Viper would of been better if it had a different name

[Renathras]

They could have called it platypus and that'd have been just as creative.

Exactly. So people need to stop saying the devs are lazy and uncreative (with the name). "Viper" is entirely creative. It's like that hyperbole thing I talk about all the time and in my sig. People trying to overstate their point because they believe "I just don't like it, it doesn't seem like (with what little we know of the Job) to describe the archetype well" isn't a strong point.

The thing is, THAT IS a strong point. Far stronger than accusing something of being uncreative because the thing you want instead is actually LESS creative.

The job of localisation is to make something foreign to the audience understandable.

And it's entirely understandable.

A class wielding two blades like a snake's fangs, darting in and out of combat with quick and evasive strikes. That's immediately what "Viper" makes me think of.

Before you say blah blah poison two swords two fangs, platypus are a mammal that lays eggs encompassing the two/one motif and have a venomous spur. Maybe they'll put more information out which makes viper seem a sensible or appropriate name, but the trailer did not convey that.

If it has a fur coat, swims, and lays eggs, then sure, a Job named Platypus would make sense.

so what will happen if the job doesn't include any type of DoTs in the form of poison??

btw snakes are venomous.

To be fair, many/most snakes aren't venomous. Vipers are, but snakes in general aren't. Poisons don't have to be DoTs. Addle is the evolution of Virus, a disease/bioweapon spell. And isn't a DoT.

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I'm waiting to see the full reveal/media tour to see if the name truly fits, but from what we know - we literally only know it dual wields and has a thief sword/swallow combination weapon, have seen what appears to be a 1-2-3-4 combo, one combined weapon strike, one power-up animation, and Locke's LB from Dissida. That's VERY little to insist that the name doesn't fit based off of.

EDIT:

Monk should be named Fighter

Mostly with you (though EW SMN fits the Summoner idea a lot better than most), but for this one on Monk. Blackbelt/Master was a Job in OG FF1, and Monk was fully developed as a Job by, at latest, FFTactics. Agree with you on some of the other ones, though. (GNB is some variation of Fighter/Warrior.)