Quote Originally Posted by BoaBoaman View Post
Why would they take away the tiny burst I had and give my this pitiful self-sustain...? I am baffled, I played viper in pvp since it dropped. It wasn't perfect by a long shot but with the damage output it felt at least i could contribute by going for picks and cutting off escapes. Now I can barely make an astro flinch even if they are low its depressing. I will stick with Viper because i love the job but the devs really need to play it themselves to dee what i am talking about from how Viper use to be its just so sad now. Like watching your once able-bodied grampa have hip surgery and still think he's as spry as her use to be.
Finally someone that appreciated the pre-patch viper (and also commenting on it in general since the update heh).

Nyep. Guess the pvp devs can't do basic math when it came to what potential it had with Slither-boosted Uncoiled, especially under LB debuff. Feel proper betrayed that they DID actually mess around with the job, despite saying they wouldn't.

It's like... they saw all them guys using LB with no buffs ever, cancelling from the get go, and took that as the feedback... despite some pleas I left behind in another thread. Problems maintaining buffs? Gone! Cancelling LB straight into Ouro every time? No biggy. We put a leech on to make you feel slightly less silly when you do that~ now it's part of the plan, nobody is the wiser. Oh but Ouro still takes several eons to register, since we know you guys loved that.

I'm gettin' used to this brawler playstyle that's expected to roll with the punches now that they've doubled down on the kamikaze Scales nonsense (seriously..? They made Backlash the hardest hitting attack..?), may even learn to like it, but I'm certainly unsettled by the fact they changed it a lot by making these "little tweaks" to it. Can't trust 'em with anything.

Not even gonna comment on anything else, it all feels so damn floaty (despite "neat" tricks you can do with the delays) and ironically vpr is the only melee that feels okay to handle right now. At least for me.

Here I thought the response changes they would make might extend to Guard, some other utility skills and LBs. So much for that.