Haha Alfredo, you're too kind and definitely feeling the love buddy! Thanks as always for stopping by, the trophy goes to folks like yourself who are passionate about the game and want to see a community grow. 👉🏆
Thief is one of those great jobs to make other jobs better. Steal is great but you're almost better off having it as a secondary skill due to the thief's stats and lackluster equipment pool. Skills like Sticky Fingers and Poach are useful. The movement abilities are great for making other jobs more agile. At the end of the day, Thief has incredible agility, but not so great damage or survivability. Get the skills to make your other jobs better and unlock jobs like Dragoon/Ninja and move on. While I often favor having at least one person with Steal in my party as the game progresses, it's never a thief in my party.
Equip sword with blood sword and lifefont may help, especially Agrias as a thief as holy knight stats are awful. Though yeah teleport is better than move+2, but it would let the thief steal anywhere lol.
Man, I probably know most of the things you present here. Yet I feel so good when you launch a new video and watch it multiple times. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for this series, replaying FFT now and this gives me great ideas on how to approach job classes differently, especially with the equipment instead of simply optimizing. Keep up the good work! Also love you as Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul
Thanks for watching Darthlucas, so glad you found some value on a game that you already know and love! I haven't watched BCS, but was a huge fan of Breaking Bad, so I will have to watch now to see myself on film. 🤣
Awesome job as always, Mickey! With that out of the way, i wanna thank you for letting me know that i can use MA to boost Steal Heart. Enemies shall tremble beholding The Charming & Sorcerous Danny: the sexy black mage.
sup mikeeeyyy! its tim from riot, i was a mograph guy. i just stumbled upon this video researching this class upon my first playthrough of FFT. Awesome vid, keep it up!
Tim!! Great to see you man! Happy to hear you're playing through the game and hope you're enjoying it for the first time. 🙌 Hope business is good on your end. I can't wait to get my mograph skills to your level, and I'm digesting as many tutorials as I can in my free time. Dude, so cool to see you drop by the channel, totally made my day! 🤗 Hope to catch up with you in the near future, maybe our paths will cross again with work!
Hi Ryan, thanks for the build suggestion! Very solid, though I prefer more protective reaction abilities like Mana Shield there is a definite benefit to the scaling speed that Adrenaline Rush provides to jump, just make sure you have plenty of HP and/or heals to keep stacking speed! 💪
Awesome support class. Required to obtain some of the best items in the game, including genji equipment, masamune and ribbons. I personally like to use it as a secondary class paired with a ninja for extra speed and the broken doublehand skill. I forgot it had an interaction with monk´s brawler ability though. As always, nice video!
I am not 100% clear if you need to have Martial Arts as your primary skill, or you can use bare hands and Brawler support skill to achieve the same effect. The BMG simply states having Martial Arts gives you a 1.5x multiplier to your speed as one of the first modifiers, so I will ask around for better clarity.
4:14 concentration helps more than brawler I feel, though for a PvP I don't really see the use in late game thieves. Clever 4:24 attack boost and yeah concentration. Steal heart can't compete with entice (no gender restriction) or time mage's quick which I believe arcane strength buffs them all. I also assume everyone has the best gear, so that utility is primarily for player vs human enemy on the same height (Meliadoul chantage theft on a different plane was impossible for me). 4:19 just get owned by iaido lol, which is limited by what the shops sell though people overrate the samurai, especially as chapter 3 heavy armor is crap with no stat boosts outside onion armor or something else post game. 5:18 steal Gil is miniscule jp farming compared to throw stone, item for potions, and of course Ramza/Luso's OP tailwind, but I assume that's banned in the format lol given Balthier and other customs are so OP without trying. 6:40 poach stops undead, which is helpful. 7:12 no lol move +2 is overrated with how broken Manafont/mana shield or even lifefont is with any type of drain (blood sword even if not ff2 busted), let alone reraise/regen. Still, if jp isn't an object, or you're limited to all one class' moves, it has some appeal with vigilance, which won't protect from being one shotted/100% accuracy like guns or jump. Is interesting to compare notes even if I disagree. I should check a couple others.
back on the gamefaq board for tactics was so toxic,im glad now we have nice guys showing the ropes.....you wherent part of the gamefaq bullies ..weren't you,
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme I do....I can appreciate things while complaining about others. I give him a like buddy .....but I wonder cuz fft comunity was so bad. but don't falk yourself into the drama kid.
