Strike Bagnakhs for THF/MNK?

[Teripid]

Still fighting Undead you'll NEED an alternative. I was helping a friend with Lich for G1 as a 52 THF (and skilling up my H2H).

It was about level 94 at the time. I asked for a Burning Blade from the other Thief, SA + TA + Combo. 1430 damage with Renkei!

I've come close to this as a THF/WAR with great gear, Zerk and SA + TA + Viper (about 1250 max) but this was a whole new level, especially considering how awful my Dagger and even Sword are vs Undead.

The other thief completely abandoned his SA + TA + FB and kept feeding me Burning Blade for that lovely Light/Fire Fusion. If this is on "T"s with my H2H about 30-35 levels below cap, I don't even want to consider what it'll be like when capped and with Raging Fists!

It was enough to make me want to level MNK for a utility sub when my groups fight bones!

[Matkun]

At that low a level, the H2H cap being lower for THF/MNK doesn't really affect it all. I was doing more damage on Sneaks and normal attacks then another THF using dagger at level 25. Your accuracy will be fine, especially if your mithra.

Up until 30, Stirke Baghnaks are good. Your accuracy is high enough that you don't actually need +acc gear specifically, and just +dex rings and normal thf dex is enough.


The main damage that your doing is from sneak attacks anyways, and you can't miss those either way, so yes, Strike Baghnaks are good.

Small sword I wouldn't say is very good because of the lower damage on it. Either use a 1h sword with as high damage as you can find (since the higher the base damage on the weapon, the more sneak will do, and 5 or so points of damage is much more damage added then +2 dex), or use h2h with the highest +dmg you can get, or strike baghnaks.

IF You are NOT mithra, or have good dex, then I'd say stop using 1h sword/h2h at level 25, since then the gap beteween capped 1h sword and capped dagger reaches 10, and 14 for h2h. (At 25 THF, sword cap = 68, h2h cap = 64, dagger cap = 78).

When your 10 points below the cap for your level, it's like having -10 acc and -10 attack.

[Thark601]

lvl'ing thf on the side and i've been using strike's / decorons dagger

with the strikes i got +12 dex, sa with h2h = about 100...

but what i've noticed really is that even at this lvl the dagger is just so much more powerful... meaning 140+ SA without a ws added

i also carry around a sword, just to cap it every lvl, but i beleive it's the weakest of the 3 choices

keep in mind i'm elvaan thf currently 27