Please don't change Viper

[NovaVale]

Same, in the 2 and a half years I have played ff14 which is not a lot considering how long its been out, I have never used the forums till I saw the changes to Viper and wanted to express this exact point. Please reconsider changing Viper.

[ValStormbreaker]

Same, in the 2 and a half years I have played ff14 which is not a lot considering how long its been out, I have never used the forums till I saw the changes to Viper and wanted to express this exact point. Please reconsider changing Viper.

It's great to see so many passionate new players creating forum accounts for just this very reason.

If you've only been around for two and a half years, it's a shame that you weren't around during Stormblood, which I think was an ideal period for most of the classes in the game before Shadowbringers. A lot of players who like this game don't have context for how different rotations and skills were back then, before the homogenization started. I use MNK as a constant example since it was the one affected hardest starting in SHB and the one that has suffered the most, but it goes for most jobs I think.

Sadly, there's no way for you to experience what the game was like, but Viper does provide a peek into that in a more concise package. Hopefully saying that is enough to trust the notion of how much fun you would've had playing the game back in 2017/2018, and how radically different (and simplified) everything became since then.

I think if more people back Viper, then the next move would be to back the restoration of the other jobs to what they used to be like. That goes for jobs like Summoner (which used to be very different), Dark Knight and other jobs across the other roles (healers as well). Think of all the heaps of fun everyone would be having! There was way more self-expression back then in rotations, too.