[caca]

male human dancing in the back of the trailer? they look like fruit cakes, this update is going to be fun. i wonder if elvan will dance ugly like summoning animation.

[Tendael]

For the love of God SE, please show us a Mithra Dancer pic soon

[binahel]

O_O I was wondering why no mithra dancer pics has been shown...

[Diexna]

I'm having trouble thinking how tarus will play Dancers, how will the animations even work for them?

[Kleiner]

tarus will mostly.. waddle and twirl.

[Hiyoku.]

Dancer is a stupid job, they really needed to release a new tank.. not a stupid dancing creature. >_>

[Eldarias]

Hiyoku. :
Dancer is a stupid job, they really needed to release a new tank.. not a stupid dancing creature. >_>

How do you know they aren't? How do you know Dancer isn't a tank? You don't.

[Kurgen]

Dancer was never a tank in the past and will never be a tank in the future. Dancer being a tank is not only not traditional but fucking stupid. I for one wouldnt want to see micheal jackson tanking kirin

[Jski]

They say cats cant dance hehe. Dont put too much on what they show just go by the job description more then any thing. If it was for one rase or gender then it would make that point in the description on there web pages.

[Bahamut2000X]

Kurgen :
Ninja was never a tank in the past and will never be a tank in the future. Ninja being a tank is not only not traditional but fucking stupid.

Edited for historical accuracy on past job releases.

[MarieM]

the actual 2 tanking jobs are Warrior and Paladin. Yet warrior is a DD and ninja is a tank. It's all about what people CAN do with the jobnot so much what SE intends

[Metticus]

RDM is a tank job

[Yoona]

MarieM :
the actual 2 tanking jobs are Warrior and Paladin. Yet warrior is a DD and ninja is a tank. It's all about what people CAN do with the jobnot so much what SE intends

It doesn't matter what SE intends to do with the jobs its what we the players do with them that matters. Players saw NIN as a good tank and so SE adapted the job to suit that. I'm sure SE didn't intend for SMN to be a main healer when they released it. Thats why they don't release AF with the jobs when they're released. They wait to see what players do with the jobs, then they give stats based on how the jobs are being used.

[Clink]

Hiyoku. :
Dancer is a stupid job, they really needed to release a new tank.. not a stupid dancing creature. >_>

Bard was never a tank in the past either last i remember the BRD from FF4 was a sissy and ran away But yet in XI for a while they could tank due to Mazurka. And No dancer is not a stupid job its actually probably a solution to fill the " Where or where has my little brd gone?" situation. Also dancer just like everyother job in XI but PUP has originated from 1 game or another.

[Kyte]

Clink :

Hiyoku. :
Dancer is a stupid job, they really needed to release a new tank.. not a stupid dancing creature. >_>

Bard was never a tank in the past either last i remember the BRD from FF4 was a sissy and ran away But yet in XI for a while they could tank due to Mazurka. And No dancer is not a stupid job its actually probably a solution to fill the " Where or where has my little brd gone?" situation. Also dancer just like everyother job in XI but PUP has originated from 1 game or another.

Corsair was meant to be the solution to that problem. From the description that they give, I have my doubts as to whether or not they will be enhancers. In FFT, they were enfeeblers, but I might place my bets on it being a nuker in XI.

[SkyeRamuh]

Oh my god, I really hope Elvaans don't ever become Dancers. <_______< I'd imagine that Tarus would do a cute kind of dance, Humes a normal style, and Elvaans would try to be elegant and fail.



Mithra...pole dance.


Galka...let's not discuss that.

[Aleera]

Taken from an interview:

This might be hard to answer, but this is about the new jobs. Just what kind of job will they be?
Koichi: At the moment, we are thinking to create jobs that can fill in the high-demand roles(tank/refresh/things), but also opening new subjob options.

There are numerous jobs from the past FF series, will you be using those existing jobs? Or will there be new job like PUP?
Koichi: That depend on what the job does, and what role they would take in a battle. If the role is similar to one of the past, we might borrow a name or 2 from there.

How many new jobs are there?
Koichi: There will be..... more than 1.

Bolded the important parts. Just to show that the new jobs can take these roles, if we choose to play them that way. NIN, like aformentioned, was never intended to be a tank, but we play it that way. The way I see it is this: Dancer could become a tank for a number of reasons. A) They seem evasive. Their dances can create enmity as mentioned in their description. C) They cast debuffs and may have a "shadow dance" mentioned by someone in another post, which means they could possibly blink tank without the consumption of things like shihei, leaving their sub job open to /War or something else for tanking purposes.

If not then they might possibly be a DD/Debuffer/Possible refresher? They seem to almost have geomancer like abilities if those en-spells with the rose and thorns came from them. If anything I think Time mage will be the new 'refresh' job, giving hMP spells and haste, and maybe their own form of refresh. Who knows? We will in 2 months.


Note: I want a thing job. "(Tank/refresh/thing)"

[Clink]

I think for /thing i think they ment DamageDealer or another Mage type job lol SE was probably to neverous with their interview and it came out that way lol. Unless you can become a moogle then that would be pretty cool. lol MOGKNIGHT ftw.

[vifrague]

Clink :

Hiyoku. :

" Where or where has my little brd gone?"

Heh SE is slowly taking brds power away and im loving every minute of it.

[Undeadhunter]

vifrague :

Clink :

Hiyoku. :

" Where or where has my little brd gone?"

Heh SE is slowly taking brds power away and im loving every minute of it.

I remember people saying that before COR update too