Thief and Ninja!

[Physic]

Marauders also have a lot of cloth and leather armor-wearing people in their quests, as well as also having full access to the best evasion gear in the game. All DoWs do. It's a pretty typical thing in fantasy games for the guy who has access to the heaviest armor to also be able to wear the lightest. The way Gladiators are portrayed, and the way sensible Gladiators gear, is with heavy armor.
Many of the quests with Marauders in them involve stealing and theft on a regular basis, so you know, there's that. There's even a sneaking mission for Marauders where you have to steal something without getting caught -- the quintessential thief quest.

In terms of thief-like abilities, Pugilist has Blindside (sneak attack) and Accomplice (er, accomplice), Lancers have Collusion (trick attack), Archers have Quickstride (flee). Pugilists were also originally supposed to have Steal be baseline, but that was scrapped.

So in terms of actual gameplay and story mechanics combined, Gladiator is probably the least likely DoW to become thief.


Parry materia (and the Parry stat in general) is for Marauders and to a much lesser extent tanking Pugilists, and an even lesser extent Lancers. If you have a Gladiator using Parry materia and it's not just because they're recycling the gear from Marauder, then, well...


Or Ninja could require Thief, which would make the most sense. Believe it or not, new classes can and will be added. Not every job needs to stem from the current few we have. Musketeer sure as hell wouldn't make any sense from our current class list.

parry materia can only go on GLA / MRD / LNC / CNJ 2-Hand / THM 2-Hand

pug gets no access to it Anyhow Im not saying glad has to have theif, but out of all the choices i think pug and glad are the forerunners. Its also definately far down the line (they say they want magic classes first, then pet classes, then most likely corsair, so thief and ninja whether main or sub is probably a looooonnng ways a way. By then i expect many things will have changed, sooo its really hard to say what will be what.