The RDM change is a good one. As it sits now at 100 if you don't burn all 6 stacks of manafication within 15 seconds you lose your Prefulgence completely and just don't get to do your level 100 ability at all on that 2 minute cycle.

It's funny, there's a few people saying Viper is too hard amidst a massive sea of people saying it's really fun how it is, so they change it in a week. Healers have been complaining about all four healing jobs being way too simple in their DPS rotation, and they're just told "go play ultimate" and ignored for five years.

If they slow down viper I'll be so incredibly disheartened. The speed of its rotation makes it so fun.

Boo to these supposed vpr complaints. Please don't overreact, SE >.>

you’re not supposed to reapply noxious gnash in the middle of your burst, you take some time leading up to your burst double refreshing and then you can double reawaken and get most of it under buffs

The Samurai change is enabling the job to be more flexible again in a lot of situations, as cool as having a full on perfect loop rotation might look like on the outside, it actually limits the gameplay of the job immensely. Having the 1-3 filler gcds helps being flexible and gives options to the job, rather than having it limited. Looping itself might be great overall for full uptime fights and beginners, it is bad for fights with any kind of downtime or optimization, and having a a filler in your rotation I don't think is a hindrance to the enjoyment if you decide to do them.

As a Viper enjoyer, I think it is super fun and fast. The added positionals are nothing bad I feel. Noxious Gnash timer increase would be kinda neat.

I have not seen a viper complaint. Tbe community is in an uproar about the reported changes. Dont. Touch. Viper.

i played viper this expansion and for the first extreme and like... what tf?? like actually thats the appeal? I get that people wants to play the new classes when they come out, but when said job doesnt play like u want, u go play another, there's plenty to choose from...

The fact they're changing umbral soul now just shows to me they aren't thinking through some of their choices and not listening to part of the community feedback, like they so people complaining about them killing non standard and grouped the concerns about low level mana regen together with it, just ignoring everything.

Picto is absolutely nutty in terms of its damage and removing the skip thunder rota isn't going to fix that. I really hope square is finally willing a job that is clearly over performing rather than feeling like they can only ever buff. If the other casters get pushed up to picto dps there's a very real risk of the 1% stats from bring a Machinist, Bard, or dancer just not worth it compared to brining two competent casters

Another patch, another cursed Monk rotation. It would almost be funny watching them fumble Monk over and over again if it wasn’t my favorite DPS.

viper does not need a single change. its by far the easiest melee in the game. the positionals are the ONLY thing making it "hard". give people 2-3 months of having the job before making any adjustment.

Black Mage. I don't even PLAY it anymore and knew this was a mistake. Yoshi P is a Mage, so how'd he let this slip by?

This community is fried

The astro changes sound really good, astro was my go to healer for EW savage so I am really excited hearing about these changes, I really hope the changes are that lightspeed has 2 charges with a 60 second CD. Astro getting more tools for weaving or a viable option to cast while moving would be fantastic.

The people complaining about how busy viper is are probably the same people who complained about endwalker dragoon except viper doesn't have animation locks on its weaves. I have 2 words as a then drg and now vpr main: skill issue

Midare / Kaeshi Setsugekka has always been 2.5 so why should Tendo be 3.2s. Not to mention you straight up lose GCDs over time cause of the longer GCD as opposed to Midare. Now I don't know if they will adjust the potency of Tendo but if it's the same then it's a QoL buff for me. Trust me when I say that their intention wasn't to remove filler when they made it 3.2s. It was so they can fit the long animation in it. Filler isn't a bad thing as it allows some flexibility if you have to disconnect from the boss and you can always not do filler too. The 3.2s Tendo cast time did not invent the fillerless rotation. You also mention triple weaving part but Samurai doesn't need triple weaving. A lot of times you will just be sitting afking after pressing Tendo Kaeshi Setsugekka.

monk is so goofy to play now, glad some changes are being made

Please, i hope they dont turn viper into a 2 minute meta borefest, i like how intensive it is most of the time. My problem is how useless and hard to read the job gauge is, the only thing needed is having a single indicator of the positional the next basic 3 string combo finisher gonna be, as you can loose track of what was the last positional you got, because you constantly interrupt your basic 3 string combos for your dreadwinder combo, your uncoil and your awakening and there is nothing there that is easy to read to remind what was the last one you did in the middle of the fight.

