Thief's Time To Shine?

[FrankReynolds]

It's been well over a year since the complete disaster that was this developer response to our concerns

Camate, can we get an update as to the developers' plans and vision for THF to "shine":



Because all I really see is the addition of events that marginalise Treasure Hunter (or just render it completely useless) and are very very difficult to get a pickup invite as a THF.

If no one needs THF for treasure hunter

No one uses THF to manipulate enmity

And no one looks for THF to Deal Damage because our DD is weaker than other DD's...

Where does that leave us?

Wow, I almost forgot that giant list of stupid remarks from the devs.

Hopefully they have changed their mind about most of that stuff.

[SpankWustler]

We believe making Aura Steal a separate ability would be over-powered.

So...

...Uh...

You guys might want to consider abandoning all hope and wailing in lament as a plan of action. The belief system of the Development Bros is both harsher and more nihilistic than that of a clinically depressed Mennonite.

[Delvish]

"There are no nifty items to steal on NMs. Plz fix."

That’s what Aura Steal is for! The effects stolen by Aura Steal are essentially the raw stats that the monster possesses.

"Can we make Aura Steal a separate ability?"

We believe making Aura Steal a separate ability would be over-powered. If we did do this, it’s likely that its use on notorious monsters would be removed and it would have even less of an effect than it does now.

To me, this is an oxymoron. Nothing to steal on NMs? Use AuraSteal! Can't separate Aurasteal because it would be too powerful on NMs. Wut?

[Nala]

Honestly I dont know what to say, THF was my first job to 75, and for a long while my only 75... I've already voiced many things that could be done, many things that shouldn't be done as have most others here, its all been rejected or denied for the sake of barance.

As it stands despite the producer change over, a new leaf you have not turned as such, Basically i dare you to actually disprove my cynicism and actually fix things that are long since needing it.

[Mostfowl]

The biggest problem right now with jobs across the board is that if you dont have one of the higher dps jobs, can heal, buff or proc than the job is rendered virtually obsolete. Its not just happening to thf but other jobs such as rdm and pld. The game has become a giant hold/proc/zerg fest and the things that do not need procing just get zerged. Instead of adding 2 new jobs they could widdle it down to around 6 again.

Until they change the game to reintroduce strategy we can talk til we are blue in the face but they will always have some excuse about balance or whatever crap key word they wanna use this week. But since SoA was said by the new producer to be more geared toward the current player and not to attract new or returning players I don't see hope for alot of those kinds of changes coming our way.

Sad when some of the best jobs get reduced to near worthlessness.

[ManaKing]

I'm a RDM, not a THF. You have it pretty bad.

[Metaking]

you know its pretty bad when the rdms think your worse off than they are, still se does need to do some kind of boost for 1 handed jobs

[Insaniac]

se does need to do some kind of boost for 1 handed jobs

This.

When the devs are creating content to challenge even the best geared DDs, starting off with a 30+ acc/att deficit on 1h jobs is a killer.

[Nebo]

This.

When the devs are creating content to challenge even the best geared DDs, starting off with a 30+ acc/att deficit on 1h jobs is a killer.

^This.

Its also pretty whack that our WS are trash unstacked, and in many events with lots of DD's they are difficult to stack...solo they are difficult to stack....lowman they are difficult to stack.

hmmmmm.........

[woie]

Instead of adding 2 new jobs they could widdle it down to around 6 again.

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didnt they already do this? war mnk drk whm sch rng or gtfo?

i really do hope they have a plan to bring back pld rdm and thf, but even if they do it will take them 3 years to do it