Dancer Job

[Kayo]

I don't think dancers will ever make it into ffxiv unless they find an equivalent for a male only gender locked job.

Why? Have you seen Bards? They didnt bother with a gender equivalent class there. In fact, they even left the gear design the same, down to the stiletto shoes.

[Skyhound]

I keep on seeing these "my favorite job in XI" posts. The thing is that I highly doubt that FFXIV's DNC will be anything like FFXI's DNC. I'm expecting it to be a dedicated Healer class that uses TP instead of MP. Maybe it will focus more on HP regen through the length of it's dances.

IIRC Minfillia is supposed to be a DNC and she uses a dagger when you're introduced to melding. I'm fairly certain DNC will be coming, just not the same jack of all trades from XI that everyone is expecting. Only a pur healer would make sense for XIV's armory system. Wouldn't be surprised if PUG was the secondary class with Mantra and Second Wind.

[Marael]

Well, SE painted themselves into a corner a bit by giving Daggers to Gladiator. Now, any job that classically uses Daggers (like THF) is going to have to have GLD as a base class, or else SE will need to provide some explanation as to why GLD can use THESE daggers but not THOSE daggers, and why THF/DNC/Whatever can use THOSE daggers but not THESE daggers.

It's a bit awkward.

SE could take an alternative route, since Dancers appear infrequently enough in FF lore that they aren't as tied to daggers as THFs are. They could be a hand-to-hand combatant based on PGL, or possibly give them an entirely new base class with a new weapon type (like whips).

Simple solution - GLD gets daggers, thief/dancer/whatever gets knives. Semantics, yes, but in FFXI daggers and knives were different classes of weapon, dancers could use knives, but not daggers. Also, in XI Dancer had reasonable hand to hand skill as well, so I could see them going that route too. Either way, I'm still interested to see how they would implement the job in this game, and what it's role in a party would be.

[Tonberriez]

This particular job is seriously crazy, if the wiki that describes this is anything to go by.

But, if it was announced that it was planned to be added to the game at some point - would YOU want to play that class?

as female, and wearing revealing attire. Dancers have been present as non-player characters in several early Final Fantasy games, and are usually shown in pubs. Dancers most often equip daggers, such as the Dancing Dagger, which is usually associated with the Dancer class. Their ability, Dance, performs one of several actions chosen at random, and their stats are some of the lowest of all classes. Some Dancers are capable of White Magic.
spells set, at 80.

Get out. Get out now.

[Luso]

I keep on seeing these "my favorite job in XI" posts. The thing is that I highly doubt that FFXIV's DNC will be anything like FFXI's DNC. I'm expecting it to be a dedicated Healer class that uses TP instead of MP. Maybe it will focus more on HP regen through the length of it's dances.

IIRC Minfillia is supposed to be a DNC and she uses a dagger when you're introduced to melding. I'm fairly certain DNC will be coming, just not the same jack of all trades from XI that everyone is expecting. Only a pur healer would make sense for XIV's armory system. Wouldn't be surprised if PUG was the secondary class with Mantra and Second Wind.

Thats fine. I'd still love to see the job/class in this game too.

[File2ish]

That's a joke right? As someone who played FFXI for almost ten years. Dancer broke FFXI,
It made NIN, WHM for BST and any other sub job you could think of, irrelevant.

loldnc. Worst job ever.

Worst job? I hope that's sarcasm. This is from someone who played FFXI for about 5 years (on and off, would skip some months for various reasons. RDM and DNC mains). Dancer itself was a good job, dealt pretty good damage (moreso after native dual wield), had pretty good heals on fairly long cooldowns, and was more solo friendly than many other jobs. /DNC overall was mainly for solo play or eventually for dual wield if you didn't level NIN and didn't have utsusemi. NIN/DNC was mainly for solo or if the NIN wasn't tanking or didn't have a dedicated healer in the party. And BST/DNC was a far better option for BST (they generally went solo anyway if memory serves) unless the particular mob had a really hard hitting AoE since DNC heals are TP based.

At least from what I remember, you'd almost never see a SAM/DNC or WAR/DNC or something outside of people using /DNC for a specific fight or were doing something without a dedicated healer.

If anything broke FFXI it was Abyssea.

[KyroeFelix]

At least from what I remember, you'd almost never see a SAM/DNC

I was SAM/DNC onry...And thf/dnc...

[File2ish]

I was SAM/DNC onry...And thf/dnc...

Maybe it was a server thing, and I'm certainly not saying nobody ever did /DNC on any jobs as a main subjob. I usually saw SAM/WAR (because WAR buffs made WS's insane I'm sure, coupled with self skillchains? haha) and THF/NIN =p I did see some people on those jobs /DNC running around Jeuno before Abyssea. After Aby and level cap increases came out I think /DNC became more of a mainstay for it's heals. Plus Samurai's TP skill was perfect for self heals, right? And you could put the steps and whatnot up.

And I don't remember, could you reverse flourish as /DNC? Was probably great for SAM.

That said, I usually ran around as RDM/DNC and DNC/WAR most of the time =p I went RDM/BLM (or WHM) only for 6 man parties or alliances of if I knew I'd need to warp a lot lol.

[Tonberriez]

Kinda joke, kinda serious lol.
Yes Aby did kill FFXI

[KyroeFelix]

-SNIP-

I only used sam/dnc during campaign lol or soloing (Soboro + /dnc = infinite heals). /war was definitely the way to go. You couldn't use reverse flourish when I played, but they may have changed that. I stopped playing shortly before the 99 cap and we didnt have access to it at that time. That would have been insane on SAM. Meditate - WS - Reverse Flourish - WS - WS. *goes home*

I doubt DNC will be anything like it's XI counterpart if they add it, but I would like to see where they take it.