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    Mim Silmaril
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    Phoenix
    Main Class
    Summoner Lv 90
    Well, i wonder what some people see....

    To me those things are obvious:
    • Exact same battle-pose before the fight starts (#1m08s), which is pretty similar (but different) to standard monk weapon drawn stance.
    • The male does a forward leap punch.
      The female blocks, does a move which is pretty similar to part of monk's /bstance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xswDRz2DHPQ) and then counter's with the exact same move.
    • another set of mirrored moves (#1m40s)
    • no actual "fluid" attacks, but things like a devastating "knee strike" and then (again) a mirrored kick.
    • Both have a chakra aura, both finish with a full-charged leap to each other (again, mirrored).
    • She uses a weapon. But Raubahn (Gladiator) uses two swords. Papalymo wears plate gauntlets. Ida and Papalymo combine their powers for a final flare attack.
      Those things define npc characters. And Monks use bladed weapons attached to their hands, too, anyway. To have a weapon model with just one hand bladed isn't impossible at all.

    Besides, so far monks has been described as the non-plus-ultra regarding hand-2-hand combat. Even to the point they almost got wiped out by the Garleans.

    So unless
    • there a third faction in Ala Mi'gho rivaling the 2 known monk factions regarging hand-2-hand combat
    • dancer is as much focussed on all-out-attacks as monk (not more evasive or distractive)
    • dancers most used attacks have nothing to do with actually dancing
    • dancer is another job of pugilist, which also utilizes chakra (which would be kinda lame) ... (and only working if new jobs get actually a base class).
      But then we have seen nothing which is worth considering as an dancer "job ability". Just /dance isn't one.
    there is no dancer in this teaser. If they tell us they go back to double-job classes then I will reconsider this.

    But so far... nope, that's a monk, who moves like a monk and punches/kicks like a monk, uses chakra like a monk and danced for unknown reasons about 10s.
    Maybe to hint dancer as a possible new class in 4.x, but sure not to make her a dancer.
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    Last edited by Neophyte; 10-19-2016 at 01:37 AM.