The thief is one of the first unlockable classes, as well as being one of the best pickups for the early dungeons. They synergize well with humans and orcs early on in the game and have high adaptability that comes from their Hoarder trait. They can find more boosters, glyphs, and shops to play around while conserving tiles.
Let's check out their bonuses:
- Stabber - Deals an extra 30% damage to enemies with full health
- Hoarder - +33% more items on the dungeon map
- Survivor - All Health Potions and Mana Potions restore both health and mana
The Stabber trait also allows them to become incredibly powerful with levels as the percentage damage increase scales. Having more potions in the Dungeon due to the Hoarder trait and makes the Survivor trait even stronger as all potions restore both health and mana!
But wait! There are even more cool tricks up the Thief's thieving sleeves.
Glyph Usage
Bysseps
💎Thieves are great users of Bysseps: make your first attack hit even harder, adding percentage scaling on top of percentage scaling like an aggressive lasagne!
💎If you can tank a single hit from a higher-level enemy, combine this with Getindare and you have an amazing 2 shot combo which looks a little bit like this - Bysseps > attack > Bysseps > Getindare > attack and kill.
Pisorf
💎Pisorf spamming can be particularly strong if you're playing the Gnome (for mana potion refills) or Orc (for base damage scaling).
💎This can be absolutely insane if you worship Binlor for a free Bysseps after a wall is destroyed.
God worship
Binlor Ironshield
💎If you're planning on spamming Pisorf, Binlor is always an amazing choice for farming piety and stacking resistance boons.
💎Stone Form can help you to stack bonus damage if you don't have Bysseps.
💎Stone Heart can be good for cracking through physical resists.
Earthmother
💎Scaling is important, and it's easier to scale when you have more HP. Vine Form is super good for this, and lets you get more value out of potions.
💎Entanglement can also help you to sneak in more hits against higher-level enemies, blasting you ahead in levels.
Kin matches
Damage Kin
💎Humans and Orcs can scale very hard with the Thief's Stabber bonus. With their conversions of +10% damage and +2 base damage, you can scale to the point where 2 shotting a monster 3 levels higher than you is possible.
💎In early game dungeons when scaling is easier, they are an amazing choice. However, in later dungeons, scaling to a point where you can roll enemies is not that easy, and Potion Kin becomes easier to win with.
Potion Kin
💎Gnomes and Halflings are both kin that creates potions with their conversions. Gnomes create mana potions, and Halflings create health potions.
💎The Rogue's Survivor ability allows them to use potions super effectively and can help them through the early game.
💎It is worth noting that potions restore their primary attribute by 40% and the secondary by 20% (health potions restore 40% of health and 20% of mana), so Halflings do better early game with leveling, and Gnomes do better late game with spell spamming.
The Thief is one of the most favoured classes in the game by our legacy players and we hope you got an idea of why the Thief might be an option for your preferred play style. Is sneaking not your style? STICK AROUND FOR NEXT WEEK WHERE WE TALK IN ALL CAPS.
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