Quote Originally Posted by CKNovel View Post
The point of a teaser is to... tease, not reveal the whole job.

FF XIV Viper seems to take some inspiration from Locke's Sky Mirage Dive.
With Zidane's weapon style, it really pushes the idea of what if Rogue was an actual job rather than a class.

I have good expectations
I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing Locke in it. I also think they naturally will pull a little Terra into the job since we seem to have a trance mode. With Zidane being the glue that kind of holds it all together.

I'm not getting any Gabranth, which it is sad that we won't see a judge job, but I can swallow that disappointment if they were insisting on a Zidane-inspired job. Not even that I particularly care for or wanted anything from FF IX, but if they had a solid vision then I would rather they go with that first. Question still remains if this vision actually is solid, though.

Not really digging the Viper name. It feels too Assassin-y when I think the job wanted to be more of a Hunter or Ranger archetype. It's trying to be Thief AND Assassin AND Ranger/Hunter (AND Trancer, and possibly Spellblade) and pleasing no one. I suspect they didn't want to use "Hunter" for PC reasons, which I can't blame, but there had to have been better options than "Viper".

It would be different if I could find any real world reference to some sort of hunter or assassin group being called vipers, but the best I've got is Kill Bill.

Wait...is this just the Kill Bill job?