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Reaper vs Ninja

How do they compare now?

I know ninja is god-tier ATM but will be receiving their nerf in the future.
How do ninjas compare pre/post nerf to reapers?

Also, reapers are in leather but I know that they're still a bit squish. Is it comparable to the squishiness of ninjas (both PVE/PvP)?

Thanks!
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  • I don't have a deep knowledge in pve and none in pvp, but here it goes my 2 cents. Both are equally squish imo, ninjas wear cloth, but have a high endurance, higher than other cloth classes. Both have a safe gameplay, ninjas have more i-frames, but reapers also have the 2 dashes, a long iframe and the anti-death shield. Imo the greatest difference is the mobility, ninjas are far more mobile and that's what I enjoy the most :) I don't know about the damage because as you said, there will be nerfs. But they're flashy new classes, it will surprise me to see any of them as low tier dps someday
  • ArinovaArinova ✭✭✭
    Both can spacebar warrior so there's not much difference at the moment. So when Ninjas get nerfed, reapers will be able to spacebar more damage than Ninja. I mean Reaper is still the most popular class, surviving through gunner, brawler, and ninja.
  • FeiiFeii ✭✭
    I want to revive my old reaper and don't really feel like making a ninja since 1. everyone and their mom plays it, and 2. its so ridiculously OP right now I don't wanna play the flagship "OP" class.
    I want something fun but not the newest popular OP class :<
  • UwawawaUwawawa
    edited May 2016
    Feii wrote: »
    I want to revive my old reaper and don't really feel like making a ninja since 1. everyone and their mom plays it, and 2. its so ridiculously OP right now I don't wanna play the flagship "OP" class.
    I want something fun but not the newest popular OP class :<

    >Ninja is so ridiculously OP right now

    Lmao. You've no freaking idea what you are talking about.
    If you want to see "Ridiculously OP" classes take a look at release (and current to a certain degree) Gunner and Brawler.
  • FeiiFeii ✭✭
    Uwawawa wrote: »
    Feii wrote: »
    I want to revive my old reaper and don't really feel like making a ninja since 1. everyone and their mom plays it, and 2. its so ridiculously OP right now I don't wanna play the flagship "OP" class.
    I want something fun but not the newest popular OP class :<

    >Ninja is so ridiculously OP right now

    Lmao. You've no freaking idea what you are talking about.
    If you want to see "Ridiculously OP" classes take a look at release (and current to a certain degree) Gunner and Brawler.


    You must be trolling lol.

    Yes brawler and gunner were "ridiculously OP" when released, and brawler is still OP today.
    However in terms of ninja, yes its extremely OP.

    It has insane mobility and very low cool downs on many of it's core skills. Not to mention the skill that buffs damage as long as the player avoids getting hit, which if played well can provide an insane damage boost. These are the things that make it an OP class.

    So yes, when you compare it to other classes like warrior, sorc, archer, slayer, and even gunner, it has a high dps output. It's top tier with brawler at the moment. All of the new classes are very OP upon release, obviously to attract players.
    Not to mention, ninja literally breezes through all content while leveling (as long as you don't facetank, but I'm speaking in terms of playing decently).


    So how do I 'not have any idea what I'm talking about'? :)
  • We can't compare the Ktera with NA servers, we dont have talent system.
  • UwawawaUwawawa
    edited May 2016
    Feii wrote: »
    Uwawawa wrote: »
    Feii wrote: »
    I want to revive my old reaper and don't really feel like making a ninja since 1. everyone and their mom plays it, and 2. its so ridiculously OP right now I don't wanna play the flagship "OP" class.
    I want something fun but not the newest popular OP class :<

    >Ninja is so ridiculously OP right now

    Lmao. You've no freaking idea what you are talking about.
    If you want to see "Ridiculously OP" classes take a look at release (and current to a certain degree) Gunner and Brawler.


    You must be trolling lol.

    Yes brawler and gunner were "ridiculously OP" when released, and brawler is still OP today.
    However in terms of ninja, yes its extremely OP.

    It has insane mobility and very low cool downs on many of it's core skills. Not to mention the skill that buffs damage as long as the player avoids getting hit, which if played well can provide an insane damage boost. These are the things that make it an OP class.

