Viper Bite
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- Skill level: 100 (Thief, Red Mage, Bard, Ranger, Dancer and Ninja exclusive.)
- Deals double damage and Poisons target. Duration of poison varies with TP.
- The above text given ingame is ambiguous. What it does in reality is double your current Attack for the weaponskill.
- Despite the animation showing two swings, this is a single-hit weapon skill.
- Will stack with Sneak Attack.
- Will stack with Trick Attack.
Properties
- Element: None
- Skillchain Properties:
Scission
- Modifiers: None
- Damage Multipliers by TP:
100%TP 200%TP 300%TP 1.00 1.00 1.00
Common Skillchain Usage
Viper Bite is the game's primary closer of Distortion from levels 33 to 59. Coupled with Sneak Attack and Trick Attack, a Thief's Viper Bite damage makes it the optimal choice for large Distortion chains.
Levels
- Viper Bite is only natively available to Thieves, Red Mages, Bards, Rangers, Dancers and Ninjas. While other jobs can obtain the required 100 Dagger skill, they must use one of the aforementioned jobs as their support job in order to gain access to Viper Bite.
- Dagger skill level 100 is obtainable by the following jobs at these corresponding levels:
Job Rating Level Thief A- 33 Corsair B+ 34 Dancer B+ 34 Red Mage B 34 Warrior B- 34 Bard B- 34 Ranger B- 34 Beastmaster C+ 35 Ninja C+ 35 Dark Knight C 35 Paladin C- 35 Puppetmaster C- 35 Black Mage D 37 Scholar D 37 Samurai E 40 Dragoon E 40 Summoner E 40
