Vipersight and Serpent Offerings Gauge

Official Lodestone Job Guide (Always up-to-date)

Viper uses twin blades to deal swift attacks against enemies. Their weapons can be joined to a single double-edged weapon for stronger attacks, which will also change their idle stance. Their rotation includes numerous off-global cooldown (oGCD) abilities, making it a relatively busy job. Viper's core rotation revolves around maintaining damage and haste-granting buffs on the user along with debuffs on the enemy, while using a sequence of weaponskills that define subsequent ones to use. Similar to samurai, viper does not have any party damage buffs, making it a "selfish DPS".

To limit button bloat, many of Viper's weaponskills are assigned to a single hotbar slot, and many of their oGCD attacks are condensed into a few buttons that change the available action depending on the context, similar to gunbreaker's   Continuation.

Vipersight and Serpent Offerings Gauge is Viper's Job Gauge.

Vipersight Gauge

Viper engages enemies mainly through the use of three-step combos, their primary combos beginning with either   Steel Fangs or   Reaving Fangs. The third step can end with one of several weaponskills, each of which grants an effect to strengthen a different combo-ending action. To reach these actions will require the use of specific combo routes.

The glow of Vipersight's blades correspond with the outlining of hotbar icons to indicate the next step in a combo. For example, upon executing Steel Fangs, the left blade of Vipersight will glow. Upon executing Reaving Fangs, the right blade of Vipersight will glow. Moreover, the color of the gauge will indicate the step of the combo you've reached. Following these indicators will help ensure the use of combos that finish with a strengthened attack.

Upon learning the trait   Viper's Rattle, the use of certain weaponskills will grant a Rattling Coil, up to a maximum of 2 stacks, indicated by Vipersight. Rattling Coils can be spent to execute   Uncoiled Fury.

Upon learning the trait   Enhanced Viper's Rattle, a third Rattling Coil can be stored. Rattling Coils are accumulated through the use of certain actions, and can be spent to execute Uncoiled Fury.

Simple Mode

Vipersight Indicator

Rattling Coil

Serpent Offerings Gauge

Upon learning the trait   Serpent's Lineage, the use of certain weaponskills in the execution of combos will serve to fill the Serpent Offerings Gauge. Once sufficient energy has been stored, you can activate   Reawaken, which will open the Anguine Tributes on the gauge. These tributes can be used to execute several special weaponskills unique to your reawakened state.

Upon learning the trait   Enhanced Serpent's Lineage, a fifth Anguine Tribute will be added to the gauge.

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Normal

Reawaken