There Is No Dancer (yet)

[Neophyte]

technically he can't wear 2 weapon anymore and even if they look like sword, ninja use 2 DAGGER.... no sword ^^

You mean like this other class which most often uses daggers in almost every FF iteration? Called Dancer.


People talk sooo much about "Oh, Summoner is totally not an FF summoner!" or "DRK is totally not an FF dark Knight", but this ist ok?!

Profile of dancer:
"Dancers most often equip daggers, such as the Dancing Dagger, which is usually associated with the Dancer class. Their ability, Dance, performs one of several actions chosen at random, and their stats are some of the lowest of all classes."

FF IV: Calca has a skill called Jive, which performs random effects on enemies. Brina has a skill called Dance, which casts random white magic on the party.
FF V: The Dancer uses its various dancing skills to affect the enemy party in different ways.
FF VI: Mog's Dances are based on the terrain and perform various random attacks depending on which Dance he uses. Mog learns new Dances by fighting on new terrain, and when using a dance that belongs to a different terrain than the one currently in use, he has a chance of failing.
FF X-2: The Songstress's dances inflict status ailments and debuffs on enemies.
FF XI: Dancers are a support class. Their abilities are a mixture of healing and debuffs, but are capable of dagger-based combat on par with Thieves. They are the only healer class that does not rely on magic.
FF XII RW: At the end of Final Fantasy XII, Penelo became a dancer while learning some things about the arts of healing. She uses these skills. Her skillset combines White Magick and Dances that inflict debuffs on enemies and enchantment buffs on her teammates.
FF Tactics: Dancer job can only be used by female units. It uses different dances to inflict status effects and affect an enemy's stats.


Sooo.. from a blade-dancing (rogue like), debuffing/healing supporter they turned him to almost-only monk'ish fist-fighter.

Nothing, except that she uses a Dress with a weapon attached and the fact that she actually dances (but absolutly separated from the actual fighting) suggests that this is a dancer.

Every other aspect (kicks, punchs, battle-pose, chakra) scream "MONK!!!".

The fact that we know that no one rivals the 2 existing monk factions in hand-2-hand combat suggests that, too. Garleans even wanted to wipe them out, but still there are those dancers at the same strenght level?!
Why do disciples of Rhalgr even care about all those inner chakra stuff, if you can just go to dancing school and get as strong as them in terms of punchs and kicks.

That's the facts. We have the dancing and the weapon. And we have everything monk-like else. As I said, don't make Raubahn a NIN just because of his 2 weapons and don't make Papalymo a DoW because of his plate gauntlets. Don't make Ysalea a Summoner just because she summoned Shiva.