there is a big disadvantage of reaper: it is resource negative but as long as the style is cool af I don't really mind doing only one enshroud during burst window and freestyle everything else it doesn't cost THAT much anyway

[@ZoraKurosagi]

They need to add that glass break sound to all barrier mitigation abilities. Specifically TBN

[@Seconai]

At 1:02 how look your Reaper form like the angel from the 79 dungeon "The Endboss"? Is it per Mod or some potion or item?

[@bluebebop2337]

did you find out?

[@Seconai]

@@bluebebop2337 no

[@ShitOwl]

it is a mod he is a glorified gooner

[@ShitOwl]

@@bluebebop2337 its a mod

[@ThESiXtHLeGioN]

Still on the trial but when I go full FORCE, will be leveling this Magnificent Job!! Dope flick as always! ✌✌

[@coldcallers5138]

Hey guys, Whats that outfit called at 7:45?

[@DeadalusG]

Its a mod

[@vincentbeton]

Now we only need a DPS Version of Miner and Fisher. Actually, Dragoon already kinda fits the Spearfishing / Trident Idea...so we're halfway there

[@DonPetexX]

Next job exclusively questline dragoons will fight sea creatures to obtain fisher powers

[@Blazingbeard]

Botanist the true Reaper AND Warrior Miner hmm drawing blank for pickaxe. Hammer is still Warrior though Fishing maybe Puppetmaster (the strings for the fishing rod) and Dragoon (trident) So Warrior is the be all end all class then?

[@Uahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Wait why does your enshroud at 1:00 look different? I'm new to this job

[@talancorwell]

3rd party add-on/mod

[@Uahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

@@talancorwell ah thanks

[@talancorwell]

@@Uahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no problem!

[@RainHH]

Reaper needs some type of recovery tool. RPR goes negative on resources and just sucks major balls when the boss jumps away and you're sitting there with no way of recovering anything.

[@minkim002]

I agree. It is the way RPR is designed. Do dps to get resource A, which you use to get resource B to use your signature ability Enshroud. This makes recovery pretty damn hard especially if you die you lose 2 resources and gotta start from the scratch. RPR needs some form of recovery skill.

[@jo_mesquita]

Does anyone know which armor is that at 7:54 ? Most specifically the helm, I've been looking for it for quite some time now and I can't find it

[@SonicPhantom89]

It looks like a mod to make you look like Z’s Reaper avatar.

[@widebroadcast6812]

7:46 what is your character? She looks so cool

[@widebroadcast6812]

Like what race is she with the golden-looking wings? Is it cosmetic or is part of your race?

[@Idkcatto]

This is my very first class, I'm a brand new player to ff14 coming from WoW, and honestly its super fun. I'm only around level 80-ish now, so I have yet to get the final bits of the kit, but so far its still very fun

[@TheSunlight000]

How is it your first class when you have to be level 70 to unlock it? Didn’t you have to play something else to level 70?

[@Idkcatto]

@@TheSunlight000 Ah kinda yeah, I bought a boost and boosted a dark knight to 80 or whatever, and then went and got Reaper and played that almost purely since. I didnt do any dungeons or anything on the DK, so I consider Reaper my first class lol

[@TheSunlight000]

@@Idkcatto Ohh that makes sense!! I'm not level 70 yet so was hoping I could play it early but oh well

[@Idkcatto]

@@TheSunlight000 Lol yeah, goodluck with the leveling stuff! Once you unlock reaper it is very very fun, I 100% recommend it!!

[@HelenaHades]

Reaper is gonna be my very first Melee DPS. Once I reach 70 I'm gonna transition from Black Mage to Reaper. Which I know will be a very different play style than I'm used to but it's worth it cause it fits my character.

[@handlerone5172]

Oh wow, you will love how easy it is if you're coming from BLM. The story quest is pretty dope too.

[@HelenaHades]

@@handlerone5172 Well it may be a little harder for me cause I'm on Console. But nonetheless I'm still excited to try it.

[@josephgroeschel7461]

lol I literally am about to do the same exact thing! Hope all worked out.

[@tjreed7797]

Waiting for the complete edition to go on sale and if I decide to get it, I plan to try out red mage, samurai, and reaper. Also, I'm about to fight nidhogg for the second time (MSQ) and I've been maining ninja since lvl 36.

[@snowymech]

What is that white outfit during the first reason? It looks pretty!

