New Job: Viper

[Mayhemmer]

Was hoping for pirate with a pistol, but I'll take it. A bit of a shame the swords are sheathed on the back and not on the hip like in the trailer, but that's personal taste.

In the demo, you notice he uses an ability that combines the swords in an attack, and then stays in that stance with them combined, instead of just going back to two swords. I'm interested in seeing how that plays into that blue aura speed buff.

[ForsakenRoe]

I don't really understand why it needed the blue mode for it's burst window, instead of the 'glaive form' being it's burst. Cos of that, my expectations are low, and I expect it to be very similar to RPR, with dualwield being basic GCDs, glaive being SoulSlice/the AOE one/Gallows/Gibbet/Guillotine, and bluemode being Enshroud

[Raikai]

I don't mind the name. It's new both to FF and to the 'classic RPG' archetypical nomenclatures, but it can grow with time. It's as specific as Gunbreaker, for example. The obvious acronym VIP sounds cool lol.

The trailer... er, they barely showed anything. The 1-2-3 combo and an enhanced hit of it. It's hard to be excited just with that... I thought that it would be cool if the job could switch sword stances at will, instead of being something like enshroud.

[Zaiekk]

Demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=295BgKlNcqM

[ty_taurus]

I don't mind the name. It's new both to FF and to the 'classic RPG' archetypical nomenclatures, but it can grow with time. It's as specific as Gunbreaker, for example. The obvious acronym VIP sounds cool lol.

The trailer... er, they barely showed anything. The 1-2-3 combo and an enhanced hit of it. It's hard to be excited just with that... I thought that it would be cool if the job could switch sword stances at will, instead of being something like enshroud.

All of the teasers are very basic. Dancer's only showed off its 1-2 and 3-4, not even Standard Step was revealed then nevermind, it was its 1-2 and 3-4 and Standard. We'll get more hints when the Benchmark drops, and then a more telling showcase during the job actions trailer.

[Fourbestintoner]

I wanted a neat sword + pistol job, not brainlet ninja that plays like reaper.

[Raikai]

All of the teasers are very basic. Dancer's only showed off its 1-2 and 3-4, not even Standard Step was revealed then nevermind, it was its 1-2 and 3-4 and Standard. We'll get more hints when the Benchmark drops, and then a more telling showcase during the job actions trailer.

Yeah, I know... but since this is an actually brand new XIV job, I feel they should've included one 'big hit' from the repertoire to enhance the hype. Usually we are already excited just for the fact that it's a classic FF job, and not the case this time.

One thing for sure is that dual-wielding swords is a bit of a letdown for me, because we have already a lot of this weapon silhouette, and even a big chunk of Ninja weapons already looks like shortswords. I hoped for a different offhand, like a whip... But that impression can change depending on how much the other sword mode is played upon.

[LittleImp]

Looked pretty unfinished.

Hopefully they will show more on it before DT launches.

[Bonoki]

Cool concept, garbage awful name. Will probly enjoy it since they said its a high weave high skill cap job, remains to be seen if the skill cap actually holds up tho considering summoner and reaper...

They said the same about Reaper too.

[Kaurhz]

Nice reveal.

Looks fun - But not enough to deter me away from doing MSQ with Reaper, given I'd need to go from 80-90.

So I'm starting with either Reaper, or we'll see how the next new class looks.