If Thief becomes a new job...

[Nahara]

I'm honestly not sure what the point of a Stealth ability would be for any kind of THF/NIN-ish job. The reason Disciples of the Land get it is to avoid combat with things that will very easily kill them, even at Lv50. A Lv50 THF/NIN doesn't need that, because they can much more easily just kill whatever tries to attack them.

I could see the point in Stealth/Vanish/whatever being something like Shroud of Saints or Elusive Jump, a threat dump (with some temporary invisibility effects), but not a "permenant-until-entering-combat sneak around completely undetected" ability.

[Zoeila]

I'm honestly not sure what the point of a Stealth ability would be for any kind of THF/NIN-ish job. The reason Disciples of the Land get it is to avoid combat with things that will very easily kill them, even at Lv50. A Lv50 THF/NIN doesn't need that, because they can much more easily just kill whatever tries to attack them.

I could see the point in Stealth/Vanish/whatever being something like Shroud of Saints or Elusive Jump, a threat dump (with some temporary invisibility effects), but not a "permenant-until-entering-combat sneak around completely undetected" ability.

in FFXI Hide removed the positional requirement from sneak attack. so say if a mnk could crossclass hide they could use it then bootshine a mob from the front and still get the crit.