THE JOB FFXIV has been MISSING ⚔️ 

The part with Zepla using the swords was so unhinged. I love it.

It's nice that Zepla can still move around so well at her age.

I wish Rogue would branch out into two jobs kinda like Arcanist, letting you become either a Ninja or something else like Thief, Viper, Corsair, etc. I also wish Archer would similarly branch out into Bard and Ranger. I'm not sure how this would work logistically, since they'd have to use different weapons from their class counterparts, but it might be possible somehow.

If Yoshida managed to get 3 job references on one shirt, that would be a 5 million IQ move.

The part with Zepla acting out moves with swords was the energy I come to these videos for :')

I totally agree that viper feels like the more appropriate extension of rogue. Also, I've heard people joke that they took summoners dots so they could give them to green mage. They might have meant it as a joke, but it makes sense to me. The removal of some dots might have been to help distinguish viper and green mage (hopefully), which would be 2 very appropriate jobs for dots. I mean, EVERY job used to have a dot, so i think it's good that it's a more rare thing now.

The thumbnail is freakinf hilarious! Well done!

I love the aesthetic of Viper. It's a sweet alternative for those people that loved the feel of Rogue, but didn't want to be forced into Ninja.

It honestly surprised me that Viper's questline will start in Ul'dah. It just feels like a Job that would've made more sense to start in Limsa instead and would've also been fitting if completing the Rogue questline was made mandatory to unlock Viper given how it feels more like a natural "advanced" Job to Rogue than Ninja

I agree with you about Rogue becoming Ninjas! I feel the same way about the Archer into Bard! I figure we won't know what either of the new jobs are like until after the 2nd job is announced! I want Geomancer for caster! Pictomancer is ok for Limited! That way we can get Beast Master in the future as a regular job!

I know what you mean about the theme shift from rogue to ninja, I agree completely. I was excited to play a gladiator but then I found out that they turn into paladins and I was like uh what and never played it. :(

Seeing you being hyped is everything. Thank you for sharing.

6:10 I did the same years ago with my double-bladed lightsaber. Although I actually stabbed and broke the light fixture of the ceiling fan. 😬

Ninja in fft and in general could wield swords too, and not just a dagger class. Ninja is still one of my fav ff jobs for the dual wield perk in general but i missed actual dual swords like in ffxi. Blue mage dual swords in xi was like a dream and i was hoping for blue to come back with dual scimitars or something in 14. When they didnt, i was profoundly sad, and even if it doesnt dual wield, i had hoped it would be a real job. Got kinda messed over there too. So Viper is basically my dream job of being a fast paced dual sword class. I couldnt be happier.

Viper's fighting style reminds me of Zidane from FFIX but obviously we already have the 'thief' style job, so I guess they're just incorporating the weaponry of Zidane.

I just want Chemist job, bro. I want to throw potions at people and enemies at Mach20!

The moment Zepla starts swinging around swords is a mess -- AND I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT!!! Hilarious! Totally made my day! ❤

Based on the trailers, it looks like it's gonna be an homage to Zidane from FFIX, even down to the trance aura

i like that she mentioned fury warrior from wow because that's like, one of my favorite classes/playstyles in any game. love that bloodthirsty barbarian style of character (s/o to barbs in baldur's gate 3). i know 14 already has warrior but i get tank fatigue after tanking like two instances so i've never mained it. i know viper will be more finesse based in spirit but that doesn't mean they won't absolutely rip sh1t up. i'm excited

The unbridled enthusiasm you had when you started swinging the swords around was infectious, lol

I was hoping for Mystic Knight, but this is cool too. Geomancer is what a yearn for in my heart

It woulda been thematically pretty cool if they treated rogue like arcanist. They share the same gear (nin/vpr), itd been cool if they branched out at Lv30 to continue into a full-fledged pirate (Vpr) or be a ninja

I could see Green Mage being druidic in nature and having dots to manage

Looks like a cross between an Eskrimador and a Sith Lord. Love it!

The way Viper has been explained is it is the traditional style of hunter from the continent of Tural, which is where Dawntrail takes place. It will have fast strikes to lay into the opponent with both blades, then it stick the swords together to deliver heavy blows, then you channel the soul crystal and allow the souls of past vipers to empower you, kinda like trance from ffix. Alot of people think the class was inspired by ffix's main character Zidane.

girl trust me i get you. I started as a rogue in wow in 208 B.C.... I can still hear the sinister strikes sound effect from vanilla

I just want 4th ranged dps so it balances out between 4 tanks, 4 healers, 4 (nonlimited) casters, 4 range. I just like neat numbers.

