How about a non-support ranged dps?

[Shurrikhan]

even if whip can hurt, they are not the most efficient weapon for kill.... exept if you use a weird type of whip that are often unrealistic...

a whip will be used for cripples or restrain more than kill people.... then make it a weapon for a pet class seems legit.

Went to a HEMA meeting where someone had brought an authentic "war whip" (?), and then casually blew through a 60-lb pile of lumber with it. Not too unrealistic in that regard.

[silentwindfr]

Went to a HEMA meeting where someone had brought an authentic "war whip" (?), and then casually blew through a 60-lb pile of lumber with it. Not too unrealistic in that regard.

are you sure it wasn't a flail weapon? that not the same type and weapon...

[Shurrikhan]

are you sure it wasn't a flail weapon? that not the same type and weapon...

Nah, about 15 ft long. Loud enough to hurt your ears across the courtyard when it cracked and when it hit. Sent chunks of wood flying 20+ ft.

Edit: was merely bringing that up as a irl example of a whip that is an effective weapon. This particular one could only really be used for a linear (forward) strikes, rather than horizontal cleaves, but could kill an armored knight when striking to the head, and break right through pauldrons, and could rip arms literally off, while striking across 7 ft or so at a time. Unleashing a class that could do anything like that would be... terrifying, to say the least.