My “Next job” predictions: “Scouting” and “Fending”

[Rongway]

Rogue turning into Ninja was a mistake. Ninja should have been its own job without a class. And Rogue should have turned into Thief at 30 with a soulstone. Of course, SE didn't have the idea of "jobs without classes" back in ARR. I wouldn't be surprised if looking back, developers feel that they "wasted" rogue and wish they could take that one back.

It's not an unfixable mistake. The only thing distinctly roguey/thiefy about NIN is Mug. Change that to something else and you can split it from rogue and make it a classless job, so rogue can be reworked into thief. It wouldn't be a technically difficult change to make at all; the rough part would be giving it an identity and playstyle distinct from NIN and any of the other melee jobs.

[Gemina]

They should really mix things up with a Magical Melee DPS. Wouldn't that be something.

Closest we have to that is NIN. This was made even more apparent when we can now see if an attack is physically or magically based, and NIN is loaded with magically based attacks.

It's not an unfixable mistake. The only thing distinctly roguey/thiefy about NIN is Mug. Change that to something else and you can split it from rogue and make it a classless job, so rogue can be reworked into thief. It wouldn't be a technically difficult change to make at all; the rough part would be giving it an identity and playstyle distinct from NIN and any of the other melee jobs.

This is actually a possibility. I doubt it will happen, but it definitely would make the 'maybe' pile of possibilities. Mug is something that I think will probably go away for NIN. It will remain for Rogue, but become updated to Sneak Attack or something along those lines along with obtaining the NIN soulstone.