There Is No Dancer (yet)

[Kaurie]

Honestly, I don't like the idea of this being a dancer. It's too similar to monk and would add yet another melee dps to the mix when we're still lacking a variety of other class types. I know that Yoshi P heavily alluded to RDM with his Scarlet Witch shit, and I can't see them basically confirming dancer as a class as well before the other two fanfests. Personally I think the trailer just depicts two MNKs.

It's important to remember that this is a cinematic and is therefore not completely representative of what's in game. Just because she uses some moves that MNKs don't, it doesn't automatically make her a new class. It's also been said that we are going to meet this NPC in the near future - and as we know, NPCs don't often follow the rules imposed on us as players in game. We also have no idea how the classes we currently have will be evolving from lvl 60 to 70 - it's very possible that MNKs more get some skills that are more fluid, as shown in the trailer.

Personally, a few months ago, I would have agreed with your first paragraph. However, after playing Demon Hunter in Legion, I've found that I actually really like melee. None of the jobs in FFXIV give me that same sense of fun when I play them. I'd love to have a melee that I can enjoy here, and Dancer looks like it could be

I'd say that the things I don't like about MNK were very prevalent in the cutscene and the things I like about Demon Hunter were prevalent in her moves (i.e. more free-flowing and fluid. It's hard to really describe).

You point out that NPC's don't necessarily follow the same rules as players, so what is to say that this NPC is not a DNC with some MNK abilities?

I am keeping an open mind. I can see arguments for both sides and both make a lot of sense. We'll just have to wait a few months to see