Viper Changes Thread - Share your thoughts

[W00by]

Ya honestly Viper 7.01 was perfect but at this point I‘ve lost complete trust in the job dev team. I don’t know if they would roll it back…

There's only one way to get them to roll it back. Keep talking about it on the forums, and anywhere else anyone will listen. There was a Kotaku article about it published yesterday, our voices are being heard.

We've already won one battle for Viper's complexity, even though it doesn't seem like it -- they fully intended to remove positionals until we complained about it. We can win this war. I know it seems difficult, as things don't get reverted too often. But just this patch, they made Tsubame-Gaeshi a more flexible and engaging skill on Samurai after turning it into a meaningless looping tool, and restored Ice Paradox to Black Mage even though they intentionally removed it. And in the past, they added back Energy Drain after it was taken out of Scholar's kit, too. It was added back on a similar timeframe, too -- removed in 5.0, re-introduced in 5.05. We could see it again soon.

Square Enix is not immune to reverting things. If you give up, then it won't get reverted, but this is the time we need to make it clear how we feel. The Viper playerbase is in a unique position to take a stand for complexity in this game. There are a lot more of us than there are any other job, so we have more voices. Please lend yours! You're all doing great!

Let's see 7.01 Viper again. I really think we can!

And to any developers reading, this is a great chance to prove that you're listening. People are losing faith: what better way to show them you're listening than by addressing their concerns? A lack of communication is what got us into this mess, so let's do better on both ends.