Ninja - What abilities might it borrow from other classes?

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I'd sooner say ACN over CNJ. ACN's two carbuncles are air and earth based and living beings. However, I can't see what good abilities they would get. They'll be wearing STR gear so all their magical attacks wouldn't do anything for them. They'd get Ruin, Physick, Eye for an Eye and Virus. Nothing really useful for a STR based class. I'm almost scared to think about them turning NIN into a pet based class and getting Summons 1 and 2... but that quote does sound viable.

From what we've seen from the Ninja video, the only magic things they do are explosions. I doubt they'd get pets, and any spells they do have will most likely still be strength based somehow.

Alternatively, maybe the magical attacks wont have their damage be based on stats at all, but on weapon damage, combined with some sort of enemy factor (Positioning, or some sort of stacking mechanism?).

It's an interesting notion.

EDIT: Though, honestly, no matter what, I see the Ninja kind of getting the shaft on this when it comes to cross class abilities. Not as bad as Paladins, but still, not great.