Catwho wrote:
Read on Kotaku, I think it was, that Rogue will have stuff like poison daggers (not too far from XI's THF, that was the second WS you unlocked on it) and that NIN will have access to the ninjutsu in addition.
The elephant in the room is that THF in XI's #1 trait was Treasure Hunter. If Rogue doesn't get that, then it's not going to be comparable to THF no matter how cool it looks dual wielding.
#2 trait was of course enmity control, and I would love to see Sneak Attack and Trick Attack return (plus some of the wackier ones like Accomplice that stole enmity from other players. Steal enmity from the healer, dump it on the tank. Wheee!)
Edited, Jun 11th 2014 12:31am by Catwho
It won't ever get treasure hunter. Not only was it a wholly unbalanced trait in FFXI which effectively guarantees Thief in any and all events regardless of party compositions. It also simply wouldn't work in a game that provides guaranteed drops like this one does.
What would you 'Treasure Hunter' in CT? If you say you get a currency bonus I'm just going to wait and let you figure out how unbalanced that would be.
Emninty Control, I could get behind. (Props to those here to get the reference.) But again, it's a concept that doesn't function well here when we've already got pretty solid hate mechanics.
In the end, people's FFXI version of thief doesn't fit here in FFXIV. Honestly it seems more in line with FFI's version, where Thief and Ninja were simply evolutions of each other.
However, it did seem like both Class and job did a lot of strafing attacks, even while solo, so there may be a mechanic close to sneak-attack where bonus damage is done when not attacking the front, sadly we saw no damage numbers for us to figure out if such damage is really burst or not.
In the end FFXI struggled to make Thief relevant beyond Treasure Hunter an initial burst damage for fights for years, while I sympathize with those who set themselves up with expectations on it to be dashed (I imagine it would be akin to me discovering Red Mage in FFXI came with a wand and not a sword.) I'm still going to keep my stance that expectations, especially in a Final Fantasy series jumping form one game to another, is always a bad thing.
Edited, Jun 11th 2014 10:42am by Hyrist