Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
Bo staves are a distinct weapon type in FF XII/FFT, so they could reasonably go that route as well.

The new variant dungeon has a blurb on one of the records mentioning how the monks of Hingashi are capable of far more with a staff then unsophisticated bludgeoning so there is some slight precedent for it already.
Ok fair, yet the odds of SE implementing another staff using class is a bit far fetched to me. Monks already exist. I sincerely do not believe they will introduce a "monk" style job into FF14 that shares the left side with Ninja.