5/16/2025
Developer comments: We're aligning the recovery of Dire Triggers with Reaper’s primary fire to improve the flow when alternating between the two.
Dire Triggers - Major Perk
- Recovery reduced from 0.7 to 0.5 seconds.
5/14/2025
Developer Comments: We're squashing a few bugs that we believe have contributed to Reaper's high win rate. We're also making a slight adjustment to Revolving Ruin's ramp up time and maximum stacks. We're planning to make some more adjustments to Reaper's weapon builds in the future to incentivize them to build stats other than just Weapon Power.
Revolving Ruin - Power
- Reduced Attack Speed per stack to 4% (down from 5%).
- Increased maximum stacks to 10 (up from 8).
Wraith Renewal - Power
- Fixed an issue where Wraith Renewal healing was always being doubled, regardless of what your current Life was.
Spirited to Slay - Power
- Fixed an issue that caused Reaper's cooldowns to be reset without getting an Elimination.
5/1/2025
Developer Comments: Reaper originally had a higher rate of earning Cash from damage and healing since on average he has more difficulty dealing consistent damage due to his range. However, Reaper has been overperforming and making too much Cash so we’re pulling this back a bit.
- Reduced the amount of Stadium Cash gained from damage and healing by 10%.
4/1/2025
Developer Comment: Talon got tired of all of the shotguns Reaper was wasting and cut him off their weapon budget until he learns to be more resourceful.
Hellfire Shotguns
- Reaper can no longer reload and drops his shotguns on the ground when empty.
- Dropped shotguns must be picked up to restore ammo.
- Movement Speed increased by 25% when out of ammo.
- Picking up shotguns increases attack speed for a short duration.
- Note: It's hard to melee enemies without your shotguns.
3/18/2025
Developer Comments: The recovery time change will allow Reaper to weave primary fire shots between uses of Dire Trigger, reducing the friction of using this ability.
Dire Triggers
- Recovery time reduced from 0.9 to 0.7 seconds.
2/18/2025
Death's Shadow
- Shadow Step reloads Hellfire Shotguns and has 25% increased range.
Soul Reaving
- Collect Soul Globes from dead enemies to restore 50 health.
Dire Triggers
- Use Secondary Fire to fire a volley with long range accuracy from both Hellfire Shotguns.
Ravenous Wraith
- Leaving Wraith Form grants 40% additional lifesteal for 3 seconds.
11/8/2024
Developer Comments The added survivability from this passive is being tuned down now that Reaper has 300 health and more reliable mobility after the cast time reduction to Shadow Step.
The Reapening
- Lifesteal reduced from 35 to 30%.
10/28/2024
Swift Shadow
- Shadow Step cast time now reduced by 30%, previously 35%.
6/20/2024
Developer Comments: With the previous patch change to how armor reduces damage, shotgun weapon heroes like Reaper lost some value since much of their gameplan revolved around pressuring large tank heroes. To help shift Reaper toward being more effective against smaller targets we're tightening the weapon spread on the Hellfire Shotguns and reducing the amount of time enemies have to react to his Shadow Step teleport.
Hellfire Shotguns
- Weapon spread reduced from 6.5 to 6 degrees.
Shadow Step
- Cast time reduced from 1.5 to 1.2 seconds.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Someone’s taken a page out of Mauga’s book.
Hellfire Shotguns
- Primary Fire now only shoots one shotgun.
- Damage per bullet reduced from 5.4 to 2.8.
- Ammo increased from 8 to 16.
- Secondary Fire now shoots the other shotgun.
3/8/2024
Death Blossom
- Damage per second increased from 170 to 185.
- Ultimate cost decreased by 12%.
2/13/2024
- Health increased from 250 to 300.
10/10/2023
Added the hero-specific option:
- Wraith Form Cancel Input – All by default.
6/13/2023
Developer Comment: The Reaper and Moira changes are addressing an inconsistency with the interaction of Wraith Form or Fade with mobility-locking effects such as Junkrat's Steel Trap, Sigma's Gravitic Flux, Zarya's Graviton Surge, and Cassidy's Magnetic Grenade. They are now disabled similarly to Tracer's Recall or Sombra's Translocator, which are abilities that also phase out and can move the player.
Wraith Form
- Can no longer be activated while affected by mobility-locking effects (Magnetic Grenade, Steel Trap, Graviton Surge, etc.).
5/9/2023
Added the Hero-Specific Options:
- Hold To Use Wraith Form - Off by Default
- Hide Wraith Form Cancel Text - Off by Default
- Shadow Step Confirmation Input - Primary Fire by default
2/7/2023
Death Blossom
- Ultimate cost reduced 8%