i noticed on viper that the possitionals flow pretty wel from one combo it goes rear than flank and the charged combo goes flank and rear so you can just let them flow into eachother and you don't actually have to move that much

The way Viper works is what makes it appealing in my eyes. I get that positionals are annoying, I hate them too, but Viper literally holds your hand with the combo finishers by having the words "flank" and "hind" in them. Obviously, I'm still learning Viper but its a fun class. More exciting than Ninja in my eyes

For VPR, Green enders are flank, red enders are rear, idk why people think that is so hard

I thought the astro thing "Charged action" for Light speed meant it would become like IR,Overheat, and so on where it has a longer duration but only works on X number of spells. I could be wrong as both could make sense.

Did EX1 as Viper so far, its true class feels very simple at its core but the buff/debuff timers on your rotation add a bit of complexity imo, its easy to slip up and let the buff drop which i feel makes a simple class feel way more challenging. The changes will likely make the class a lot easier if going through your rotation just automatically keeps 100% uptime on your buffs/debuffs I dont really care for positionals personally so its whatever but Its a bit of a shame with the buffs because i really enjoy simple classes with an element of thought/buff management and its why i stuck with viper to 100 through msq

so, about the VPR complaint source, I've heard the JP forums are full of people complaining that it technically has 6 positionals despite the fact that, in effect, it's more like 4, and even that is being treated as too many positionals.

I don’t understand where this Viper feedback is coming from. Changes that I would be okay with is better range on some of the abilities and making Noxious Gnash 30/60 instead of 20/40 as I have also felt that it falls off really quickly. Aside from that, it’s already my favorite melee to play despite not having a personal defensive ability. I just really hope that they don’t remove all the OGCD weaving as that’s what makes the job fun.

i swear to god they better leave viper alone. I was so excited for this job, and am loving it having reached lvl 100 near the end of the MSQ. I'll be so disappointed if they make me not love this job anymore.

personally i'm really miffed by them removing a positional per 5 gcds on drg so if they also remove some on vpr it's really just like okay, i get it, i'm like phys ranged now in that i don't actually have to care about anything regarding positioning :/

People sure are quick to suggest that any feedback they don't agree with clearly must be fake, or made with bad intentions. I can't see them kneejerk gutting all of its positionals and ogcds. Both are core to the job, so the only thing I can see happening is tweaking Dreadwinder somewhat. Personally I'd want them to just increase the recast time so that I can double weave without clipping, and that would make it easier to land your positionals.

Maybe what they mean by viper is too busy that due to how many postionals it had its very easy to trip up and not maintain damage?

I think a reason people might be complaining about Viper being too busy is from over preparing for a boss fight and not using things naturally in the previous packs, I tried that while afking trusts and it felt like I was wasting potential damage while needing to prepare the buffs before launching off the capped cooldowns and stacks

Vioers good fun, i really dont care if they do or dont renove positionals from 2 of the abilities, it wont change gameplay in any meaningful way. The jobs fun, i go fast, faster than i ever went with monk in endwalker. Change it or not, the job will still play the same.

I didn't understand the need for the RDM change until I realized the timer for manafication was super short. If im in a dungeon with a RDM, I can build up an entire meter to 100 between boss fights, this completely changes the opening rotation in boaa fights and boost its bust damage by at least 30%.

So I'll admit that I have barely touched viper, but from what little I saw.... while it's confusing to actually UNDERSTAND, it's incredibly simple to do. Like, the combo highlighters tell you exactly what to press next...

As a viper player, i persoanlly enjoy the busyness of the job, the 'issues' toend to be on a fight specific basis purely for how some fights its simply too stressful trying to land every positional (even with true north) with how often some bosses force you to be in front of them or locked to their rear with no access to the flank for extended periods. EX2 is a prime example of the positional issue

Happy I stayed RPR, it is a blast!

