So, now Monk/Dragoon have to compete with yet another class?

[Kuraran]

Not needed. Also is shows you have general incompetence on how development works. They could simply make Dual Wield damage be based on DEX. Yoshida even claims it to be a special weapon type. If this is not the case, nothing is stopping them from making DEX affect these weapons regardless of the type.

Either way, both STR and DEX exist on much of the DPS gear, so most people who level DRG, BRD and/or MNK and are interested in NIN are pretty much covered.

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Point I'm trying to make is, no one knows what the job will entail as far as abilities, or how stats will affect said abilities. NIN might be STR based, and have abilities primarily affected by DEX. It might have a special weapon type, of which the damage is tied to DEX. It might be STR based as normal. It might not. No one knows.

However, I'll tell you what -- someone on reddit just recently found that there have been Rogue traits added to the game's data files already. And with those traits DEX traits were added as well. Anyone can see it themselves on FFXIVDB under 2.28 Abilities.

Since I feel like this post here is really nice for what I want to ask, I'm just going to quote it.

Since it's already been mentioned several time now, that the Dual Wield is a special weapon type, I'm just going to ask how this will work?
Will it be the same way the Monk-Weapon works, so you have equipped one weapon but you're basically holding one in each hand, or will it be that you can equip a second dagger to the Shield slot to make it an actual dual wield?
I think that the latter makes more sense in this case, since they've said it's a special weapon type. And I don't really mind it that way :3

[RoninDarkchild]

Since I feel like this post here is really nice for what I want to ask, I'm just going to quote it.

Since it's already been mentioned several time now, that the Dual Wield is a special weapon type, I'm just going to ask how this will work?
Will it be the same way the Monk-Weapon works, so you have equipped one weapon but you're basically holding one in each hand, or will it be that you can equip a second dagger to the Shield slot to make it an actual dual wield?
I think that the latter makes more sense in this case, since they've said it's a special weapon type. And I don't really mind it that way :3

It will be liek mnk, and take up a single slot. Was announced a long time ago.