Reaper Guide

Beginner's Reaper Guide

Reaper (RPR) is a maiming melee DPS, who shares this role with dragoon.

Reapers specialize in having consistent damage while having hectic bursts, accompanied by their avatar. Reapers possess some party utility, being able to grant a party-wide regen upon taking damage at higher levels. It is one of the easiest melee DPS, with its basic weaponskills doing a large amount of damage, while also being slow outside of its bursts. While it is one of the easiest melee DPS, it has a higher skill ceiling to accomidate for cooldowns, melee uptime, and their unique job gauges:

The soul and death gauge are reaper's main mechanics, with nearly every weaponskill generating soul gauge, which can be spent for powerful weaponskills that generate death gauge. Certain cooldowns may grant large amounts of soul gauge, or even a free usage of Enshroud, costing death gauge and doing a ton of burst damage. The damage output of reapers suffer greatly when they are unable to harvest souls for their gauges due to downtime, or low player-skill unable to keep uptime, as it will delay their bursts or may even lose entire burst phases.

Basic Combos and Weaponskills

Like other disciple of war jobs, reapers have a basic "1-2-3" combo and a two-hit AoE combo, in addition to other tools. Like other jobs, begin using the AoE combo when there are three or more enemies.

Basic 1-2-3 Combo:
1 (Level 1)	2 (Level 5)	3 (Level 30)
Slice	Waxing Slice	Infernal Slice
Basic AoE Combo:
1 (Level 26)		2 (Level 45)
Spinning Scythe		Nightmare Scythe

Enshroud

Upon having 50 death gauge, reapers may become Enshrouded, granting access to reaping actions, lemure actions when at level 86, and finally Communio at level 90. Below are lists on what Enshroud bursts look like at all relevant levels:

Note at all levels: it does not matter which reaping action you begin Enshroud with.

Level 80Level 86Level 90Level 92Level 100

Single Target:
1	2	3	4	5
Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Void Reaping
AoE:
1	2	3	4	5
Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping

Lemure actions, Lemure's Slice and Lemure's Scythe, become available as abilities to be weaved. One lemure action costs two void gauge; one stack of void gauge is gained for every execution of a reaping action.

Single Target:
	1	2	3	4	5
	Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Void Reaping
Weaving:		Lemure's Slice		Lemure's Slice
AoE:
	1	2	3	4	5
	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping
Weaving:		Lemure's Scythe		Lemure's Scythe

Communio becomes available, costing one Lemure Shroud stack. It should be executed as the final action of Enshroud, as it will instantly end it, no matter how many stacks you have.

Single Target:
	1	2	3	4	5
	Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Communio
Weaving:		Lemure's Slice		Lemure's Slice
AoE:
	1	2	3	4	5
	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Communio
Weaving:		Lemure's Scythe		Lemure's Scythe

Sacrificium may be used as an ability to be weaved at any time. Keep in mind that you cannot double-weave abilities between each reaping action without clipping your next GCD.

Single Target:
	1	2	3	4	5
	Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Communio
Weaving:	Sacrificium	Lemure's Slice		Lemure's Slice
AoE:
	1	2	3	4	5
	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Communio
Weaving:	Sacrificium	Lemure's Scythe		Lemure's Scythe

Perfectio becomes available after executing Communio if you have entered Enshroud with Perfectio Parata, which is gained when using Plentiful Harvest at level 100, only. You do not need to be Enshrouded to use Perfectio, and you can save it for up to 30 seconds after executing Communio. While you can use it during raid buffs, it is more advisable to save it for if you need to disengage from a boss as a ranged option, instead of casting Harpe.

Single Target:						Perfectio
	1	2	3	4	5
	Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Void Reaping	Cross Reaping	Communio
Weaving:	Sacrificium	Lemure's Slice		Lemure's Slice
AoE:
	1	2	3	4	5
	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Grim Reaping	Communio
Weaving:	Sacrificium	Lemure's Scythe		Lemure's Scythe