Lack of Thief Love.Follow

After playing FF for over a year, I thought it was time I step upto the challenge and not play a cookie cutter job. I wanted to see what it felt like to seek for five hours without invite. To accomplish this, I took up Thief.

The first thing I have to say about thief: I love this job!

I mean, where the hell have you been all my life? Thief is one of the best damage dealers I've played! After the recent update, dare I say, Thief is on par with Ranger damage wise. At level 37 I'm SATA+VB for 500 + 200 Distortion. Whilst dual weilding two Daggers and hitting for 15-20 per dagger.

After taking NIN and WHM up high, I notice whenever there is a thief in my partys, the party always moves faster. Granted their Damage per hit isn't as high as some jobs, but I'm yet to see a job who can compare in their Weapon Skills [including SATA].

I find it amazing that Thief aren't getting invites for hours on end, when they can roll off an amazing WS with amazing damage. Leveling up ranger months ago, Piercing Arrow, couldn't even do a fifth of the damage SATA+VB is doing now. After the last update, let's be honest here, Slug Shot really isn't all that anymore... Saying that, I can't wait to see what SATA+ Dancing Edge brings me.

The only reason I can see Thief not getting invites, is because many of the people who play it.. don't play it well and have given the job a bad name.

Other than that, please inform me. Why is Thief not getting any love?

why can't there be more people like you around my level ; ; (on another job that is.. <.<)

I have a bud who's 71+ lvl thf. He approached it the correct way, makes sure to have all the right equipt/items. But there he sits in Jeuno. Yet sometimes, when the stars are lined up, he'll just log in and get an invite.

Tamandra, hit the nail on the head. Nothig wrong with a lil SATA Hate (unless the tank is sub par). G'luck to ya Conno!! Bringing the love back to a class is tough, but doing it one party at a time will help... Sux that 1 or 21 bad apples spoil the pie for awhile.

Why do THF sit around in Jeuno waiting for invites? Because 80% of THF don't put out 500 + 200 damage via satavb and distortion.

That's the facts.

I had a THF doing barely 250-280 per satavb in an onzozo party the other day.

having played thf, with top gear even, i have to say that past 50 it just isn't as fun because the numbers start to dwindle,before that i had a lot of fun on the job.

if people fought things that you didn't need to use sushi to hit, /nin could be good using attack food like I used to be able to ; ;

I don't know what it is.. but every single time I post on the rag forums, I get rated down. Oh well, keep trying at it-- never'll move this karma. Oh and if you can tell me why you rated me down, always love to know.

Edited, Sun Aug 7 05:41:42 2005 by Deadgye

A good THF will always be good by the way they play, less than what equipment they wear (and the same could be said for all jobs). If you want to level, then go for it, start parties, don't be content just sitting and waiting. THF is a fun job for sure and have fun with it.

THF is a lot better than people think. Personally though I kinda like THF/SAM at 60+. Super fast renkei and their damage really is in their WS. I partied with one once and....... wow. o_o;
I also know a THF that is capable of outdamaging other melee jobs with WS. She mentioned to me before that she did 1300+ damage while a DRK/THF did just ~1k. Not a bad drk either... has some HQ gear and everything. She usually does anywhere from 900-1400+ damage apparently depending on mob type, etc. This is at 75, mind you.

I like THFs with all jobs but BRD (if I have a PLD tank). With PLD tank brds don't like thf/ or /thf XD Since most do not know how to position themselves nor what to watch for (and still don't if you tell them). Positioning is very important to a brd. :x but... with my other jobs... I LOVE thf^^ And the new changes to thf over the last 6 months made thf even better.