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Getting Started

Welcome to the Viper guide! This resource is designed to assist you in mastering the Viper job in Final Fantasy XIV, providing core strategies, essential tips, and a detailed breakdown of your rotation.

Note: This guide isn't focused on advanced dungeons, trials, or raids; those will be left to their own specific guides. Instead, this guide introduces some foundational strategies for your job in FFXIV.

The goal is to help you grasp the mindset behind your job and to offer some useful approaches as you level.

Video Resources

These video resources from experienced players and content creators will provide additional perspectives on the Viper playstyle.

Gear Recommendations

Keeping your equipment up-to-date is crucial. Insufficient gear can hinder your damage output/healing/survivability. Aim to have gear that matches your current level or is only slightly lower.

While progressing through the Main Scenario Quest (MSQ), you will frequently acquire gear upgrades and coffers to keep your setup competitive.

For leveling outside the MSQ, gear can be obtained through vendors (using Gil), the Market Board, or by trading Tomestones and Poetics earned through roulettes and other activities.

Gear Recommendations by Key Levels:

Leveling Tips

This sections is for helping you understand how to level an alt job. If you are still doing MSQ this section can also help you catch up another job todo the MSQ with.

Before getting started it is good to make sure you have EXP buffs on. Some come from gear while others come from food or FC or being Rested.

Gear That Increases EXP Gain:

Gear Name EXP Buff Obtained From
Moogle Cap 20% level 10 and below Pre Ordering ARR
Helm of Light 20% level 10 and below ARR Collectors Edition
Friendship Circlet 20% level 25 and below Recruit a Friend Campaign
Brand-New Ring 30% level 30 and below Hall of Noivce
Ala Mhigan Earring 30% level 50 and below Pre Ordering Stormblood
Aetheryte Earring 30% level 70 and below Pre Ordering Shadowbringer
Menphina Earring 30% level 80 and below Pre Ordering Endwalker
Azeyma Earring 30% level 90 and below Pre Ordering Dawntrail

Other EXP Buffs

Food

Make sure to always have a Food buff up whiel leveling. Food Buff gives 3% increase to EXP and is very easy to obtain. I recommend buying Boiled Eggs from a merchant to use for the EXP Since they are cheap.

FC Buff

If you are not a trial player, you have the option to join or create and FC (Free Company). Free Companies are FFXIV's version of Guilds. An FC has the ability to have different Active buffs. Having Either Heat of Battle II or Heat of Battle III active will increase your EXP gained by 10% or 15%

Rested EXP

Make sure you are taking breaks! By taking breaks from the game and logging out in a safe zone with an Aetheryte or Inn you will get Rested EXP. You can store up to one and half levels worth of Rested EXP and you increase your EXP gained by 50% for all monster kills.

How to Level

If you job starts at level 1 the best way to level up is to do Fates and your Hunt Log.

Once you reach level 15 you can start doing dungeons! Running the highest level dungeon available to you is the fastest way to level up.

