New Job: Viper

Thought the trailer was alright. I liked the animations but it suffers not having an immediately apparent hook. Like, reaper has a lot you could put together just from the name and the animations in the reveal trailer, despite that reveal trailer being notable worse than this one. Sage also kind of a lore blackhole like Viper is, but at least you could immediately latch on to LAZER HEALER :O or the gundam reference and have something. Viper evokes poisons and maybe sneakiness and neither were apparent in the trailer shown. Aesthetically it's a good look but it just reads as generic sneak man. Maybe an assassin's creed knock off with the hood which isn't all that compelling.

I am sure this stuff will all come together much closer to launch but for this trailer, it did not pull me towards the class much as a career melee dps.

I mean I was convinced it was corsair. They got me. They got me good, but I don't hate this new job. I'm down for some twin blades and some Zidane-y action. Sounds like fun to me looks interesting to me. I dunno where people are getting the rpr comparison from. Honestly watching it if I had to compare to anything based on the little we saw.. it looked more monk/dragoon to me. Two 1-2-3 combos, building to a personal buff burst phase window.. but barely saw anything, so I'll wait til I see more.

But so far it has me intrigued.

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Originally Posted by Arkdra

Thought the trailer was alright. I liked the animations but it suffers not having an immediately apparent hook. Like, reaper has a lot you could put together just from the name and the animations in the reveal trailer, despite that reveal trailer being notable worse than this one. Sage also kind of a lore blackhole like Viper is, but at least you could immediately latch on to LAZER HEALER :O or the gundam reference and have something. Viper evokes poisons and maybe sneakiness and neither were apparent in the trailer shown. Aesthetically it's a good look but it just reads as generic sneak man. Maybe an assassin's creed knock off with the hood which isn't all that compelling.

I am sure this stuff will all come together much closer to launch but for this trailer, it did not pull me towards the class much as a career melee dps.

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I feel like this would have been named "Hunter" or "Ranger", but for (a) wanting to not draw too much association away from Zidane and (b) wanting a someone more eye-grabbing name.

I still think it should have been called Hunter or Ranger. Even Swashbuckler would have been okay. Duelist. Dervish. Shikari. Troubadour. Esper. Genome. Trancer.

Viper is a very specific and edgelord name. If this job isn't a poison/DoT class then imo it is completely the wrong name.

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Originally Posted by EstelleCere

Oh god Kirito is coming to final fantasy.

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And now I'll never play a Viper :(

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Originally Posted by SeverianLyonesse

I feel like this would have been named "Hunter" or "Ranger", but for (a) wanting to not draw too much association away from Zidane and (b) wanting a someone more eye-grabbing name.

I still think it should have been called Hunter or Ranger. Even Swashbuckler would have been okay. Duelist. Dervish. Shikari. Troubadour. Esper. Genome. Trancer.

Viper is a very specific and edgelord name. If this job isn't a poison/DoT class then imo it is completely the wrong name.

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Oh wait guys. Guys. I gotta revise.

It's...the Kill Bill job.

Reminds me of hashashin from BDO, but the animations are very meh and look disconnected from the actual hits.

It's clearly my fault we didn't get a pirate job. ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )‧º·˚
The Privateer job idea I came up with back in SB was just too good and the devs just couldn't live up to it.
I'm so sorry! ｡･ﾟﾟ･(>д<)･ﾟﾟ･｡

Joking aside... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I'm interested in what looks like Zidane + Gabranth +Western Assassin/Rogue gameplay.
The name "Viper" makes me think of venom and poisons, which makes me think about ROG/NIN's old poison-stance mechanics. I wonder if they'll reuse those somehow? (*´∀｀).。o○( ? )

Hmm I wonder if that snake in the art work is part of the job and not just there for namesake . Venomous Bite/DoT?

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Originally Posted by Fourbestintoner

Awful name

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Petition to rename Paladin to Turtle.

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Originally Posted by Kyrj

Petition to rename Paladin to Turtle.

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I'd prefer Armadillo, myself.