User blog comment:Viper 121/Viper, the RP Character!/@comment-31081547-20130925100818/@comment-5299683-20130929042828

Oh, Viper's got no problems with killing voracious monsters if they come looking for trouble. Same goes for Ilias Kreuz, if they try to bomb another Mermaid Pub. Still, it's never his first answer for everything. You have to mess up pretty badly if Viper shooting to kill you.

Anyway, I guess Dread could work the way he is. The lengthy cooldown time between transformations helps even things out. Works for me.