So, is that a dagger? (In the new concept art.)

It looks like Blm ifrit weapon. It even has the red streaks, the head is blocking the crystal part. I only say it because isee the monk with the titan weapon.

blm and whm can both use shields, and we know levi drops a caster one hand. so that's a possibility. the fact that they are wearing a skirt/dress makes me think whm.

if there was a new class coming in 2.2 they would have announced it. give it up

I am laughing at everyone who said "It's the WHM" when the WHM is clearly on the bottom right of the picture.

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Originally Posted by ErnestoGiovanni

I only say it because isee the monk with the titan weapon.

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That's not a Titan weapon;

http://xivdb.com/?item/1743/Avengers

http://i.imgur.com/MJqeQQH.png

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Originally Posted by Balfreid

I am laughing at everyone who said "It's the WHM" when the WHM is clearly on the bottom right of the picture.

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Well, I'm laughing at everyone who says it's a thief when they're wearing Caster only gear (Vanya Healing/Caster Breeches and Acolyte Boots).

No-one is saying it's "THE" white mage, but that it might be "A" white mage.
So it could either be a WHM or a BLM based on the gear. (Take your pick, I went for WHM just /because why not/)

And since when did you do a primal fight with one healer? More than one white-mage is very common.

Please consider the following post;

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Originally Posted by Shioban

Sorry but it's not a thief, or a bard, or a gladiator.
It appears to be a Conjurer and or Thaumaturge.

Here you go;

http://i.imgur.com/t9tjWS7.jpg


"BUT THE POSE OF THE WEAPON"

This is concept art, no-one in this image is holding their weapon the same as they do in-game, so it's perfectly acceptable to change it up.




Also, it's a female Miqo'te. As due to the skirt, and female version of the boots, and the feminine shape. And the breasts.

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Originally Posted by Shioban

Well, I'm laughing at everyone who says it's a thief when they're wearing Caster only gear (Vanya Healing/Caster Breeches and Acolyte Boots).

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Are there more than one pair of acolyte's boots or something? mine are thigh boots.

I know alot of people bring up that lack of bowstring but looking at the bow in Gerolts master works as well as the arabian gear set for Bards. It looks like it could just be a Bard with the bowstring missing/obscured.

Who the hell knows really.

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Originally Posted by Admiral-Bulldog

so nobody realise in 2.2 trailer 7:09 dagger user :3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zueQqbWhZeo

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That Thancred can use daggers as a gladiator is not new

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Originally Posted by AyaneKiwara

Are there more than one pair of acolyte's boots or something? mine are thigh boots.

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http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...6.png~original

Looks like the top half of the acolyte boots, or maybe it's the skirt?
I'm not 100% sure sorry, it could be an artists rendition of the acolyte skirt-ending?

thats a wand...

I am lmao at all the people saying it's a mage outfit. It's like nobody watched the 2.2 trailer or something. That is clearly a male cat DRG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zueQqbWhZeo&t=2m9s

Keep your eye on the lower right corner of the video. A DRG can be clearly seen popping out shoryuken while clad in a frilly skirt + pants getup.

As for the weapon, it looks very much like the business end of the Gae Bolg Zenith being held pointed down and at an odd angle making it appear short to the viewer. DRGs do this all the time (before and after a jump). And DRG has attacks in which the lance is held with 1 hand, though this particular DRG does not appear to be in the middle of an attack, it is for dramatic effect.

The only fairness I'll give SE is that, when it comes to ARR they give so little info until is VERY close to patch time that people will speculate on every detail due to that fact.

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Originally Posted by Cubnorris

I am lmao at all the people saying it's a mage outfit. It's like nobody watched the 2.2 trailer or something. That is clearly a male cat DRG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zueQqbWhZeo&t=2m9s

Keep your eye on the lower right corner of the video. A DRG can be clearly seen popping out shoryuken while clad in a frilly skirt + pants getup.

As for the weapon, it looks very much like the business end of the Gae Bolg Zenith being held pointed down and at an odd angle making it appear short to the viewer. DRGs do this all the time (before and after a jump). And DRG has attacks in which the lance is held with 1 hand, though this particular DRG does not appear to be in the middle of an attack, it is for dramatic effect.

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There is already a DRG in the art work and SE don't usually have duplicate jobs when they show off parties, in game or artwork.

I don't think it's far fetched that a new job would be included with 2.2. YoshiP himself said that jobs would be included outside of paid expansions so everyone could try them out.
Also it's been 6/7months since release so you'd think the battle/ job team would be up to something.

