There Is No Dancer (yet)

[Duelle]

You know i feel really sorry for the devs right now. They pretty much confirmed that red mage, the most iconic final fantasy job ever, is finally coming with stormblood and yet we have tons of threads discussing the mistaken assumption that the monk girl in the trailer is a dancer.

Well, to be fair they could have shown them using MNK AF like they did with the DRGs for the Heavensward cinematic. Instead they went super asymmetry with derplander and put a dancer-like outfit on the girl. That's messed with people's minds, and I get the feeling it's intentional.

That and the devs will probably get skewered anyways if it turns out RDM is going to be a refreshbot or something akin to that.

[Lambdafish]

Well, to be fair they could have shown them using MNK AF like they did with the DRGs for the Heavensward cinematic. Instead they went super asymmetry with derplander and put a dancer-like outfit on the girl. That's messed with people's minds, and I get the feeling it's intentional.

Estinian was also in the HW trailer, and this girl (Yda or not) is a MSQ character with presumably an NPC exclusive outfit (for now ).

Whether it is intentional or not it is doing good things for the devs by keeping the hype train rolling by our own doing, people are talking about stormblood, so of course they won't correct us until we have all of the information.

[MiraKershaw]

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"

[Remus]

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?

[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.

[ZhaneX]

Y'know, I really would love for her to be a Dancer. Both because A) Despite what some people say about her moves being mostly the same as a Monk, I think SE would be able to do some really creative animations for a Dancer in-game, and B) It would guarantee being able to wear that lovely outfit.

But to me, watching and rewatching the teaser, the single greatest piece of evidence that she's still a Monk is this. After her initial engagement, when the two face off to begin their spar, they take the exact same ready stance. I disagree with a lot of people going "Oh that's totally Meditation" or "Fists of Wind", or whatever other Monk technique they ascribe her motions to be. But that her opening stance is the same totally screams of using the same martial art as the obvious WoL Monk.