Reaper Rewards discussion

[Wizza]

From Cordovan:

We have a small amount of Reaper rewards in, which are a special form of Mythic Bonus applicable to items in Reaper. Rewards are in a very early state, so anything you see may well change. That's why we're focusing on gameplay, gameplay flow, and difficulty feedback this time around.


Has anyone tried these? What does "special form of Mythic bonus" means? I did a Reaper 1 skull quest but the end named at the end just had the normal +1 Mythic bonus


And another point:

Why oh why did you decide to go this way with rewards. Why not cosmetics or titles for characters? I always found Mythic bonus to be somehow a boring reward for an increased challenge.

[Wizza]

On the other hand, we already have new tools to deal with Reaper..which isn't even implemented yet:

[Whitethorn1]

I have a idea for Reaper Awards .

Maybe you could put reapers in the first or a new free monster manual so ever player has it. That way killing them is traceable. The reward would be as you kill more of them you attain Reaper Marks. Reaper Marks would be a wing-ding like you get for TR'ing out beside your character's name. 25 reapers= blue skull, 100 reapers=white skull, 250 reapers= red skull etc. Sort of a status symbol thing for those how choose to play Reaper Mode. That way they are Marked for other players to invite them to join reaper runs. That should be enough of an award in itself.

Just an idea.

[Sam-u-r-eye]

WOW. I am opposed to those potions.

*steps on silly soap box*

I am opposed to those potions.
They all look like hearty power creep.

NO

There was a reason we needed reaper.
Miniscule power creep? Sure.
We wanted challenge. Selling the straight removal of that challenge is an onion. Every layer of it makes people cry.
Yuckerdoodles, jimminy crickets, etc

My reasoning is above and I want em' removed. eek

*steps off soap box*

[JOTMON]

Reaper cosmetic outfit, head and cosmetic scythe(qstaff).

[Wizza]

Did some quick tests:

1) CD on pots is 3s.
2) If you drink one, you cannot drink the other. No temporary 200 PRR. Can drink infinitely the 150 one tho.
3) Pots can be used in Epic and Heroic content. Won't grat the buff but will be consumed. Fix please.

I'm against this potion. This difficulty is not even Live yet, and we already have some buffs to deal with it.

The one good thing is that the cost is fairly high. But Reaper is made mostly of Champions, which will mean that each quest will pay for its own pots.

[Ellihor]

Can't belive they'll implement those potions. It will kill reaper. It will become a thing people do every X days to burn their rems. It's stupid, reaper will be gated by non-renewable consumables. There will be people farming rems all week to do quests on weekend. Total fail. Reaper should not bring yet another grind to the game.

Ok, you don't have to use those potions, but then, the gap between people using them and not will be too great, where it will be too easy for those who use them and we'd have the same problem we have currently with LE quests. On live they had to choose to balance LE against metagammers or casuals, they chose to balance LE against casual. On reaper they will have to choose to balance against people doing pots or no pots. In any case, it will be a failure.

For god's sake don't implement those potions, and don't think about any other non-renewable consumable gating reaper.