Cie_Kite: Reaper and Viper are my favorite melee. Since they were designed with level 90 and 100 respectively, everything feel way more refined and flow way more naturally. Meanwhile, even after rework, Monk still feel like a patchwork of mechanics (having to open with a double lunar to align buffs feel so wrong to me). The main problem as you pointed it out is that everything content under 90/100 feel bad since huge chunks of our kit is ripped off our hands. It's especially annoying with the Viper since 95% of the game content is before Dawntrail.
I really wish Square Enix could take a look a this and find a solution. For example scaling down our potencies for lower level content but allowing us to keep all of our kit. I want to press all my shiny buttons!!
JayShifu: Viper and Samurai are so fun, my two favorite melee jobs
1Mrstephen: Get rid of deaths design and add an ability that is useful and it’s good to go.
phantomvox951: Im playing Samurai and Reaper. Im having a blast.
zinoit5: Viper is sick, came back for it and loving it
sneaky7615: It the easiest melee to learn it's has okay amount of button, generally slow GCD, not many oGCD, 2 positional that only happen occasionally, good self mitigation, breaking 1-2-3 combo doesn't ruin your days and a dash that doesn't require a target and it can go back and forth too! Hell what's not to like about this class? Well maybe some people don't like Death's Design.
rare9247: I think reaper is a fine job and well designed, I just wish it did more rdps to make up for the fact it's not really an adps monster like vpr or sam, or an rdps monster like mnk or to a lesser extent dragoon. It feels like it has no identity in the sense where it doesnt do insane rdps or adps it's just kinda in the middle. but it plays so well and optimization is very rewarding, I just wish there were more tangible dps rewards for optimization (there's a lot of it this tier) it deals with downtime super poorly to the point I wish you could get a harvest moon from PH somewhat like viper. but I do think the jankiness of it is kind of its own identity
lyconxero457: I’m leveling up my Reaper right now. It’s currently at lvl 93-94 and it’s still great. It was my main last expansion but Viper has stolen my melee heart in DT with its speed and smooth flow.
Hoolagun: Been maining reaper for savage in DT and its one i just connect with the most.

The pain point is less death design upkeep and more the gluttony drift or being gauge negative and punished for dropping GCD's.
I'm by no means the best reaper, in fact quite average on parses but have enough hours to feel these affects.

I've also done m2s on viper to feel the difference and man, my thoughts are "why even play samurai, ninja or monk?" if not for the aesthetics. It undermines those in my personal opinion.
I played it terribly but still did way more damage than i should have.

Lower skill ceiling, higher value. again just my opinion.
rottenleader28: As a scythe main and being 100% unbiased, rpr is the best class.
mattpecnik2803: If you think Reaper is boring at low levels wait until you level viper. Lol

Aug 30 2024

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