As a DRK, as soon as i have access to the flood of darkness, i never have problems losing enmity when pulling mobs after mobs, as its easy on drk to just line them up as youre running and damage them with that flood of darkness, or just stop a quick sec to hit with aoe. But i have heard people losing enmity over how op picto is with it

Only issue I have with Viper is too many separate triggered actions to make a streamlined hotbar layout, otherwise I love it.

Some hasn’t playing since ARR. this isn’t new. We are the true testers they always have to do reworks after an expansion. I’m mean I enjoy playing mch with my tool attached to back of my neck as I flip around the fight lol

VPR plays a lot like older MNK I feel, and feels more natural to me than current MNK does.

Wait was Bst supposed to come out later? Like in 7.1?

Seen a number of people saying that VPR's Dreadwinder chain is what's causing these complaints about it being busy. Having to do 4 ogcds and also switch positional within 2 gcds of coils. I've just used True North (2 charges, 45 sec cooldown) on every Dreadwinder (2 charges, 40 second cooldown) combo chain and it covers both gcd positionals

I see so many people saying "if you dont like X about a class then you dont like the class", but that is a very broad, and dismissive stance. For example. They changed Summoner for the better by removing the "Dot Mage" part of their kit, and made them a actual summoner. People are allowed to have criticism about a job, and Yoship agree's with it. Otherwise he wouldnt change it.

they colour coded vipers positionals for it's main combo, if you can't do a positional with such a big visual aid, that's a skill issue and the job isn't for you, the only other two u have to worry about are the duel blade positionals, really not that hard, I hate to quote dark souls here, but just git gud, it's a super simple fun job to play

I guess viper need 2 weaving in opening and glitch with pots and other thing is a little annoying, and positioning in 2 oGCD is a little bit too much.

Is it too early to be calling for a summoner rework?

I almost booed when I saw summoner wasn't on there x) I'm not team "bring it back to pre-endwalker" but the current rotation is just weird, Solar Bahamut feels really tacked-on. There should be some sort of mechanic behind it, because in its current state it just feels like a vastly superior bahamut you get in between regular bahamut and a phoenix that now feels out of place thematically. But I guess that's a rather big change to work on. I'm kinda expecting there to be more to the job in 8.0 at this point.

With what you said on Lightspeed changes and some Thin Air PTSD, I'm really worried that it turns into a 60s/2charges swiftcast. I sincerely hope they won't mess up this one.

Low monk hate staring at the little orbs…..

I've barely picked up viper so I'm still learning it but something I personally find is that it has a lot going on. PUSH ALL THE BUTTONS! For some people, that can be overwhelming/complicated. Some people can get used to it, others will shelve it, no matter how much people try to explain or show how it may work.

hope they add semiauto-combo's to all class's, like how they did with viper and pch. It'll help with hotbar congestion, which is started getting out of hand the past 1-2 expantions. So like have pld's 1 2 3 combo merged into just pressing 1 key 3 times rather then taking up 3 hotbar slots. Let us have our single target on #1 key and aoe on #2 key. Now i know with some class's it won't be as easy to merge attacks/spells, as with some combo's the first attack/spell can chain into 2-3 different attacks/spells.

