I'm dubious about a lot of the "commanders" on the NA servers. Had a "commander" today kept leading us into ambushes set up by one of the other teams, loosing half our forces every time. After the 3rd time, it was obvious he was feeding us to the other team.

Thanks for having me :)! I actually like how you chose a run that had room for improvement. Just goes to show that mistakes can happen even with a DRK comp and some battles must still be hard fought depending on spawn luck and enemy pressure. The most important thing is to have fun with it and honestly just try your best to help the team, be it as a commander or simply valuable teammate!

Casual pvp is in a tough state at the moment as most people are just queing for the easy xp lowering the effort to win a game. Ive been queing daily with my AST as its one of my pvp only classes and is currently lvl 86 and boy let me tell you that my experiences over the last two weeks have been horrible. No coordination and you encounter a lot of premade teams (like your in the video) that are easily BH5 in the first 2 mins of the game. Dont get me wrong about premades, they are fun to run but frustrating to battle against lol. Your concent is always educational no matter how many kills you rack with your team!

I wish I had commanders. It'd be nice to actually play PvP modes with some people that have an idea of what to do. Two days ago, I was in a Frontline Roulette where my team ended with 0 points. How? In 10 years of playing this game I've never seen a team end with 0 points... I hated it.

It's awesome to see how much Art has grown as a commander in such a short timespan. Always a pleasure to play with him <3

I typically love commanders, but on Crystal there are premades that are infamous for being toxic. If I see them during my match I try to get as many OKO SAM LBs as I can or try to convince my alliance to use SCH to counter them😅

I love commanders. If we get second, it's close. Never a bad game if pvp when I good commander takes charge and people actually follow the instructions. Don't take much to win, just gotta believe in the battle high.

I actually just played a round with this commander, Art. Great stuff! I love getting grouped with someone I know is gonna take charge and rally the troops

Dude Bard looks so fun. You were really an essential person to your team's victory!

You've gained a new subscriber! I'm entirely casual as a PvP player and only play for the title grind, but these guides have made me really think about how I play and how to consider other players' abiltiies to get the win.

black mage is my go to pvp job. this guide was very helpful. ty

Hi, I noticed that you use controller. May I know your targeting set up?

"ability is"?

I got a serious question and ive been wondering about this for awhile now and cant find anything on it. Do you get Secondary stats in frontlines pvp, like direct hit, crit, determenation and speel speed and stuff. I know everyone is level synced to level 100, what about stats?????????

Something not mentioned about viper vs samurai, i good samurai will pop chiten as they wait for your snake scales to do its ending attack. That end attack will trigger Kuzushi allowing the samurai to pop LB, giving the viper no window to re-engage another snake scale. This has recently started happening to me while playing against better players in CC.

The animator was really cheeky with the cleo animation 😂😂

That's all nice but you didn't cover machinist. Drill can go through guard and Air Anchor has a stun, and Chain Saw well has a low chance to do 95%.

Hope itll be reworked to be like horrid roar w

I’m trying to make viper work, but I feel like I do 0 damage 😩

note re: Zantetsuken this only works because Zantetsuken deals true damage equal to the target's max HP. if you have a large enough shield that your current hp + the shield is larger than your max HP, you will survive Zantetsuken. having ANY amount of shield while at full hp will guarantee that Zantetsuken cannot KO. on Red Sands, this becomes particularly annoying when the lunatender gives people massive shields- they'll live even if they have low health if the shield is thick enough

alternate title: I used the Viper's Snake Scale skill as a excuse to make a video in a gothic maid outfit 👀JKJK unless

Hell yeah brotherrr I've been using Viper a lot since release and I think what it needs is a burstier burst. It has no personal mit or CC which calls to mind DRG, but DRG is built to shit out 10million damage a second while VPR's damage output is just too slow. Considering the combo portion of its LB is practically just for show and Orobouros takes an eon to actually do damage, I think if they gave the initial hit of LB more potency it would go a long way towards improving this job's performance

I've been following your guides this month as they're very detailed, and easy to understand. But I wanted to know what your Targeting hotkeys were for the Back triggers? In your recent guides, such as Ninja. I noticed you had Hotbar 1 underneath your Cross Hotbars. I wanted to ask how it cycled through your cooldowns seamlessly when you changed your abilities in the middle of combat?

