I'm not going to talk about brd and dnc, because no one cares about brd's damage, and even if rudra's is nerfed into the ground dnc is still going to be doing better numbers than war and drk with Pyrrhic Kleos.

But you are really grasping at straws if you think placebo hunter and aura steal is enough for thf to be considered support instead of damage dealing. Warcry gives attack for the party, Bloodrage gives +20% crit rate to the party. Then there is tomahawk which lowers a mobs pdt by 25%. Ukko's Fury does slow, Full Break lowers the target's attack, defense, accuracy and evasion... Which one of these jobs were support again? Because it sounds a lot like that's what war does. Drk too what with all their enfeebling dark magic, and absorb attribute which is like aura steal only not tied to a 5 minute ja timer.

Thf is a damage dealing job. Or it originally was. One of the oldest tricks in the book was for thf, a tank, and another dd to do this. The tank would use a weaponskill. The DD would skillchain and pull hate away from the tank. Then the thf would close with a SATA off the tank for, (at the time) massive amounts of damage.

Back then getting 100 tp actually took about a minute, so everything worked out.

Then tp rates went up you could get 100 tp in half the time so thf alternated between sa and ta.

Then there was a long dark history for thf when it would just tag with th and then have to side on the side lines and be bored.

Now thf can actually contribute, and isn't the best DD, but is the best skillchain closer, as it should be.

I know that war has had some tough times too like when Ukko's got nerfed, but acro set can get +3% crit rate, and +3% crit damage on every peice, so might be something to look into.

Oh and the reason the OF is not very active is because there are other forums where people don't get banned for pointing out what is causing the fishing crash to happen. (nb4 banned for this post)