4th job Single Target DPS

Invulnerability frames?

We still have them.

Control?

This class still requires a good amount of it.

What the hell? Have you even seen a Viper after Big Bang? You just sit there and spam Demolition. That's ALL you do. In fact, that's all you did before Big Bang, with the exception where you used Dragon Strike + Fists or Screw Punch + Fists when Super Transform was over.

Sooo...nothing's changed then.

Time Leap isn't needed... It never was, really. If the people in your party know how to play, they won't die, unless you're at a stupid-hard boss that does over 10k per hit.

Resurrection isn't the only skill with a cooldown.

Survivability after Big Bang is abundant for all classes.

Doesn't mean people don't die...

These "invulnerability frames" are gone. We can't do what we did before Big Bang, because we've lost that ability.

Why would we want to? Dragon strike is spammable. We have no reason to use invincibility frames for the sake of dragon dancing, but we can still avoid attacks with them.

The most you can get without probably being weaker than a Bishop (considering only morons would go for more than level 1 Fists) is to spam Demolition over and over, and in which case, you have a pretty wide gap at the end of the animation in which you're stuck vulnerable, without the ability to move or anything.

Where in most cases nothing fatal hits you anyway.

Being the weakest class just makes us look at that much worse. It has NOTHING to do with control, it has NOTHING to do with the way the character is played... All you do is sit there, on your ass, in ONE SPOT, spamming Demolition for three minutes at a time. That's a Viper's BEST damage per minute path and that's not even close enough to compare with the rest of the classes.

Bossing after big bang isn't about control. Bossing before big bang wasn't even about control. Bossing =/= control and it never did. It was all in training, where the control is STILL PRESENT.

I don't care what you say... If two people were to play two different characters, one as a Viper and one as any other class, and both had perfectly equal funding, the other class would kill the target way faster than the Viper, even if that person had terrible "control" and the Viper had "godly control." DPS is all that matters anymore and Vipers don't have it. The only time we're remotely useful is if people in the party have never played the game before and die a bunch of times, or if any Battle Mages are no where to be found. If neither of those conditions meet up, we're a useless class SOLELY because our DPS is the worst in the game. There's nothing else to it.

I'm not really seeing where this whole "battle mages are always better to have than a bucc" thing is coming from. It isn't true at all and i haven't seen a single battle mage at a major bossing party yet. (though maybe because there aren't many cases where bossing parties are gathered nowadays) Besides, who wants to compare adventurers to the resistance?