New FFXIV Endwalker Job Is Reaper; What We Know About The Scythe-Wielding Class

In true Naoki Yoshida trend, the director and producer for Ultimate Fantasy XIV kicked off a Fan Fest by giving the keynote presentation cosplaying as a brand new job featured in an upcoming growth. For Fan Fest 2021, Yoshi-P got here out in a Bloodborne-esque getup holding an enormous scythe to characterize the truth that gamers will have the ability to tackle the brand new Reaper melee DPS job in Endwalker. The presentation confirmed off the Reaper in motion with a video and with a number of particulars on how this job works.

Reapers use a scythe as their foremost weapon to deal most their harm from shut vary, they usually additionally summon a ghostly avatar from the Void to battle alongside them. Yoshida-san defined that Reapers can quickly channel the facility of their Voidsent avatar and turn out to be a bunch for it–although we do not know precisely how this can work, this will likely be a key gameplay mechanic for the job. As for armor and kit class, Reapers will share gear with the Lancer/Dragoon.

As a way to play as a Reaper in FFXIV, you will have to have the Endwalker growth in your account and have one different job/class at degree 70 in your character so you’ll be able to provoke the required job quest–that job quest will likely be present in Ul’dah.

Reaper is a very new job/class for the Ultimate Fantasy franchise and would not reference something from earlier video games, apart from the scythe weapon. Aesthetically, the Reaper’s glamour attracts loads of similarities to the Victorian-era gothic horror stylings of Bloodborne–and truthfully, it simply appears cool as hell. The villain Zenos yae Galvus was revealed to tackle the function of a Reaper within the story as seen within the full Endwalker trailer.

We beforehand bought particulars on the opposite new job coming to FFXIV: Endwalker throughout the February presentation, which is the Sage. In case you missed it, the Sage is a healer job that makes use of floating knife-guns referred to as nouliths and obstacles to buff and shield social gathering members. There was additionally a section from the February presentation that outlined how the Sage works. Key character Alphinaud assumes the function of Sage within the Endwalker story as nicely, and you may see him in motion within the cinematic trailer.

For extra on what’s new with FFXIV, make sure you take a look at my breakdown of the total Endwalker cinematic trailer. Endwalker additionally bought an official launch date of November 23–those who preorder can get early entry beginning on November 19. Ultimate Fantasy Fan Fest 2021 continues via the weekend, so keep tuned for extra protection of FFXIV.