There Is No Dancer (yet)

[Saito_S]

Sorry, but I understand where Balipu is coming from. I can't say I'm personally as bothered by it, but he's essentially correct.

I mean, it's similar to what I said before when I posted in this thread a few pages back, but I honestly still don't understand where the idea of her being a dancer even comes from. Because she doesn't fucking dance. There isn't a single moment in the trailer where she does anything about which you could reasonably say: "This looks like dancing, more than it look like pure martial arts."

I mean, yes, martial arts forms do have some resemblance to "dancing", in a very loose, very vague sense, but an actual "dancer" CLASS would - I would think?? - be more about dancing, and not forms that "kinda look a bit like dancing", wouldn't it?

Put another way: a dancer class would draw from (and in FF games, always has drawn from, to my knowledge) actual, formal forms of dancing as it's primary movement set, both in terms of concept (i.e. skills having names like "Samba" or simply "Dance" as with Mog in FFVI) and in the visuals. Any martial abilities, anything that looks much more strongly like "martial arts" than "dancing", and certainly anything that is a direct, hard strike which is the vast majority of what the Lady in Red does, would be secondary, if it's present at all. And would people really WANT a dancer class that fights (and, by extension, plays) this much like a monk? Wouldn't you want a dancer that does something DIFFERENT, that doesn't just contribute to the party's progress by imitating a monk but with some extra sleeve attack? Wouldn't you want a dancer who dances?

Don't get me wrong, I am neither saying I don't want dancer, nor that I think it's impossible we will get dancer. All I AM saying is that the Lady in Red doesn't dance! And I don't get why people think she's somehow representative of a dancer, or serves as confirmation that we are getting a dancer job.

[Kikoten]

I honestly still don't understand where the idea of her being a dancer even comes from.

...martial arts forms do have some resemblance to "dancing", in a very loose, very vague sense.

That'd be where the idea started. People were already speculating DNC as a possibility of a job in the next expansion. Once that teaser went up, the Lady in Red (Scarlet Witch!!!! JK) was indeed performing a martial arts form that, for just one moment, appeared dance-like, before it became apparent that it was a martial arts form. That one moment was all it took to create his huge ripple effect that became this thread (and others).

I've been flip-flopping between the two sides; because the speculation behind this lady is so big, it's easy for me to argue for and against both sides.