The typical class where you train them to use Steal as a secondary ability. In the easier story battles I might take an entire team of Thieves to fight. Though SSCC might already prove that.
I love thief specially I use steal heart on my friends they get so mush angry on the point they don't know what to do any more and I confuse them with my move thief are useful to make fight easier to win and make people angry not only that but thief ability steal hear save me many time from the death so yea I am pretty sure people are getting butt kicked by the steal heart and steal Item , Armor , weapons that's why I love to use them pulse I love thief they are cool to use and funny 🥰😈😂🤣
Good question LR -while you are grinding as a Thief this early in the game you can rely on just using Focus with JP Boost equipped, no need to get complicated. You could use Equip Crossbows from Archer if you want a quick, ranged physical damage-dealer. But this early in the game you don't have a lot of options for leveraging equipment to enhance the Job. 🤷♂ Keep in mind, for a Ninja you will also need Monk and Geomancer job levels, and there are abilities in those Jobs that will aid you in your journey moving forward. Definitely look at Brawler and Chakra from Monk, Attack Boost from Geomancer, Equip Heavy Armor from Knight (if you want extra HP in the early game), and while you are a Thief save up for Move +2. All of these will be huge once you unlock your Ninja. Also, Thieves have a 110% speed growth rate, which is less than a Ninja, but still higher than average! 👍
Do you look into fft hacks too or just the base game? Im making some changes to the game now and was hoping to get some feedback on it from someone in the community once its finished.
I focus on the multiplayer aspect of the War of the Lions version for PSP. I would recommend the ffhacktics forums for feedback on mods. That said I'm looking forward to seeing what you've created and would love a heads up when it's complete. A mod review video might be popular with the community!
@@TacticsLive @Tactics Live Tournament thanks for the suggestion! I planned on putting it on ffhacktiks too. I'll be sure to let you know so that you can do with it what you like. Hopefully its good and looking for honest feedback! I've basically just used the lion war and Qol mods as a base and then changed basically every job so that they are all useful in some unique way (changes to skillsets, custom abilities, innate abilities, etc). Also made it so that there arent any missable items. Is there anything that you thought was just... lacking... that you've wanted to change in the base game? I think the story is perfect so I'm not going to be changing that. Maybe in the future i'll try my hand at telling a new story from Delita's perspective but thats very advanced for me at the moment.
@@supersaiyaneevee1573 What I really appreciate is that there are folks like yourself who want to craft their own version of FFT and share it with others to enjoy! 💪 I do have my issues with specific Jobs, but in the grand view I think my enjoyment of the game comes from what I can do with the tools I am given, and I find ways to make the Jobs that are lacking useful through gear and Ability combinations. That said, from a PVP perspective, it would be SUPER fun to have free reign to create competitive PVP-oriented Jobs and Abilities. I admit, however, that would be very challenging to balance. 😱 Glad you stopped by the channel to check out the content, and I look forward to seeing your work in the community! 👋
Amigo!!! 😄 you did not win a medal, you won a trophy for the great work and dedication in each of your videos... keep it up, we love you 😎😎😎
Haha Alfredo, you're too kind and definitely feeling the love buddy! Thanks as always for stopping by, the trophy goes to folks like yourself who are passionate about the game and want to see a community grow. 👉🏆
Nice video! As always. Really loved the pvp footage shown too.
Thanks Jase! We have some PVP footage of our own to capture, swirling rumors say... 😅
@@TacticsLive Yeah lol. That will be a fun time and if you need or want any clips of certain things I'll he down to help capture it.
