Thief Treasure Hunter

[Daemon]

THF has been in this boat LONG before RDM was useless.

My point was THF was included in a variety of events than RDM. Since ToAu release RDM started on the path of becoming useless when SE implemented Mage Ballad for Bard. Evokers Roll for Corsair.

Resist / Completely resist was implement before cap was raised to 99. If i remember correctly this happened during 75 era. RDM was highly popular in a sense that we could enfeeble, Refresh and Phalanx Paladin Kiting HNM and step in to Kite giving fallen party members time to recover. Because SE added Resist and Completely resist, highly used spells such as Gravity, Bind, made the concept of kiting completely useless. Therefore RDM was unable to be useful and people started giving up on playing the job because other than being a secondary healer, RDM is not a primary DD that could hold hate and completely resist made it pointless for end game.

As for THF, yes I agree that the job is only used for Treasure hunter. Shark bite example was meant to be the example of how thief was popular 8 years ago, of course no one uses that now because this example was meant to take you back during the time 6 man groups were formed for exp. this was even before level sync was implemented.

At least throughout time THF was still included as a first priority to events that wanted rare items unlike RDM too many other jobs were invited that could replace us because RDM was never good at anything else other than a secondary healer, Refresh, Enfeebling.

As level cap rised, RDM became pointless when other jobs were allowed to carry most of our trademark spells such as Dispel, Gravity, Refresh, Phalanx.

Upon releasing Scholar, RDM was no longer invited for anything because Accession allowed the ability to share Enspells, Phalanx, Refresh. Also Convert encouraged jobs to sub RDM.

As for Thief duo in Abyssea, thief has the ability to be an evasion tanker by subbing Ninja for utsusemi and having 2 evasion Magian trial daggers with gear. (Which is why I said most people I partied with were THF)

Collaborator allowed THF to keep hate when tanking mobs. Or used in party to help mages when THF was invited for TH.

Feint was still used in Abyssea. Whether or not accuracy could be accounted for through support not every party brought the proper support which still made the ability still useful.

Maybe no one invited THF primarily for Feint but it was still used.

Anyways the main point of why I brought up this discussion is yes Thief is lacking the ability to be useful at Endgame. As the job deteriorated throughout the years, Now Treasure Hunter, which was the main reason THF was invited to all events, is being left out in SoA making Thief useless.

Also as I see the Devs are implementing all this iLvL gear, I'm hoping they haven't forgotten jobs such as THF.

As for Thief Knife example in my original post, this was meant to show the DEV Team how far behind THF is falling.