Viper Made EASY! Viper Guide! [FFXIV 7.0 Dawntrail] 

Finally got past the queue, many people asked for a clean straight forward viper guide with no frills/gimmiskc/ in depth explanation they just wanted to get in and play ivper with as few "what the heck is a flanksbane sting?" as possible. Enjoy!

3:18 if skill icon is green it's from flank if it's red it's from the back

That job gauge is the single most useless job gauge they have ever made. Just press the buttons that light up on your hotbar...

i couldnt wrap my head around picto so im glad they added a job where all you do is hit the glowy buttons. perfect for a single celled organism like me.

Took "Follow the Swords" too literal, I am now part of a wild pack of Swords.

The easiest way to go about Flanks and Hinds is that you can see what buff you have from the previous 1-2-3 combo. If it's green = flank, if it's red = rear. And that's pretty much it. I think that's much simplier than looking at the sword bar.

*cries in cross hotbar~

There are a few comprehensive guides on this job already on RU-vid, but to be honest it really helps seeing someone slowly go over each of the abilities and show them in real time instead of just talking over pre recorded gameplay of them doing the combos perfectly. This has helped the class really click with me, thanks man!

Rather than memorizing the name of the position, go by the icon color. The green icons are flank, red is rear.

The sword gauge would be so much more useful if it it changed color based on which positional I still gotta look at the hot bar for that

As a lot of people seem to be saying, I've been going off the color because I just couldn't make sense of the sword gauge. Thanks for explaining it clearly and concisely! Hopefully it will help me to not just stare at my buttons trying to figure out which color I'm on.

Easy Viper tips: - combo stage 1: only reapply the buff at 20 seconds or less, otherwise go for the damage - combo stage 2: just alternate these to keep both buffs up - combo stage 3: press the glowing one. Always alternates from flank to rear and vice versa. As the video states a "1" leads to a flank and a "2" leads to a rear. If you're unsure, red button = rear, green button = flank. - always keep a charge of dreadwinder available. If your debuff falls off or you start a fight mid combo this gets your debuff rolling again. Also use this if you can't hit positionals but can get melee range.

Dude, keep kicking ass and making them videos!

Sorry for the noob question, but why would we use Dread Maul, when Dreadwinder does the same (give noxious Nash) but deals much more damage? But the time we need to reapply, Dreadwinder will be off cool down to cast again…

What’s the purpose of having two flanks and two hinds as 3rd step in 1-2-3? They both do the same thing…

Hi! I saw this build earlier and it helped a lot! I also think we did the level 95 dungeon together, I was the DRK lalafell "Kai Narukami" was fun to run a dungeon with you!

If you like Reaper it’s pretty much the same opener wise and combat wise it’s awesome and fast. Mostly keeping up buffs and making sure they are up and won’t fall before you burst with two reawakening

my only issue with the job gauge is it's inflexibility. . . . steel fangs is the most used ability, which for me means it's on the right side. However the job gauge shows it as the left side, making it basically unusable for me. AT least until they let us customize it a little bit (if they even do). Until then I just put an icon for steel/dread fangs around where I'd normally have the job gauge. Which is fine. Monk however isn't so fine, it's the same limitation but takes 6 icons on screen to handle what the job gauge does purely because I can't change the order. . . making monk basically unplayable for me until they change that. Most job gauges are fine, but when something starts correlating with a very specific skill sets in the core rotation . . then it needs customizability for people with hotkey setups that don't align with the order you got the skills in. It's probably equally as problematic for anyone who is left handed.

I don't use the sword job gauge at all myself. The abilities highlighting on the bar does the same job telling you which ability to use. As for positionals, I just look at the skills. Green is flank, red is rear. I have not once looked at the sword gauge when playing Viper. It's nice to have options though, some people may like the gauge, others such as myself will just look at the highlighted skills and their colour.

Easy way to remember this is red = back, green = side. If you look at your abilities like I do

Bless you for making this, I did Not have the spoons to read the absolute Dissertation that is console monk's tooltips 😭😭😂😂

Thanks for the guide! Sorry you’re having a rough time, it’ll get better! Just keep your head up!

Sending love I know how it feels I’m going through something similar myself I hope you are okay.

Which glamour set are you using for the thumbnail so awesome.

