Ninja - What abilities might it borrow from other classes?

[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.