Just to nag at a couple things...


Quote Originally Posted by Dorander View Post
Thancred first calls himself a bard. Even though he, up to 2.2 quite obviously used gladiator skills, now he's been called a rogue and looks like one when he draws his weapons. Which happen to be a sword and a dagger, something we as players are incapable of equipping.
Just because he calls himself a "Bard" doesn't mean he's referring to the combat support archers pioneered by the Job Tutor in XIV. He likely refers to himself more in the sense of a traditional poet or songwriter. So this is meaningless.

Sure Yoshi-P is both, but that doesn't mean every songsmith in Eorzea has to be a bowman.

Y'shtola has been referred to as a Conjurer, though she's quite often uses Collective Unconscious, which is an AST skill.
Personally not sure I've ever seen this...an ability which uses a similar animation maybe, but I'm not sure I've ever explicitly seen it as Collective Unconscious.

Urianger is an Arcanist, however he wields a staff which is not possible by player Arcanists, (though in the 3.4 story during his brief costume change he uses a book). He also summons an Amber carbuncle, which as the lorebook states that only he has been able to do, since nobody else can get the matrix to work.

Alphinaud is an Arcanist, and as such wields a book. However, he summons an onyx carbuncle, which is again something we as players are unable to do.
May change in 3.5, with the plan to (fingers crossed) implement the ability to glamour on different colored carbuncles for egis. Assuming the translation was correct. Granted they may all the same keep these colorations exclusive to these characters, but still.