Vipersight and Serpent Offerings Gauge

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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.png  Continuation.

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

Vipersight Gauge

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Viper engages enemies mainly through the use of three-step combos, their primary combos beginning with either Steel Fangs.png  Steel Fangs or Reaving Fangs.png  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. Following these indicators will help ensure the use of combos that finish with a strengthened attack.

Vipersight gauge2.png Upon learning the trait Viper's Rattle.png  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.png  Uncoiled Fury.
Vipersight gauge3.png Upon learning the trait Enhanced Viper's Rattle.png  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 simple mode1.png Vipersight Indicator

Vipersight simple mode2.png Rattling Coil

Serpent Offerings Gauge

Serpent offerings1.png

Upon learning the trait Serpent's Lineage.png  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.png  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.

Serpent offerings2.png

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

Simple Mode

Serpent offerings simple mode1.png Normal

Serpent offerings simple mode2.png Reawaken