Love your videos, they're super fun and informative. I was able to get sooo much better at pvp by following your example

I like playing Viper. Its ult is really bad though; my biggest complaint with it. It doesn’t do any damage, and the delayed registration for all the hits makes it feel like I’m hitting people with a wet noodle. It allows for any player to easily get out of the ult-never being a legitimate threat. By far the weakest part of its kit. Everything else feels solid though.

One change i wish they change would be the snake scales to be like dragoons roar and just decrease some values. Coz damn i hate being stuck in the middle of the mess lol

I have been having a better time with Viper recently and hitting around 1.5 million damage, the bane of my existence is white mages using imp whenever I try to cast snake scales

Error: This macro will not prevent me from accidentally double tapping funny portal button so that i end up back where I started :p

It's weird how this job's fun and I end up having more damage than playing other jobs but it still feels like I NEVER actually kill anything, newer to pvp so idk if it's the lack of experience or what, gameplay inspires me to make it work tho

MLP...friendship with benefits XD. I never needed to know this existed. very impressive kill count on this one

Did you know that the "game" Ancient Seal: The exorcist" is stealing your pvp content to advertise their "game" on tiktok?

I love viper in pvp. Had a game with 1.58mil damage and it felt amazing to play. I feel the limit break needs a buff though as its more beneficial to just go for the big hit (Oroboros i think) then the combo

i too cant remember the thing from the minions

Goood Times

viper is nice, but it's faaaar from good It's mediocre at best and i still keep on playing it cuz it looks nice~ ofc performance goes up with an amazing partner as a teammate, but it's rlly underperforming like crazy haha

Oh man I got so many questions idk how I just realized your on ps5. But I noticed you switch to your targets pretty easily do you have any tips on that and how to stop people from stealing my kills 😂

viper is fun but it feels like it definitely needs... Something. it doesn't do enough damage to justify how low its hp is and on top of that the damage output isn't threatening enough to distract people from scale stance attempts. maybe an extra 1.5k hp and/or some potency boosts to really help establish threat... i have to dump all of my slithers to drop someone but then i struggle more than a ninja when it comes to getting out alive meanwhile im fully expecting picto to get kneecapped that job is wild

Hell yeah brother

Great commentary, mate.

Commanders should be like a mentor tag/role. All teams should have one coz its not fun at all without a commander

Viper has a ton of aoe potency packed into its kit, especially the LB, but seems to lack single target damage outside of LB. This means that to excel you need a team to followup your kills, a tank like drk or war to stack or cc the enemies, and/or a team of goobers that stacks on ramps and tunnels lol. But on your own soloqueing its rough to play viper. On top of that your only escape tool is your dash which means that you again need to rely on an ally for your escape. Your one defensive is also not useful as an escape tool because it locks you in place so the job is very all or nothing. If your team isnt following up you are just dead. That said, when things line up for you, your aoe damage is nuts. You are outputting millions up close and your LB is so spammable you can have it almost every single engagement. You can even use it on single targets to secure kills as you build BH and still have it for engagements lol. I have reached the 1.9M mark myself on viper while soloqueing. Still i feel like it could receive a buff. Reduction on animation lock most of all

Love playing Picto, it reminds me of MCH pre-PvP rework. Also it's interesting seeing your DC's PvP culture. Over here on Elemental, JPs will stick together and follow a leader making it much more difficult to pick off stragglers. If you're overconfident and push forward like you do several times in the video, more often than not you'll just get picked off and killed. It would be interesting to see you create a character on Elemental and try your PvP skills here!

You crushed it here, but I'm always impressed at how well you do regardless of how your team is doing. Honestly, my experiences on Light have been rough lol. Maybe its the XP farmers, I haven't done any pvp on Crystal since expansion dropped, but I have been in some dumb frontlines on Light XD. Just baffling decision making. Battlehigh really is the key. I get so sad when my team doesn't actually pvp when they queue up to pvp.

I really appreciate you going through what your thought process is while in these big fights.

"The sooner it is destroyed, the sooner we can get back to the action." I can't stress this enough. Sooner the crystal is down, sooner you get half your team back. People are all "BH BH BH". But you're not getting BH noodle-fighting 5 vs 12, and likely giving them away instead. If you're not fighting in superior numbers, you're not at the right place on the map. Simple as that. Follow your team.

The carbuncle ears look dumb asf on these glams.

What’s the macro you’re using for the Slither? Looks like it lets you dash to an ally? :0 would be super useful as a fellow controller player lol