What a piece of nonsense.
Asn. Armlets +2
90 [Hands] All Races
DEF:21 CHR+7 Accuracy+9 Evasion+9 Enmity+5 "Treasure Hunter"+2
LV 90 THF
Raid. Poulaines +2
81 [Feet] All Races
DEF:23 AGI+15 Evasion+11 "Treasure Hunter"+1 Enhances "Despoil" effect Set: Augments "Triple Attack"
LV 81 THF
Thief's Knife
70 [Main] All Races
DPS: 866 DMG:28 Delay:194 "Treasure Hunter"+1
LV 70 THF
Not a single Haste, Attack, STR, DEX on this equipment. Thief's Knife Damage rating 2x lower than Mandau99. You're suggesting Thieves to full time all of this? In endgame? Go tell WARs SAMs MNKs DRGs NINs BLUs, pretty much everyone, to use a lv70 weapon and some junk armor with Haste -8 (losing Haste+4 on hands and feet) and see what they tell you.
Being forced from now on to full time this junk in Legion, Provenance, Odin v2, Meeble Burrows, Salvage and whatever other event you come up in the future and fall back in damage even further compared with other front line damage dealers is humiliating.
You're telling me to take pride in my TH+ equipment when at the same time it makes me a laughing stock of a damage dealer? What about all the hard work I have put into getting a decent damage+ off-hand dagger, hands and feet?!
You got it wrong.