This had me smiling ear to ear. "... TWO SWORDS!" lol

Ninja really feels like a battlemage most of the time. I didn't play other final fantasy games but I guess that is the ninja concept in these. Personally I wanted more supporty melee that Corsair would eventually be but I guess this game needed an actual Rogue job lol . Also about the tshirt he said himself tshirt includes the caster job so it is very likely it is green mage.

My biggest gripe with melee jobs in 14 is that the weapon animations don't feel weighty. It always looks as if someone is wielding a piece of superlight plastic.

zepla, watching you swing those two swords around nerding out has been the highlight of my day, don't go changin!

I’ll dabble playing as a Viper, but my heart belongs to Ninja.

Maybe I haven't been watching her long enough, but if I had to guess Zepla's age, I would put her in late 20's or early 30's max.

That was the first time I heard of the 2.0 class combos required to unlock the advanced jobs. I love that in theory because each one makes sense to me

I've been waiting a decade for a dual wielding sword class, so this will be my new main. Even if it sucks. I will be doing something new this time around and leveling Viper to 90 before doing MSQ lol

Two Swords at the same time man!

Have any changes happened to the other classes when new expacs come out? or are their gameplays the same?

I agree, Rogue to Viper makes way more sense than Rogue to Ninja.

It was so nice to see your silly, unhinged side again, when you were playing with the swords. I first started watching your videos when you were making silly stuff like the qiqirn death noise horoscope, and while it's been awesome to see how far you've come, even being an ambassador of the community, I've always missed that silliness from your earlier videos, especially once the war in Ukraine started and everything fell apart in your life. tl;dr I'm so happy to see you like this again, and it tells me that you're slowly starting to heal, and I'm so happy for you.

Never played final fantasy, but that viper class reminded me a lot about my WoW main that's a fury warrior. I love the fast hitting playstyle of fury warrior and outlaw/combat rogue and this made me almost want to try it.

My warrior of light is obsessed with swords, this might be the class that gets him to Main omething other than Paladin

I love the demonstrations... Hahaha... Has me geeking out!

Having broken a light fixture with a lightsaber myself, I commend you on your spatial awareness ❤

curious on the thinking of the new caster job of what it is going to be, you have any guesses to what it is ?

At first glance, the job looks like a HIGH APM with SLOW and calculated burst with needed precision (based on mechanics/positioning). It sounds very ninja-like but inverse of ninja. I hope I am wrong and it turns out its basically another slow but FAST burst meele class (like Samurai or Reaper).

The caster class is *very* likely to be Time Mage or Geomancer: The theme of turtles is prevalent on the shirt, which most likely references Genbu from the Four Lords Questline. Genbu, whilst being an auspice, is a Geomancer. So if it's Geomancer... That's likely the reference. However if you consider it to be time mage, consider that one of the quest names in the Four Lords Questline is called "Tortoise in time" where we fetch a geomancy relic that can age people up with *Temporal Magics* The quest name is a reference to 'Turtles in time' which is an old TMNT game, with the evidence we have and the fact that we're missing a water element caster: It's very likely to be a Water Mage that has temporal magics.

As a smn/blm main, I'm super excited to find out what the new casters gonna be. Fingers crossed for geomancer! I saw a video relating t-shirt clue to Turtle Island, which connects to geomancer in some way (I forget how). Geo's my 2nd favorite class in the ff series after summoner!

Looking forward 2024 Jan Tokyo Fan Fest!

Im so pumped for viper but the one thing that could possibly get me to change my mind on it is if they add a dot mage. I would love a dot heavy class

LOL thumbnail is 10/10 thank you

Lightsaber and Virtuous Contract crossover I didn't know I needed!

I want a minion army build with like 20 pets. Something like PoE Minions or Animist from DAOC. Love those classes!!

I want songstress and gunner, but Viper looks cool it gives me Edward Kenway vibes.

