Why not THF job?

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You're saying they CAN'T make 2 jobs different style DPS off the same class? ok...hell, they could give thief crossbows to equip and no different skills and it'd be a different job.

Except you'd have to make all the animations for using crossbow on Thief, which is pointless. Why? If you're going to put all the effort into giving them new animations, why not just make them have a stand alone base class to work from? You're going to use melee skills (Rogue is melee) with a crossbow? I realize this is an example but in the future make it a little more reasonable (longswords, chakram, etc). I'm saying that without a huge variation in job skills, there's no way to differentiate two jobs from each other (5 isn't enough).

So look at it this way, when you remove all Paladin's skills they still play almost the same no? Even with Monk losing all their skills, it's pretty much the same idea right? So what happens you want to make 2 classes, who are at core the exact same, as the same role? Redundant jobs. That's what. Now if there was 7~10 (being conservative) then you could make an argument for Thief and Ninja both branching from Rogue. But at 1 job skill every 5 levels, gonna be L70~100 to get that in.