This is the sort of crackpot theory that only comes from watching the trailer too many times. I went back to check something else in the trailer and then noticed this. I think I may have discovered a seventh class or at least something of note going on with costume/weapon/role relations.
During the brief shot of Lanz and Sena in ouroboros form fighting a ropl, you can see a party member in the distance fighting two scorpox.
Going through this bit frame by frame, you'll see Mio and Eunie are to the left of the ouroboros, and Taion is on its right side. By process of elimination, the distant character must be Noah. According to the HUD, he's in an attacker class. He's not wearing the red jacket and the red sword is nowhere to be seen, I can't make out a hammer either. Instead, he's wearing a black outfit with a big yellow band in the middle. I guess the closest thing it looks like is Eunie's outfit. There's blue damage numbers above both scorpox meaning he just used an AOE art. The stance he's in, the end of the art's animation, has his arms spread out and his body leaning forward. It looks like the animation typical of dual-wielding weapons (reminds me of Seven's Double Wind animation), but the HUD shows the attacker icon by his portrait when twin rings are a defender role weapon. I know it's small and blurry, but it looks like there's a short gray weapon in at least his right hand. There isn't a seventh party member according to the HUD either so it would have to be Noah.
Here are four ideas of what we're looking at:
- It's a class beyond the six we know. A dual-wielding attacker class, probably dual swords. Or maybe Zeon's sword and shield class.
- You actually do switch to the appropriate weapon when using left palette arts, and you can also wear any outfit. Noah's in the swordfighter class, but he's wearing the medic gunner jacket, and he has a twin ring art on the left palette which he just used, so it swapped his sword with the rings for the art's animation to work correctly.
- That's not Noah. It's like FF12 where random NPCs appear in the world and will fight monsters on their own. Noah's probably behind the ouroboros.
- He's just in the crusher class, the jacket looks weird on him, and the hammer is too blurry and small to see. If the outfit is shiny, the yellow could be something else just reflecting on it. The arms spread apart are what the hammer's AOE art looks like or he used a twin rings art with the hammer and it uses the same animation even if it looks weird with different weapons.