Viper does have some issues that I would like to see ironed out, but they're issues that may not affect people depending on their general control scheme. The primary issue I have in regards to positionals is the Dreadwinder combo, and the reason it's a problem is because it's a double weave that requires two distinct keybinds to perform. Gallows and Gibbet don't have this problem because they use a single weave that shares the same hotkey. But Viper's AoE rotation is essentially an entire duplicate set of hotkeys that share Serpent's Tail, Twinfang, and Twinblood with the single target rotation. You need to have a comfortable way to access those hotkeys from both your single target and your AoE rotation's hotkeys. And this is compounded by the fact that Reawaken heavily incentivizes having the four hotkeys that turn into the four generation weaponskills in sequence, which leads to me needing to press four separate hotkeys in a distinct sequence that is comfortable and easy to commit to muscle memory both forwards and backwards- and the middle two need to ALSO be accessible to the hotkeys for my AoE Pit of Dread combo. It's physically uncomfortable at times, but i'm limited in my ability to fix this because a setup that is comfortable for Dreadwinder may be much less so for Pit of Dread, and having Hunter's Coil and Swiftskin's Coil on any hotkeys other than 3 and 4 respectively breaks the flow of Reawaken. I don't have any problems with Viper being a busy job with lots of constant inputs. I enjoy that. But I don't feel like I have the freedom or ability to place my hotkeys in positions that are comfortable for me to use in the way I am expected to. No other job i've played has that issue. The OTHER issue Viper has is that the job quest that serves as a tutorial does a terrible job of explaining it. The Vipersight gauge is unintuitive and makes the rotation seem far more complicated than it actually is. I would also like to point out that the blog post did /not/ say that they were making the job less busy. What it said was that they had received feedback about the busyness of the rotation, and that their intentions were the "easing of directional requirements and changes to the effects of several actions." It was NEVER stated that they were going to do this by making Viper less busy, or changing the core feel of the job. Feedback regarding the busyness of the job doesn't necessarily mean "people complaining about it being too busy"- as you stated, it's supposed to be a fast paced, easy to understand job. But some combo sequences are extremely awkward with certain control schemes, and the job gauge is unintuitive and counterproductive. Changes should be made to help the job flow naturally regardless of control preference and be more intuitive to understand, and those are probably the kinds of changes that they're looking at. Nobody is asking for the job to be changed because it doesn't suit their tastes. We're asking for the job to be changed so that we can appreciate it properly and enjoy it for what it's designed to do. And of course, if i'm wrong and they end up changing the core feel of the job, I wouldn't blame you for having a problem with that. But as of now, there is no reason to assume that that's going to happen.

to my understanding, a lot of the positional issues are people with colorblindness struggling with vpr, or at least thats the valid complaint im seeing it. To be fair i agree that maybe the reawaken phase may...should have like 6y range. In ex1 the boss can FORCE you off him with one of his abilities that extends beyond max melee and that feeling sucks (even though you can and should uncoiled during reawaken if that happens)

I'm pleased to see adjustments coming so soon to some jobs, though I hope this isn't a sign that they still plan to ignore others.

I’m soo bad at holding the positionals for viper and even my rotation is a mess at least half of the time but… the job is SO fun. Can’t remember when I had this much fun playing as dps and the speed and slight challenge just feels super motivating to practice more :C

I feel like people are just doom casting over some of these things when we do not know the content to the changes. As for viper i think it honestly needs a little tuning as dreadwinder could just give you 40 seconds of noxious and the positionals are probably getting changed on the dreadwinder either being removed or needing to hit it in a position and the following gcds dont have it. After clearing the EXs and grinding out to 705 ilvl it has a few meh features but not enough to "rework" as the bait title says.

Viper changes: Literally just some range increases from 3 yalms to 5 yalms. Have fun out there.

So far I have 40 total clears combined on the two current EX trials, using viper, and my best parse with it at the moment is 95 on EX1. My personal experience with Viper, as someone who has spent most of the last two expansions playing Melee DPS. I don't necessarily see the issues that people have with playing it.. I believe the major issue is a combination of it being 'new' and people just haven't fully grasped how to play it yet (even though in all honesty it is rather simple really), that and or the playstyle just isn't for them. That being said, I do think there are some minor flaws with Viper, even though I like the job quite a bit. I personally like it's positionals, however compared to playing as a Reaper or Ninja, doing something like EX2 and trying to consistantly land your positionals is a bit of a logistical nightmare, and I can only imagine any non-wall boss in the next savage tier is going to pretty much be a similar deal. The only other thing that can be a bit problematic is disengaging too quickly can cuase you to rather easily lose your ogcd weaves, but trying to greed for them can also get you killed, and overall it can be a lil unecessarily punishing (although this is also where stuff like Rattling Coils come in for the sake of disengage optimization, but it's just more of a weird jankyness feeling that a lot of other melee don't really have to deal with--the only exceptions I can really think of are like, Gunbreaker if they're maintanking a boss and need to move during a continuation window haha). I genuinely think that Noxious Gnash being 20 - 40 seconds is honestly a pretty big form of skill expression though, changing it to 30 - 60 seconds would make it feel a little too similar to Reaper in my opinion. Also you can currently do the whole double reawaken burst without losing Noxious Gnash, but it does borderline require you to overcap before entering your burst, essentially.

Its crazy that people complain the game is too easy, then complain that viper is too busy.

