Quote Originally Posted by NekoNova View Post
Going to play devil's advocate here, but have you ever considered that the amount of feedback that advocates to keep the class as it is, is outweighted by the amount of feedback asking for change?

I'm fairly sure that none of the decisions made by SE are just a "let's try this" and are founded on numbers they have from the game, as well as other threads.
Not saying that I don't understand the concern, as we do have seen cases where changes were done and rolled back later on.
While that may be, I have seen a lot of feedback "do not change it", and not even a single thread asking for easier debuff management, as that patch has now gifted to us. Granted, I don't speak Japanese, so I can't check the JP forum, but somehow I doubt the outcries for changes in Viper were that loud over there, considering there was backlash against the proposed changed from the Blogpost a few weeks ago in JP as well.