Quote Originally Posted by Esmian View Post
If it makes you feel better you could have someone give you a potion once a day and you can pretend that you stole it from a mob.
Honestly I want steal to be focused solely on attributes, I don't trust SE with treasure-hunting or item acquisition after FFXI, there were far too many instances of, "We know Thief isn't doing damage or managing hate, but if we made them good at what they're supposed to be good at, they'd be OP with treasure hunter" which relegated the class at the highest levels of play to being invited when a mob was at 5% to hit it once.

There's also the fact that it excludes the common lore other jobs get with previous FFs, such as AF, subtle nods to other famous characters of the job (Such as BLM and Shantoto), etc.