My main DPS is SAM, they got rid of you know what some time ago, now as a DRK they got rid of plunge, I can understand removing extra button "bloat" as they say but they just replaced plung with a lame ass dash, what the hell?

I'm also sad sages dots don't stack anymore but I don't exactly see the problem you described with using the aoe dot in dungeon pulls. I think its fun running alongside the tank to dot the enemies as were pulling groups

When it comes to VPR I think the change was ok and needed. When I play it it can feel fustrating in some fights. Its the only melee I use True North on every dreadwinder just so I dont have to be in the right spot for it. If you're fighting a boss and need to be out of position due to mech then your 123 suffers which is a given on most melee be feels worst on VPR. Noxious Gnash feels to short, should be 30s like RPR is. It also feel like its max melee range is shorter then the others. I dont really see it as homogenized like other jobs have been and more making it more enjoyable to play. If 30% play the job but 70% feels its too hard than that is an issue that needs to be fixed from a game health point of view. Not saying make it is but some tweaks here and there will go a long way. People forget casuals/mid-core players make up a large portion of the game.

I'm confused about the comment that Black Mage has difficulty regaining MP. I watched a video guide for new Black Mage that said that in Umbral Ice III, you will regain 10,000 MP per ice spell cast. This means one Blizzard III or Blizzard II to set up Umbral Ice III, Blizzard IV or one Freeze, which works in great with the 'free fire spells' buffs they provide. And you get Umbral Ice III in the 30s or 40s I'm sure, so pretty early on. So how is it that 60-70 Black Mages are seemingly struggling to regen their MP?

12:50 This was me exactly! I found myself forgetting to use the aoe dot xD

With viper, I just figured the dot may become 10 seconds longer and maybe the coils no longer having positionals. The busyness of a job isnt really inpacted by taking out the coils positionals. Sure you are "less busy" moving in that one skill but its still active over all. Maybe its also because idc for positionals and dont think they add anything of value that i care to uphold.

I really really REALLY dislike the removal of damage from DRK and GNB's gap closers. The attacks looked cool and felt nice.

The only viper change I want is more range on the ogcd follow ups like the GNB continuations.

The only problem with Viper is that the animations of attacks are too fast, they're barely visible and the WoL ends up standing while they wait for the GCD to roll. Slow down some of the animations and it'll look a lot better in combat.

apparently the viper complaint are mostly coming from the jp playerbase

Never understood the notion that every job needs to be enjoyable by everyone. There are 14 jobs if you can’t enjoys any one of them consider crafting and gathering for a your main. 😂

I think the positional requirement on Viper's 123 combo should be swapped around so that each button/keybind being rear or flank is static. That might be what they're referring to.

Black Mage at low levels is just so weird. I get keeping the fire 3 luck proc, at level 50 that is just one of your more notable bursts, hard to contol as it is. But the umbral ice change? So weird, mainly between combat. I get wanting to give people a reason to use more Ice magic, even if it is just one spell (which we were already doing, this just better trains that blizzard 4 has a similar relation to blizzard 1 as fire 4 has to fire 1). Though using lucid dreaming as a black mage earnestly feels wrong. Though that transpose thing was kind of awkward already, now we gotta time manage with it. Outside of combat black mage feels like it has a lot to keep track of now, lol.

Lv 100 astro skill is disappointing

The problem with the extended recast timer on Setsugekka, at least as I've heard it from one SAM main, is that while it smoothed out things on the two minute timescale, it made things really awkward to line up during your 1 minute Midare. You'd end up either drifiting or overwriting Higanbana. EDIT: Here's an explanation kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mM-cjcuql5iViJc.htmlsi=rI8wPKnUINC9CFYi

Yo what is the name of the song in the background its so good!

