Thief Job Ability Synergy: This is not 2005

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If you don't need TH, don't take a thf to DD

Why not? THF has a lot of potential to be a quite capable DD. Definitely not the best, but a good THF is more than capable of being a good DD on anything that can be melee DD'ed. Especially now with the AGL update and all the subtle blow options.

This thread (at least for me anyway) was never about increasing damage potential. It was about allowing more opportunities to fulfil our current DD potential.

you wouldn't take a BLM to DD a mob weak to magic would you? Maybe you would.

Why wouldn't one take a BLM to DD a mob that is weak to magic? Maybe you meant strong against magic?

Agreed. You seem to be forgetting though, that before Abyssea we were simply TH whores, or a decent DD at bird camp. The only thing that has really changed, is that vs NMs now (or anything that you want increased drop rate from) people are (should be) splitting SA/TA/WS. And other people in the party are (should be) encouraging you to do so. This was a step in the right direction.

Nah. TH whores were TH whores for sure, and there were/are many of those. A good THF always had the potential to be a relevant DD, even if playerbase perception did not reflect this.

As for splitting SA/TA/WS etc. this is a topic of interest for me. As far as I'm aware, there has not been significant testing in this regard, but it has been shown that TH procs can occur during weaponskills. It very well may be that stacking SA/TA WS still gives you the additional chance to proc TH that SA/TA provide. Given that SA/TA still retain all of their other properties when stacked (100% Accuracy, Enmity Transfer, Damage multipliers for DEX/AGL etc), it seems reasonable to me that they would. Definitely worth testing.

I agree with the points you wanted on th[e first post, but some of your reasoning in more recent posts is absurd.

lol. Happy to hear you agreed with some of the points in the OP. Interested to hear what you thought was "absurd" about my reasoning since then.

I only ask because you seemed to be responding to things I didn't say....along the lines of "THF getting DD power equal to other DD's", "THF should be a heavy DD" etc etc. None of which was asked for in this thread, by anyone, least of all me.