Thoughts on Viper?

[Shurrikhan]

I like it being "down to earth" (outside of the twinsword making no sense if you're going to use it with only one hand and do nothing with the other anyways) but... where's the actual unique stuff, "merely practical" though it may be? Poisons? Cables? Flintlock? Whatever it may be, it feels like we've learned nothing more about this than that it's the umpteenth sword job and its GCD takes a little less of an eternity than most jobs'.

At best we've got some stab-stabs to go with Rogue's swish-swish and an aura that unlocks some manner of pretty generic finisher.

You'd think there'd actually be more of substance revealed here.



Edit: Super nitpicky, but does the DW idle stance seem a bit more... off (absent of intent, exposed, and/or none too fluid, etc.) than most jobs' to anyone else?

And has anything explained why adding so much additional weight to the back of a weapon --to the point of likely making its balance worse-- would give it mightier strikes than being able to better leverage body-weight? It still seems to be used with one hand... with that freed up hand also not being used for anything else anyways? ???


Anywho, so far it looks like the kind of class/job I'd really enjoy, but... feeling pretty starved on actual info here when compared to the likes of the RDM reveal, etc.