Low level thief questions...

[Dirkz]

Hey everyone. Im a lvl 7 mithra thief and i was just a little confused on some things. First of all, i am leveling much slower at lvl 7 than i did with my redmage ( he was another character ). I've heard about doing warrior first to 18, then switching to thief with warrior subjob. Should i try this? Or should i just stick it out to 15 as possibly the worst class (until lvl 15?) :confused:

[Miluda]

I did WAR first and I dont regret it one bit. It helps so much more.

[Bishop]

thf is VERY hard to lvl until 15. Its a very boring trip, and you get little to no invites especially if you don't have a subjob. You'e not doing anything wrong.

[Dirkz]

okay

So do you think it would be best to just start my mithra at lvl 1 warrior and work that up to 18? Because it took a while for my thief to get to lvl 7.... So should i? or not? How much quicker wil my warrior go from 1-15 than my thief 1-15? And is having a warror subjob essential pre 15?

[Bishop]

not essential, but you will get more invites. Per 15 thfs have no provoke, weaker defense than wars, no sneak attack, and weaker normal attacks. There is no reason for a person to chose a thf with no sub over a war. But with a war sub, at least you have an hp boost, and you have provoke at lvl 10. You can even act as a backup tank at low lvls. War is very easy to lvl to 18, but weather you should lvl war or thf to 18 first, is up to you.

[UltDust]

I wish I knew this before starting my theif.. soloing is starting to seem harder and harder with every level..

[Fain]

One thing about subbing WAR is that you will be expected to provoke in parties and thus dying much more than being a cowardly THF or THF/MNK.

[UltDust]

Originally posted by Fain
One thing about subbing WAR is that you will be expected to provoke in parties and thus dying much more than being a cowardly THF or THF/MNK.

Thats kind of a plus.. I chose Thief for less responsibility.. though it seems I have even more when soloing..

[Nameless]

I was 13 for 2 (two) weeks as a THF -_-;;

I blame that on my low level.

(I went from 10-15 in 2 days as a WAR, just to show how much easier it is)

[Bishop]

Originally posted by Fain
One thing about subbing WAR is that you will be expected to provoke in parties and thus dying much more than being a cowardly THF or THF/MNK.

At earlier lvls, the damage that a thf takes compared to the damage that a war takes has minimal difference. I tanked when I was low lvl thf and they expected me to provoke when the main tank was in trouble.

[Derian]

THF hard to lvl?

well, me actually had no problem to lvl my THF up to lvl 18. I needed 1 and a half week (about 10 days) for it.

i soloed till lvl 12, than asked some friends to invite me. also got the luck to find a lvl 72 WHM who powerleveled me to 14.

from now on i started asking like: need a THF lvl 14? soon i can serve you with sneak attack and treasure hunt.

so i found my parties very fast. the moment you hit lvl 15 you will get plenty of invites anyway cause everyone starts to seek for subjob items in dunes and with a THF who got treasure hunt its much easier.

im not sure, but i think i lvled my THF even faster than my WAR cause there are plenty of WARs and only a few THF.

also depense on the server. i played on Gilgamesh and Unicorn now and what i can say is Gilgamesh is the worst server i can image.
Lots of JPs playing only with themself and messing up economy. european dont see the benefits of THFs and do not even know how to play their own jobs.
Unicorn is sensational. I can really recommand it to everyone whos thinking to change his server.
im offering WPs too, if someone needs one. Just icq me or write me an email ;-)

greetz derian