Nice guide! If I can offer one suggestion, consider referring to the combos as A-B-C rather than 1-2-3. Since you're already using 1 and 2 to refer to the button/action.

the viper rotation is so intuitive i got that rotation just by playing and trying without really melee experience etc. Its fun. Only 1 thing feels weird as if i need an ogcd in between. When i press dreadwinder and wanna go into hunters coil or the other, there is a moment of gcd where i cant do anything and the char just stands there till coil is rdy to press. Is there anything for in between? Same of course on the aoe versions. Also, is it a major difference to start with the swiftskin instead of hunter dmg wise? For some reason in my brain it feels wrong to start flank. xD I dont know why, triggers me! xD

The way I remembered flank/rear was... green = flank red = rear

It's weird that they brought back positionals on Viper after removing positionals on basically every class in the game. I dont see those staying.

So ... I actually have a macro for the single target rotation ... where you don't have to hit all these different buttons ... you can spam 2 or 3 buttons and the rotation magically works out just fine ... /macroerror /micon Twinblood /ac Twinblood /ac Swiftskin's Coil /ac Hunter's Den I'm always spamming the rotation anyway on the keyboard... but now it's only FOUR buttons... if you combine 3 of the abilities together that you'd use for AoE and ST combo's after the initial 1st GCD, it just works itself out ... I don't notice any delay either...

Where the heck is everyone getting green is flank and red is rear?!! I must be colorblind because when he gets the buff hunter's sting which is red he goes to the flank. Edit: Wait are you guys looking at the skill icon?!! Tf just look at the buff you get i.e: If you get the damage buff hunter's Instinct, the positional that follows will always be flank and vice versa.

Wouldn’t it be cool if there were like two different death rattle non gcds to play around with and make this look even faster

Should probably update this guide because you completely left out OGCD serpents tail

Easy rule for DPS - stick to the a$$ end of the target whenever possible. Never hurts and you're always in the right spot for any flank/rear hit. (And True North is your friend if you know you're out of position - but better to try and stay in the rear.) 😉🙃

If I get the hang of it it might replace samurai for me. Viper is more aesthetically pleasing.

This guide was kind’ve all over the place with no real explanation on how things mesh together and how the job should work. No hate or malding just imo

much like making guides when you havent cleared a fight making a guide for a class you don't have max level yet is asinine.

This job is weird in a bad way. It only looks good on lvl 90+

I'm currently leveling Picto, but plan on maining Viper until either: 1. the next expansion 2. I get bored of it and find a different job more fun whichever comes first

The job itself seems to play pretty straightforwardly. The tool tips, on the other hand, are some of the worst I've seen in game so far. They just seem so confusing. It's probably just my terrible reading comprehension and the fact I was reading them tired as heck from staying up late just to play at launch. But I was reading all the Viper skills and just sort of had a bank stare, like wtf am I reading right now.

this feels very reaper coded.

Clipping galore, basically...

I just don't understand how Sphene becomes the last trial robot thing

I thought Picto was gonna be more complex...it was way easier than Viper. I'm color blind and ironically I have an easier time understanding Picto compared to Viper. If there was an easier way to visually indicate positionals that would be so helpful

I'm sorry for coming in with a negative comment(not about your video) I HATE positionals... they feel like artificial unnecessary complexity... we have enough to worry about in a fight than to remember if we are flank or behind... and many fights(thank the twelve) you can't do positionals anyway cuz the boss is a giant mass that takes up one whole side of the stage. Anyway, thanks for this video... positionals make me sad... feels like a barrier to me enjoying melee classes.

I'm so upset about what my ex fiance did to me that I'm still unable to even bring myself to enjoy the MSQ. I'm so freaking hurt. I just can't see a path forward where I am loved or held or wanted again. At this point I'm doing eveyrthing OTHER THAN the MSQ... gosh I really am a ruined person. There's no escaping it is there? My life is ruined. It's all over I'll never be loved or held again.

Viper Made Easy tldr: Press the blinking button. Your positionals are color coded.(thats pretty much the only good thing coming out of this job) They somehow made the new hyped up job into the most boring thing to ever exist in any mmorpg. Sprinkles of MNK without that many positionals. Sprinkles of RPR because lets just go copy enshrouded and make it blue. Viper has 0 identity to it. No flavour. The sword gauge is utterly useless, it shows you nothing the skill icon doesnt tell you in a more clear way. And the anti button bloat mechanic is a big part of the problem i feel like. - No its not the most complex thing because u suddenly bind 6 keys instead of 2. But now youve ended up on a job pressing just the same button over and over again.