    So yes, when you compare it to other classes like warrior, sorc, archer, slayer, and even gunner, it has a high dps output. It's top tier with brawler at the moment. All of the new classes are very OP upon release, obviously to attract players.
    Not to mention, ninja literally breezes through all content while leveling (as long as you don't facetank, but I'm speaking in terms of playing decently).


    So how do I 'not have any idea what I'm talking about'? :)

    There's not really any freaking point into bringing "LVL IS EASY WITH X CLASS" because its easy with ANY class. And leveling is not how you judge if a class is OP because non of the classes are ever in any game balanced around the leveling part of the game.

    Focus give +15% Damage if you don't get hit. Ever. Try to do that in the current dungeons. Try it. And then come back at me and tell me it's a OP Skill with a straight face.

    It has the same Mobility as Warriors in PVE and as Warriors and Gunners in PVP While being 10 times more squishy than them. In PVE if you fail to dodge something in SSHM you get one shotted, and in PVP one stun and you die almost instantly. So I don't see how this makes them "OP".

  • FeiiFeii ✭✭
    Uwawawa wrote: »
    Feii wrote: »
    Uwawawa wrote: »
    Feii wrote: »
    I want to revive my old reaper and don't really feel like making a ninja since 1. everyone and their mom plays it, and 2. its so ridiculously OP right now I don't wanna play the flagship "OP" class.
    I want something fun but not the newest popular OP class :<

    >Ninja is so ridiculously OP right now

    Lmao. You've no freaking idea what you are talking about.
    If you want to see "Ridiculously OP" classes take a look at release (and current to a certain degree) Gunner and Brawler.


    You must be trolling lol.

    Yes brawler and gunner were "ridiculously OP" when released, and brawler is still OP today.
    However in terms of ninja, yes its extremely OP.

    It has insane mobility and very low cool downs on many of it's core skills. Not to mention the skill that buffs damage as long as the player avoids getting hit, which if played well can provide an insane damage boost. These are the things that make it an OP class.

    So yes, when you compare it to other classes like warrior, sorc, archer, slayer, and even gunner, it has a high dps output. It's top tier with brawler at the moment. All of the new classes are very OP upon release, obviously to attract players.
    Not to mention, ninja literally breezes through all content while leveling (as long as you don't facetank, but I'm speaking in terms of playing decently).


    So how do I 'not have any idea what I'm talking about'? :)

    There's not really any freaking point into bringing "LVL IS EASY WITH X CLASS" because its easy with ANY class. And leveling is not how you judge if a class is OP because non of the classes are ever in any game balanced around the leveling part of the game.

    Focus give +15% Damage if you don't get hit. Ever. Try to do that in the current dungeons. Try it. And then come back at me and tell me it's a OP Skill with a straight face.

    It has the same Mobility as Warriors in PVE and as Warriors and Gunners in PVP While being 10 times more squishy than them. In PVE if you fail to dodge something in SSHM you get one shotted, and in PVP one stun and you disappear almost instantly. So I don't see how this makes them "OP".

    Lol the leveling was just one comment I made.
    I still don't understand how you can argue ninjas not being OP.

    Look at ninjas in terms of PvP, yes they're a cloth class but their mobility makes up for it. Not to mention, as I said before, their very low cooldowns. I have only played a warr to lv 20, but you can't compare a warrior's jump skill that uses resolve to the ninjas shadow jump which has a 5 sec cooldown (that can be even lower with rolls). There are similarities between some of their skills but there is a reason that warriors are closer to lower tier damage and ninjas are at the top next to brawlers.

    They're a new class and their damage output is high, along with low CDs and many CC skills, and mobility. There's a reason why people are saying their OP, it's not just 'hype'.
  • Feii wrote: »
    Lol the leveling was just one comment I made.
    I still don't understand how you can argue ninjas not being OP.

    Look at ninjas in terms of PvP, yes they're a cloth class but their mobility makes up for it. Not to mention, as I said before, their very low cooldowns. I have only played a warr to lv 20, but you can't compare a warrior's jump skill that uses resolve to the ninjas shadow jump which has a 5 sec cooldown (that can be even lower with rolls). There are similarities between some of their skills but there is a reason that warriors are closer to lower tier damage and ninjas are at the top next to brawlers.

