[Dev1017]

[Karbuncle]

Yeah, that was my exact reaction. There were a couple of "outrage" threads on the general discussion forum as well lol.

Having said that I don't think this is all we are getting either. I think (I hope!) we'll have an idea of what their adjustment plan is for THF in August.

I can already guess :X

91-95 We'll get a new Mug, that doesn't work on anything special, still can't mug cruor, and occasionally inflicts an Ailment. Also to balance it steals 10x less gil than normal mug.

We might get Shield Def Bonus or some other useless 'fluff' ability we wont use these levels because we have a whole F- in Shield and SE doesn't know what to do with us. its like "You lost but heres your parting gift!" game show type thing.

96-99. We might see Dual Wield III, but probably not. They'll probably give us a 3rd "Collab" type ability that takes 90% of the Targets Enmity, but has 10 minute recast. And will never be used, because Collab is still the best bet outside of incredibly dire situations.

Of which we will see no improvements to:

Our DD Abilities
Sneak Attack
Trick Attack
Anything useful combat wise.

We will get:

"hate control' Abilities no one will use outside of 5% of situations. Because apparently in FFXI Thiefs should be "hate control experts", you know, something i've never in my life related "THFs" to being.

Useless abilities that don't work on anything important (See: Despoil)


I saved THFs a lot of worry :P