Poor Viper

[Karuya]

I don't think aoe is enough but that's nice to get anyway. Vicewinder buff is the best thing they can do for an ultimate fight so that's also pretty cool for the upcoming ultimate. I don't think it will make viper "strong" but he might catch up with some others, and be actually really strong on some phases for resource alignment purposes.

On the other side, summoner might become really good on some fights/phases, and reaper is probably going to be clearly too strong. Like, they keep increasing reaper's burst while it already might be stronger than viper's burst, I really don't know why they still didn't buff viper's burst after 20 months of being too weak. I guess that's the last buff we will get before 8.0...

Congratulations people, we witnessed the existence of the most "useless" job this game has ever seen during an entire expansion(no utility whatsoever, no raidbuff and bad burst), before it completely changes in the new evolved meta. I can't wait to see a full rework. Thanks anyway for the buffs Square Enix, I might try to play viper on the next ultimate now.

[Leonus]

I don't think aoe is enough but that's nice to get anyway. Vicewinder buff is the best thing they can do for an ultimate fight so that's also pretty cool for the upcoming ultimate. I don't think it will make viper "strong" but he might catch up with some others, and be actually really strong on some phases for resource alignment purposes.

On the other side, summoner might become really good on some fights/phases, and reaper is probably going to be clearly too strong. Like, they keep increasing reaper's burst while it already might be stronger than viper's burst, I really don't know why they still didn't buff viper's burst after 20 months of being too weak. I guess that's the last buff we will get before 8.0...

Congratulations people, we witnessed the existence of the most "useless" job this game has ever seen during an entire expansion(no utility whatsoever, no raidbuff and bad burst), before it completely changes in the new evolved meta. I can't wait to see a full rework. Thanks anyway for the buffs Square Enix, I might try to play viper on the next ultimate now.

I was hoping they would buff reaper more. Everywhere I look reaper has been in the middle of the pack for dps. It’s a bursty job that wasn’t keeping up with other bursty jobs (SAM) though it may not matter anymore anyway with the 8.0 changes coming up.

[Karuya]

That's the second consecutive buff for the reaper, and both of them were targeting reaper's burst, that's a lot. In savage, reaper was already decent before yesterday's patch, and on FRU, reaper was already the strongest in the game before yesterday's patch. So if the new ultimate has similarities with FRU, reaper might be the strongest there as well. But as you said, 8.0 will completely change the game anyway.