A warning on Reaper of Souls - relayering

[Vermin]

I leveled my Reaper of Souls to be my first relayer (I know it doesn't have great relayer starting stats, but it is a nice early weapon to level if you're not too worried about end game min/max). I finally hit 100 yesterday and attempted to apply the relayer deed, but it came back with "this weapon cannot be relayered".

+C let me know today that there are certain weapons that can't be relayered due to balancing, and the Reaper of Souls is one of these. He has updated the wiki (thanks for the prompt update +C) to now mention it, but I thought I would let people know in case anyone else is already part way through leveling one.

[Adrycks]

I'd like to congratulate you on the fact that even if you did all the work on the wep you didn't flame the gms or the. wiki....good on you man !!!! Nice player to have around !!!

[Vermin]

Although it was hard grind to get it to 100 (and pretty exciting to get there, and disappointing for it not to work), I can guarantee it was far less work than what the devs had to put in to get the game to the point to allow me the opportunity to do it in the first place. It'd be a bit rank to hold them to account for anything (let alone small oversights in info that would be nice to have in the wiki) when they're providing it to us for free. And I understand the slippery slope that providing players some sort of in-game compensation for time-spent when such issues occur would entail.

So instead I shall just store up that little bit of frustration and unleash it on some poor bugger from the next town over next rugby game (don't worry, he'll well deserve to have the snot belted out of him due to the fact he has the temerity to live in the next town over).

[Sailor Jerry]

In an effort to help others not make this mistake (no disrespect intended). please consider the following example and humble opinion...

A Cavorting Club (Free to 10K gold) has more potential as a re-layer than the 4-6M Reaper of Souls. Many people get weapon and re-layer building confused; two totally different roads going in opposite directions. Wil recently updated the wiki, read it prior to making this rather significant mistake.

The Reaper gives you two (only two IMHO) options: 1) a great weapon to level and use while you're growing. 2) A serious injection of gold to help expedite your growth.

It's not meant to be a re-layer and a huge waste if done so.

When building weapons consider attributes that can only be applied by a weapon and lean towards DPS... re-layers for everything else.

Once again no disrespect intended,
IMHO the only good thing we can salvage here is to help others not make the same mistake.

[Vermin]

Yeah, it's not necessarily a great choice (ignoring the fact it turned out it just plain can't be relayered haha) stats-wise, but it was actually a good fit for my play-style. I tend to have limited game time most of the year, so it is unlikely I will ever get a big set of relayers and I don't always have the greatest connection to the server, so survivability when in the middle of a big mob can be an issue. The combination of whirlwind and the built in leaches allowed me to level it up fairly fast and not die (which greatly helps leveling speed when you're at the bottom of Shame). Blaze of Death with vamp form and curse weapon would probably have been a better option in hind sight, but i died a lot more in leveling the BoD I have for champs than I did with the Reaper.

I did read up a lot on weapon choice for relayers before deciding to go with the Reaper and do understand the weighting of the stats, but decided to do my own thing. Which, as you can see, worked out just fine... oh, wait...

Next time maybe I'll follow the directions instead of just reading them.

[Sailor Jerry]

Hey, bottom-line if you had fun, it was a success

Cheers

[Malkai]

Hmm...just found this old thread....is there truth to this? can Reaper Of Souls not be relayered? if so I just wasted mine as I'm leveling it to relayer..though only level 48...so didn't waste too much time I suppose..

[+Requiem]

The reaper of souls can not be re-layered.

It does make a decent starter weapon though. Until you get something better.

[jackP]

uhhh what??? this is very discouraging.. this is NOT on the wiki. waste of 2 months, thanks..