Rogue's 2nd job

[Gilraen]

i dont really care that they decided to call thief rogue. that said i think their reasoning is pretty funny. a ninja is an assassin. is that so much of a upstanding career than thief? and thief was the name of the traditional ff job since the very first one but whatever. i think they did it to appeal to the WoW crowd. "Hey guys look, your 2-handed stealth dagger class is here too! And it turns into a ninja!" (an yes i know thf has always turned into nin, but some young wow players might not know that)

I wish the problem was WoW players... no, the problem is XI players. They wanted Thief, the backstabbing DD with a hand ready to swipe gil/items/pin hate on a party member, and they wanted Ninja, the squishiest tank ever to tank a mob. Why, because of XI. Heaven forbid that this isn't XI...

[Darki]

I wish the problem was WoW players... no, the problem is XI players. They wanted Thief, the backstabbing DD with a hand ready to swipe gil/items/pin hate on a party member, and they wanted Ninja, the squishiest tank ever to tank a mob. Why, because of XI. Heaven forbid that this isn't XI...

Hey! ...I resemble that remark!

[Darki]

As rogue is dagger class, and FF Dancers use daggers, I plead the Twelve about Dancer being the 2nd job of Rogue!

...Because dancing lalafells.

[Volsung]

I just hope they eventually realise that not all classes and jobs
need to begin at something legitimate at a town. It works for
rogue because they're being taught a new fighting style by
a foreign entity in Limsa. So they build the guild (even then the Rogue
name is still a bit misleading due to the definition of rogue, though
I understand their decision).

They could easily have a guild that formed of their own accord out in
the wilds. Doesnt take a town license to make an informal guild, and
teach things to their own members. For instance a recluse single handed
axe/hammer guild out in the wilds could exist. Find it and join etc.

When you hit 30, a quest could say, go seek this man outside of the town
and learn what they have been up to because it seems dangerous. This would
be a way to open jobs with backstory that's not so town/story friendly.

I hope they see this possibility in the future.

[Exstal]

I hope they see this possibility in the future.

How to introduce Assassin and its base class.

[Volsung]

How to introduce Assassin and its base class.

Very much so. The possibilities would really open up. I'm sure we'll see other guilds
in other towns, during expansions, or a large patch. But thinking outside the box is
a great way to introduce creativity, and some "against the grain" feel for people to
embrace.

If assassin would be different enough from ninja to be implemented, you could very
well find yourself happening upon a guild that's maybe actually hard to get to or
"hidden" to an extent.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

The problem with this thread is that in a recent interview, Yoshi-P said that he wasn't sure if every job was really going to split into 2 jobs. It is a system that is very much in the air so speculating and looking forward to it may be a little premature.