NINJA and ROGUE confirmed

[L-D-Omlette]

While I am not holding my breath or even thinking it will really happen; making the class Rogue leaves the door open to create a second job to stem from it as Thief. With the lore explanations given regarding the guild, this also leaves the door open for a lone Thief to refuse to join the guild, or rediscover the "old ways." (Think similar to Monk, or Warrior)

E3 last year they announced Arcanist and Summoner, without mentioning Scholar at all, it is possible they could have a repeat performance here...

Again, not holding my breath.

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I'm with you. Totally disappointed by the lack of an actual Thief job. What I don't understand is why those that are disappointed are getting so much grief for it. If Samurai releases as Lancer's second job and uses a spear (note that this is an example and I do not believe that this will actually happen) people would be upset about it and NOBODY would fault them for it. Players want Thief as a job playable in endgame and we are all just QQ whiners? I don't get it.

[Exstal]

I'm with you. Totally disappointed by the lack of an actual Thief job. What I don't understand is why those that are disappointed are getting so much grief for it. If Samurai releases as Lancer's second job and uses a spear (note that this is an example and I do not believe that this will actually happen) people would be upset about it and NOBODY would fault them for it. Players want Thief as a job playable in endgame and we are all just QQ whiners? I don't get it.

It's fine to be disappointed that Thief didn't happen. It's another thing to look at the current game and say that Thief could branch of the same class as Ninja. That would demonstrate a severe misunderstanding of the game and how jobs rely on their classes. As for your example on Samurai, I think the issue with that would be FF has built up the reasoning that Samurai should be using katanas. Randomly giving it a spear because it was like that historically is a big F-U to people who've come to expect Samurai's iconic weapon to be the weapon of choice.

Then there's the whole Thief is a weaker Ninja and Steal is kind of hard or unfair to implement so Thief has nothing to bring to the table except a name OR whatever obscure function the devs would give it (think Trick Attack from XI).