Looks like a dagger to me. Dragoon in trailer wearing the same armor? All that tells me is "This armor isn't unique to one Job".

Thief/Ninja Confirmed though? Nope. Would need to see AF to think that.

Btw that top the miqote is wearing is nothing like anything a caster wears. Otherwise I'd have it for my arcanist. What it does look like is the aetherial cotton tabard.

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Originally Posted by Linadae

Btw that top the miqote is wearing is nothing like anything a caster wears. Otherwise I'd have it for my arcanist. What it does look like is the aetherial cotton tabard.

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I meant it 'looks' like Caster Gear. Not that it was currently available.
I thought everyone would've thought i'd be assuming this was a new top/skirt coming in 2.2 seeing as this artwork (funnily enough) is for 2.2...

Still having difficulty believing that's a Male Miqote DRG though...just doesn't seem like it.

I deliberated with my FC about this a lot as well. That definitely looks like a dagger. If it was a bow, we'd still see it continuing past the rest of their body. Lance/staff would be the same. Just because that "appears" to be caster gear as well, doesn't mean that it is. Almost all of that gear in the picture looks different from gear in game currently. Also, Square only ever puts one of the same class/job in their promo art like this. So the fact that there are 8 characters, DRG, 2 staff (BLM/WHM), WAR, PLD, MNK and SCH, that leaves only BRD available in the current jobs/classes. That is definitely not a bow, if that were a bow I would want a refund on any gil/tomes I spent on it because it's clearly broken.

Alot of people keep saying this is concept art but it's not. This is promotional art and as such I highly doubt anything in the picture is done purely at the whim of the artist. It is obviously a dagger or sorts and given Thancred's new love of dual wielding it is compelling evidence of a thief/rouge class. That being said it doesn't mean we will get it anytime soon. A new class is an excellent way to generate interest and hype in players. While they did keep scholar under wraps till nearly release now that the game is out it would be better to start that buzz further out then drop it in our laps. SE could be keeping it hidden till the end but just seems more beneficial to talk about. Besides there's still musketeer which is referenced in the game already since 1.0. Would feel odd to get yet another class before it again.

Take a look at the bigger picture with the image.

They are an 8 player balanced party fighting Leviathan.

Based on established FFXIV balance logic and evident gear, we have:

2 tanks: 1 war, 1 pld
a mnk and a drg
likely 2 healers, at least 1 sch
2 others in cloth. 1 definitely a caster, the other equipped with what could easily be a cudgel.

You are perhaps looking too deeply into this, OP.

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

2 others in cloth. 1 definitely a caster, the other equipped with what could easily be a cudgel.

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There is no evidence to suggest that it is really caster gear for the "dagger" wielder, nor the fact that it is a cudgel. Looking at it, the way the shadows fall along it and the way that it's overall designed and held, there is a blade running along the outside edge of it, closest to the edge of the drawing, and the rest of it is flattened and not rounded out like a cudgel would be. It would be taking more of a cylindrical shape overall, which there is no graphic support for such.

That being said, the character is DEFINITELY wearing light armor gear, but due to the fact that the vast majority (if not all of) the gear shown in that art is gear not currently in the game, it's all speculation.

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Originally Posted by Cerat

I deliberated with my FC about this a lot as well. That definitely looks like a dagger. If it was a bow, we'd still see it continuing past the rest of their body. Lance/staff would be the same. Just because that "appears" to be caster gear as well, doesn't mean that it is. Almost all of that gear in the picture looks different from gear in game currently. Also, Square only ever puts one of the same class/job in their promo art like this. So the fact that there are 8 characters, DRG, 2 staff (BLM/WHM), WAR, PLD, MNK and SCH, that leaves only BRD available in the current jobs/classes. That is definitely not a bow, if that were a bow I would want a refund on any gil/tomes I spent on it because it's clearly broken.

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I agree :) I don't expect anything but would be a nice surprise, like when they hinted scholar. But anyways I look forward to 2.2

Let me take my stab at "reading into this to much". The gear looks reminiscent to something a Dancer would wear. DNCs use daggers and eventually get the passive Dual Wield. Thancred is showcased dual wielding daggers. So, DNC gear wearing looking character w/ a dagger and Thancred dual wielding....take that and run with it.

^ Omg I'd love it to be Dancer <3

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Originally Posted by Tarushade

Let me take my stab at "reading into this to much". The gear looks reminiscent to something a Dancer would wear. DNCs use daggers and eventually get the passive Dual Wield. Thancred is showcased dual wielding daggers. So, DNC gear wearing looking character w/ a dagger and Thancred dual wielding....take that and run with it.

