Delay the Rogue/Ninja class till expansion.

[scarletfoxxy]

I do not agree they should delay but i agree it will be a crazy amount of nothing but ninjas. My honest beliefs are that ninja won't be the only class released. I'm sure more classes will come but regardless ANYTHING CALLED NINJA will get played out. i'll be honest and admit i'll be one of em.

[Seif]

Hey, remember when that online video game petition actually caused something to happen?








Neither do I.

Did not notice the word FORMAL in there? lol

[Moheeheeko]

Did not notice the word FORMAL in there? lol

made me spit my drink, you glorious bastard.

[Xmbei]

Did not notice the word FORMAL in there? lol

A thread on a forum is not a formal petition either.

[IzumiRaito]

By 2.4 there will be already enough solo levelling content to keep new rogues occupied while waiting for the long dungeon queues.

[Moheeheeko]

A thread on a forum is not a formal petition either.

did you just hear a loud WOOOOSH?

[Noshpan]

next time you have a thought.....just let it go.

I was going to make a more serious contribution, but your quote of Ron White made me laugh.

Okay, others have stated that the class/job ratio doesn't relate to what the players are actually playing. It's not that there are not enough tank/healing roles, it's more of a lack of players, well, playing them. Ranges can very from "boring" to "aesthetics" to "I'd rather not get the blame for something bad happening, even when it isn't my fault" or "Who wants to be patient with a new tank? Nobody. That's what I thought." You could fill this game to the brim with tank/healer roles and more players will flock to the damage-dealing roles.

Yeah. At first, we're probably going to see a lot of people at least unlocking Rogues once they are available. I know that I will, but I will most likely resume leveling Summoner/Scholar (after doing roulettes for tomes for my Black Mage/ Dragoon).

[Waterdeep]

While I think the notion the delay content is rather silly, I can see the game turning into Naruto: The Game for a bit.

Did you even look at all the stuff the NIN has? New running animation, new jumping animation, awesome battle stance, stealth mechanics and, as far as Yoshi told us, really interesting gameplay in regards to the mantras. I'll be looking forward to leveling my PLD during that time, hearding groups of Ninjas around dungeons, everyone trying to outsneak the other.

[Radacci]

They said they would increase level cap, when they add new jobs.
So, when they add Ninja, lv cap will go up...i'm guessing. So those that like to tank, will work on capping their tanks, those that like healing, will cap their healers.
There seems to be a lot of ppl that dont even like Ninja....and therefor won't even play it; only few ppl have capped all roles, and after lv cap goes up, it will take quite some time before ppl have all jobs capped.
I was in early access, and 90% of server population were playing Arcanist, but not many made it to Summoner, and even less ppl ended up capping it. So there's going to be lots of Rogues, to try out this new class, then only ppl that want it as main, or secondary, will cap it.
There's going to be loads of Rogues, in low level zones, but there's not going to be lots of end-game ninjas, in Coil/PrimalX..
Only few ppl will cap it first 2-3 days, so in addition to that there wont be many end-game Ninjas, the DF issue will only be a low-lv issue.
Also remember Arcanist again, the issues you're talking about, got resolved after a week or 2, since most ppl didnt like it. They don't need to push back Ninja, 3-4 months, for some issue that will resolve itself within a week or 2.
Why would demand for their weapons, be a reason for them to push it back, months? the only wep that will be in demand, would be pre-relic...and 90% of those that cap Ninja, won't bother with relic...because Atma->Novus+ is &¤#"¤ retarded. And only way someone would make relic, is if they gonna make Ninja, their main...and 90% of players, wont.
People don't like the stress of tanking/healing, so even if they added all roles at the same time, there would still be 10x more dps, than healer/tanks, and que time for dps, would still be long. This issue will never be resolved...ever...unless they create a tank that can aggro a lot through massive burst DPS, and also has massive damage mitigation (imagine PLD with flare spam)...yah, not gonna happen. Or PLD with WHM-overheal-cure-spam-aggro. Majority of tanks, are terrible; some can't even keep hate on one mob, much less 2 or more (I had to tell a PLD, to use flash, and swap target....in BrayHM, cause he was only single-target-combo 1 mob at a time) So yah, since tanking is so hard and stressful....not many want to play it.

[Lunavi]

While I am as upset as you over that the DPS queue when 2.4 hits the game will be longer than anything we've ever seen so do I still want class released now rather than later. People need more classes to level up. Just sad they did not focus on getting a new tank class out :/