I thought Viper probably sounded cooler in Japanese, so I looked up the word there. Not impressed. People probably would have been happy if everything about the class remained the same and they just called it Corsair, maybe give you one ranged attack where you pull out a gun but not make it like this major part of your kit. I can easily see the character putting the twinblades together, then holding it in one hand to whip out the pistol and firing it while doing a backflip or even just as a basic ranged attack.

The name is going to take awhile to grow on me. I prefer legacy classes being used, even if they're completely re-imagined like Sage was. Coming up with new stuff is fine, like for the reaper. But having them back to back just seems a bit spammy. Although I am glad we're finally getting a proper western "rogue" like class. Seemed really jarring for me to unlock rogue, go through the rogue storyline, and then just have its entire identity stolen by the ninja. Having it as a branch that could have been a ninja or "viper" earlier on would have felt much better. And we can finally not feel so bad keeping ninja gear around. I think this may be the last physical dps class that comes out since every piece of gear now has two classes assigned to it.