[@WitphC79]

is the 1:01 modded?

[@sleepyice6422]

enshroud is what the dragon gauge could have been

[@johnway8819]

For real.... I hope they do something like that next expansion.

[@longinus4617]

Dragonborn?

[@Magguscaster]

Reaper is definitely fun despite it needing a DPS buff. My biggest gripe is Arcane Circle. Not only is it only a weaker 3% buff aoe raid wide (other melee/jobs give 5% instead), but you also have to be in the mercy of your party that you get 8 stacks for harvest which almost never happens. At best the stack buffs gives 7 the majority of the time so you never get the full damage. Second gripe is Shadow of Death needs to be part of the fluid rotation instead of some weird out of date debuff. Especially where other melee have it engrained into their rotation. To me, the damage numbers seem the most funky and all over the place so I'm not surprised it's currently the weakest melee in 6.1. There needs to be tweaks for sure.

[@celphalonred1999]

Dps buff? Odd how you think the top dps class in the game somehow needs a buff. Shouldn't you be thinking about sam lmao

[@elvangulley3210]

@@celphalonred1999 no sam needs no buffs

[@joshstorie246]

​@@celphalonred1999 Sam is the highest DPS even beats out BLM there's many stat charts that prove this

[@Zodiac8620]

As a Nyctophiliac, a polearm lover, an ex-DRK main and a Melee lover. This job was simply perfect for me. It will forever be my main

[@DontTrustThemSnakes]

Why would you want to sleep with dead people tho?

[@Zodiac8620]

@@DontTrustThemSnakes Nyctophiliac not Necrophiliac. Do your research

[@DontTrustThemSnakes]

@@Zodiac8620 I ain't googling that fam 🤔 But I am angry at the lack of necromancy representation in gaming

[@ihatemondays2595]

@@DontTrustThemSnakes you dont know what necrophillia is do you

[@Rakshase]

What are the angelic/lightwarden looking sets and the cool dark one with the hands over the eyes?

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

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[@NPX5]

What's the name of that scythe glam you're using? The one with blue shards on top or whatever it is.

[@guigaxw]

It is from palace of the dead

[@toastee5421]

@@guigaxwwell what is it

[@richardsaunders7157]

as a gw2 necro/reaper that looks so much fun

[@omni4163]

i will test reaper now, thanks^^

[@stevieblunder2656]

In my quest to get all the jobs from 80 (70 in the case of RPR and SGE) I finally got around to leveling RPR. I wanted to hate it, but it's very fun and satisfying. Enshroud at 90 feels like mongo Fury Warrior from WoW and is super satisfying. The really nailed the SFX and visuals. I do think it's also a bit simple, but like the SMN rework it gives them room to add things later which I'm hoping they do.

[@DontTrustThemSnakes]

The vast majority of people here, me included, have no clue what a mogo war even is.

[@stevieblunder2656]

@@DontTrustThemSnakes Not sure what the point of this comment is, but OK. There are plenty of former WoW players that play this game that would know what I'm talking about and anyone that doesn't...doesn't, I guess.

[@DontTrustThemSnakes]

@@stevieblunder2656 well the vast majority of XiV played have never touched wow...

[@stevieblunder2656]

@@DontTrustThemSnakes Vast majority is probably an overstatement, especially now. You don't know that and even if you were right, why not just ignore it? If you had asked what it meant, that'd be one thing, but instead you're like "No one knows what you even mean". Who cares? There's lots of references I don't get in comments and I don't bother people about it. I don't really care if you or anyone else gets my reference or not. I wasn't aware I needed to consider percentages as for how many people might get a reference in what was a benign, throwaway algorithm comment that probably no one was going to read, anyway.. You not understanding a comment that was not directed at you specifically isn't my problem.

[@DontTrustThemSnakes]

@@stevieblunder2656 nah the vast majority is still non wow players. Y'all make up maybe 20% at most. Most of us are vets, come from xi, pso, black desert etc. Also I was stating I have no clue what that is, mainly because it's an original for this game. The dev team now compared to 1.x and 2.x and even 3.x seems to have the Polish down so saying it reminds you of an ancient game is kinda odd imo

[@DuhaTVONE]

is there any vfx mod added to this especially in the 3rd reason part?