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Dammit beaten to he punch I was literally just going to say dancer lol

Going with the idea that it's casting-looking gear the character in question is wearing, while acknowledging how similar that weapon looks to a dagger of some kind... On the off chance that they would add a class/job simply with a patch, I'm gonna throw RDM (Red Mage) on the table. In FFXI, one of RDM's main weapons was a dagger, in fact they were just as good with them as they were with swords, and could even equip the Relic dagger.

If it can be THF with mage-looking gear on, I think RDM is a good Possibility...

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Originally Posted by Knives

Going with the idea that it's casting-looking gear the character in question is wearing, while acknowledging how similar that weapon looks to a dagger of some kind... On the off chance that they would add a class/job simply with a patch, I'm gonna throw RDM (Red Mage) on the table. In FFXI, one of RDM's main weapons was a dagger, in fact they were just as good with them as they were with swords, and could even equip the Relic dagger.

If it can be THF with mage-looking gear on, I think RDM is a good Possibility...

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Not sure if we'd see RDM this early as yoshiP said it would be hard work to balance. Also he wants to add hybrid jobs so I can see RDM coming from BLM/WHM as base jobs when we get level cap increase. That's all theory though.

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Originally Posted by Kule

Not sure if we'd see RDM this early as yoshiP said it would be hard work to balance. Also he wants to add hybrid jobs so I can see RDM coming from BLM/WHM as base jobs when we get level cap increase. That's all theory though.

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True. I also feel like I remember him saying something about not wanting to add any classes or jobs altogether until the first expansion rolls out with version 3.0... could be wrong though. Maybe they're trying to sandbag us... >.,>

where is the musketeer in that -.-

ill tell you what it is...

ITS A TRAP!

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Originally Posted by Nama

Alot of people keep saying this is concept art but it's not. This is promotional art and as such I highly doubt anything in the picture is done purely at the whim of the artist.

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Definitely your first FF game if you don't know by now that a lot of promotional artwork SE releases are usually just stylization.

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Originally Posted by Pomelo

^ Omg I'd love it to be Dancer <3

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Out of all the jobs they could of added they had to add Dancer...

Now thats its Dancer Job hopefully its only apart of the GLA class tree of jobs.
Hopefully GLA gets few more new dps attacks that are dagger based.

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Originally Posted by hamsteak

during beta, this image http://www.finalfantasy.net/wp-conte.../wallpaper.jpg

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This is slightly off topic, but does anyone else see the whip holding female miqote near the warrior and monk? <.<

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Originally Posted by Farah

This is slightly off topic, but does anyone else see the whip holding female miqote near the warrior and monk? <.<

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I noticed that too. BST here we come!

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Originally Posted by Farah

This is slightly off topic, but does anyone else see the whip holding female miqote near the warrior and monk? <.<

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the "whip" is part of the monk head piece

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Originally Posted by Kantide

I noticed that too. BST here we come!

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I would be so freaking happy if they added it.

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Originally Posted by Hysterior

the "whip" is part of the monk head piece

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That is too long to be the headpiece. I wear it all the time in game and that doesn't look right.

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Originally Posted by Farah

This is slightly off topic, but does anyone else see the whip holding female miqote near the warrior and monk? <.<

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Also, while were on this picture... Isn't this Ingus from Final Fantasy III!!!! Ingus to be playable class!!!

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0...203-no/arc.JPG
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...75px-Ingus.jpg

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Originally Posted by Hysterior

the "whip" is part of the monk head piece

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It's definitely a whip. Take a look where her hands are grasping it right under the monks feather.

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Originally Posted by Farah

That is too long to be the headpiece. I wear it all the time in game and that doesn't look right.

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Originally Posted by Kantide

It's definitely a whip. Take a look where her hands are grasping it right under the monks feather.

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http://www.videogamesartwork.com/sit..._monk_hyur.jpg

Now look your picture again
http://cdn.dualshockers.com/wp-conte...V_JP_Cover.jpg
the whip IS the monk part

See it now?

It's definitely part of the monk AF. It goes over the axe meaning it's in the foreground and it isn't the lower opacity that the background characters are.

If you look, the 'whip' isn't greyed out like the other background people. Also, no background people have weapons.

OP, as far as the picture you posted of 'not a bow'; the bard relic now folds in half when not drawn and stays folded until fully out and ready for use. Maybe that's what you're seeing.

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Originally Posted by Hysterior

the whip IS the monk part

See it now?

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Your other image isn't showing,but i get your point. Saying it is just an over-emphasized feather piece. It just looks like the miqote is gripping it though, which makes it look like a whip. She is gripping something.