- Be careful when you cancel your skill animations, some skills are good to cancel early, others will whiff if you're not alert.

 

- If you have both a quickcarve and empowered brooch, you can use one before entering combat, and equip the other to be ready immediately once combat starts.

 

- Shrouded Escape is an emergency iframe.

 

- Don't panic if you need healing, it's easier for a healer to heal you if you stay still than if you run around like a maniac.

 

- Learn ranges and casting speed for all your skills so you don't animation lock yourself inside a dangerous attack.

 

- Know when you can get hit, there's no need to iframe everything if it's not going to hurt much, better to keep DPS-ing.

 

- Always make sure Sundering is off cooldown when you cast Shadow Reaping.

 

- If you need to iframe multiple times in quick succession, prioritise using Retribution between Shadow Steps to save cooldown.

 

- Consider Pendulum Strike as much a positioning skill as a DPS skill.

 

- Back damage is key to success as any DPS, prioritise positioning over continuing your rotation.

 

- Try not to cast anything between Cable Step and Shadow Burst as it will consume the attack speed buff, even consumables will utilise it (like you need to cast them quicker).

 

- Cable Step won't put you in combat, more like a gimmick but hey.

 

- With enough cooldown reduction you can perma-stun inside Reaping by casting Smite and Cable Step on cooldown.

 

- Let your tank aggro a boss first before starting DPS, especially if you're going to start with Reaping, having a well positioned boss is vital, and pulling aggro is not going to help.

 

- If your tank is struggling, either don't use Reaping at all, or pair it with Shrouded Escape to drop aggro.

 

- Learn what Retribution can/cannot block, e.g. Yana's mid and Darkan's dust, but not the dragons ranged attacks in Timescape.

 

- Always prioritise Shadow Lash when your MP is lacking, especially since you can use it inbetween your other skills easily, don't neglect it.

 

- If you Retribution an attack while casting Shadow Lash, you can cancel the movement of the counter by continuing to cast Shadow Lash, this will however immediately end the chain, so your dps will suffer.

 

- Sundering's long animation lock can be cancelled with Shadow Step, Death Spiral, Cable Step and Pendulum Strike, do this!

 

- Remember Pendulum Strike can move you through certain bosses very effectively, if you get used to this it can vastly improve your efficiency as a Reaper.

 

 

- Don't die! ^-^

Seriously though, as a Reaper, you shouldn't be dying. If you're facing an obvious wipe, that's different, but you have so many ways to avoid damage, and such high mobility, that you really shouldn't be taking that many hits (even if the ones you do take hurt).