I really hope im wrong and Viper's lore isnt that of a super serious hunter. People will be disappointed again if it is the polar opposite of what they hope.

cant wait to get the POTD for the red and white glowing blades for viper.

also i don't think it will have poisons or anything like that. mainly coz like you said they hate dots but also poison on swords isn't the norm as its mostly a dagger thing but i feel the "Viper" is more in relation to striking hard and fast like a snake and being that it sits with rogue and ninja just makes sense

2nd -_- Viper sounds exciting and a class I could play long term! We'll see what they have planned. Zepla sincerely hope you are doing well. Thank you so much for all the great videos and your kind time.

If Viper doesn't have hoods and hats for Viera then I will be pissed! Viper Viera sounds great to me.

Gotta be honest i feel very much the same even to the point of missing wow rouge a ton, instantly fell in love with the idea of viper as its what i always wanted to have as a job in ff. Ninja never didn't quite scratch the feel of what i wanted so i'm just gonna have to be hopeful that it plays well

If the limited job is beast master it still works too. Pictomancer or Beast Master would work with the tshirt hint. I do think it's probably green mage. It would fit right ij with the mages theme. But when I looked into Green Mage it is technically more of a healer, as is Geomancer from the Kojin that would also work. But what I'm reading is in FF tactics it was exclusive to Vieras as well so it may be that it's taught by a Viera which would be very cool. If it's a support sort of dps and not a healer maybe it'll be the next rez mage.

6:10 reminds me of when kids try to explain anything

As great as the Viper sounds and looks, I am still slightly mad that they missed this opportunity to make corsair a thing.

Me seeing Zepla put those swords together and my brain goes; "HELICOPTER HELICOPTER!"

I saved up 2 Commendation Crystals from PvP to get glowy swords early, also on copium that the savage Aloalo Tomeupgrade will apply to the 2 new jobs as well since theyd get the lvl90 tomeweps to 600, so maybe 665 too?

How do you get around so well at 57

That is a *remarkably* low ceiling your place has. I would be at risk hitting my head at all times in there.

I kinda hope that there are some mystic aspects to it involving the memory/spirits contained into the job stone

I have not seen Zepla get so excited in awhile.

So much chaos energy. Love it

I really want them to put Gambler in the game.

So for me I'm extremely excited about Viper because I remember I when I was getting into 14 my first question was is there a dual sword wielding class I could play and everyone was like no but you could... And I eventually just settled on Samurai and Gunbreaker as my two main jobs. But seeing a dual blade wielding class I'm very excited for that update. Especially since I wasn't sure if I was gonna keep playing 14 now that the first saga has ended.

The weird thing to me is that even though the outfit and fighting style scream 'rogue' the slides displayed during the keynote when the job was announced said that the fighting style originates from the New World. On top of that, the job starts in Ul'dah, which could still be thematic, but is notably removed from the rogue/pirate themes of Limsa. Still a bit early to say if the job's quests have anything to do with freebooting, but not entirely out of the question either. Still, the aesthetics look cool and usually that's what I care about most when it comes to jobs. That and how they feel to play.

I am still hoping for a melee magic user like a rune knight or a spell blade. I still think it will be green mage but I have a thought that it will specified dot class that goes more into utilizing the dots more by manipulating them. Kind of like an affliction warlock.

Did you have sugar lol. I'm so onboard tho too I was hoping for COR and this honestly ticks that box for me. They basically gave me AC: Black Flag and I'm here for it. Cannot wait for that artifact armor.

Rouge--> viper Thief--> ninja That would make at least a little bit more sense

I started off as a DRG but when I unlocked rogue I really wanted to play it bc my character was the same as in FFXI. Same name, race, everything, a new adventure. Ninja is my 2nd class on 90 but I rarely ever play it. For me this transition was also so completely weird and I didn't really like the job quests either. So hopefully viper now will bring my alter ego back! Can't wait ❤ But hey at least I can share my nin equipment 😅 And I'm so curious about the caster job. I didn't play all FF games so pictomancer sounds weird for me but I like surprises 😎 Puppetmaster/Beastmaster would also be nice but we will see soon. Only 2 more months ❤

Threre's that gag in DBZA where Trunks catches Krilin making the "pew" noises for their beam attacks. I feel like Viper is a similar sorta vibe, I do not care how good the sound design is, I am going to be making the lightsaber swooshes.

I'm in the opposite camp, I was really hoping for Corsair. Also similar to combat rogue in WoW, I was looking forward to the possible gambling mechanic Corsairs had to buff and support the group. I kind of figured it wouldn't happen, since they've stripped all that gambling aspect away from AST and sorely diminished that flavor, but part of me still hoped.

