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Right now the only use we see of reapers in high level play is a 10 rax early 1-2 reaper opening. After that, they almost never get made again. They have a tiny niche role - early harass, and then nothing else.
They don't fill the harassment role of any-time, because hellions, banshees, and hell, even vikings do that, all while not being useless in your main army. I guess Reapers kill buildings better, but to do that effectively you need 5-8 reapers, and most players just aren't going to make that investment.
I really don't know what can be done to fix reapers, it just seems as a unit design they will always be limited. Unless you eliminate their early harass potential to turn them into a better mid-game unit. Or you give them mines they can lay so that making reapers is still useful throughout the game 
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When you attack from the front with your main force you send the reapers around and ruin their workers
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Maybe if they gave them an upgradeable health boost like marine combat shield they could be usable later as anti-light and building harasssment...
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If they're using Marines, Zealots, Lings and Hydras, Reapers can be pretty epic.
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Are you kidding? You obviously dont play very many high level gamers Im guessing. Lots of terrans will have a group or 2-4 somewhere close to your mineral line so when u or him attack and are focusing somewhere else your workers will die. They are great harassment units.
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On April 30 2010 06:48 GUN.gun wrote:
When you attack from the front with your main force you send the reapers around and ruin their workers
at that point in the game its far cheaper and more combat effective just to use a medivac filled with marauders, and you can actually use those marauders to support your main army if need be.
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They are fast, mobile and fragile. Perfect for hit and run tactics. I predict reapers will have some strategic role in the future -other than early game harrass- when the gameplay and strategy evolve.
Atleast, for the sake of innovation, they will receive some love.
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On April 30 2010 06:50 sob3k wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2010 06:48 GUN.gun wrote:
When you attack from the front with your main force you send the reapers around and ruin their workers at that point in the game its far cheaper and more combat effective just to use a medivac filled with marauders, and you can actually use those marauders to support your main army if need be.
I agree, personally I'd prefer stim marines vs workers and only use marauders if I'm planning on killing tech.
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I think reapers just havent been used enough in the beta. Im a zerg player, so im not really sure how expensive or viable it is to build like maybe 6-8 reapers on the side; but I could see a harass being very effective when your main army is attacking your opponents army. The damage they deal to buildings is amazing, and the ability to jump up cliffs even without vision is also very useful. Have you tried using them in this way yet? I dont think ive seen a VOD of this yet, so maybe it's not viable. Either way, 1 reaper is probably an incredibly useful scout.
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On April 30 2010 06:50 sob3k wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2010 06:48 GUN.gun wrote:
When you attack from the front with your main force you send the reapers around and ruin their workers at that point in the game its far cheaper and more combat effective just to use a medivac filled with marauders, and you can actually use those marauders to support your main army if need be.
True, But reapers ARE fairly cheap, and if you get reapers early and they don't die, you can always save them.. Maybe that's what he's talking about.
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Reapers are building harassers/snipers, and serve a few secondary functions.
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I have been using them for early game scout. For 50minerals/50gas you get a unit that can penetrate the enemy base and poke around.
So for example PvT once the stalker warps in, you can't send a unit up his ramp. You can opt for a scanner sweep, but you the opportunity cost of not getting the MULE is 270 minerals. A lone reaper will provide valuable information: Is he going early robo? stargate? 3 gates? some DT cheese?
Additionally, once he knows you have a reaper threat, P will want to keep at least one stalker in his base. So you spend 50/50 to lock-down a 125/25 unit, thus dampening P's early aggression. Afterwards, you can plant the reaper on ledges, near watch towers, use it to destroy destructible rocks and use it to scout for secret expos.
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With the damage bonus they have, and the mobility, i really do feels that reapers can and should be used in mid-late game harass. Not as a stand alone play, but as a support play while you barrel down his front. (make him choose where to spend his APM, microing his main army, or his workers)
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maybe they should remove them and make marines have a researchable jumppack upgrade
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their role is to cheese toss cause tvp is hard 
oh and they are fun to mass in ffas.
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On April 30 2010 06:55 Pablols wrote:
maybe they should remove them and make marines have a researchable jumppack upgrade
Oh heavens no.
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Blizzard needs to remove the attack that does bonus damage to buildings, and give Reapers an actual utility spell, like the spidermine-like charges that they used to have in the Alpha version. It's the lack of actual utility that harms Reapers, and Terran units are known for having good utility spells to offset their lack of speed or power.
But I guess every game needs its Firebat.
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On April 30 2010 06:50 TheComeback wrote:
Are you kidding? You obviously dont play very many high level gamers Im guessing. Lots of terrans will have a group or 2-4 somewhere close to your mineral line so when u or him attack and are focusing somewhere else your workers will die. They are great harassment units.
Show me some high-level games where this is used as a standard?
2-4 reapers also means you didn't build 2-4 marauders, which could have an impact on that front-line battle, while 2-4 reapers are repelled by like 1 stalker.
I saw I think qxc use hellion/reaper against a Zerg who went hydras once, but I've really not seen any other reaper as a army unit play.
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On April 30 2010 06:50 Zeke50100 wrote:
If they're using Marines, Zealots, Lings and Hydras, Reapers can be pretty epic.
How are they better against those than Hellions? Which only cost minerals and can be pumped via reactors?
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I hate reapers. Not because they give me grief, but they just force you to get such an early Gateway and Cybernetics Core. I'd like fast expand to be viable and kind of risky, but not suicide to a common build.
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