Red Mage = Yda?

[Savagelf]

Apparently if you are wearing all red that means you are a red mage.. So if the guy was in all blue, people would be saying hes a blue mage. So there you go.

that doesn't make sense if your wear all red you red mage. look how they fighting that look how two monks would fight.

if there having rapiers then that make sense that they red mages


red mages= rapiers and some magic spells

be rash isn't wise doesn't assume that this lady is red mage in end it may make you look bad

i have stream ticket i saw the presentation yesatday that lady in video is monk she is one character we come in contact with. each expansion is focus on different character first in heavenward we focus on dragoon now we focus on the monk

[Blackwind121]

I feel it's pretty safe to assume that's Yda but she's a monk/pugilist, not a red mage. Some people are saying that there's no tattoo so it can't be her but it could very easily just be hidden under the necklace or it could be a decision by the devs. After the stuff with Nanamo from 2.5-3.0, I'd be willing to accept that tattoo removal is a thing in Eorzea lmao.

[ErikMynhier]

from what everyone saying just going with the flow or she is dancer?

This has come up in our FC Discord. The theory I've come to from it is RDM will be treated like Bard, merging two old classes into one, in Bard's case, Ranger & Bard.

The thought comes from the similarities between the woman's dress and that of the Red Mage from Bravely Default, as well as her cloth weapon.

IE: Red Mage+Dancer=FFXIV RDM

[Starlord]

Desperation? Or just recognizing that what we saw wasn't 100% Monk, so there's room for doubt either way?

Honestly, seems there's just as much desperation to say she's 100% a Monk as there is to say she's 100% a Dancer, despite evidence pointing in both directions.

Yeah, it could go either way, though, no matter how many times I re-watch it, I still see a Dancer doing dancer like stuff ( along with monk like moves and even cloth/dagger like moves) She does clearly use Her fabric as a weapon, and the animation is of a slash ( not blunt).

[Eul]

really, it's been quite some time since before, why would he never change appearance? every scion does, every major patch.
derplander is in every CG clip.

He turned from midlander to Highlander :^)

[Anera]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IRO6C-v4l8

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[DamianFatale]

So much misinformation.. oi..

[Anera]

So much misinformation.. oi..

it Call Speculation that why we here to talk about it

[LineageRazor]

1) We know monks originate from Ala Mhigo, the Fists of Rhalgr.

2) We know there is more than one school of monk thanks to the 50-60 questline.

3) Occam's Razor, the simplest answer with the least assumptions being most often the right one, would suggest it is a monk who follows a different school of combat.

Whether this could be titled dancer or not...who knows? But if Dancer isn't a job expansion of Monk but instead a new job, my problem then becomes the classes are very similar, almost to the point both lose their identity.

Ninjutsu is also a type of martial art, and yet it has a very distinct identity from Monk. There's no reason Dancer couldn't be the same.

Your point number 1 also made me think of another angle that could support Dancer... Ala Mihgo is an occupied nation now, and very likely the Garleans frown on the practice of warfare outside of the regimens they submit their conscripts to. Much like capoeira, Dancer could have evolved from traditional Ala Mihgan martial arts as a way to continue to train while passing off the movements as simple dancing.

In spite of all this, my personal belief is that she IS meant to be a straight-up Monk, and as much as I wish it were so, Dancer is probably not in the cards. I'll be happy to be proven wrong!

I agree with others in this thread that she is also very likely Yda's sister, rather than Yda herself.

[Talraen]

How would you all feel if they made Dancer a second Pugilist soulstone? I know they said they wouldn't do this because SMN/SCH was such a pain, but if both are still DPS and it's more of a style shift than a fully new job, I would be all about that. People have been asking for talents or the like, this could be a way to test the waters for that sort of thing.

Of course, that said I can already hear the complaining if they did that - why does MNK get preference, why aren't they spending time on new jobs, etc. So it seems unlikely, but I'd be all for it (and this coming from someone who plays MNK very rarely).