Thief and Ninja!

I think a couple of the recent interviews mentioned this, and now we have it in the new Live Letter. I really love this idea, and it makes since because previous FF titles have sort of mixed and matched the roles of Thief and Ninja. I know its probably a long ways off (priority on more mage classes and pet classes first), but I cant wait for some THF/NIN goodness. And no I dont want them to be a tank class.

I would really like it to be fast attacking stealth DPS firstly. However, it definately should play a role in helping out with things like opening locked doors in dungeons or opening locked chests and what not. A steal ability would be nice as well, and though not necessary, I wouldnt mind it having a Treasure Hunter effect either. Then by making the Job for thief be Ninja they could introduce a broader aspect to the class. Like maybe it could add on to stealth DPS with enfeebling/crowd control measures (sleep/stun/bind/etc. and slow/paralyze/poison/etc).

Whatever the case I am all over this. Class = THF, Job = NIN, yes please.

Yea it was a cool find. I hope New classes come fast cause i think its already a year away from the new mage classes and pet classes.

thief needs steal. its not a thief if it don't steal

Yes please, ninja & thief !!

Dual-Wield, Mug, Coin-flip (luck based), hide, treasure digging?

Thief shouldn't be a class. Classes = weapon, while Jobs = Role. Thief should be the secondary job that Gladiator unlocks since gladiator has daggers as well as the soon to be implemented dual weild trait. It makes more sense if Parivir was the Katana weilding class, and Ninja as well as Samurai are the unlockable jobs to that class.

Ninjas can have ninjutsu, and dual weild mastery.

Samurais can unlock defensive and offensive auras through weapons. Samurais should also have the double hand trait to hold the Katana with both hands to maximize striking.

I think a lot of people who used to enjoy playing NIN want an evasion tank of some kind because pug is not great for it right now. Personally idm whether it's NIN or what but eva tank was always my fav in ffxi. Learning what they did from ffxi NINs it could be a lot more fun to play aswell, rather than just relying on Utsusemi.

Gladiator to THief? Lol no thanks.

Its not hard to implement a new smaller blades for a new class. Thief could always use Stiletto Blades. Thief > Ninja makes sense, Gladiator > Thief = wtf?

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Originally Posted by Engineer

Thief shouldn't be a class. Classes = weapon, while Jobs = Role. Thief should be the secondary job that Gladiator unlocks since gladiator has daggers as well as the soon to be implemented dual weild trait. It makes more sense if Parivir was the Katana weilding class, and Ninja as well as Samurai are the unlockable jobs to that class.

Ninjas can have ninjutsu, and dual weild mastery.

Samurais can unlock defensive and offensive auras through weapons. Samurais should also have the double hand trait to hold the Katana with both hands to maximize striking.

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i disagree. thief should be a class. the dagger should be moved so only the thief class can use it.

That is good to hear that they mentioned Thief again. I really think it was weird to not have a Thief class in a mainline Final Fantasy game.

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Originally Posted by Vesper

Gladiator to THief? Lol no thanks.

Its not hard to implement a new smaller blades for a new class. Thief could always use Stiletto Blades. Thief > Ninja makes sense, Gladiator > Thief = wtf?

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Maybe they could even use a tantō or kunai as their main weapons.