Reaper Leveling Guide - Dawntrail 7.0 (2024)

Last updated on Jun 27, 2024 at 00:00by Ellunavi9 comments

This page covers the rotation and action usage when leveling Reaper toLevel 100. This page can also be used to help when doing roulettes withlevel scaling by using the slider to adjust the information to your desiredlevel.

When leveling up, you should always choose the piece of gear with the highestitem level. You can exchange Allagan Tomestone of Poetics for gear inRhalgr's Reach at level 70 and in Eulmore at level 80.

Reaper starts out at level 70, but since the lowest level duty you can queueinto is level 15, that is where we will start this page at.

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Level: 15

Reaper unlocks three job gauges, two abilities with that share charges andmust maintain a debuff on enemies at all times.

• Shadow of Death applies Death's Design to a single targetthat must be maintained when fighting two or less enemies.
• Whorl of Death applies Death's Design to multiple enemies thatmust 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. Comboactions and enemies dying with Death's Design debuff generate 10 Soul.
• Soul Gauge: Use Blood Stalk or Grim Swatheto spend 50 Soul Gauge. Combo actions and enemies dying with Death's Designdebuff generate 10 Soul.
• Soul Gauge: Use Blood Stalk or Grim Swatheto spend 50 Soul Gauge. Combo actions and enemies dying with Death's Designdebuff generate 10 Soul. Soul Slice generate 50 Soul.
• Soul Gauge: Use Blood Stalk or Grim Swatheto spend 50 Soul Gauge. Combo actions and enemies dying with Death's Designdebuff 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 andenemies 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 50Soul.
• Shroud Gauge: Use Enshroud to spend 50 Shroud Gauge andbecome Enshrouded. After using Blood Stalk, Unveiled Gibbet, or Unveiled Gallows, you canuse Gibbet or Gallows to generate 10Shroud.
• Shroud Gauge: Use Enshroud to spend 50 Shroud Gauge andbecome Enshrouded. After using Blood Stalk, Unveiled Gibbet, or Unveiled Gallows, you canuse Gibbet or Gallows to generate 10Shroud. Plentiful Harvest generates 50 Shroud.
• Enshroud: Grants you access to 5 Lemure Shroud (Blue Orbson 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 bufffades 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 Orbson job gauge) and changes Gibbet into Void Reaping and Gallows into Cross Reaping. These skills cost one Lemure Shroud to useand 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 costtwo Void Shroud to use. Restricts access to Combo actions, Soul Builders andSoul Spenders. The buff fades when there are no more Lemure Shroud.

Reaper Single target rotation is pretty straight forward. Consider your comboactions as filler and utilize all of your other resources before committing toa combo. The combo timer lasts for 30 seconds, so it will be hard to dropcombo while leveling.

• Maintain Death's Design by using Shadow of Death on thetarget. 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 secondsafter using, as long as you do a Weaponskill within those 5 seconds afterusing Arcane Circle.

Use Sacrificium if you have the the Oblatio buff.

Use Communio when you one Lemure Shroud left.

Use Enshroud when at 50 Shroud Gauge. Alternate Void Reaping and Cross Reaping to spend LemureShroud, as they buff each other.

Use Enshroud when at 50 Shroud Gauge. Alternate Void Reaping and Cross Reaping to spend LemureShroud, as they buff each other. Use Lemure's Slice to spend 2Void Shroud. You should get two uses of this each enshroud Window.

Use Plentiful Harvest if available to generate 50 Shroud.Make sure you are no overcapping!

Use Gluttony when you have 50 Soul and its off cooldown to generatetwo Soul Reavers.

Use Gluttony when you have 50 Soul and its off cooldown to generatetwo Soul Executioners.

If Gluttony is about to come off cooldown, then save your Soul touse it when it comes up.

Use Blood Stalk when you have 50 Soul.

Use Blood Stalk, Unveiled Gallows or Unveiled Gibbet when you have 50 Soul to give you one SoulReaver.