Dungeons List

Duty Level Range Unlocked Via
A Realm Reborn
Sastasha 15-18 It's Probably Pirates
The Tam-Tara Deepcroft 16-19 Fire in the Gloom
Copperbell Mines 17-20 Into a Copper Hell
Halatali 20-23 Hallo Halatali
The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak 24-27 Into the Beast's Maw
Haukke Manor 28-31 Skeletons in Her Closet
Brayflox's Longstop 32-34 The Things We Do for Cheese
The Sunken Temple of Qarn 35-37 Braving New Depths
Cutter's Cry 38-40 Dishonor Before Death
The Stone Vigil 41-43 In Pursuit of the Past
Dzemael Darkhold 44-46 Fort of Fear
The Aurum Vale 47-49 Going for Gold
Heavensward
The Dusk Vigil 51-52 For All the Nights to Come
Sohm Al 53-54 Mourn in Passing
The Aery 55-56 Into the Aery
The Vault 57-58 A Knight's Calling
The Great Gubal Library 59 Forbidden Knowledge
Stormblood
The Sirensong Sea 61-62 Not without Incident
Shisui of the Violet Tides 63-64 The Palace of Lost Souls
Bardam's Mettle 65-66 In the Footsteps of Bardam the Brave
Doma Castle 67-68 The Die Is Cast
Castrum Abania 69 The Price of Freedom
Shadowbringers
Holminster Switch 71-72 The Lightwardens
Dohn Mheg 73-74 The Key to the Castle
The Qitana Ravel 75-76 The Burden of Knowledge
Malikah's Well 77-78 A Fresh Start
Mt. Gulg 79 Extinguishing the Last Light
Endwalker
The Tower of Zot 81-82 In the Dark of the Tower
The Tower of Babil 83-84 Gateway of the Gods
Vanaspati 85-86 Skies Aflame
Ktisis Hyperboreia 87-88 Caging the Messenger
The Aitiascope 89 Her Children, One and All
Dawntrail
Ihuykatumu 91-92 For All Turali
Worqor Zormor 93-94 The High Luminary
The Skydeep Cenote 95-96 Road to the Golden City
Vanguard 97-98 All Aboard
Origenics 99 The Resilient Son

Duty Roulette

Everyday you can do your Duty Roulettes for a large chunk of EXP.

Roulette Min. Level Req.
High Level Dungeons 50
Leveling 15
Trials 50
Main Scenario 50
Normal Raids 60
Alliance Raids 50
Frontline 30

Wondrous Tails

The Wondrous Tails are one of if not the best weekly EXP you can get. No matter what level you are you will always get half of a level upon turning in the book.

Speak with the NPC Khloe Aliapoh in Idyllshire (X:5.7, Y:6.1) to receive a book

Once you have your book make sure to complete 9 of the task and then turn the book back end at the end of the week or when you get your job to half a level before levelcap to min max your EXP gain!

Tips

Viper is a unique job with a strong focus on positioning and maximizing damage. This is achieved through its various stance-based abilities and venom effects.

Leveling Rotations

Single Target Rotation

The main goal of your single target rotation is to maximize your damage output by utilizing your venom effects and stance bonuses effectively.

  • Begin by landing Steel Fangs to gain Honed Reavers, which increases the potency of Reaving Fangs.

  • Follow with Reaving Fangs to gain Honed Steel, which increases the potency of Steel Fangs.

  • Continue cycling between Steel Fangs and Reaving Fangs, maintaining the buffs for maximum potency.

  • When available, utilize Serpent's Tail to unleash powerful attacks like Death Rattle, which can significantly boost your damage output.

  • Once you have enough Serpent Offerings Gauge, use Reawaken to unleash a burst of damage and gain more Anguine Tribute stacks for future attacks.

  • Use your Vicewinder charges to execute Hunter's Coil or Swiftskin's Coil, further boosting your potency and generating Serpent Offerings Gauge.

  • Continue to cycle between your high potency weaponskills and abilities, maintaining your buffs and utilizing your positioning to maximize damage output.

Multi-Target Rotation

When facing multiple targets, your goal is to distribute damage evenly across the group while still prioritizing your venom effects.

  • Use Steel Maw or Reaving Maw to apply initial damage and venom effects to multiple enemies.

  • Utilize your Slither ability to reposition and maximize your damage output by flanking or attacking from the rear.

  • Prioritize high potency abilities that deal damage to all enemies in the area, like Bloodied Maw or Jagged Maw, while maintaining your venom effects.

  • Utilize Uncoiled Fury to deal significant damage to the first enemy in the area, as well as a decent amount of damage to surrounding targets.

  • Build Serpent Offerings Gauge and use Reawaken to unleash a powerful burst of AoE damage.

  • Utilize your Vicewinder charges to execute Vicepit, dealing high AoE damage and generating Serpent Offerings Gauge.

  • Continue cycling between your high potency AoE weaponskills and abilities, maintaining your venom effects and maximizing damage output across the group.