Quote Originally Posted by Lufir View Post
You made a few good points but this caught my attention the most. There is no way that the concept of something so silly and useless as Dancer would be able to match a Monk's fighting skill. It is just laughable at the thought that a "Dancer" is giving the Monk a run for his money in hand-to-hand combat.

And I don't know why people believe just because she has a few seconds of graceful moving to show the elegance of martial arts, she is automatically a Dancer.
some people will have said in the past: they are no way that an old woman can give a run to a karaté master, until a certain aikido art was created. we are in a fantasy world, dancer (if that what she is) can perfectly be good fighter. i will say itanother time, the difference of her animation are too masive, she use a weapon monk don't use. and no, every skill pointed as skill from the monk are not! they have totally different animation. i wish people take the time to really look at the ingame animation of skill they point as skill of monk she use. she don't use any monk skill, she use her own moveset.

what she is that a big question, we say dancer, mostly because her attire match up somehow penelo attire in FF12 revenant wing. (who is a dancer). her movement are gracefull and can be identified as dancing step too. she is acrobatic, mostly use her feet.

now i want to point some stuff that people tend to ignore for try to justify something that can't be justified. Yoshida have always said that we will never see another weapon type added to the class. they will not develop animation for different race or sex (only the job define the animation). that know, how is possible to say she is a monk when she is sooo different. they are both fighter, yes.... both monk? no only the WoL is a monk.

and i invite people to take 5 minutes and go ingame check the animation of the.... monk skill she seems to use for see they are totally different.

ps: it's highly possible that a dancing school was created in ala miggho for protect the leader, keeping dancer at hand able to fight is not something unheard....sword dancing is not a thing without reason.