I did level a NIN to 90 and got the Shinobi Knives recently, I liked the questline even if most of it was unhinged lol. Viper seems like an upgrade to NiN, might even switch. But yeah I've decided to start Dawntrail with my Reaper and then try Viper once it's available to be unlocked.

Going out on a limb here, but for gameplay, I'm thinking it's gonna be a stance-dancer with four separate combos in their single target rotation. Two for the blade-staff, a gauge spender and a buff, and two for the dual swords- a builder and the other buff. The buttons swap automatically when you change stance. We'll say you have an offGCD you can use to swap that does no damage but has something like a 15 second cooldown, and if you're trying to swap while that's on cooldown, you have a GCD version (that either does pitiful damage with no cooldown, or a lot of damage with a long CD). Add in one offGCD for each that either builds gauge or is straight damage respectively, a venom coating personal damage buff, their weird glowy phase they'll probably get at 90 or 100, and perhaps a Direct Hit raid buff applied to the boss, and we have a cool rotation that really plays off the job fantasy. Throw in a gapcloser, a defensive of some flavor, your AoE toolkit, and the role actions, and that adds up to about 30 hotbar slots needed, depending on how far they compress the combo buttons. Not absurdly complex compared to the other melee, and definitely feels different, but not unrecognizable.

In my opinion the reveal video just looked like it could've been new ninja moves. Just like reaper should've just been new dark knight moves. Both just seem like they took the spot of much cooler more interesting classes and overlap too much with existing classes. But that's just my opinion after all.

I like the idea of a Geomancer (Green Mage).

I was saying that FFXIV was missing a DPS sword-wielder (preferably dual wielder) since Heavensward. Now that they finally covered all bases, I'm actually excited for innovative new classes, such as the new caster they're about to announce!

Hello fellow dual sword wielder aficionado! I think of the Witcher 3's Gerolt with the idea of dual swords. Though I have Cloud's hair it's going to look a bit off but I'm going to make it work somehow.

I am with you about the jump from Rogue to Ninja. I still played Ninja all the way to EW but I am stoked for Viper to get me back to Rogue.

Is gambler. That’s the job that’s missing 😊

Worst thing about Ninja is the Rabbit Hat of Shame. No other job has a 'Hey look. I fucked up my rotation' indicator. I have a feeling Viper will be like Reaper with dots; the sword-staff phase being equivalent to enshrouded. Other job will be green mage, but it might have a different name. Druid, maybe...

I feel you on the Rogue into Ninja transition, but at least that one is a reference to the job change in the original Final Fantasy game. Archer into Bard though, I have no idea wtf

Zepla will need a new ceiling when Viper comes out.

So stoked about viper. Loved this chaotic video hahah

My reaction was something along the lines of "ooooh, are we getting Corsair? That'd be cool, sword and gunplay. Oh, it's dual blades? Ehh, well there's still green maaaaaIS THAT A DOUBLE BLADED SWORD!? I'm playing this! I'm maining this!"

As someone who was disappointed when rogues turned into ninjas, I am very happy to see the introduction of the Viper class. Even if it's a bog standard "build meter then spend" class, I'll love the glamour and style of it all (which is why I play anyway - the true end game).

That's how I feel about archer into bard like I love the bow class but then never got into bards it's crazy to only have bard as the next class

I would've preferred Corsair personally, more gun/sword style. First impression of viper seems a bit too reaper-ish, but maybe it won't be as much when we actually see some gameplay.

Thumbnail givin me lightsaber/star wars kid vibes i love it

Viper reminds me of Bladedancer, from Lineage II. I wish that Viper would use two weapons (one on main and the other on the sub weapon slot), so that we could glamour the two weapons independently (though I doubt it's gonna happen).

I think either Green mage or time mage will be the new caster, I am convinced that time mage would be a possibility because the Ninja turtles had a story arc called turtles in time, though Green mage is more believable because of the clover charm we saw in the MSQ and the turtles could be a hint to one of Green Mage's spells called "shell".

Lol how Zepla feels about Rogue turning Ninja, is how I feel about Archer turning Bard… Go from dealing with poacher problem to playing songs?

My goaah Yoshi-P with that badass pose and outfit ✨️

I personally wanted a magic-using twin blade user with maiming gear to make it distinct having another sword job, but this is ok too. I hope they're still waiting to reveal that it can use elemental magic, because at this stage, it doesn't really have that wow factor.