Viper Changes are good, actually

[Tehmon]

The Job is mostly just Zidane gameplay style but they name Viper seem to be something they chosen to reflect the whole twin sword being snake fangs.

I do not think they really mean it to be a "Viper" but just to give it a name that can provide some lore behind the Job for FF14 world since there is no real name for certain FF Character Specific jobs in their other FF games.

Honestly, the twin swords just doesn't elicit any kind of snake fang metaphor for me in this case lol. Could've called it Blademaster or Hunter or Serpent if they are hellbent on snake references, but vipers are specifically the venomous group of the snake family.

[EdwinLi]

Honestly, the twin swords just doesn't elicit any kind of snake fang metaphor for me in this case lol. Could've called it Blademaster or Hunter or Serpent if they are hellbent on snake references, but vipers are specifically the venomous group of the snake family.

I think they may have something originally planned for Viper to relation to Serpent due to how it was mentioned in the Viper story quest about the Job's origin being related to Snakes and there is maybe something about the Twin Adder's origin for the organizations name related to it but they never followed up on it in the Viper Job story quest due to the 10 level limit they have now with newer jobs for their Job story.

Either way naming a Character specific Job from a FF game that did not have a name for the specific character's unique job seem to be more related to giving a job lore reason to exists rather than a reflection of their gameplay or simply to just reflect their gameplay without needing much lore reason for their name.

They done this with Gunbreaker as well since this is a combination of Squall, Seifer, and Lightning gameplay style and they explain the name for this job was created because the "job" for Gunbreakers was to rush into combat with defensive skills that makes them temporary immune to Gun fire so they can get close and break the enemy's guns. Thus the name Gun-Breaker.

I think only Reaper is named after its gameplay rather than lore since it is just FF11 Scythe Dark Knight but they cannot use the Dark Knight name so they named it Reaper to reflect the whole Grim Reaper theme with certain mechanics and scythe attacks.