Leveling Rotations and Tips for Reaper — Dawntrail 7.3

While leveling, always try to keep your item level high. You can exchange Allagan Tomestone of Poetics for gear in Rhalgr's Reach at level 70, in Eulmore at level 80 and in Radz-at-Han at level 90.

Reaper starts out at level 70, but since the lowest-level duty you can queue for is level 15, that is where we will start this page at. Below, we adapt the priority explained in the Rotation section to your selected level.

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1. Keep Arcane Circle on cooldown;
2. Use Gibbet or Gallows if you have a Soul Reaver;
   • Opt for Gibbet if you are under Enhanced Gibbet;
   • Opt for Gallows if you are under Enhanced Gallows;
   • Use either if you have no enhancement buff.
     • These are positionals, please check the tooltip to hit the right positional or use True North when executing them.
3. Use Gibbet or Gallows if you have a Soul Reaver, or their Executioner counterparts if you have Executioner stacks;
   • Opt for Gibbet (or Executioner's Gibbet) if you are under Enhanced Gibbet;
   • Opt for Gallows (or Executioner's Gallows) if you are under Enhanced Gallows;
   • Use either if you have no enhancement buff.
     • These are positionals, please check the tooltip to hit the right positional or use True North when executing them.
4. Do not let Immortal Sacrifices or Ideal Host fall off.
5. Do not drop your combo. Combos last for 30 seconds, so make sure you use Waxing Slice before it expires;
6. Do not drop your combo. Combos last for 30 seconds, so make sure you use Waxing Slice and Infernal Slice before they expire;
7. Maintain Death's Design at all times by using Shadow of Death;
8. Avoid drifting Soul Slice — manage your Soul gauge as necessary;
9. Avoid drifting Soul Slice or Gluttony — manage your Soul gauge as necessary;
10. Avoid overcapping Soul Slice charges or drifting Gluttony — manage your Soul gauge as necessary;
11. Use Plentiful Harvest if you have Immortal Sacrifice stacks and are not affected by Bloodsown;
12. Enter your Enshroud phase if you have 50 or more Shroud;
    • Start with Void Reaping or Cross Reaping, and then alternate four times;
      • Eg: Void Reaping → Cross Reaping → Void Reaping → Cross Reaping → Void Reaping.
13. Enter your Enshroud phase if you have 50 or more Shroud;
    • Start with Void Reaping or Cross Reaping, and then alternate four times;
    • Use Lemure's Slice when available;
      • Eg: Void Reaping → Sacrificium → Cross Reaping → Lemure's Slice → Void Reaping → Cross Reaping → Lemure's Slice → Communio.
14. Enter your Enshroud phase if you have 50 or more Shroud or have the Ideal Host buff;
    • Start with Void Reaping or Cross Reaping, and then alternate four times;
    • Use Lemure's Slice when available;
      • Eg: Void Reaping → Cross Reaping → Lemure's Slice → Void Reaping → Cross Reaping → Lemure's Slice → Void Reaping.
15. Enter your Enshroud phase if you have 50 or more Shroud or have the Ideal Host buff;
    • Start with Void Reaping or Cross Reaping, and then alternate three times;
    • Use Sacrificium before finishing the window and Lemure's Slice when available;
    • Use Communio to finish the phase.
      • Eg: Void Reaping → Cross Reaping → Lemure's Slice → Void Reaping → Cross Reaping → Lemure's Slice → Void Reaping.
16. Enter your Enshroud phase if you have 50 or more Shroud or have the Ideal Host buff;
    • Start with Void Reaping or Cross Reaping, and then alternate three times;
    • Use Sacrificium before finishing the window and Lemure's Slice when available;
    • Use Communio to finish the phase.
      • Eg: Void Reaping → Sacrificium → Cross Reaping → Lemure's Slice → Void Reaping → Cross Reaping → Lemure's Slice → Communio.
17. Use Soul Slice if available and if you have 50 or less Soul;
18. Use Harvest Moon if the target is about to jump or die and you still have the Soulsow buff;
19. Use Blood Stalk if you have 50 or more Soul;
20. Use Blood Stalk or an Unveiled variant ( Unveiled Gibbet, Unveiled Gallows) if you have 50 or more Soul;
21. Use your combo actions ( Slice, Waxing Slice) as fillers;
22. Use your combo actions ( Slice, Waxing Slice, Infernal Slice) as fillers;
23. Use Harvest Moon if you are not in melee range of the target and have the Soulsow buff;
24. Use Harpe if you are not in melee range of the target;
25. Use Soulsow if the target is untargetable for 5 seconds or more.

In multi-target situations, the rotation follows the same general priority as the single-target one, but in a mirrored and simplified form and with the extra care of avoiding Soul overcap if multiple enemies under Death's Design die simultaneously.

On three targets, make the following replacements:

• Use Grim Reaping instead of Void Reaping and Cross Reaping;
• Use Lemure's Scythe instead of Lemure's Slice;
• Use Grim Swathe instead of Blood Stalk;
• Use Grim Swathe instead of Blood Stalk and its variants ( Unveiled Gibbet, Unveiled Gallows);
• Use Grim Swathe instead of Blood Stalk, but not its variants ( Unveiled Gibbet, Unveiled Gallows);
• Use Guillotine instead of Gibbet and Gallows;
• Use Soul Scythe instead of Soul Slice;
• Use Spinning Scythe instead of the single-target combo;
• Use the AoE combo ( Spinning Scythe, Nightmare Scythe) instead of the single-target combo;
• Use Whorl of Death instead of Shadow of Death if there's no target already under Death's Design.*

On four or more targets, apply all of the above and also:

• Use Grim Swathe instead of Blood Stalk's variants;
• Use Guillotine instead of Gibbet and Gallows;
  • Even without enhancement buffs, Gibbet and Gallows remain optimal in three-target scenarios, as they buff subsequent uses;
  • The same logic applies to their Executioner counterparts.
• Use the AoE combo ( Spinning Scythe, Nightmare Scythe) instead of the single-target combo;
• Use Whorl of Death instead of Shadow of Death even if there are targets already under Death's Design.*

*You may still use Whorl of Death on fewer targets — disregarding the rules above — if:

• there is enough upcoming natural cleave damage from Gluttony, Harvest Moon, or Plentiful Harvest;
• there is enough upcoming natural cleave damage from Gluttony, Harvest Moon, Plentiful Harvest, or Communio;
• there is enough upcoming natural cleave damage from Gluttony, Harvest Moon, Plentiful Harvest, Communio, or Sacrificium;
• it will cause additional enemies to die under Death's Design, thus generating extra Soul;
• it prevents the need for an extra Shadow of Death in encounters with unavoidable target swaps.

The final job quest 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