There Is No Dancer (yet)

[Kaurie]

I find it funny how people are hoping that dancer was in the teaser trailer so your saying that your fine with it playing just like monk but mainly kicks?

It's pretty hard to tell from the trailer (assuming it is indeed a dancer) exactly how it will play.

Man I'm so disppointed that people think it's a dancer lol it's red and she's moving around! Uh by that same logic Yang from FF4 is a dancer, literally take 3 minutes and watch the ff4 opening cinematic legit does the same "dance"

I am fairly disappointed that you post your response to an argument that you either haven't read, or lack the reading comprehension to understand. Either that, or I'm disappointed that you purposefully reduced the opposing view point/argument.

[cammi]

This is nerve rekting to the extreme, I have my own opinions and it's leaning toward Monk. Why? Simply cause she uses what can be guessed as monk moves. There is no dancer in the game yet so the only thing I can see is monk. IF it isn't monk then they SUCK at making a different class cause it'll be just like monk like 80%. But I'm not going to melt my brain any more since it wasn't ingame graphics, meaning characters will do things you will NEVER be able to do ingame. It's a prerender movie to cause hype and get us to talk about it.. which in that sense it worked cause that's all everyone is talking about. They should've just said something instead of causing a mini fan war on the forums. :/

[Balipu]

This is nerve rekting to the extreme, I have my own opinions and it's leaning toward Monk. Why? Simply cause she uses what can be guessed as monk moves. There is no dancer in the game yet so the only thing I can see is monk. IF it isn't monk then they SUCK at making a different class cause it'll be just like monk like 80%. But I'm not going to melt my brain any more since it wasn't ingame graphics, meaning characters will do things you will NEVER be able to do ingame. :/

This post should be stickied and put on the front page. So much win.

[Savagelf]

i wonder what happy to Miq'ue dancer will she be a dancer job instructer

[Mirakumi]

So just wanted to share this to people who think DNC never plays like mnk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2SH_mRqra0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFVTqR-ZStw


Lots of punching and kicking o/
lol the video is not mine btw - just wanted to show dnc does kick and punch/ uses mnk weps.

[cammi]

So just wanted to share this to people who think DNC never plays like mnk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2SH_mRqra0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFVTqR-ZStw


Lots of punching and kicking o/
lol the video is not mine btw - just wanted to show dnc does kick and punch/ uses mnk weps.

But wouldn't that just make it monk 2.0? Look I'm not against a dancer, but why do you want it to play like a monk? IF that's the case just give monk more moves and a break dance emote. Why bring a class that won't bring anything new to the table when all it's bringing is a monk 2.0? If dancer is going to be put into the game, I DON'T want it to play like a monk.. we already have monk. Make it play different completely than what we have in the game. Otherwise just give me more monk buffs.

[Mirakumi]

But wouldn't that just make it monk 2.0? Look I'm not against a dancer, but why do you want it to play like a monk? IF that's the case just give monk more moves and a break dance emote. Why bring a class that won't bring anything new to the table when all it's bringing is a monk 2.0? If dancer is going to be put into the game, I DON'T want it to play like a monk.. we already have monk. Make it play different completely than what we have in the game. Otherwise just give me more monk buffs.

Because it would be different - it would be a healing melee class.

Also DNCs main wep was daggers - the likelihood that its going to be 100% the same is not accurate.

You could argue that DRG plays like MNK if you made it hand 2 hand. hell lol.

[cammi]

Stuff

You know the problem with this is that there was no healing in the prerender movie. So unless there is and we all missed it you can't say that as there is no dancer in XIV to make that statement. Second, you would be pulling massive amounts of BS to say Dragoon plays like monk... the only thing they have in common is the fighting system everyone in the game uses. And they are DPS.... they are completely different classes and can't be compared to the two fighting in the trailer. In the Trailer we clearly have two monk LIKE fighters. I ask again basing it on nothing but what we seen in the movie for XIV - not bringing other games into this as I'm only getting my info from XIV-. What in that trailer can dancer bring if she fights pretty much like a monk? Same stance and more or less shared moves? Why have dancer fight like a monk when they can be completely different? Why make it a martial artist when we already have one?

Again I'm stressing this... I'm not saying I don't want a dancer... but I do not want it to be what we can give a monk. If you wanna play a martial artist.. play monk.

[Mirakumi]

c.

Drg and mnk do play similar. They have directionals. All melee are similar in a glance. Even Ninja can be considered remotely similar.

A melee dancer would bring buffs, similar to a geomancer. An ability to self-sustain the party up close. It would bring to the table different group set-ups. You are arguing that you don't want to see it play like a monk I understand that. But I'm telling you that in the trailer I see her fighting with clothing, slashing with flourish. Its a DNC move. I see her jig' which increases speed while you would see her feather foot which increases evasion. I see her in the trailer using more fluid movement. Something I haven't seen in FFXIV yet. It could be a new job but your asking to me just look as the trailer as it is and not something in the game. Well it's not something ...I see in the game. I don't know why martial artist is only in your eyes a mnk class. There are many different forms of Martial arts and it should not be exclusive. but that's just my opinion on it.

[Balipu]

So just wanted to share this to people who think DNC never plays like mnk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2SH_mRqra0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFVTqR-ZStw


Lots of punching and kicking o/
lol the video is not mine btw - just wanted to show dnc does kick and punch/ uses mnk weps.

Yes well both videos clearly state in either a description or the title that these are dancers with monk as a support class attached to them. Of course they are going to kick and punch. Those are freakin monk skills.

See, this is why we are against the dancer speculation. I would love to have dancer and would probably ditch my ninja for one. Especially if it's a healer.
But I like logic and common sense more than dancers.