Thief is one of those great jobs to make other jobs better. Steal is great but you're almost better off having it as a secondary skill due to the thief's stats and lackluster equipment pool. Skills like Sticky Fingers and Poach are useful. The movement abilities are great for making other jobs more agile. At the end of the day, Thief has incredible agility, but not so great damage or survivability. Get the skills to make your other jobs better and unlock jobs like Dragoon/Ninja and move on. While I often favor having at least one person with Steal in my party as the game progresses, it's never a thief in my party.
Equip sword with blood sword and lifefont may help, especially Agrias as a thief as holy knight stats are awful. Though yeah teleport is better than move+2, but it would let the thief steal anywhere lol.
Man, I probably know most of the things you present here. Yet I feel so good when you launch a new video and watch it multiple times. Keep up the good work!
I appreciate the kind words, Joao, thanks for watching (each and every time)!
Happy to see more FFT content on youtube! One of my all time favorite games for sure.
Yes, more Job Focus videos. Superb as always, Mikey. Thanks for the info and great content!
Thanks for watching Icyblue! Glad you enjoyed, always good to see you. 🙏
I really dig the music you use in your videos
Thank you, there are credits in the description in case you want to sample the tracks yourself 👍
Thank you for this series, replaying FFT now and this gives me great ideas on how to approach job classes differently, especially with the equipment instead of simply optimizing. Keep up the good work!
Also love you as Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul
Thanks for watching Darthlucas, so glad you found some value on a game that you already know and love!
I haven't watched BCS, but was a huge fan of Breaking Bad, so I will have to watch now to see myself on film. 🤣
this video stole my heart... XD awesome jo mickey! love ur videos
Hahaha, thanks Copytec! 💘 I appreciate you stopping by, good to see you!
the steal being a monk thing is a remnant from their origins in d&d
Awesome job as always, Mickey!
With that out of the way, i wanna thank you for letting me know that i can use MA to boost Steal Heart. Enemies shall tremble beholding The Charming & Sorcerous Danny: the sexy black mage.
Thanks Luiz, happy to see you enjoying the content! Can't wait to see Danny doing his thing breaking hearts and minds! 😍
sup mikeeeyyy! its tim from riot, i was a mograph guy. i just stumbled upon this video researching this class upon my first playthrough of FFT. Awesome vid, keep it up!
Tim!! Great to see you man! Happy to hear you're playing through the game and hope you're enjoying it for the first time. 🙌
Hope business is good on your end. I can't wait to get my mograph skills to your level, and I'm digesting as many tutorials as I can in my free time.
Dude, so cool to see you drop by the channel, totally made my day! 🤗 Hope to catch up with you in the near future, maybe our paths will cross again with work!
I just remembered that your avatar was from a bugged out Lux, amazing! 😂
@@TacticsLive the game is so fun! Im super addicted. and yessir, we'll work together someday :D have an awesome spring dude!
You stole my heart 😍
Thief build: steal, jump, speed boost, equip spear, move +2
Hi Ryan, thanks for the build suggestion! Very solid, though I prefer more protective reaction abilities like Mana Shield there is a definite benefit to the scaling speed that Adrenaline Rush provides to jump, just make sure you have plenty of HP and/or heals to keep stacking speed! 💪
Awesome support class. Required to obtain some of the best items in the game, including genji equipment, masamune and ribbons. I personally like to use it as a secondary class paired with a ninja for extra speed and the broken doublehand skill. I forgot it had an interaction with monk´s brawler ability though. As always, nice video!
I am not 100% clear if you need to have Martial Arts as your primary skill, or you can use bare hands and Brawler support skill to achieve the same effect. The BMG simply states having Martial Arts gives you a 1.5x multiplier to your speed as one of the first modifiers, so I will ask around for better clarity.
4:14 concentration helps more than brawler I feel, though for a PvP I don't really see the use in late game thieves. Clever 4:24 attack boost and yeah concentration.
