Quote Originally Posted by Skivvy View Post

- The long-anticipated Dancer's a DPS despite historically doing (de-)buffs more than damage - My only experience with DNC is from XI. In XI, it can toss out some buffs, true, but it can hold its own as a DD as well. I'm totally OK with this one myself.
I think a lot of people were basing that speculation on FFXI alone and assuming dancer.... for me, however, my exposure to dancer was from FFVI and FFT where it definitely was NOT a healing job. FFVI it functioned more like a berserker role where once you assigned Mog a dance, that's all you get for the rest of the fight or until Mog dies. In FFT, it was a female only job (thankfully they didn't copy that over given races are gender locked... why not gender locked jobs too!) that you unlocked by mastering all the physical classes on a female character, and then it kept to the back dishing out debuffs and enemy damage, so definitely not a healer there either.

As for the OP suggestion this is all a prank, if you believe that, you're only setting yourself up to be disappointed. Best you can hope for now is the addition of a healing job at a later time, and the expansion of the two new races later. They did say this was the last new races, so they can no pull the "technically" card if they want to make Male Viera and female Ronso later while still keeping true to their word that they're not adding a new race. At least this is my hope, they likely knew the player base wanted the Viera and they wanted a more beastial race, and the higher ups said they can only have one more race added, so they pulled a trick that will let them finish both down the line.