Leveling Rotations and Tips for Reaper — Dawntrail 7.0
This page covers the rotation and action usage when leveling Reaper to Level 100. This page can also be used to help when doing roulettes with level scaling by using the slider to adjust the information to your desired level.
Gear Options
When leveling up, you should always choose the piece of gear with the highest item level. You can exchange Allagan Tomestone of Poetics for gear in Rhalgr's Reach at level 70 and in Eulmore at level 80.
Rotation Overview While Leveling Reaper
Reaper starts out at level 70, but since the lowest level duty you can queue into is level 15, that is where we will start this page at.
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Resource Management
Reaper unlocks three job gauges, two abilities with that share charges and must maintain a debuff on enemies at all times.
- Shadow of Death applies Death's Design to a single target that must be maintained when fighting two or less enemies.
- Whorl of Death applies Death's Design to multiple enemies that must be maintained when fighting three or more enemies.
- Soul Slice has one charge.
- Soul Slice and Soul Scythe share one charge.
- Soul Slice and Soul Scythe share two charges.
- Soul Gauge: Use Blood Stalk to spend 50 Soul Gauge. Combo actions and enemies dying with Death's Design debuff generate 10 Soul.
- Soul Gauge: Use Blood Stalk or Grim Swathe to spend 50 Soul Gauge. Combo actions and enemies dying with Death's Design debuff generate 10 Soul.
- Soul Gauge: Use Blood Stalk or Grim Swathe to spend 50 Soul Gauge. Combo actions and enemies dying with Death's Design debuff generate 10 Soul. Soul Slice generate 50 Soul.
- Soul Gauge: Use Blood Stalk or Grim Swathe to spend 50 Soul Gauge. Combo actions and enemies dying with Death's Design debuff generate 10 Soul. Soul Slice and Soul Scythe generate 50 Soul.
- Soul Gauge: Use Blood Stalk, Unveiled Gibbet, Unveiled Gallows or Grim Swathe to spend 50 Soul Gauge. Combo actions and enemies dying with Death's Design debuff generate 10 Soul. Note: Blood Stalk, Unveiled Gibbet, and Unveiled Gallows all use the same button your hotbar. Soul Slice and Soul Scythe generates 50 Soul.
- Shroud Gauge: Use Enshroud to spend 50 Shroud Gauge and become Enshrouded. After using Blood Stalk, Unveiled Gibbet, or Unveiled Gallows, you can use Gibbet or Gallows to generate 10 Shroud.
- Shroud Gauge: Use Enshroud to spend 50 Shroud Gauge and become Enshrouded. After using Blood Stalk, Unveiled Gibbet, or Unveiled Gallows, you can use Gibbet or Gallows to generate 10 Shroud. Plentiful Harvest generates 50 Shroud.
- Enshroud: Grants you access to 5 Lemure Shroud (Blue Orbs on job Gauge) and changes Gibbet into Void Reaping and Gallows into Cross Reaping. These skills cost one Lemure Shroud to use. This restricts access to Combo actions, Soul Builders, and Soul Spenders. The buff fades when there are no more Lemure Shroud.
- Your last Lemure Shroud should always be used to cast Communio.
- Enshroud: Grants you access to 5 Lemure Shroud (Blue Orbs on job gauge) and changes Gibbet into Void Reaping and Gallows into Cross Reaping. These skills cost one Lemure Shroud to use and generate one Void Shroud (Purple/Red Orbs on job gauge). This also changes Blood Stalk into Lemure's Slice and Grim Swathe into Lemure's Scythe which cost two Void Shroud to use. Restricts access to Combo actions, Soul Builders and Soul Spenders. The buff fades when there are no more Lemure Shroud.
Single Target Priority
Reaper Single target rotation is pretty straight forward. Consider your combo actions as filler and utilize all of your other resources before committing to a combo. The combo timer lasts for 30 seconds, so it will be hard to drop combo while leveling.
- Maintain Death's Design by using Shadow of Death on the target. Shadow of Death applies the debuff for 30 seconds, but can stack it up to 60 seconds.
- Use Arcane Circle on cooldown to buff the parties damage.
- Use Arcane Circle on cooldown to buff the parties damage. It will also grant you access to Plentiful Harvest 6 seconds after using, as long as you do a Weaponskill within those 5 seconds after using Arcane Circle.
Mitigation Utility
- Feint is a strong cross-class mitigation tool. Use it when available to prevent enemies auto-attacks, raidwide damaging attacks, or tank busters.
- Arcane Crest will apply an AoE regen effect to the raid if it breaks after cast. Use this before any raidwide damage to help heal up the raid afterwards.
Multi-Target Priority 3+ Targets
- Same as single target.
- Maintain Death's Design by using Whorl of Death on the targets. Whorl of Death applies the debuff for 30 seconds, but can stack it up to 60 seconds.
- Whorl of Death deals damage in an area around the caster.
- Use Arcane Circle on cooldown to buff the parties damage.
- Use Arcane Circle on cooldown to buff the parties damage. It will also grant you access to Plentiful Harvest 6 seconds after using, as long as you do a Weaponskill within those 5 seconds after using Arcane Circle.
Job Quests
The final job quests unlocks Enshroud so it is important that you do them when you turn level 80.
- Level 70: The Killer Instinct (Unlocks Job)
- Level 70: The Harvest Begins
- Level 73: On the Hunt
- Level 75: Dark Days
- Level 78: Thicker than Blood
- Level 80: The Killing Art
Changelog
- 27 Jun. 2024: Updated for Patch 7.00.
- 19 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for 6.55.
- 14 Oct. 2023: Updated for Patch 6.5.
- 27 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 6.4.
- 11 Jan. 2023: Updated for Patch 6.3
- 27 Mar. 2022: Guide added.
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Ellunavi Sevald is a Veteran FFXIV player who was been theorycrafting since 1.0. He has cleared all three of the ultimate fights the game has to offer and has participated successfully in week one raid groups. He has also high parses for multiple jobs, across multiple raid tiers. He is currently a Reaper Mentor and Senior Moderator on the Balance Discord. He streams on Twitch, as well as leading some of the streams on Twitch for the Balance.
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