Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
During 1.0 and at the beginning of ARR Thancred's class was Gladiator who fought with daggers. As Rogue/Ninja came ingame, Gladiators lost their daggers as weapons and Thancred became a Rogue. So the similarity to Paladin combat came from the Gladiator combat style of Thancred.
Thancred's class may have always been glad for simplicity sake, but he's never fought like one story-wise. In his fight was Gaius all he did was act like an acrobat and throw knives.