Skydeep cenote theme for background is actually so peak

As i've just finished the main scenario of DawnTrail i'm starting to watch some point of view. To me, Viper changes will concerned mostly Coil and Den combo, which were odd to me at the very start : 3s recast with a attack speed bonus of 15% means a 2.45s base recast, considering they must be double weaved, and positionnals, i think there is something to much here. Also, Dreadwinder and Pit of Dread are 3s recast, witch is odd as they don't have weaving attached to them. Also the range issue is to me to reawaken combos, nothing to big here. For Sam I trully think it's really on personal opinion, but having a long recast may solve some issues for top players but for all others it's just feel odd. It also greatly reduce the power of tendo Setstugekka. I have nothing to add for others jobs you didn't mention. Also, if SE is reacting very quick to Viper changes, it's very probably to do internal concern even before the release. i won't be surprised if it's something they wanna address even before the 7.0 release and some feedback just confort them doing so.

I actually really like new black mage but wouldn’t hate some extra QOL regarding MP management

For vpr changes, all i can really see as being needed *might* be the positionals on the dreadwinder gcds and a slight range increase on the dreadwinder ogcds and death rattle (3y to 5y, just like what continuation got). Changing the positionals on your 123 makes no sense, because if they do that why even have 4 enders? hope they don't go overboard on this. also as a gnb main please for the love of god give me that enmity on my gap closer, dungeon runs are so scuffed right now.

Talks about a letter, but God forbid you could link it

Becoming a Viper main, and I think the busyness Is fine, the only change to lessen that I would make is to increase the dread debuff timer from 20s to 30s, I could leave it but to lessen busy-ness I think the change wouldn't hurt the playstyle. Beyond that, I don't think positionals add much so them being lessened is fine with me.

Yes, as a BLM, I came to find out that pre level 64, when you get B4, your best option to get MP back is B1. I have to actually cast this level 1 spell with the second lowest potency in my entire kit all the way up to level 63. And even then, if you got no target, you're screwed. You'll have to drop eno chan and let your MP return out of combat by waiting. Yeah. So either drop Umbral Soul a lot of levels or up the potency of B1 under Umbral Ice (but not too much). As for the Viper thing, I agree. It's too busy? Eh... did you watch the job trailer, buddy? If you want a less busy job, play WHM lol. Scouting DPS are meant to be busy AF. Ninja has a super busy burst with a calm rotation in between, whilst Viper is just busy in general and goes bananas when in burst. If you want to play a boring and simple DPS that goes slow, play SMN. Actually SMN is even less busy than WHM now on the account that it's a DPS and doesn't have to heal, but you're spamming the same 3 lego buttons anyways. Ah, how that used to be different. There was a time when SMN was so gigabrain that some people didn't play it because it was too complex lol. But from those iterations, 4.5 SMN was amazing. Honestly 4.5 had the most amazing job designs in general IMO. SAM was as freestyle as a house dance floor, DRK asked the question: "A burst? what's that? Oh dark arts, right. Wanna see me literally tank a dungeon without a healer by DRAINING THEIR BLOOD WITH DARK MAGIC?" As well as Bard going "I have too much criiiiiiiiit, I can't spend bloodletters/rain of death fast enough!". Oh, and MCH going "A 1-2-3 combo? Nah nah nah, my friend it's 1, 2, then 1, then 3, then 2, then 1, then 3 again, then 2! Also I stick your ass with a C4 explosive and roast you alive as part of my regular rotation, and that C4 bomb is basically half my damage". Broken and stupid, but you lived for that Wildfire crit of 15.000 damage was super fun. Which is today's equivalent of a bahamut akh morn doing ten times that. You could visibly see the boss' HP drop a significant smidge when that thing went off after executing that complex as hell burst correctly, hehe. What else... well it was also the days that RDM had spam scatter as an AOE rotation with the occasional 7-moulinet burst. RDM AOE never got better. Only worse. BLM was way more of a turret, so the infamous "black mage spots" were partially birthed here. Paladin... sucked, so anyone who played it either never picked up another tank or was just that job loyal and a nice guy cuz they were the only tank with as much raid mitigation as an effing healer. Also cover strats. Speaking of healers, AST was... interesting. Especially if you liked gambling. Or had a bad cohealer and wanted the Bole to restore their MP lol. Or wanted to piss off your DPS with the Arrow. Except if they were BLM or Monk. It's why the Balance is still revered as a god. SCH actually had 2 pets that did different things. Only healer with an AOE cleanse and 2 raidwide DPS buffs and a silence, very important. Also DoTs for days. You stacked 3 of the suckers, and 1 was your AOE rotation. I am not even joking. Ah, Miasma 2... And WHM? Well it used to be cooler. Had Aero 3. Coolest-ass wind spell ever. But other than that... not much to say. And DRG... well you know the memes. They exist for a reason. Executing Jump was a real geronimoooooo moment. Was fun though. Yep, best patch ever.

