I have to agree it's not okay that Viper is as weak as it is in the first two phases of FRU, which I say as someone who has locked it out of my PFs because my options were either to do that or to require a PCT to compensate for them when running with friends who play the other casters. Part of the issue is also the structure of this ultimate though, three of the four major downtime mechanics are contained in those first two phases, so rather than the dps checks evening out based on which jobs are good under different circumstances you instead have this situation where it takes 8 minutes of encounter before Viper starts to make up for its shortcomings in prior phases. And since they're obviously not going to redesign FRU post-release to solve this issue, Viper should receive some kind of buff to make it not so bad in the early phases. That said, they're also not going to make any job adjustments until 7.2 at this point, which will make all of the DPS checks easier regardless, so idk what we can do from here.