Thoughts on Viper?

[CKNovel]

Wanted a judge like job using two swords, Zidane like thief, real rogue job that isn't Ninja. Viper seems to check all those marks.

So far we only have the artistic direction, sounds like a very physical oriented job with empowering.
We have 4 GCDs using the 2 swords, 2 GCDs using the combined sword, a buff and an empowered GCD.
This is mere speculation but I feel that the job will be fast paced and playing with divided and combined stands.

I'm very curious about the job, so far it's been a very good surprise.
Gameplay wise we will have to see, this is way too early to speculate.

[Mimilu]

On the one-hand, I'm disappointed we didn't get a pirate job or a pistol and saber job.
On the other-hand, Viper and the dual-wield-to-dual-bladed weapons look interesting. （*´▽｀*）
I hope it takes more influence from Zidane and gets some of his Skill and Dyne abilities and maybe some abilities and traits from traditional FF-Thieves. ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
I am also interested to see how they're going to differentiate between Viper and NIN's weapons.

[LoadedVirus]

It's cool however I'm not a fan of the dual blade fuse mechanic, if you want a dual-wielder then have a dual-wielder... no need to be all extra about it.

[Rychu]

Honestly I think a lot of the negativity is a bit misplaced. If we compared Viper's reveal to Reapers then yeah it is almost objectively a worse reveal. But we do have to factor in that Endwalker's Pre-release showcases were much different due to the pandemic. We only had two digital fanfests so they had to show more to compensate. If we compared Viper's reveal to Gunbreaker's, the reveal makes a lot more sense. Gunbreaker's reveal while cool conceptually, the reveal trailer showing gameplay was lame as fuck and didn't showcase anything cool about the job. Dawntrail's Pre-Release schedule is much closer to Shadowbringers so I think we should be looking at it from that lens. Would I have like more revealed? Yes. Do I think the community is being overly critical? Also yes.

[Mikey_R]

If we compared Viper's reveal to Reapers then yeah it is almost objectively a worse reveal.

If we compare it to other reveals, Reaper is an outlier. In general, they don't show flashy animations and keep things to a minimum in terms of flair, generally not even showing level cap actions. Reaper breaks this as everything is flashy, including their 123 combo with the vibrant teal and black weapon trails.

Take any other job and you would be hard pressed to make a reveal look as appealing as Reaper whilst still following the general constraints they tend to have when making these reveals. If all reveal trailers from now on are going to be compared to Reaper, just because it is flashy, then people are going to be severely disappointed, as most jobs just aren't that flashy to begin with.

[Zarkovitch]

one word, KIRITO-SAMA