Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
My understanding was this is the exact reason Viper even exists.
Dual-wielding swords/daggers is an extremely popular rpg archetype, but Ninja’s version is naturally more build around the ‘Ninjutsu style’ fighting as opposed to be a dual swordsmanship fighting style.
Viper offers a job that’s purely just a dual wielding swordsman dps, without the magic or ninja frogs or anything like that. It’s a direct response to the many people who wanted to play Ninja/Rogue but didn’t want to deal with mudras and Ninja stuff
Yep! I remember when I first started playing FF14 I really wanted a Rogue or Assassin like job. But there were none so I just played monk. Then eventually rogue came out with Ninja, and at first I was super excited, then I played Ninja and I was a little disappointed. So when they said that Viper was for players like me I was pretty happy about it.

I understood that like, Thief typically does go into Ninja but I was still really disappointed, and that was 9-10 years ago basically. So it's been a long wait for something like this.
That's why for me even the little preview they showed and the small bit of info they shared about the job has gotten me very excited. My only hope at this point is that they don't somehow sneak a cast in there like they did with Reaper and Samurai.