I keep on seeing these "my favorite job in XI" posts. The thing is that I highly doubt that FFXIV's DNC will be anything like FFXI's DNC. I'm expecting it to be a dedicated Healer class that uses TP instead of MP. Maybe it will focus more on HP regen through the length of it's dances.

IIRC Minfillia is supposed to be a DNC and she uses a dagger when you're introduced to melding. I'm fairly certain DNC will be coming, just not the same jack of all trades from XI that everyone is expecting. Only a pur healer would make sense for XIV's armory system. Wouldn't be surprised if PUG was the secondary class with Mantra and Second Wind.