Ninja - What abilities might it borrow from other classes?

[Houston009]

I feel as though they may cross class skills with MNK and DRG. And DRG and MNK may very well lose MRD skills and get NIN skills if they are more valuable.

[Bombast]

Able to manipulate the vital energies of the land, the air, and living beings, they manifest their power through the weaving of signs, unleashing a wide array of attacks against their foes. Master the arts of the ninja and learn to bend the tide of battle to your will.

Sounds like one of the classes, at the very least, will be Arcanist (Signs sound a lot like the geometric maths they use) or, more likely, Conjurer (Stone, Aero, and 'Living Beings' are there hat).

As for the melee class they will almost certainly get their stuff from, Pugilist makes sense. But then again, Summoners and Black mages get Archer moves. So who knows?

[MartaDemireux]

I feel as though they may cross class skills with MNK and DRG. And DRG and MNK may very well lose MRD skills and get NIN skills if they are more valuable.

I was thinking that, too. However then I thought "What about when they add even more classes in the expansion and perhaps more later on?" We'd end up seeing constant changes to what jobs can use what class actions. I think that would be a lot of re-balancing work. Not to mention a lot of work for wiki's having to stay updated and people having to level new classes for their jobs. Also all the time they put in leveling say PGL for Mantra on BRD would be thrown out if they give BRD MSK+LNC (or a new 3rd DEX based class) abilities for instance.

Sounds like one of the classes, at the very least, will be Arcanist (Signs sound a lot like the geometric maths they use) or, more likely, Conjurer (Stone, Aero, and 'Living Beings' are there hat).

As for the melee class they will almost certainly get their stuff from, Pugilist makes sense. But then again, Summoners and Black mages get Archer moves. So who knows?

I'd sooner say ACN over CNJ. ACN's two carbuncles are air and earth based and living beings. However, I can't see what good abilities they would get. They'll be wearing STR gear so all their magical attacks wouldn't do anything for them. They'd get Ruin, Physick, Eye for an Eye and Virus. Nothing really useful for a STR based class. I'm almost scared to think about them turning NIN into a pet based class and getting Summons 1 and 2... but that quote does sound viable.

[Bombast]

I'd sooner say ACN over CNJ. ACN's two carbuncles are air and earth based and living beings. However, I can't see what good abilities they would get. They'll be wearing STR gear so all their magical attacks wouldn't do anything for them. They'd get Ruin, Physick, Eye for an Eye and Virus. Nothing really useful for a STR based class. I'm almost scared to think about them turning NIN into a pet based class and getting Summons 1 and 2... but that quote does sound viable.

From what we've seen from the Ninja video, the only magic things they do are explosions. I doubt they'd get pets, and any spells they do have will most likely still be strength based somehow.

Alternatively, maybe the magical attacks wont have their damage be based on stats at all, but on weapon damage, combined with some sort of enemy factor (Positioning, or some sort of stacking mechanism?).

It's an interesting notion.

EDIT: Though, honestly, no matter what, I see the Ninja kind of getting the shaft on this when it comes to cross class abilities. Not as bad as Paladins, but still, not great.

[Atreides]

I was thinking that, too. However then I thought "What about when they add even more classes in the expansion and perhaps more later on?" We'd end up seeing constant changes to what jobs can use what class actions. I think that would be a lot of re-balancing work. Not to mention a lot of work for wiki's having to stay updated and people having to level new classes for their jobs. Also all the time they put in leveling say PGL for Mantra on BRD would be thrown out if they give BRD MSK+LNC (or a new 3rd DEX based class) abilities for instance.

Perhaps they should approach a new way for us to customize our Job.
Right now everyone is pretty much the same without any variety, the right approach would be to add other classes as possible cross classes from which we can choose 2.
So a Ninja for example would be able to choose two of the following: Archer, Pugilist, Lancer, Black mage?
Likewise Ninja could be added as possible cross class for other DPS so a Dragoon for example could decide to drop MRD and go for NIN instead but also choose to stick with MRD.