Quote Originally Posted by Nominous View Post
For Dancer to be their solution to the DRG monopoly on "Synergy with ranged physical DPS", through nature of Dancer being Slashing damage and relying on SAM/NIN.
We should probably stop thinking of Dancer as being "Slashing" ASAP, they made a big point out of saying it's weapons are THROWING WEAPONS not Chakram's specifically, with mentions of Shuriken and Throwing Knives being about. Even your standard bladed on all sides Star type Shuriken is still a piercing weapon with the primary purpose of sticking into the target, simply has fewer bad angles than say darts and knives. Chakrams even traditionally are thrown slashing weapons though, but they are also far close to the size of bangles than bucklers. But with the classification as Throwing Weapons not Chakrams even things like Throwing Axes/Hammers remain on the table.

It's still possible for DNC to be considered Piercing Damage, and the possibility of Pierce/Slash/Crush Resistance Down debuffs being removed is still decent. The possibility of it being dropped to Physical/Magic, Melee/Ranged, or Melee/Ranged/Magic isn't 0 either. It's a wait and see. We know at least the idea of core dmg type is still around based on the mention that Gunbreaker is said to do Slashing Damage, and it's possible that Pierce/Slash/Crush Damage Up Personal Buffs replacing Resistance Down Debuffs hapening isn't bad either. This is quite important for the "Impure" damage dealers in the game. Things like WAR, SAM, BLM, SMN this is noteworthy, but when it comes to jobs with more duality to their kits like NIN, RDM, PLD, DRK it could very well make limited chunks of their kit better. DRG, MNK, BRD, MCH I left out since they have a limited amount of non-physical damage that is there, but I'm not willing to dedicate them to it either side atm.