There Is No Dancer (yet)

[Lambdafish]

*sighs* tiring, it's the monk of FF4, who is more chinese martial art, what we have in FF14 is totally different

I know that's the MNK from FFIV, a MNK moving very similarly to the MNK woman in the trailer. Yes the fighting style is a little bit different from the WoL but she does literally use some of the MNK moves, even emulating some of the same moves as the WoL (which is who the male was confirmed to be). People have seen featherfoot, snap punch, and I believe dragon kick performed by her, and at the end she definately uses the same chakra move as the WoL (albeit red, probably for stylistic reasons), if she is a DNC then the WoL also must be a DNC.

Some points to take from the trailer:

- The movement performed by her is a chinese martial arts style, not a dance. This is similar to Yangs (hes a MNK) movement in the FFIV trailer linked.

- The trailer is not indicative of moveset, and does not reflect the ingame fighting style of the character, as demonstrated by DRGs in the heavensward trailer.

- New unseen skills to come in 4.0, perhaps more akin to this chinese fighting style.

- Other speculation points to this person being Yda, Yda is a PGL, and Dancer will not branch off of PGL, the dev team are slowely doing away with classes and this would be an odd backwards step, MNK does branch off PGL though.

- Stormblood is to MNK what Heavensward was to DRG, given the information provided, and the fact that MNK will be tied to the story heavily (Yda and Widargelt alone point to this fact, as well as the Fist of Rhalgr), this woman is very likely following that same trend.

- The announcement schedule does not add up (this one is less evidence, more assumption). The likelyhood is that we will get 2 jobs this expansion, and if this is the case then we will get an announcement of one in tokyo, one in germany, and we already know that the one announced at tokyo will be RDM (because scarlet witch). What this means is that if it really is dancer, then we will be waiting until Germany to find that out, and it seems strange for them to give this big tease and then make us wait all that time, why did they not tease RDM in the trailer? unless the better theory is that they are not teasing a job at all.


If this is dancer then wow, it's a very MNK-esque dancer.