What classes could share gear with ninja?

[Liam_Harper]

Aesthetics. Scouting gear for the most part varies between light armor and tighter clothing while Aiming gear tends to have more flowing clothing and long jackets.

Perhaps it would be possible to merge more gear types together, but have it change appearance depending on the job, similar to how the same piece of gear can look different on each gender. That way a Dex top could be equipped on both NIN and DNC, but would have a much different appearance on each job.

They could even look at expanding the system used for pre-order earrings, where they change main/secondary stats depending on the job that equips them, allowing jobs with different main stats to equip them same item. It would save a lot of armory space.

[Ayche]

Samurai.

Leave benching whole gorillas to the Monks, if there is something that screams "Dex to damage", it is the Samurai.

[Pyitoechito]

Make a new unique class that uses Zidane's dual-bladed thief swords (like how Gunbreaker is based on FF8's gunblade).

Grand Lethal, Free Energy, Meo Twister, Scoop Art, Solution 9, Tidal Flame, Stellar Circle 5, Shift Break...

[Wundermotte]

I'd like to see GAM (Gambler).
Whip usage, some quick and notch fighting style with some swings and scapes, like RDM. I can see GAM using some mechanics that reduce enemies defenses by luck.
Like a gauge that once it's fully charged can debuff by 25/50/75% of their defenses for a couple seconds, but only if they that get the skill right.
Even more, the skills can increase the Gauge once they Crit!

[TheMightyMollusk]

Roll Scouting into Aiming and Maiming into Striking. Eliminate two gear sets for future development, open up past glamours to more jobs, reduce armory clutter.

[Iscah]

Roll Scouting into Aiming and Maiming into Striking. Eliminate two gear sets for future development, open up past glamours to more jobs, reduce armory clutter.

Open up past glamours at the cost of future ones, though. Assuming they even did that rather than left the old ones "as is" and just made less new designs covering more classes each.

I think I'd rather continue to get a wider range of exact designs even if each one can be used by less classes.

[Haventale]

Saying we'd lose something from making scouting aiming gear instead is kinda silly. Every gear set/collection only has about 3, maaaybe 4 at most visual designs. The rest are reskins or have the smallest tweak, like, one has shorter sleeves but is otherwise the same, lol. The only thing that'll change is having 3ish designs split between 5 gear sets instead of 7. So we just get less reskins.

Think about the exarchic set. Fending and Maiming are basically just reskins. Scouting, Striking and Aiming are literally reskins. And Casting and Healing are basically reskins minus the headpiece. There are really only three appearances, split across 7 gear sets. So nothing changes, we're still getting the same 3ish appearances. Like, if you want a different colour, then just dye it. Think about the gear sets we've gotten in shadowbrings that aren't artifact gear, they're pretty much all like that.

[Burningskull]

I would say SAM and Reaper need to switch gear sets. Reaper seems like it would be better suited to leather and cloth like a MNK and SAM would be better suited for the heavy armor of DRG. As for NIN left side... Maybe a twinblade user like Zidane from FF9.

[Brightshadow]

If SE gets rid of classes at some point I would love to see Rogue separated from Ninja.

Rogue is basically thief and there are a lot of loyal fans for the thief job. Ninja and thief have almost always coexisted.

They could even share gear

[Ilyn]

How about a Hunter ? Like Ninja it would duel wield but with 2 different weapons like a physical and a ranged weapon instead of daggers and mudra rotation !! I figure that by level 100 that it could have a different weaponskill rotation for each weapon and depending on where you are in the combo with each weapon you can set up or do different actions or combos . A hunter would thematically fit with a speedy/duel wielding/dexterous /hybrid melee range job and it could use an ability like Sneak Attack to coincide with ninjas trick attack . Plus if we go to undiscovered unruly regions in the source after EW where magic isn't a thing where people hunt each other for bounty it could totally work but that's my hot take on the subject lol