So... that spiderman shirt... (new job tease)

[Pomelo]

1. It's a CGI trailer. They're not exactly known for their accuracy.

This is one of the most IMPORTANT things to remember.
The CGI trailers and what not are actually done by another team, hence the whole Black Mage gender swap conundrum and more importantly Hraesvelgr in the HW trailer (instead of Vishap and other dragons)
in fact I'd take the trailer with a grain of salt, nothing in the trailer actually has to be implemented, the only thing for a fact that we are probably getting is the Monk AF that the male wears, and that's only because I swear they showed concept for it before?

[DBelmont]

What makes the speculation tricky this time around is us not being sure whether we will get 2 or 3 jobs. If we get 3, it will obviously be a tank and a healer. If it is 2, it will most likely be a unique dps.

With that being said, the possibility of having 2 new jobs with one of them being RDM, I can only imagine the other one filling a niche like RDM did. RDM introduced a new caster option that features fast casting, melee twist and possibly some support via Refresh for MP regen. A melee dps dancer that buff like BRD/MCH doesn't feel all that intuitive. To be fair, SAM dps would offer a true STR feel for a dps wheras all the melee dpsers are too agile for that.

[Yukiko]

4. The people who work on the game have already said they are both MNKs. Unless they're lying...

When did they say both were and where did they say that?
At FanFest Yoshi-P confirmed the guy is MNK and its the new AF gear he will wear at level 70.

[JunseiKei]

~snip~ Hraesvelgr in the HW trailer ~snip~

If you have the artbooks, you can see artist comments on some of the works. In particular with the artwork of Hraesvelgr, the design was done while thinking it was just a standard dragon model.

"I originally drew Hraesvelgr thinking he was just another common dragon enemy. (Tsukamoto)"

Probably why his model is so starkly different from all the other First Brood.

It's not been confirmed nor denied the female in red is a monk, however, I think I stated it elsewhere, it'd be in poor taste to have two different jobs sharing the limelight for Stormblood when the spotlight job is monk. As others have pointed out, there's not been an instance, yet, where a trailer has shown a new job, either.

[Vexander]

People still think it's Dancer? Wow I thought people got past that already. It's 2 monks get over it. Do you really want Dancer just to be another monk? Also they have never promoted a new job in a CGI trailer from what I can remember so why would they suddenly throw a dancer in there now... Also to the people saying about what she is wearing have you thought that a NPC has unique clothing? I know crazy because its almost like every scion besides papalymo and Yda has personal clothes which players don't have due to being a important NPC.

Pretty sure I can buy Thancred and Y'shtola's sets off of the Mog Station, you know. Just saying. Old and new.

[Stormfur]

(RE: Monks fighting style changing -- less focus on GL stacks and more on hand to hand combat)

I would take monk all the way to 70 if this were the case. I hate keeping up stacks.

[Claire_Pendragon]

(RE: Monks fighting style changing -- less focus on GL stacks and more on hand to hand combat)

I would take monk all the way to 70 if this were the case. I hate keeping up stacks.

every DPS class has SOMETHING they need to keep track of, stacks(buffs), debuffs, or DoTs. (essentially the same mechanics of a short duration timer)

Even if they made them liek you say, it wouldnt be like what u said in that it will still have something to keep track of.

[TarynH]

When did they say both were and where did they say that?
At FanFest Yoshi-P confirmed the guy is MNK and its the new AF gear he will wear at level 70.

It was either the dev panel, or an interview, where they asked about her. (I'm pretty sure it was off limits during the Q&A, but it could have been said there.) Around the time of the Vegas fanfest, and it was one of those "oh yeah... she's a monk too" type statements. It felt very dismissive and flippant though, (could have been poorly translated) which I think is what caused people not to believe it.

[Yukiko]

It was either the dev panel, or an interview, where they asked about her. (I'm pretty sure it was off limits during the Q&A, but it could have been said there.) Around the time of the Vegas fanfest, and it was one of those "oh yeah... she's a monk too" type statements. It felt very dismissive and flippant though, (could have been poorly translated) which I think is what caused people not to believe it.

Thanks, will watch it again... (and read interviews)
Did not hear him saying that first time, maybe i missed it.

Edit: She is wearing a weapon, One Hand Gauntlet knive! Other Hand is free.

you can see it here:



and here:

[TarynH]

Thanks, will watch it again... (and read interviews)
Did not hear him saying that first time, maybe i missed it.

Edit: She is wearing a weapon, One Hand Gauntlet knive! Other Hand is free.

The "quote" (and I use that term very loosely), was Yoshida talking about the fighting in the trailer. And was most likely translated poorly as "the two monks fighting" when he could have only been referring to the one.

Either way, it's still a CGI trailer. And the weapon is probably unique to the main NPC.