Quote Originally Posted by ruskie View Post
No the reason they share is because they needed to give them some sort of gear because they were not about to make full gearsets - they just added DEX and NIN/ROG to the MNK gears for that time. And MNK fit better for the melee aspect of NIN than BRD did.
If they had planned to make Nin dex based from the start, it would of been much easier to have them share gear with brd, instead of having them share with mnk, and adding dex to all mnk gear.