@edli: you miss the point, when you create a mmorpg you put rule for balance everything soo far in the game.
it can be people can't fly or people die when they touch water. anyway, one of the actual rule of the game is melee dps comes from STR and ranged physical dps comes from DEX. there, they decide to change this rule because they didn't notice before that the FF series have more melee class than ranged class.

anyway, i don't complain about that, but more how they did wait soo late for announce it, more bad, how bad it was announced. it's not something small that some like to make it look like.

before this, when you was looking a class, it was easy to guess which main stats it was. from there, every class they will add can be whatever they want. like i have said, Dark knight (that was heavily hinted) can perfectly be int based. they are all the time saying that they don't want to confuse player and... suddenly decide to do the inverse, i was not the only one totally confused by the announce of yesterday.

finally, in other game and reality dexterity do this, but like i have said before, when arr have come out they did decide rule for this world and it was different. here it's not because dexterity is more... better for ninja, it's only because they don't have a lot of class coming that will use this stats. other point, with your definition, why the monk is not dex based? because the only difference between ninja and monk is one use dagger, when other use fist weapon.

actually i will have even prefer they decide to modify dex totally and add monk to the list than what they have done.