Thief/Ninja looks to be Inbound

[ziddyt]

Regardless of what a SCH's role is, it is irrelevant to the fact that two jobs based on the same class can have vastly different skills.

[Exstal]

I'm sure they can. However not now and probably not in the near future.

[Kitru]

Regardless of what a SCH's role is, it is irrelevant to the fact that two jobs based on the same class can have vastly different skills.

Except that it's entirely appropriate to bring up role when discussing second jobs for a class. If SCH was a DPS role, it would play virtually identically to SMN because the two share so many abilities. The only reason that SCH plays differently than SMN is because SCH is a healer and SMN is a DPS. The only major difference in their personal attack options is that SMN has Fester (if SCH were DPS, it would actually have a DPS pet, so the role difference plays an even bigger part if you bring up pets), and the reason that SCH is so different is because it has more than just 1 heal, by necessity.

The same would be true of any new DPS job built off of ARC (or, in fact, any second job that has an identical role to an existing job for its class such as another tank for GLA or healer for CNJ) because jobs only bring 5 abilities whereas classes bring 17-18 abilities and 11 traits. Any theoretical second job for ARC would play so similarly to a BRD that it's pointless to create it, not to mention the balance concerns that would be required (BRD DPS would have to be decreased so that the new job isn't useless which means increasing their support capabilities which means adjusting content and composition to allow for the greater impact of "support").