I wish they would change auto crossbow on mch. There's no point to it unless it's 5+ targets. Give it more potency or let it refresh my check and double check abilities like blazing shot.

And they still haven't figured out how to make machinist aoe feel good to play. At the absolute very least please make auto-crossbow refresh the cooldowns of gauss round and ricochet just like blazing shot. I also think either Queen's finishers should have aoe drop off like every other job seems to have or get a new battery spending skill that is used for aoe damage, like a rook turret that floats over enemies and pulses damage in the area under it, with it performing more pulses the more battery gauge is spent. Last thing I think would work is giving synergy between bioblaster and flamethrower. Make it so when an enemy has a dot from bioblaster and then gets hit with flamethrower, it replaces bio's dot with a stronger one from flamethrower. And let flamethrower generate heat/battery. It's dumb that it doesn't.

Crazy that Macro potency doesnt match Malefic, Dragon Kick has no requirement to give you the ball, monk AOE is only better at 4+, and more. A lot felt super rushed meanwhile Picto sits pretty af makes you wonder where all that time got allocated. Hmmmmmmmmmm......

I don’t get the problem? I’ve been off for a couple of months, come back grab viper and it’s made me strongly consider dropping reaper! I love reaper and viper caught me off guard in a good way!

I don’t understand where these viper changes are coming from. I don’t think I have heard a single person complain about the things they seem to be trying to fix with it.

11:42 How exactly is it a gain to click off the 123 combo?

Worried about Viper changes I love the class so far… If they remove the positionals from the dreadwinder skills I think that would be fine honestly but hopefully thats the extent of the changes.

For Samurai, I have to disagree. To me it was rather jarring going from a normal Midare and such to the longer recast of the Level 100 Version. And it felt bad to me. I much preferred it when I was weaving 1 maybe 2 OGCDs in. Not to mention, anything UNDER 100 will have players going back to the 2.5 anyway.

Like who asked for the Viper changed. My only theory is that its the Japanese player base who wanted this, cause everyone I've talk to in both NA and EU are absolutely dumbfounded that square would touch Viper since it launched in such a good spot.

The only reason why I think they should "alleviate" Viper of heavy positionals is because that should be Monk's identity -- or at least it was. I say that as a Monk main who's greedy. If I was to look at the overall game, it would make sense to have one melee DPS have a positional identity, and much faster GCDs but the identity for another. I've been playing since ARR and I still can't drop my "feel" for trying to positional every single GCD on Monk. I still have that muscle memory down pat. Every since they've removed them, I don't know if I can honestly say I've "felt" super connected to playing Monk.

Viper being too busy for a skill rotation? It may be a DPS, but you should try playing Astrologian, if you want busy, that is pretty much the busiest.

There's still one EXTREMELY CRUCIAL fix that seems to be getting overlooked for Ninja- Huton's tooltip still says that it does fire damage.

I was considering dropping samurai before this announcement I said during the lead up to DT release that if they found a way to remove filler from samurai I'd celebrate it. The monkey's paw has curled and for the briefest moment I was cursed to contemplate uninstalling once every 55 seconds I cannot count the number of times I've drifted my gcd because I pressed tsubame gaeshi then got up to make a coffee only to realise that I had pressed the button a full half second too early and so failed to queue the attack At least when I'm paying attention I get to go for a quick run inbetween gcds

Im 100% aggree with you about viper !! i main it actually and its not that bad at all. Some players give bad feedback because they cant use positionnal ? come on xD get a back in time when monk has 5 -6 positionnals xD i hope they will not break Viper… He’s perfect like that

Viper changes: boo, sounds like babies need to get better Pictomancer changes: yes, please take their divinity away

Please do not adjust viper. Its perfect way it is. True north is vipers best friend. Positionals? What are those lol

as a 5.x SMN enjoyer there is a part of me that love seeing good jobs being dumbed down