what will be the main stat for Rogue/Ninja?

[Sen_Terrechant]

I doubt it will be Dex, that is most likely for the gun class they were withholding information about.

[Kitru]

I doubt it will be Dex, that is most likely for the gun class they were withholding information about.

They've said that the next 2 classes we're going to get are going to be a tank and a healer. Yoshi has also said that the gun class would be more like a caster (stand there and do cast times) than BRD (everything instant), which wouldn't really work for a tank (casting in melee is just fail, especially as a tank when you need to be able to dodge). As such, if we're going to be getting the gun class any time soon, I would expect it to be a healer, wherein I doubt it's going to be using DEX (it's possible, but unlikely).

Of course, the devs might've just decided not to add the gun using class for a good long while (or even add it ever). Arguing about what mainstat it would have based upon the current loot distribution is ignoring the fact that the loot distribution could be entirely different (from the devs adding even more classes before or alongside it).

I think they may make it Monk armour, Dex accessories but that seems silly.

I would seriously have to wonder how they would implement that, mainly because the loot that a class/job can roll need on is assigned arbitrarily but the gear that a class/job actually wears is based upon what the mainstat is set as.

I can think of only 2 ways they'd be able to have ROG/NIN use MNK gear while having DEX as some kind of mainstat: ROG/NIN benefits from both (which would end up screwing with balance because endgame gear is mono-stat whereas crafted and leveling gear is dual stat) or they change MNK gear so that it has DEX in addition to STR (it wouldn't really buff MNK all that much because all get is a tiny bit of parry rate out of it).

The other option would be for ROG/NIN to be DEX based but get its own set of armor similar to how DRG and MNK have different armor sets. Unless the devs plan on limiting ROG/NIN endgame gear pretty heavily around the time they're released (or putting in a lot of effort to create models for gear that will only ever exist for glamour for a single class/job), that's the only real solution that I can imagine since the CT2 DEX gear is explicitly BRD.

Of course, all of this could be entirely wrong. The devs might've played around with having ROG/NIN use DEX and abandoned it (since the stuff we've got for traits is artefactual, and it's entirely possible that it's not what they're using internally).

[Lawson_Grey]

Didn't Yoshi say in an interview to specifically hold onto the Str based gear you already have?