Dancer Job

[LineageRazor]

I would SO love to play Dancer. Bonus points it if has attractive armor like FFXI's gorgeous attire. Aside from being wonderfully unique, I think it could also benefit by adding a dagger-wielding base class to the game which could then branch into Thief as well. It never hurts to have a few more toys to play with, and I think Dancer could be just the thing.

Well, SE painted themselves into a corner a bit by giving Daggers to Gladiator. Now, any job that classically uses Daggers (like THF) is going to have to have GLD as a base class, or else SE will need to provide some explanation as to why GLD can use THESE daggers but not THOSE daggers, and why THF/DNC/Whatever can use THOSE daggers but not THESE daggers.

It's a bit awkward.

SE could take an alternative route, since Dancers appear infrequently enough in FF lore that they aren't as tied to daggers as THFs are. They could be a hand-to-hand combatant based on PGL, or possibly give them an entirely new base class with a new weapon type (like whips).

[Tiggy]

Well, SE painted themselves into a corner a bit by giving Daggers to Gladiator. Now, any job that classically uses Daggers (like THF) is going to have to have GLD as a base class, or else SE will need to provide some explanation as to why GLD can use THESE daggers but not THOSE daggers, and why THF/DNC/Whatever can use THOSE daggers but not THESE daggers.

It's a bit awkward.

SE could take an alternative route, since Dancers appear infrequently enough in FF lore that they aren't as tied to daggers as THFs are. They could be a hand-to-hand combatant based on PGL, or possibly give them an entirely new base class with a new weapon type (like whips).

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.

[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:

[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.

[Niqote]

Well, SE painted themselves into a corner a bit by giving Daggers to Gladiator. Now, any job that classically uses Daggers (like THF) is going to have to have GLD as a base class, or else SE will need to provide some explanation as to why GLD can use THESE daggers but not THOSE daggers, and why THF/DNC/Whatever can use THOSE daggers but not THESE daggers.

It's a bit awkward.

The important thing to note is ''Bronze dagger > Main Hand › Gladiator's Arm'' just like both a thm and a cnj can equip a short staff and a long cane, as long as it says 'CNJ's ARM' it could be a Moogle pom and still turn you into a CNJ.

I look very, very forward to seeing DNC in XIV. I hope we get some interesting support skills like Haste or Drain or Refresh, perhaps they will act the same was as BRDs songs.

[Marael]

Well, SE painted themselves into a corner a bit by giving Daggers to Gladiator. Now, any job that classically uses Daggers (like THF) is going to have to have GLD as a base class, or else SE will need to provide some explanation as to why GLD can use THESE daggers but not THOSE daggers, and why THF/DNC/Whatever can use THOSE daggers but not THESE daggers.

It's a bit awkward.

SE could take an alternative route, since Dancers appear infrequently enough in FF lore that they aren't as tied to daggers as THFs are. They could be a hand-to-hand combatant based on PGL, or possibly give them an entirely new base class with a new weapon type (like whips).

Simple solution - GLD gets daggers, thief/dancer/whatever gets knives. Semantics, yes, but in FFXI daggers and knives were different classes of weapon, dancers could use knives, but not daggers. Also, in XI Dancer had reasonable hand to hand skill as well, so I could see them going that route too. Either way, I'm still interested to see how they would implement the job in this game, and what it's role in a party would be.