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Sorry, did you say "Monk"? I think you meant "Black belt", the hand-to-hand fighter from the first Final Fantasy.

The job names haven't been a part of the series so long. The skills yes, but the jobs? Not since FFV (or XI, lol). Nobody even hints at Yuna being a Summoner instead of, say, Evoker. Tidus could very well be a Gladiator, since he uses swords as well. When the class names aren't told us you can't say the names are same as before. They could be anything. Just because FFV used these names doesn't mean that it's not different in VI, VII, VIII, IX, X and XII. Only because your imagination tells you so doesn't make it true. There's nothing stopping Kimahri from being a Lancer (actually it's much closer to Lancer than Dragoon).

You bet Marauders can learn Flee and Steal.

Everything that SE has shown so far shows that classes won't be pigeon holed into single role. Just because everyone else fails at doing it doesn't mean that SE will. Have others even tried this sort of thing before? I doubt it. So far all we have are names, and frankly, they're a clear indicator that the classes won't be one trick ponies. Before SE shows us something else, it stays a fact.

The class names only indicate the weapon you're using. In Japanese version the class names are simply "Axe-user", "Lance-user", "Sword-user" and so on. The localization team seemed to have wanted to flesh out the names a bit more without taking away the meaning of the system. Gladius in greek means Sword, it makes sense to name sword user that. Lance = Lancer. Archery = Bows. Pugilist = Boxer. Only difference being the Axe-user Marauder.

But they could as well have only "Disciples of War" and different weapon types to choose from. However, they wanted to not stray away too much from the known path and decided to give some name to call the classes, if only for the sake of familiarity.

Illusionist has already been revealed before, however it's not showing on the website. What could Illusionist be? Enfeebler perhaps, but nothing is stopping it from being a healer, nuker or buffer as well. Thaumaturge's japanese name is "Curse-user", by the way, while Illusionist is "Illusion-user". Weird though, since Thaumaturge generally means "miracle maker". Another sign to point out that these classes can be anything you want them to be.

The only role expected of you is to use the weapon/magic type of the class. What you do with that weapon, is up to you.

Lots of jobs are hybrids, but They Aren't Treated As Such. While you can maybe become tank or DD as Monk or Paladin 0,001% of the time, 99,9% of the time you have your assigned role that you have to fulfill. Exceptions make the rule.

When you think of Paladin, you don't think about a sword using dark knight or damage dealing berserker, only a protector of the weak and all that mumbo jumbo. Gladiator can be any of those. Depends what skills you equip.

I know, I know, the names are hard to pronounce and write (it seems) so they're dumb. Monk and Thief are much easier for a simple mind to say, of course they're better.