Poll: If/When Dancer is added to XIV, I would like it to be...

[Mimilu]

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This time, I didn't add a "Don't want added" option... >w>

Again, this is a poll for fun, not for SE or anything. >///w///> ♥

[Alberel]

If we do get it, it'll be a healer.

As a DPS of any kind it would feel too similar to MNK. As a tank it wouldn't really make any sense. As a healer though, it would be one of the only opportunities for them to give us a TP based healing job. Given how the devs are struggling to differentiate the MP based healers this would be a really easy one to make unique simply due to having a different resource system.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

A lot of votes seem to be favoring support/utility in either the healer or dps role atm.

[Tint]

i would like to see it as a DPS with a single knife and support skills - some kind of a meele bard, with dances instead of songs ^^

[Medicine]

I'll be upset if it's not a healer that's the only role dnc really fits into.

[Zojha]

As a healer though, it would be one of the only opportunities for them to give us a TP based healing job.

And completely destroy any semblance of balance in the process. I would also argue that if anything, it would feel too similar to Ninja as melee DPS, seeing as Monk has next to zero support and I can't imagine any rendition of dancer - Tank, DPS or Healer - that comes without ample support abilities. That and daggers being the most common weapon for dancers.

Personally, I have a hard time imagining a dancer without mobility and an even harder time imagining SE being able to balance a healer with lots of mobility, so if it's a healer, it likely will be a "dancer" in the same way a summoner without summons is still a summoner because it's named such.

[AlphaFox]

And completely destroy any semblance of balance in the process. I would also argue that if anything, it would feel too similar to Ninja as melee DPS, seeing as Monk has next to zero support and I can't imagine any rendition of dancer - Tank, DPS or Healer - that comes without ample support abilities. That and daggers being the most common weapon for dancers.

Personally, I have a hard time imagining a dancer without mobility and an even harder time imagining SE being able to balance a healer with lots of mobility, so if it's a healer, it likely will be a "dancer" in the same way a summoner without summons is still a summoner because it's named such.

If the healer has lower yet constant healing, I'd say that would be the main gimmick for them. I mean still give them some form of emergency heal like Benediction or Essential Dignity of course though.

[Kling-Klang]

I would like dancer as a support melee dps or a healer with buffs, similar to ast but instead with dances and stuff.
Maybe like NIN mudras? Combinations of different dance moves to make different spells would be awesome.

[Alberel]

And completely destroy any semblance of balance in the process. I would also argue that if anything, it would feel too similar to Ninja as melee DPS, seeing as Monk has next to zero support and I can't imagine any rendition of dancer - Tank, DPS or Healer - that comes without ample support abilities. That and daggers being the most common weapon for dancers.

Would you mind expanding on how exactly it would destroy any semblance of balance? Unless you haven't noticed, TP vs MP use does not unbalance the tank or DPS roles. Why exactly would it be inherently unbalanced for the healers?

[zcrash970]

Personally I want DNC to be a debuffer/ support healer. It uses MP, like the other healers, to heal and support, while at the same time uses TP to attack and debuff the enemies. Kind of combining ideas from FFT dancer and bard jobs, where they were a debuffer and buffer respectively.