Blood Stalk changes into Unveiled Gallows or Unveiled Gibbet depending on if Gallows or Gibbet are buffed and does not consume the buff when used.

Use Executioner's Gallows or Executioner's Gibbet if you have a stack of Executioner, depending on which one is buffed (the game will highlight them). Ifnone are buffed, than use either of them. Once used, they will buff the other.These are only available after Gluttony

Use Gallows or Gibbet if you have a SoulReaver, depending on which one is buffed (the game will highlight them). Ifnone are buffed, than use either of them. Once used, they will buff the other.

Use Gallows or Gibbet if you have a SoulReaver, depending on which one is buffed (the game will highlight them) togenerate 10 Shroud. If none are buffed than use either of them. Once used, theywill buff the other.

Use Soul Slice on cooldown to generate 50 Soul. Make sure youdo not overcap Soul!

Use Harvest Moon if you have it charged and need to disconnectfrom the enemy. Use it at least once each Encounter even if you do not need todisconnect.

Use your main combo, Slice -> Waxing Slice -> Infernal Slice. The combo persists for 30 seconds.

Use your main combo, Slice -> Waxing Slice -> Infernal Slice to generate 10 Soul. The combo persists for 30 seconds.

Use your main combo, Slice -> Waxing Slice togenerate 10 Shroud. The combo persists for 30 seconds.

Use Harpe if you are unable to attack the enemy in melee.

• Feint is a strong cross-class mitigation tool. Use it when available toprevent enemies auto-attacks, raidwide damaging attacks, or tank busters.
• Arcane Crest will apply an AoE regen effect to the raid ifit breaks after cast. Use this before any raidwide damage to help heal upthe raid afterwards.

• Same as single target.
• Maintain Death's Design by using Whorl of Death on thetargets. 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 secondsafter using, as long as you do a Weaponskill within those 5 seconds afterusing Arcane Circle.

Use Sacrificium if you have the the Oblatio buff.

Use Communio when you one Lemure Shroud left.

Use Enshroud when at 50 Shroud Gauge. Use Grim Reaping to spend Lemure Shroud.

Use Enshroud when at 50 Shroud Gauge. Use Grim Reaping to spend Lemure Shroud. Use Lemure's Scythe to spend 2 Void Shroud. You should use thistwice every Enshroud Window.

Use Plentiful Harvest if available to generate 50 Shroud.Make sure you are no overcapping!

Plentiful Harvest deals damage in a straight line from thecaster, aimed at the target.

Use Gluttony when you have 50 Soul and its off cooldown to generatetwo Soul Reavers.

Use Gluttony when you have 50 Soul and its off cooldown to generatetwo Soul Executioners.

If Gluttony is about to come off cooldown, then save your Soul touse it when it comes up.

Gluttony deals damage in an area around the target.

Use Grim Swathe when you have 50 Soul.

Use Grim Swathe when you have 50 Soul to gain one Soul Reaver.

Grim Swathe deals damage in a semi-circle infront of the caster.

Use Executioner's Guillotine when you have an Executioner stack.This is only available after Gluttony.

Use Guillotine when you have a Soul Reaver.

Use Guillotine when you have a Soul Reaver to gain 10 Shroud.

Guillotine deals damage in a semi-circle in front of the caster.

Use Soul Scythe on cooldown to generate 50 Soul. Make sure youdo not overcap Soul!

Use Harvest Moon if it is available.

Harvest Moon deals damage in an area around the target.

Use Spinning Scythe.

Use your main combo, Spinning Scythe -> Nightmare Scythe. The combo persists for 30 seconds.

Use your main combo, Spinning Scythe -> Nightmare Scythe to generate 10 shroud. The combo persists for 30seconds.

Spinning Scythe deals damage in an area around the caster.

Spinning Scythe and Nightmare Scythe dealsdamage in an area around the caster.

Use Harpe if you are unable to attack the enemy in melee.

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