Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
The THF>NIN model that we THF-as-class people follow still fulfills the archetype of the "dagger-wielding/rogue-type" just as well as the ROG>THF model so you can't really draw any conclusions concerning Yoshi's position on the job/class dichotomy from that statement.
And again, I can picture a mass of pissed off people if it comes to be that THF will be a class and NIN would be a job built off it. Garnering negative reactions by denying people something they wanted is not a good idea. This isn't like cannoneer, necromancer or puppetmaster that appeared less than a handful of times in the whole series. We're talking about one of the mainstay jobs and one of the starter Final Fantasy jobs, to boot.
It's less about perfect parity and more about realizing that "crapton of DPS jobs and very few tanks/healers" is a really bad way to set up class selection for roles. I firmly believe that one of the major reasons that tanks and healers are so rare in *every* game is because the options are so slim compared to DPS;
People don't roll tank or heals because it is a lot of responsibility, and most people aren't up for that.

Options -or lack thereof- may have a hand in it, but it isn't the sole reason behind people wanting to DPS.