Rogue/Ninja

[Synestr]

Well, as it currently sits, after 30 you progress to your job. In most if not all cases you do your group a great dis-service by not equipping your gem. Granted there are times when base class kicks butt, but for the most part, job is the way to go. We are smart players though and maybe, just maybe, Rogue might be the first class that wont need it. Hard to say, but we will find out soon enough.

I imagine that Rogue and Ninja are the jobs of the base class Thief (but that's just my imagination)...wouldn't that be something.

Syn

[Kitru]

Hard to say, but we will find out soon enough.

For ST purposes, BLM basically gets as little from a job as a it's possible to get, and it *still* doesn't do better as THM. The advantage of the extra cross-class skills is simply not enough to offset the loss of bonus stats (and, I can guarantee you that the Mudras are going to be another DPS increase as well). Rogue will not be able to do more damage than a Ninja, no matter how you slice it.

I imagine that Rogue and Ninja are the jobs of the base class Thief (but that's just my imagination)...wouldn't that be something.

Yoshi has already confirmed that Rogue is the class and Ninja is the job. It's not conjecture, it's confirmation. As to Thief, Yoshi has *also* said that Rogue is, for all intents and purposes, Thief. He actually wanted it to explicitly be *called* Thief, but the rest of the dev staff disagreed with him, not because they thought that Thief should be a job, but because they couldn't imagine a city-state sanctioning a Thieves' Guild.