Thief (lv1-70)
Written by Mumei #4529 from ROO Discord Tavern
Thieves are masters of cloak and dagger. Surprise attacks and ambushes can always turn the tide of battle. They are from Morroc, the desert town of Rune Midgard.
Thief is mainly known for stealth kills and Poison. If you want to approach the enemy unnoticed, Thief will be the exact job you need. This means that using this job will include a lot of melee physical damage, so you will need to increase your Agility to increase the dodge rate. This also means enhancing your attack speed becomes quite necessary so you can deal continuous fast damage.
In this guide, we will look into:
Possible Builds for Thief
Recommended Skill Points Allocation
Recommended Stat Points Allocation
Recommended Equipment for each Build
Thief Class Progression
Leveling Spots
Special Tips for your Thief
1. Recommend Builds:
Trick Control Thief - This build highlights the Trick Control skill that deals AoE damage to all targets near the thief.
Auto Attack Thief - This build focuses on sheer attack speed and deals continuous damage. With the thief's double attack passive skill, you can deal double damage to the target when doing a normal attack. You can also use this build to trigger Auto skill cards when doing normal attacks.
Envenom Thief - This build focuses on the single-target damage skill Envenom. This skill deals Poison element single-target damage and has a chance to inflict Poison status that makes the targets lose their HP every second.
2. Skill Points Allocation
>For Envenom Build, max out Envenom, Double Attack, Increase Dodge, and Shield Dodge. Then allocate the rest of the points to Hiding.
For Trick Control Build, max out Trick Control, Double Attack, Increase Dodge, and Shield Dodge. Then allocate the rest of the points to Hiding.
Envenom deals Poison damage to the target and has a chance to inflict Poison status.Trick Control deals AoE damage to targets around the Thief.Double Attack deals double damage to your target when doing normal attacks.
> Both Increase Dodge and Shield dodge increase your ability to dodge incoming damage.
> Hiding makes you invisible for a certain amount of time.
3. Recommended Stat allocation
For the Trick Control Thief - Max out STR for more damage. No need to add AGI early. As for the hit rate, you can rely on your equipment.
For the Auto Attack Thief - Put points to both STR and AGI with a 2:1 ratio. This increases both the base DMG and the attack speed.(Recommendation from ROO Team: Max out AGI for later battles at higher levels.)
For the Envenom Thief - Same with the Auto Attack Build, put points to both STR and AGI with a 2:1 ratio. This increases both the base DMG and the attack speed.
(Recommendation from ROO Team: Max out AGI too.)
4. Recommended Equipment
1. Auto Attack Thief:
Weapon: Sandstorm
Armor: Thief Clothes or Combat Uniform
Garment: Ancient Cloak (Recommendation from ROO Team: Morrigane's Cloak)
Shoes: Bunny Slipper (Recommendation from ROO Team: Morrigane's Boots)
Accessories: Silver Ring
Cards: Picky, Ninetails, Andre, (Racial, Element, Size) Cards
Note: You will be using continuous auto attack so equipment that either adds STR or AGI will be good for this build.
2. Envenom Thief:
Weapon: Poison Knife
Armor: Combat Uniform
Garment: Wool Scarf or Ancient Cloak
Shoes: Tidal Shoes or Bunny Slipper
Accessories: Silver Ring
Cards: Picky, Ninetails, Andre, (Racial, Element, Size) Cards. You can also use Zenorc Card to increase the chance to inflict poison status on the target.
Note: Envenom deals a small amount of damage since this is a DOT skill. You may want to add this skill to your normal attacks.
3. Trick Control Thief:
Weapon: Poison Knife or Refined Dagger
Armor: Combat Uniform
Garment: Ancient Cloak or Wool Scarf
Shoes: Tidal Shoes or Soft Leather Boots
Accessories: Silver Ring (Recommendation from ROO Team: Ring)
Cards: Picky, Ninetails, Andre, (Racial, Element, Size) Cards. You can also add status effect cards to inflict status effects on multiple targets.
Note: Since this is a skill-type build, all the equipment either adds STR which increases Base ATK, or increases skill DMG.
5. Thief Class Progression
After graduating from the Novice Academy, you will begin your journey by traveling to Morroc, the desert city of Rune-Midgard Kingdom, to receive your Job Change quest from the Thief Guild.
The first quest is to flip a coin to test your luck
Next is to find the treasure chest and provide the correct codeword
Then you need to recite the codeword and summon Kidd the thief
To where you will be asked to open the chest
And for the last trial, you need to get past obstacles while hiding
Find the mushroom maker and defeat it
And finally, report back to the trainer and toss the coin again
Congratulations! You are now a Thief.
You will be given a Dagger.
1. Once you change your job to Thief, focus on completing the "Twilight Lotus" quest.
2. You will be Base Lv.15 and will be able to unlock the daily commission quest. Do not spend your daily tickets here and hunt monsters outside the town first, until you reach Base Lv.17 where you can complete the "Traces of Baphomet: Sub quest."
3. Once done, hunts some Rockers and Thief Bugs until you reach Base Lv.22.
4. Continue the Main quest "Spirit Pieces."
5. Complete the rest of your battle time grinding in the following leveling spots.
6. Leveling Spots
Since daggers have less damage to Medium and Large monsters due to the Weapon Size penalty, you may want to target small-size monsters to inflict full damage.
1. Prontera West Gate - For Base Lv.10-20. Target Savage Bebe and Thief Bug.
Desert Crossroad - For Base Lv.20 up. Target Desert Wolf Baby and Scorpion.
Byalan Island - For Base level 40 up. Target Vadon and Hydra for Card.
7. Special Tips for the Thief Class:
Pros and Cons of playing as Thief:
Pros: Able to deliver continuous single-target damage in a short time without getting hit much. This job can kill an enemy in the shortest amount of time, meaning faster leveling at higher levels. Though the job will start slow.
Cons: Due to low VIT, thieves will take heavy damage in the beginning when the flee is low and will die in mobs because flee is reduced as there are more monsters attacking. This means you will use many potions at lower levels until flee becomes sufficient, or slow leveling depending on if STR or AGI is the primary stat pumped.
You need to be careful when fighting in aggro areas since you will take high damage.
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