Why Aren't All of the Reaper's Skills Melee?

Hey GGG,

I have two Reaper questions for you:

2) According to PoE DB and Path of Building only some of the Reaper's skills are tagged as Melee. Most are simply tagged as Attacks with no further specification. Visually, all of her skills look Melee-ish to me. Why aren't all of the Reaper's skills tagged as Melee?

2) Why doesn't Behead Support work with the Reaper? Other skills, such as Raise Zombies have multiple skills with different tags. Using a support with Zombies, such as Concentrated Effect, only impacts one of the skills the Zombies use, yet the skill displays in-game as working with Zombies. So, even though only some of the Reaper's skills are considered Melee, why wouldn't Behead Support display in-game as working with the Reaper? (I doubt the reason Behead doesn't work with the Reaper is because of the weapon requirement of the gem. The Reaper clearly holds two melee weapons all the time.)

Thanks for your time! I'm likely missing something (unless it's an oversight), and I'd love to know what it is. Thanks!

"Supports strike skills."

Summon Reaper is not a strike skill.

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aggromagnet wrote:

"Supports strike skills."

Summon Reaper is not a strike skill.

RIGHT! Thanks. I ALWAYS forget that. I over think it too much I guess. Thanks!

You aren't overthinking it, behead works on dervish for example its just about how GGG tagged the minions specific skills which is pretty random at times (probably makes sense on the backend)

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Draegnarrr wrote:

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You aren't overthinking it, behead works on dervish for example its just about how GGG tagged the minions specific skills which is pretty random at times (probably makes sense on the backend)

K. Cool. Thanks! I wish the individual tags were available in-game.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Behead doesn't work because none of the reaper's skills are strikes, it only has area attacks.

Thanks so much for the reply, Mark! I appreciate your time :) .

Do you happen to know the answer to the first question? Are all of the Reaper's skills considered Melee? Or are there certain skills that she uses that are just Attacks but not considered Melee? (I'm getting this info from PoEDB and PoB, but I don't know which skills from those lists are which skills I see in gameplay.)

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Draegnarrr wrote:

You aren't overthinking it, behead works on dervish for example its just about how GGG tagged the minions specific skills which is pretty random at times (probably makes sense on the backend)

I agree with the general idea but does Behead still works with Dervish? As far as I know, after the rework its cyclone is more like player's cyclone, so the example is probably outdated.

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

Are all of the Reaper's skills considered Melee? Or are there certain skills that she uses that are just Attacks but not considered Melee? (I'm getting this info from PoEDB and PoB, but I don't know which skills from those lists are which skills I see in gameplay.)

You can test this with Fortify support to make sure.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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I'm pretty confidant all the skills it actually uses to deal damage are melee, but don't currently have time to dig through all of how it's multi-part skills work to confirm that 100%.

Thanks for taking the time to respond and be honest with it! You're the best <3 !