The latest Anime Final Quest update introduces the Soul Reaper weapon, giving players a powerful new option that combines strong skills, an engaging passive ability, and a devastating awakening. If you’re wondering whether it’s worth unlocking or how it performs compared to other top-tier weapons, this guide covers everything shown in the update.
Below, you’ll find a complete breakdown of the Soul Reaper’s basic attacks, passive ability, every normal skill, awakening skills, damage potential, cooldowns, gameplay performance, comparison with the Guru weapon, and the latest redeem codes that arrived with the update.
Keep in mind that the damage numbers mentioned here were tested using an Exalted Trait. Your own damage may vary depending on your trait, gear, runes, upgrades, and overall build, but the weapon’s mechanics and overall performance remain the same.
Soul Reaper Basic Attacks
Soul Reaper has smooth and satisfying basic attacks. The attack animations are fast, the range is fairly wide, and with the showcased setup each hit deals around 350 damage.
Although the raw damage from normal attacks isn’t extremely high by itself, they remain useful because you can continue dealing damage while your skills are on cooldown. Instead of standing around waiting for abilities to recharge, you’re constantly attacking and contributing damage throughout the fight.
Soul Reaper Passive
The passive ability is one of the biggest reasons why Soul Reaper feels so enjoyable to play.
Every time you land basic attacks or deal damage using your skills, a passive gauge gradually fills up. Once the gauge is full, you can activate it to enter an empowered state.
During this mode, your basic attacks become dramatically stronger, dealing roughly five times more damage than normal while also gaining additional attack range. This turns your regular attacks into an important source of damage instead of simple filler between abilities.
The passive creates a very active playstyle. Rather than relying only on your skills, you’re constantly attacking to build the gauge, activating the passive, and taking advantage of the empowered attacks before repeating the cycle.
Heaven Fall Cleave
Heaven Fall Cleave is the first active skill.
When activated, your character jumps into the air before crashing down onto nearby enemies, dealing damage across a respectable area. With the showcased build, the skill deals around 15,000 damage.
Its large area of effect makes it excellent for clearing groups of enemies while farming, and it also performs well against bosses thanks to its quick damage animation.
One of its biggest advantages is the cooldown. At only around 8 seconds, you can use Heaven Fall Cleave frequently throughout combat, making it one of the most reliable skills in the Soul Reaper’s kit.
Crimson Fang
Crimson Fang is the second skill and combines both mobility and damage.
Your character lunges forward, damaging every enemy caught along the path. With the tested setup, the skill deals roughly 24,000 damage, making it a powerful follow-up after your first ability.
Since the skill moves your character forward, it helps you stay close to bosses, travel through groups of enemies, or quickly reposition while continuing your attack rotation. The cooldown is around 10 seconds, allowing you to use it regularly without long downtime.
The combination of strong damage, movement, and a relatively short cooldown makes Crimson Fang a dependable skill during both farming and boss encounters.
Getsuga Strike
Getsuga Strike is the Soul Reaper’s third normal skill.
Instead of requiring you to fight directly beside your target, this ability launches a powerful slash forward. With a critical hit, it can deal around 28,000 damage.
The ranged attack gives Soul Reaper additional flexibility during difficult boss fights. You don’t always need to remain directly in front of dangerous enemies to keep dealing damage. Instead, you can attack from a safer distance while maintaining consistent DPS.
Getsuga Strike has a cooldown of roughly 13 seconds. While it takes slightly longer to recharge than the first two skills, the higher damage and ranged utility easily make up for it.
Normal Skill Set
The standard Soul Reaper moveset offers a balanced combination of offensive options.
You have an area damage skill for clearing groups, a forward dash attack that combines movement with damage, a ranged slash for attacking from a safer distance, and a passive system that greatly enhances your basic attacks.
This combination allows the weapon to remain effective in almost every combat situation instead of focusing on only one type of encounter.
Awakening
Activating the Soul Reaper’s awakening transforms your character and replaces your normal abilities with an entirely new moveset.
While awakened, you only gain two skills, but both are designed for extremely high burst damage. The awakening lasts for approximately 30 seconds, giving you enough time to unleash your strongest attacks while continuing to pressure enemies with empowered combat.
Crimson Blade Rain
Crimson Blade Rain is the first awakening skill.
After activating it, your character unleashes multiple slashes in front of them, hitting enemies repeatedly. If an enemy remains inside the attack for its full duration, the total damage reaches roughly 45,000.
This makes Crimson Blade Rain especially effective against bosses that stay within range, allowing you to unload massive damage during your awakening window.
Getsuga Requiem
Getsuga Requiem serves as the second awakening skill.
Unlike Crimson Blade Rain’s multiple hits, this ability focuses on delivering one powerful strike. With the showcased setup, the attack deals around 50,000 damage.
Although the animation is simpler, the sheer damage output makes it one of the strongest attacks available in the Soul Reaper’s entire moveset.
Combat Performance
Soul Reaper feels smooth and responsive throughout combat.
Its cooldowns are short enough that you’re constantly using abilities instead of waiting for them to become available again. Between skill rotations, the passive system keeps your basic attacks meaningful by rewarding continuous aggression with significantly stronger empowered attacks.
Rather than repeating the same abilities over and over, you’re always building your passive gauge, activating it, and weaving stronger basic attacks into your overall rotation.
Farming Performance
Soul Reaper performs very well while farming.
Heaven Fall Cleave provides reliable area damage for clearing groups of enemies, Crimson Fang allows you to move through packs while attacking, and the passive-enhanced basic attacks help finish enemies quickly between cooldowns.
Because of its balanced moveset and frequent skill usage, farming feels smooth and efficient.
Boss Performance
The weapon is equally effective during boss fights.
Heaven Fall Cleave delivers reliable damage with a short cooldown, Crimson Fang helps maintain close positioning, Getsuga Strike lets you attack safely from range, and the awakening provides enormous burst damage through Crimson Blade Rain and Getsuga Requiem.
Together, these abilities allow Soul Reaper to maintain consistent damage throughout longer encounters.
Guru Weapon Comparison
Compared to the Guru weapon, Soul Reaper feels very similar as an all-around option.
However, Soul Reaper may outperform Guru in certain situations thanks to its passive mechanic, shorter cooldowns, and powerful awakening skills. The stronger basic attacks during the passive state also contribute additional damage that helps separate it from many other weapons.
Exalted Trait
The showcased damage numbers were achieved using the Exalted Trait, so players using different traits or less optimized builds should expect lower numbers.
Even with lower damage, however, the overall skill set remains strong because the weapon’s usefulness comes from its balanced abilities, short cooldowns, and passive system rather than raw damage alone.
Redeem Codes
The update also introduced two new redeem codes.
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- 50 Weapon Lucky Spins
- 30 Gear Lucky Spins
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- 100,000 Gold
- 30 Weapon Lucky Spins
- 1 Gear Lucky Spin
- 100 Runes
These rewards are especially useful for players trying to improve their gear, obtain stronger weapons, and continue progressing after the update.
Soul Reaper is one of the strongest additions introduced in this Anime Final Quest update.
Its fast basic attacks, engaging passive system, balanced normal skills, powerful awakening abilities, and short cooldowns make it an excellent weapon for both farming and boss fights. The weapon constantly rewards aggressive play by encouraging you to attack between abilities, making combat feel much more active than simply waiting for cooldowns.
If you’re looking for a weapon that offers consistent damage, smooth gameplay, powerful awakening skills, and versatility across different types of content, Soul Reaper is definitely worth adding to your collection.