Thief's Knife - Updated.

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Originally Posted by Insaniac

I still see people maining TK. When I think that these people exist in the real world it makes me want to hide under my bed.

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I'd love to hear their reasoning for mainhanding it these days.

I have to say, especially in dynamis, that TH8 means crap all unless you proc. I was messing around in dynamis-beaucidine because I wanted thoughts and a few AF2 I never got, and if I fought a mob that wasn't ja proc, like drk, I'd pretty much get 0 drops at all. I go back the next day on pup to fight ws mobs instead and end up getting a ton more drops with just TH2. So yeah, at least for dynamis, off handing thf's knife seems like a total waste of freaking time.

Maybe it's because I've never solod dynamis on THF, only duo'd it with other DDs, but I've never found myself wishing that I was doing more damage. Mainly becasue some mobs will take longer to proc, so they're almost dead by the time it's procced. Those that proc straight away you can then use the TP you saved from the last mob and WS them to just about finish them off. If you didn't have TP up, chances are you have 4/5 FMs to reverse flourish then WS.
And since I'm duoing, if I don't have TP, I can trick attack the other DD, they can WS, or if they have hate, I can sneak attack it. Or I just grab another mob and start trying to proc while the other DD finishes it off.

The faster you get it to 5% the faster you can run off and steal a mob from a BST while your friend procs. Killing faster is always better than th+1 in events with time limits. The only excuse for TK in dynamis is if you're just pulling mobs to a brute squad of DDs and running off without attacking.

Depends on which type of mobs you fight, and how you handle pulling. With EP mobs, I can understand that feeling; I feel incredibly inefficient fighting EP mobs because I'm wasting huge amounts of my damage potential (partly due to limitations in how many can be pulled easily). With DC mobs, however, I'm always wanting to eek out a bit more damage to improve kill times, and feel like I'm using most of my potential. [Note: I always go in a party of 2-4; if 3 or 4, one person is a mage.]

As for the Thief Knife, as soon as I got TH6 from other gear, TK went into storage, and I have no intention of ever using it again. The extra TH is not worth the massive reduction in damage output if fulltimed, or the annoying reduction in damage output if you keep swapping it in and out.

Yeah, when I duo it's on EP mobs. Also TK is on my off-hand. Just wanted to point that one out as I didn't specify earlier.