Thread: Did they hint at rogue class in 2.2 story?

I thought it was fairly obvious that they were introducing us with a new class.

Both Yugiri and Thancred got a chance to show of their skills, and Yugiri later on promises to teach her fighting style to an organisation in Limsa. To me (and many others) this was an obvious introduction to an upcoming class. I originally expected her to come back in smaller quests for several patches before we would actually gain access to it, but it turn out that will already take place in 2.4

In the same way, Yugiri is an introduction to the new race we will be getting.
It is outright stated in the main scenario that she hides her face to avoid panic, because she looks very different from the 5 races. So she is a walking talking teaser preview of the upcoming race. All we know at the moment is that the new race will have a scaly tail, and either horn or some sort of long ears judging by her hood.

ps: I wonder how they are going to handle that scene after the new race becomes available. People are obviously going to change race -for fun or permanently- meaning that there will be plenty of Yugiri-race adventurers in Eorzea, giving her no reason to hide her face.

Well, that's assuming that they make that new race playable. Just because an NPC is a certain race doesn't mean we get to play it. What if that race is super rare, like Yugiri's comment makes it seem? We'll just have to wait and see.

She DID make it sound like the majority of her race was slaughtered back in Doma, so they could very well end up being near-extinct at this point.

Originally Posted by Terrini

There is the matter of implementing ROG/NIN. I'm hoping to make a new character that plays through from the start as a Rogue, and roleplay her to this effect, but the entire questiline with the arrival of Yugiri... How would that work? Would they have to ALTER that for someone that started as a Rogue? If Yugiri doesn't show up until level 50, would you then not be able to get a Job until after level 50?

Good question. It could be you can only unlock it later, or it will just be a case of gameplay and plot segregation. The same pretty much goes for Yugiri her race (if it indeed becomes available to us as players).

But I guess we'll just have to wait and see.