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Gshade and 4k Resolution

[@Oneofthecoments]

Waiiiit a min, I even tried to Google it and found nothing. How are you changing your enshroud? Is it the weapon or something? You had the “light” looking one a few times and you were posing as one with a black halo with the eyes covered. How does one do this?

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

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[@MaxiimTribe]

1st reason "screen shake".....I shut that shit off in every game I play lol

[@azuremoon4754]

How

[@ryudawn1]

Maybe I just haven't paid attention but why did the reaper look different than normal during the possession? Glam? Or have i just missed something?

[@Bravadorado]

Mods

[@julianarmbruster9627]

I love the reaper. Inwas samurai in last Expansion. But Reaper playstyle is so good 😍

[@Belerin26]

Does the hydaelyn ex weapon change your enshroud glam????

[@Bravadorado]

No, those are mods

[@SonicPhantom89]

Might be worthwhile explicitly stating that you have used mods to make yourself look like Forgiven Venery and Z’s Reaper avatar during Emshroud as I’ve already seen people confused on the comments here asking where they can get those armour pieces.

[@renereyes2648]

The First thing I think of when playing Reaper is Magus from Chrono Trigger

[@JhovaniCuadros]

how did you get that avatar style?

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnbSm5ycpbRld6c

[@Braven-j7m]

how did you turn into the sin eater creature? please tell me it is not a mod :(

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

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[@Braven-j7m]

@@DesperiusFFXIV Thanks for letting me know, I cant help but wish this was an official thing :) a sin eater reaper aesthetic would be amazing or even a new job themed after sin eaters

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

It would be amazing, but hope is not completely lost, I guess

[@njstudent155]

For leveling reaper, I haven't tried leveling it myself but from friends of mine who did level it I heard kinda the opposite experience. Not necessarily that the class is difficult, but to them they said that from 70-90 it felt like they had to constantly relearn the class every few levels. because the rotation would completely change and they could not fully enjoy reaper until 90 because they didn't know how reaper actually played. Basically, unlike what you said, they felt that there WAS something missing with rpr until they were nearly max level, with the class being very lackluster until it reached higher levels.

[@MauriceM_R]

Im a new player. Do you need to start as a lancer to become a reaper?

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

No, any job/class is fine. Just rech level 70 with a fighting class and you can become a Reaper 👍

[@Rezzona]

Does reaper have an angel forme?

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

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[@lp1spiritguidance577]

Started a new character to play with someone I dragged into the game lol started dragoon and boosted it so I could go reaper as close to start as possible 😂😂

[@damens-xn9pu]

As a former gw2 player i cant really agree with the originality claim... it is basically the gw2 reaper and scourge combined. Still dope though

[@Paeddl]

Reaper is the most Fun i had with an MMO Class since they butchered Unholy DK with this dumb wound mechanic

[@baines803]

7:44 a friend

[@Berguna645]

How to become like sin eater???

[@Bravadorado]

It's a mod

[@Curinteru]

I know I'm in the minority when I say this job hasn't grow on me. And don't get me wrong, the rotation feels amazing and the job is cool as hell, but I prefer to play all the other melee jobs instead. Maybe because of that "this job has only 20 levels to get to you" thing. Also it may influence my opinion that I've been a main DRG for almost 2 years? xD

[@ludnqka]

bro i main dragoon and cannot get atacked to any other job...nothing feels as satisfieing to burst nuke on and dive all over the place and the aestetic and estinien my god DRG IS GOATED MAIN CHARACTER JOB

[@Curinteru]

@@ludnqka I can totally relate to that

[@Akinon93]

my first job to 90, and though I main BLM right now, I do find myself going back to it now and then. it's so simple and straightforward (I feel), yet still fairly powerful that if I want to easily blast a dungeon or do a prog boss in PF without thinking as much about things, the reaper is great as I can still put out fairly substantial damage while not having to worry as much about the rotation, at least compared to some other jobs (like BLM, where if you mess timing up and drop your astral phase you're immediately far, far behind). also, some jobs feel awful to play in synced content, either due to rotational differences or w/e else. but RPR (alsongside SAM, PLD, and more) feels pretty ok even at the lower levels like 50.

