Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
As I've said before, "viper" conjures up an idea of a quick-striking blade user, much more readily than those other names suggest anything specific in terms of fighting style or weapon.
To you, maybe. Not necessarily to other people. "Viper" offers nothing in terms of information about the actual job itself, and unlike other jobs it has no history in the franchise or in RPG classes in general to provide a reference point, nor anything about it that suggests what its weapon or function might be. The most you could do is theorise off the snake imagery, which is what people have been doing, but the issue with naming something after an animal is that it's a practice linked to organisations rather than actual jobs, and that means it could be anything.

This just feels like scraping for any reason to discredit the name. There is no reason why one discipline can't be named after an animal, nor any reason why others would also need to share the pattern before one is allowed to do so.
This feels more like you're offended people don't like the name. They can try something new, and they can name a class after an animal if they want, but people can also criticise that decision and find it a poor choice or inappropriate for the job. It's evident from the feedback that it's important for a lot of people that the name works as a functional moniker as well as a stylish one, and going with "Viper" here seems to be prioritising sounding cool over actually being a logical designation.