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I bought a Devil Slayer today, to find out it can't use bash and its not connected to any of the weapon groups. So what was the point of the scythes if I can't use it with the combat skills?
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No.... it's a weapon.
Reaper Talent
Thanks, Captain Obvious.
Nexon: Heard you like the Reaper tech. Here's a Reaper Talent so you can Reaper while you Reaper.
I know what you mean. It's ridiculous, buuuuut . . . consider the lance combat talent. First, what is that? That's not a lance, it's WAY too big to even lift. On top of that they turn it into a melee talent? Try fighting someone one on one with a normal lance; you're dead. In reality, Scythes aren't really weapons but in medieval Europe if the local lord raised a fyrd from the common-folk then they grabbed whatever they could: scythes, pitchforks, hammers, axes, and so on, and did whatever mischief they could with them. Metal was expensive, so if your infantry consisted of hastily conscripted serfs then they grabbed whatever was on-hand: farming tools; they couldn't afford swords.
Reaping is just a fancy word for collecting. In this case it refers to harvesting of a crop. A scythe reminds us of the Grim Reaper, Azrael: the Angel of Death. Their job was to collect, or reap, the souls of the recently departed and escort them to heaven or hell. They were depicted as cloaked and carrying a scythe. A cloak hides ones form so it invokes a sense of dread and a scythe is a big sharp thing. It was all just optics. All that would really happen is you wake up dead, Azrael is there and says you're dead, let's go. Kinda boring really. Mabinogi itself is supposed to be some kinda of "anime-based" game. Anime being, in many cases, related to Kung-Fu fantasy and so on, it should not come as a surprise then that there are preposterous "combat" elements in it; it's all just fantasy.
So, a Reaper talent? Why not. It wouldn't exactly be weird for this game.
So it would be some Magic-Knight-Combat hybird? Seems cool.
It would be nice if it could do life drain and summon souls from the 99th tower of hell or something like that. And there could be a passive called "King Yama Blessing" that could give a buff for soul reaping skills using a scythe.
The cloak that you speak of could be a skill where they cloak themselves with souls and turn invisible. There should be a bar like dorcha for soul whatever.
Or they could go modernesque and have a cool scythe like the one from RWBY