Ninja should be categorized as ranged physical.

[Stepjam]

Personally I felt that Dancer should have had scouting gear even if it was a ranged class. They share the same stats and the scouting aesthetic makes much more sense for Dancer than the phys ranged aesthetic (which involves a lot of long coats). Maybe there would have been issues on the technical side or maybe they thought it would create confusion but if it was the latter issue, I don't think it would have been a huge deal.

[Mugear_bahamut]

Personally I felt that Dancer should have had scouting gear even if it was a ranged class. They share the same stats and the scouting aesthetic makes much more sense for Dancer than the phys ranged aesthetic (which involves a lot of long coats). Maybe there would have been issues on the technical side or maybe they thought it would create confusion but if it was the latter issue, I don't think it would have been a huge deal.

I think so too, but it might be too late now to shake things up.

[IckeDerTyp]

I just wish we'd finally get a pet class again.

I think NIN is fine as a melee tho. I mean... Daggers spell melee to me ^^

[Mimilu]

I had a different idea: Move MCH to Scouting, with Scouting being for physical DPS of any attack range that focus on high APM, and turn Phys. Range into something like Support for physical DPS who have support ingrained into their gameplay rotation (vs other jobs who have one or two raid buffs).

[Stepjam]

I just wish we'd finally get a pet class again.

I think NIN is fine as a melee tho. I mean... Daggers spell melee to me ^^

They've made it pretty clear they don't plan to do pet classes anymore. See how Summoner's pets were slowly phased out over 2 expansions and Scholar's pet is basically little more than origin point of certain ability AoEs. The only pet class I see us maybe getting is a beastmaster limited class, but likely no "standard" pet class ever again.

[ForteNightshade]

Personally I felt that Dancer should have had scouting gear even if it was a ranged class. They share the same stats and the scouting aesthetic makes much more sense for Dancer than the phys ranged aesthetic (which involves a lot of long coats). Maybe there would have been issues on the technical side or maybe they thought it would create confusion but if it was the latter issue, I don't think it would have been a huge deal.

The problem with this is now you're flexing outside of your role, which doesn't make much sense. Say the Bard in your static wanted to try out Dancer. Well now, they need an entirely separate set of gear. Meanwhile, the Ninja flexing would be straight griefing as double Prange comps deal significantly less damage.