New Job: Viper

[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.

[Darkpaw]

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.

[SeverianLyonesse]

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 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.

[Boblawblah]

Oh god Kirito is coming to final fantasy.

And now I'll never play a Viper

[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.

Oh wait guys. Guys. I gotta revise.

It's...the Kill Bill job.

[Teno]

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

[Mimilu]

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○( ? )

[Ilyn]

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

[Kyrj]

Awful name

Petition to rename Paladin to Turtle.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Petition to rename Paladin to Turtle.

I'd prefer Armadillo, myself.