Does THF really need to be levelled..?

[Wind Adept]

Is it really worth it levelling THF past 25 for gilfarming? THF's really useful abilities seem to stop at fifteen.

Useful Active abilities (not including 2-hour)
Steal -------------- 5

Flee --------------- 25


Useful Job Traits
Gil Finder -------- 5

Evasion Bonus - 10

Treasure Hunter 15

Now, the useful abilities stop at 25, when you learn Flee. This is mostly for when our Mage's defense shines through the "but I can equip Light Armor! /emote hops up and down in frustration" delusion, and even then it's not especially worth the trouble. The job traits are, of course, useful for anyone, as well as Steal.

So.. Why bother to level THF up past 25, maybe even stop at 15? The argument of "but higher lvl thf sj adds dex to our stats so we can hit more and then we can get more gil and items and stuff lol" isn't a very good one, since in the higher levels' hits rely more on Skill, correct? What do you think?

[Maxim]

The only time you sub THF is when you are farming, and you are most likely farming solo so everything you do affects you and only you (in a general sense). Thus, the level you want to raise your sub job to is totally up to you. You aren't partying with THF sub (I would hope...) so your sub job isn't affecting anybody else.

[Discordian]

There is a level 58rdm/15thf on our server. I've only seen him with rdm58/war15 and rdm58/blm17. Pretty lazy. After 25 there really isn't a point unless you just want to go all the way for more dex and agi for better acuracy and defense. level 25 is the second big one because you get that cool ability flee, I just havn't had time to level it.

[Jei]

15thf for treasure hunt is the main reason to sub /thf.

bring it to 25 for flee is optional. but flee really is fun

actually, to level thief or not at all, is also optional you're soloing after all

[Tomoh]

Myself and everyone in my LS has Thief leveled to at least 15. I'm tempted to go 25 so I can be Flash. Kinda difficult now since I'm currently leveling my SMN17.

[jaby]

LOL, most of the people in my LS are doing the same thing. We all want treasure hunter *drools*

[Masaharu]

I've had my THF at 15 for a while now, and it makes a huge difference farming with and without it subbed, but...


Levelling a THF to 15 the "proper" way is the most painful thing I've ever done :dead:

[Sukashi]

I have my THF sub right now at level 11... it was very useful in Yughott when I was farming Orcs for their gil; however I think that I would have got more loot if I had levelled it to 15 and got TH

Even though I brought up my Dagger WS with RDM soloing with Onion Knife in Dangruf Wadi to around 60 which is fine enough for THF15 I still don't want to level up THF... so boring solo, it's like gimped WAR -_-