    They're a new class and their damage output is high, along with low CDs and many CC skills, and mobility. There's a reason why people are saying their OP, it's not just 'hype'.

    Brawlers were WAY op than ninjas, even now

    When Brawlers came out in any DPS meter u used the brawler didn't have less than 40% of the total damage dealt to the boss (unless it was a crap brawler vs good dps)

    the amount of stagger and kd is beyond stupid (in fwc if u got caught by ground pound u were 70% dead), 50% heal every min, anti-death passive, 3sec stun (which if used into the air u cant reliatate for 3 seconds), and a stupid left click + right click animation that u could get away from anything easily

    Brawlers were pretty much "u will die before touch the ground again"

    And even after nerf (just before DS2 was removed) brawlers still with all the nerfs had at least 30% of the total damage dealt to the boss, BY THE TANK

    Ninjas in the other hand have high damage, but is damage at high cost, not only for their squishyness, but also because it requires skill, many old-[filtered] lovers will say warrior requires more skill (even being the class with more iframes in game), yeah maybe, but that doesn't make the ninja an easy class to play

    so yeah, like you say, Ninjas are OP, but not as OP as the other classes were when they were released
  • sanj66sanj66 ✭✭✭✭
    ninja is by far more op than both, even after the incoming nerf to CoS it will still be top dps. to the guy who says try keeping focus on any current dungeon, my buddy does that, and never averages anything lower than 1.6m/s , it does not require much skill either, sure the skill cap on warrior has fallen away from what it was but ninja is nothing compared to warrior in terms of skill requirement to play, a ninja can literally space bar without focus on and out dps quite a few of the older classes. sure warrior seems to have more iframes but you can rotate iframes on a ninja and get the same amount of consecutive iframes that a warrior can pull off, just because you see a full re bar you think warrior has more. in pvp it is just as op, so many staggers, it has a stun, knock ups and kds and huge burst damage and high mobility.
  • vkobevkobe ✭✭✭✭✭
    ninja is not OP as brawler or gunner when they were released, their surviability are low if i compare with brawler and gunner, if you made a mistake the boss kill you in less of 3 hits, their dps is good, but you cant facetank like with growing fury or shoot from safe spot like gunner with arcane barrage or burst fire
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    Instead of talking about how pros handle brawlers, reapers or ninjas, let's try with average or low skill players? let's toss them into a moderately hard dungeon with just the bare minimum gear to enter them in. Now I won't say for sure who'd survive for more, or who'd do the most damage. But it would be an interesting way to see how low skilled or average players handle these new classes.

    As a short description, brawlers can just stand in one place and juggle between punching skills and counter completely effortlessly. If they mess up they have a death prevention mechanic. Because of this their DPS has a high chance of remaining constant throughout the fight. Reaper has death prevention as well but they are not a class that can be standing on the same place all the time because their counter has a long CD. And we all know that the more time you spend evading, the less time you spend doing DPS. And of the 3, ninja is the one who should be the least amount of time in one place, with no death prevention and average defenses at most. As a bonus, though, ninja has low cooldowns and ability to move into position in a mere instant. They do have thousand cuts that does damage while i-framing, but that does so low DPS that it's not even added to rotations and instead those who write guides use it only for i-frame utility while keeping up a small whiff of DPS.
  • Ninja doesn't need nerf. It will be a bad move. I'm doing better on my slayer than on ninja. Both have the same gear.
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ilythien wrote: »
    Ninja doesn't need nerf. It will be a bad move. I'm doing better on my slayer than on ninja. Both have the same gear.

    Ninja will most probably still be nerfed because that's what's in the future so called balance patches. Perhaps your issue is more about your knowledge and higher skill playing your slayer. I personally did much better as my ninja when she was still on DN, and in a much easier way than as my slayer, also in DN, despite me really liking slayer and not being that bad at the class.
  • I don't find Ninja op at all. Yes they have insane damage output but as was already said [filtered] up and you get oneshotted, they also lack a shitter shield to save them. Brawler is waaaaaaay dumber then Ninja is. People need to start looking more at the big picture rather then calling every new class that comes out OP. If it dies in one hit and doesn't get a 2nd life, it's ok in my book.
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