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Title: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: SecretANIME on January 05, 2008, 06:26:23 pm

 I need help...making a thief.. I made one I just don't know what stats to put in. Do thiefs need str and agility? If so agiliity or str more? I'm so confused! Does anyone know where I can find a build for a thief. And I'm also confused on the skills. D:  ???         

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: the_undutchable on January 05, 2008, 06:33:11 pm

It would help if you said your current level and job level as well as your equips.

As a thief you should be running a lot of agi (for flee mainly) and str for damage. If you have NPC gear.
Of course you need enough dex to hit.

I'd suggest
20 STR
40~50 AGI
25~35 DEX

Focus on agi first when you hit 20 dex.

As for skills:
Get level 10 double attack, then level 10 increase dodge (both passive)
Then you can choose between envenom and steal/hide. Envenom is great for damage. But your low sp will take a lot of GJ for constant use.

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: SecretANIME on January 05, 2008, 06:39:29 pm

Quote from: the_undutchable on January 05, 2008, 06:33:11 pm

It would help if you said your current level and job level as well as your equips.

As a thief you should be running a lot of agi (for flee mainly) and str for damage. If you have NPC gear.
Of course you need enough dex to hit.

I'd suggest
20 STR
40~50 AGI
25~35 DEX

Focus on agi first when you hit 20 dex.

As for skills:
Get level 10 double attack, then level 10 increase dodge (both passive)
Then you can choose between envenom and steal/hide. Envenom is great for damage. But your low sp will take a lot of GJ for constant use.

I'm still confused because idk what stats to put in first? Str, agility, or dex first? >.< Confusing.  :laugh:Thanks for the skills btw!

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: SecretANIME on January 05, 2008, 06:40:43 pm

Well yeah, I created it so I'm like only base lv 12 and job lv 1 >.< Ummm....so those are my lvs  :P

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: the_undutchable on January 05, 2008, 06:46:17 pm

Well... Personally I do this:

I change to thief at level 35/40 (use the 1z novice gear)

when creating: full dex, full str, full agi
Then for stats:
10 STR, AGI, DEX
15~20 DEX (depending on where I'm levelling)
20 AGI
20 STR
50 AGI
30~40 STR
99 AGI
rest in STR

I sometimes put some more DEX in between the 20 STR and 50 AGI
Job change whenever I feel like it.

This is what I used when I made my fully NPC geared thief/rogue

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: SecretANIME on January 05, 2008, 06:48:31 pm

Dosen't that mean being a novice until lv 35-40. o.o

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: the_undutchable on January 05, 2008, 06:52:07 pm

Yup. It's not that hard to get there.
Go 1 west of prontera, than take the bottom west exit to the next map. Go one map further west and you'll be on a map with lots of roda frogs and poporings.
Kill these with the novice gear for some pretty ast levelling.

Explore the maps around there for better leveling places if you wish, but poporings are the best. At around level 30ish you can move one even further west and kill ambernites and poison spores there.

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: SecretANIME on January 05, 2008, 06:54:17 pm

How long would you say it would take and why stay a novice?  ???

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: the_undutchable on January 05, 2008, 06:59:05 pm

I can make one in about 1~2 hours. Depends on how fast I find poporings.

The reason why I do this is because we get awesome novice gear (sell your standard cotton shirts and knife to the novice shop, and buy all the 1z novice items from that shop. You can see it when you first login on a new character). If you job change early, leveling will be quite hard, because you have bad equipment and you have few stats. At level 35/40 you have bad equips but you have decent stats to survive.

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: SecretANIME on January 05, 2008, 07:00:45 pm

Will you still get the same amount of first job skills? And isn't that like near your 2nd job, Assassin (I think).

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: the_undutchable on January 05, 2008, 07:03:53 pm

Yeah, everything will just be the same.
the only difference will be that instead of

12/1 thief, you'd be

35/1 thief.

Then let's say you're going for a rogue:
Then you'd probably get

60/40 thief --> 60/1 rogue

Your base level remains the same (until you max it at 99 and rebirth, but that's a long way away and you'll learn about that whilst playing)

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: SecretANIME on January 05, 2008, 07:07:06 pm

And also is Assassin good? And Rogue is a job after thief right? And someone told me that you can use two types of dagger or katars at once. One on each hand . is That True? XP Can you buddy me on the game? XDD

Title: Re: I need help on making a thief...
Post by: the_undutchable on January 05, 2008, 07:18:35 pm

After thief you can choose either to become an assassin or rogue.
Neither is better, neither is worse. It depends on your preferences.

Assassins can wield katars or 2 daggers (one dagger in each hand), They have access to lots of poison skills (search for the useful links thread to find a link to better descriptions). I don't know much about assassins, since I play my rogue as a main. (I do have a sin, but never use it)

Rogues can wield a dagger&shield or a bow, they get strip skills (removing equipment from an enemy), plagiarism (copying a skill), backstab style skills (you hide and do a sneak attack). You also get a for fun skill called graffiti, which allows you to write on the floor (costs one red gem). There are some other skills that are not that good to use.

If you decide what you want to have as a main you can come join the guild I'm in. We're a non-WoE firendly guild. Visit us at http://www.wiistyle.co.uk/aesir/index.php
Make an account and post in the guild recruitment. We have an awesome sinX in our guild that can help you better if you choose for assassin. As well as more experienced players that can help you out ^^