Why is there no job with rogue as a secondary class?

[EpicOreo80]

Caster having NIN x-class would not only be odd, but would be mostly impractical anyway.
Healers having NIN x-class would be even weirder. Not that any of them would want it, since CNJ, THM and ACN skills are rather indispensable to them.
Shadeshift and Goad would be amazing for tanks, but I doubt SE would straight up buff all 3 of em like that.

I agree that it would be odd for a caster or healer to have rogue as a cross-class.
I just hope that in the future they make a class that has rogue cross-class abilities.
I feel like not having any other jobs with rogue as a secondary class may keep some people from creating a NIN because they won't have any other jobs that use rogue.

[m3eansean]

So you basically want to remove most of the identity of Rog/Nin by giving most of their signature skills to other classes?

They are already moving away from secondary classes (see new Jobs added in HW) and have said they want to shift away from the older style of needing 2 classes leveled to achieve a Job.

I imagine during the next few patches or next expac, the skill set and cross classing will have a huge overhaul. Button bloat is already an issue, so when they add anymore, they are really going to have to address the idea of only allowing a certain number of skills to be equipped and making you pick and choose (we have this slightly with cross classing already)

[CGMidlander]

The class system (i.e. the stuff before jobs) is a relic of 1.0 and is something SE seems keen on minimizing as much as possible. I doubt anything more will be done with it, unless they decide to do a complete rehaul sometime in the future.

[EpicOreo80]

So you basically want to remove most of the identity of Rog/Nin by giving most of their signature skills to other classes?

They are already moving away from secondary classes (see new Jobs added in HW) and have said they want to shift away from the older style of needing 2 classes leveled to achieve a Job.

I imagine during the next few patches or next expac, the skill set and cross classing will have a huge overhaul. Button bloat is already an issue, so when they add anymore, they are really going to have to address the idea of only allowing a certain number of skills to be equipped and making you pick and choose (we have this slightly with cross classing already)

Okay. I wasn't aware that they were moving away from secondary classes.

[NovaLevossida]

At this point, I'd rather just have Thief (THF) added in so I get to play Rogue without mudra lag and have some more rogue-like identity as a job.