[@nosliwyelir]

Play style feels like old sith inquisitor from swtor

[@njstudent155]

endwalker edition? I thought this was realm reborn, darn

[@marcosperez5828]

I always had the dilemma of wanting to main dark knight but also absolutely hating tanking, plus lately the dark knight animations have been just boring in my opinion, so reapers just the perfect job for me

[@derpy_mushroom531]

Reaper is definitely fun. However im godawful when it comes to melee DPS so I don't generally play as much as I could do. Positionals aint a strong point with me, even though Reaper only has 2

[@masakilyons2920]

I wish reaper would get a PVP buff, but from the PVP balancing guide they drop it's not going to get it

[@Gamemaster-64]

What guide?

[@masakilyons2920]

@@Gamemaster-64 it used to be on the forms that used to be there when you logged in, that showed the guidelines on what do they use to decide which class get buff or Nerf

[@aave6692]

the biggest downside of this job is doing lvl synced duties. without enshroud and plentiful harvest, it just feels very empty and bland. i'm a reaper main but i never queue into any roulette with it

[@Eyeslayer]

you make it sound interesting as all get out but i'm confused by the use of the word Edgyness what is so edgy about the class? from what you showed there isn't much tension from playing the class so i'm a bit put off by the comment.

[@JetsetStealth]

edgelord healer and ranged dps when?

[@Elliriah]

Reason 1: Despite being the easiest job,it's dealing a shit ton or damage without optimisations

[@joshuwuah]

no its not...

[@minkim002]

My favorite job in EW for like a month. One of the best animations and skill effects and cool screen shaking. And Enshroud!!! But it is too damn simple and boring!!! It is like melee SMN.

[@cornprices1718]

people who call reaper simple and boring have clearly never gone down the eldritch path of triple enshroud

[@ultialtz8827]

Reaper felt like the dancer to me without the rng

[@chunchoe]

The only thing that kept me from playing this class was the Scythe luckly mods exist and changing it to a spear or sword was fairly easy enough

[@celphalonred1999]

Reported

[@toastee5421]

May as well not play the job at all

[@ZoraKurosagi]

Video should have been 7 seconds long and titled 1 reason to play RPR. And then you say because it’s FUCKING REAPER. Fin.

[@GoddessCynthia]

Hey bestie, u should be careful showin off mods like that ansfdklfnkldsa

[@_nagazaki__]

< dark knight

[@oTheDucky89o]

The only downside for Reaper perhaps he is the lowest DPS among all melees in Savage but then the differences are not huge.

[@Magguscaster]

Also one of the lowest in synced content. Fun to play but it’s skill set and damage numbers are atrocious compared to others.

[@oTheDucky89o]

@@Magguscaster Exactly and it's easier to switch over from Dragoon since they shares the same gears. But I think I'll be going back to Dragoon soon since Reaper is too boring.

[@celphalonred1999]

Highest* as most run reaper, followed by monk and nin, according to the charts. Odd but that info is indeed vastly incorrect.

[@Magguscaster]

@Lil' Femboy Try doing the lvl 70/80 ultimates and floor 200 as Reaper and come at me again. It's inferior to other melee in the same situation. You clearly haven't done anything that actually stresses the job. Nor is it fun to only have 4 buttons as reaper in sync'd content. If your basis is dungeons or normal trials. You literally can run that content without job stones. 🙂

[@Elliriah]

Btw addons are prohibited 1:15

[@burnersforhim]

w

[@Elliriah]

@@burnersforhim x

[@burnersforhim]

@@Elliriah W means facts

[@Elliriah]

@@burnersforhim ok thank didn't knew that

[@Elliriah]

@Lil' Femboy you don't apparently

[@Grayald]

Nah. I like Red Mage too much.

[@misterbxiv]

Eh, it’s okay. The fucky-ness of the 2 minute window makes it a lot less enjoyable

[@ErnestasKaminskas]

Reaper has nothing on Sam. Sorry to disappoint you. Go plough your field pagans!

[@celphalonred1999]

Its fine, while reaper has the crown for dps in general, enjoy your spot at the bottom, o' Kaitenless Samurai ; )

[@Z1pZ1p3r]

Reason Number 1 you should not. Their gear they do "not" share with dragoon looks like shit.

[@boehan605]

reaper is so easy

[@karmaspcs]

oh modded enshroud. enjoy bann BTW reaper wasnt punt in dragoon gear because of "edgines" more because dragoon had zero other class to his gear. monk got samu, mage have allt he same like tanks, ranges and healer. dragoon was alone so SE put reaper in his gear slot.