Viper would of been better if it had a different name

[DamianFatale]

I am NOT a Viper hater. I just think the devs didn't do a very good job of conveying what it is. A second western style sword DPS job has been a niche that has been unfulfilled for a long time.

Samurai, and Ninja are eastern.

If you want a classic RPG sword user that isn't a Tank, you have to use Red Mage, which is a MAGE even though it is a cool sword fighter.

Imo I think they should of called it a Swordsmaster, or Blademaster because it strongly resembles the Swordsmasters in other RPGs such as the Fire Emblem series, with the unique sword combo stance making it a more unique concept to FFXIV.

Viper is such an odd name for a job, and though I don't hate it, I do hope I learn to love the name of the job overtime. Does it actually have a meaning to the snake motif? If that ends up being the case, that actually would be quite cool. I do love how sometimes Yoshi P and the team are very good at delivering surprise concepts that we don't fully understand, but grow to love later. Such as Shadowbringers. No one expected that, but now its the fan favorite expansion.

Anyway these were just some of my thoughts. >:3

[SargeTheSeagull]

I like the name. The key art did have a viper behind the WoL so i suspect there's more to it than "uhh it moves fast and has two sharp things so we call it viper".

[WeebPolice]

I am NOT a Viper hater. I just think the devs didn't do a very good job of conveying what it is. A second western style sword DPS job has been a niche that has been unfulfilled for a long time.

Samurai, and Ninja are eastern.

If you want a classic RPG sword user that isn't a Tank, you have to use Red Mage, which is a MAGE even though it is a cool sword fighter.

Imo I think they should of called it a Swordsmaster, or Blademaster because it strongly resembles the Swordsmasters in other RPGs such as the Fire Emblem series, with the unique sword combo stance making it a more unique concept to FFXIV.

Viper is such an odd name for a job, and though I don't hate it, I do hope I learn to love the name of the job overtime. Does it actually have a meaning to the snake motif? If that ends up being the case, that actually would be quite cool. I do love how sometimes Yoshi P and the team are very good at delivering surprise concepts that we don't fully understand, but grow to love later. Such as Shadowbringers. No one expected that, but now its the fan favorite expansion.

Anyway these were just some of my thoughts. >:3

Agreed, citizen. In fact, I think the name 'viper' seems campy, as if the devs were trying too hard to give the class a cool name.




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[Averax]

If your only problem is the name, you don't have a problem.

[DamianFatale]

If your only problem is the name, you don't have a problem.

Names matter. If you don't think they matter, then you aren't creative enough.

[Reap00]

Names matter. If you don't think they matter, then you aren't creative enough.

You just couldn't figure out anything good to complain about so this is what you cooked up. His response is actually 100% perfect. We need more of that in this forum.

[BaconBits]

They should of just named it after some variety of bird considering how much aesthetics the artifact armor aped from Assassin's Creed lmao.

Just go all the way and name it Jackdaw or something, really commit to the bit.

[Darkpaw]

Don’t have enough information to really decide. All we got is a teaser trailer. For all we know we could poison coat our blades which would make much more sense for the name

Or it could have something to do with the job quests. I admit Viper alone is a bit jarring of a name there’s just not enough to make an educated decision. But I do understand the apprehension

[Fawkes]

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