Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
To you, maybe. Not necessarily to other people. "Viper" offers nothing in terms of information about the actual job itself, and unlike other jobs it has no history in the franchise or in RPG classes in general to provide a reference point, nor anything about it that suggests what its weapon or function might be. The most you could do is theorise off the snake imagery, which is what people have been doing, but the issue with naming something after an animal is that it's a practice linked to organisations rather than actual jobs, and that means it could be anything.
Historically DRK should be a DPS, Dancers a healer, Samurai a tank. Gunbreaker shouldn’t exist nor should astrologian which is an amalgamation of several previous jobs. Monk should be named Fighter, Sage should be casting high levels of all spells. Summoner should play vastly differently than every iteration it has ever been in XIV. Black Mages should have more than 3 elemental spells.

At some point this argument is asinine. We criticize this dev team for only taking job inspiration from previous FF games, they dip one toe into something truly original. These forums spew copious amounts of word vomit and hope something sticks this time it’s “oh i dont like the name despite knowing everything about the job based off the 3 minutes of information you gave to us.”

Names can be misleading. Whether they are associated with the franchise historically or not. Does anyone remember the lead up to shadowbringers after the dnc teaser dropped and everyone thought it was going to be a healer? And then were salty af when it wasnt.