Reaper Minion Shouldnt Exist

Other minions can be summoned and there are no restriction from that was shown, so you easily can have skeleton army or ssr or phantasms, there are options and synergies for example - elemetalist resummons golems automatically, Soulwrest combo. Do you think it will eat your other minnions at 10 per second rate? Wakanda nonsense are you talking - have you tried the skill yet, have seen gem info? It's only 20% less dmg and hp for your other minions.

It's a new gem, it's not supposed to play like the other summon gems. Given that the active is on a 5s c/d it sure seems to me like you should be thinking about what you want to do during that window. CwC SRS? Dom Blow or new spell version of Dom Blow? Summon skeles? Maw of Mischief? Law of the Wilds? Scourge? Since reaper is helping to kill your minions too there will be new ways to leverage Minion Instability and Siegebreaker.

IDK I struggle to understand the mentality of 'this shouldn't exist' for a brand new mechanically unique skill before it's even in the game instead of theorycrafting all the ways it might be fun.

That's what this game is for right? To have fun?

To be fair Maw is one of the absolute worse builds you could possibly go for. Its gimmicky at best.

Is Reaper worth not having a juiced utility animated guardian?

I strongly doubt it.

If it's truly meant to be a "one minion army", it's got some massive shoes to fill when you consider what you're giving up to use it. 4-5 syndicate operatives/artless assassins/crabbies/flickershades, hordes of skeletons and zombies, swarms of raging spirits and animated weapons, the Reaper would have to be able to compete with all of them in both clear speed, durability, and killing power.

As discussed in a related topic, reaper doesn't compete with spamable minions like srs, skeletons, sentinels, animated weapon - but happily work together.

So don't hold your breath on exclusive stats.

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torturo wrote:

As discussed in a related topic, reaper doesn't compete with spamable minions like srs, skeletons, sentinels, animated weapon - but happily work together.

So don't hold your breath on exclusive stats.

Then it better be able to compete with spectres, which currently blow temporary minions out of the water in terms of clear speed and killing power. One Reaper is going to have difficulty clearing as quick as Syndicate Operatives, or sustaining all the damage like crabbies. At least it might be able to compete with zombies.

And, again, you have to give up using an animated guardian which provides a massive DPS bonus to the aforementioned minions. Reaper better be powerful to warrant that heavy a loss.

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Pizzarugi wrote:

Is Reaper worth not having a juiced utility animated guardian?

I strongly doubt it.

If it's truly meant to be a "one minion army", it's got some massive shoes to fill when you consider what you're giving up to use it. 4-5 syndicate operatives/artless assassins/crabbies/flickershades, hordes of skeletons and zombies, swarms of raging spirits and animated weapons, the Reaper would have to be able to compete with all of them in both clear speed, durability, and killing power.

1000%. This is exactly what ive been saying too; but nobody wants to hear it.

even in the preview, it was shown working together with a golem
you could even go Elementalist and have your golem army auto-recast.

and the OP probably didn't ever play D2:LoD.
the Reaper skill is kinda the reincarnation of a LoD Necromancer Golem Build.

I think GGG needs to be more specific what consumes means in this case in a realistic scenario.

Is is either that the Reaper consumes a portion of a random minions HP to buff itself or 100%.

My assumption is that its only a portion of a random minion hitpoints otherwise ,depending on Reapers buff frequency, you would run out of minions soon and constantly spamming (and standing still) desecrate,SRS,skeletons, zombs.

p.s.

I know Reaper is meant to be the main minion but knowing how fast the Reaper comsumes the other minions (either 100% or portion) determines the QoL and general flow of gameplay in a huge way.

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gandhar0 wrote:

I think GGG needs to be more specific what consumes means in this case in a realistic scenario.

Is is either that the Reaper consumes a portion of a random minions HP to buff itself or 100%.

My assumption is that its only a portion of a random minion hitpoints otherwise ,depending on Reapers buff frequency, you would run out of minions soon and constantly spamming (and standing still) desecrate,SRS,skeletons, zombs.

Judging by the livestream, they'll delete whatever minion they're consuming. It's not a portion of their HP, it's a straight up kill.