Dancer Job

[Felis]

This won't be a problem. Right now we have two jobs that use books. One book is labeled for Sch and the other for Smn. There is nothing stopping them from adding daggers than PLD simply can't equip.

Except that dancers would be based on Gladiator skills then.
Dancers with whipes would be cool (like in Ragnarok online).
It would look like this:

[Shori]

I had a gut feeling dancers would enter the game and branch from the lancer class. I'd have go with it but it'd only be useful in full partys

[ErikMynhier]

There is already a mass of miqo'te yowling in the Quicksand, if this job is added there will be countless miqo'te "dancers" (ie strippers) running about.

[File2ish]

Except that dancers would be based on Gladiator skills then.
Dancers with whipes would be cool (like in Ragnarok online).
It would look like this:

Knives then? They can make a new weapon type specifically for a new class (say Thief), they're putting new classes and jobs in anyway. Maybe make them dual wielding like how Pugilists and Monks are, one weapon to equip but they have one in each hand.

I (at least) want something more like this than a ribbon twirling dancer like the picture you posted =p


Or this (could natively use daggers in FFT too iirc):


DNC certainly wouldn't be the same as it was in XI or FFT, but I think it would benefit from being a frontline DPS/Support (along the lines of Bard in this game, make it debuffs over party buffs) or even frontline healer if they could balance it right. A ribbon would likely make it a ranged healer like WHM and in turn give it little physical ability (a dancer should be swift, no? Not necessarily strong). A whip for a weapon, maybe, but a ribbon? No thanks. But regardless I'd probably pick up the job and make it my main until Red Mage finally (hopefully) comes along.

[Killgore]

I would play the crap out of dancer. My only hope is that the healing/buffs would create an aura that would get stronger as you keep a combo going, kind of like monk.

[ExperienceLoader]

Even if we already have Daggers on GLD all they have to do is make them dual daggers and voila, different weapon type. I'm sure they wouldn't have you equip two separate daggers anyway and have them paired like PGL fist weapons.

[Nepenthe]

Would actually rather them use fans over daggers just because I find it hilarious to beat things up with a fan.

Ooo. I concur!

I also like the idea of whip dancers. I liked the class in RO, despite them just wearing underwear with a cape.

[ForteXX]

Fans seem like a good weapon. Going by the above image, scarf (dunno if that's the right word) would also fit, though it'd need weights or something at each end so it wouldn't be too odd to attack with it.

[Tridus1x]

I'm sure many have already said this but I hope if they add a dancer class, it has a heal spec option. I also hope it goes into combos sort of like Monk and dragoon, that would make healing a lot more interesting. Good post OP.

[TrickedOutHoro]

I would totally play Dancer.