True and real, if you aren't going to bring back NG to appease people that complain about having to reapply it after downtime phases like that isn't part of the optimization at least replace it with something that leaves some small level of brainpower so I can have some semblance of thought in my class. While you're at it, put the finishers back to a 40 second timer. It felt phenomenal to prep burst phases so that I could barely make it in time for both noxious gnash and and fanged combo finishers. If downtime is the consideration for this give Viper an Anatman that freezes the timers until Viper does another instance of damage within 20 seconds or something (just like OG monk, it didn't need to be a channel, it was never a hard fix for them either).

IDK man. It genuinely feels like whoever designed Viper wasn't a part of the discussion to rework it, or 7.05 wouldn't have dropped how it did, replaced by whoever made summoner because everyone was complaining about it as if Dragoon wasn't just the fun melee summoner already.