KMST 1.2.409 - Thief/Pirate Revamp

I have no idea why you think barrage is "essential at bosses"

Obviously you've never been to a real boss. PB never attacks. Empress is forced into KB and therefore doesn't attack as much. Extremely valuable.

my squad doesn't need barrage at any of the bosses i've gone too. (which is just short of cygnus at the moment)

Neither did mine. Until i started using it. Now they love it.

eg: i am horrible at van leon, my first solo attempt brought him down to 10% before running out of time, each time i died i lost my super transformation. a czak solo is nigh impossible since every seduce that kills you means you are without super transformation.

Von leon is horrible.

Czak is pretty worthless once you have the only reward he gives.

so far, barrage as it is , is currently pointless at any boss I've been too, corkscrew blow is far more effective.
at present, for me, the only reason to use barrage is out of super transformation, where barrage+dragonstrike macro does deal more damage than a pure dragonstrike combo (at least the last time i tested it pre bigbang),

Sounds like you need to broaden your horizons. Take a second look at the class. You might find it a lot more interesting.

yes. timeleap is pretty much unnecessary now since the pb/cht runs i am in doesn't even bother with bishops/ress and are down in 30 mins or less,

I use it for resetting dice rolls or if i need xform. Pretty handy.

the task for vipers at least in my world is strictly damage dealing. thus doubling dps will certainly make (at least where I am concerned) vipers more effective.

Wow. Sounds like a s'hitty world when buccs are used for damage. I guess every other class around you is just naked.

in otherwords, I am very pleased with the changes to vipers, other than the fact i will miss using snatch at pvp. if only they made energy blast have the effect of snatch at pvp. it would be wonderful. (yes, it should be made into a tractor beam)

In a world when i'm a DPS class, i'm sure i would be content with that surface change. Too bad we do things a little differently, where the surface changes made here completely overwrite the deep concepts that made buccs able to survive for this long with no revamp. The same concepts that would have made the class post-revamp, had they actually preserved them.