Steal heart can't compete with entice (no gender restriction) or time mage's quick which I believe arcane strength buffs them all. I also assume everyone has the best gear, so that utility is primarily for player vs human enemy on the same height (Meliadoul chantage theft on a different plane was impossible for me).
4:19 just get owned by iaido lol, which is limited by what the shops sell though people overrate the samurai, especially as chapter 3 heavy armor is crap with no stat boosts outside onion armor or something else post game.
5:18 steal Gil is miniscule jp farming compared to throw stone, item for potions, and of course Ramza/Luso's OP tailwind, but I assume that's banned in the format lol given Balthier and other customs are so OP without trying.
6:40 poach stops undead, which is helpful.
7:12 no lol move +2 is overrated with how broken Manafont/mana shield or even lifefont is with any type of drain (blood sword even if not ff2 busted), let alone reraise/regen. Still, if jp isn't an object, or you're limited to all one class' moves, it has some appeal with vigilance, which won't protect from being one shotted/100% accuracy like guns or jump.
Is interesting to compare notes even if I disagree. I should check a couple others.
Male thief is my favorite male sprite in the game, for generics.
Right on, that's definitely a unique sprite that reminds me of a pirate compared to the concept art that has more of a brigand/highwayman feel. 👍
back on the gamefaq board for tactics was so toxic,im glad now we have nice guys showing the ropes.....you wherent part of the gamefaq bullies ..weren't you,
Just appreciate the video ffs
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme I do....I can appreciate things while complaining about others. I give him a like buddy .....but I wonder cuz fft comunity was so bad. but don't falk yourself into the drama kid.
The typical class where you train them to use Steal as a secondary ability. In the easier story battles I might take an entire team of Thieves to fight. Though SSCC might already prove that.
great video as allways
I love thief specially I use steal heart on my friends they get so mush angry on the point they don't know what to do any more and I confuse them with my move thief are useful to make fight easier to win and make people angry not only that but thief ability steal hear save me many time from the death so yea I am pretty sure people are getting butt kicked by the steal heart and steal Item , Armor , weapons that's why I love to use them pulse I love thief they are cool to use and funny 🥰😈😂🤣
Love the vid; not sold on thief
Hahaha, I appreciate you stopping by to check out the video, and Thieves are a tough pill to swallow, couldn't agree more!
What's the best build for Thieves that only want to unlock Ninja in Chapters 1 and 2? Level 5 is kind of high for such a weak job.
Good question LR -while you are grinding as a Thief this early in the game you can rely on just using Focus with JP Boost equipped, no need to get complicated. You could use Equip Crossbows from Archer if you want a quick, ranged physical damage-dealer. But this early in the game you don't have a lot of options for leveraging equipment to enhance the Job. 🤷♂
Keep in mind, for a Ninja you will also need Monk and Geomancer job levels, and there are abilities in those Jobs that will aid you in your journey moving forward. Definitely look at Brawler and Chakra from Monk, Attack Boost from Geomancer, Equip Heavy Armor from Knight (if you want extra HP in the early game), and while you are a Thief save up for Move +2. All of these will be huge once you unlock your Ninja.
Also, Thieves have a 110% speed growth rate, which is less than a Ninja, but still higher than average! 👍
Thank you for replying!
Thank you for replying!
Do you look into fft hacks too or just the base game? Im making some changes to the game now and was hoping to get some feedback on it from someone in the community once its finished.
I focus on the multiplayer aspect of the War of the Lions version for PSP.
I would recommend the ffhacktics forums for feedback on mods. That said I'm looking forward to seeing what you've created and would love a heads up when it's complete. A mod review video might be popular with the community!
@@TacticsLive @Tactics Live Tournament thanks for the suggestion! I planned on putting it on ffhacktiks too.
I'll be sure to let you know so that you can do with it what you like. Hopefully its good and looking for honest feedback!
I've basically just used the lion war and Qol mods as a base and then changed basically every job so that they are all useful in some unique way (changes to skillsets, custom abilities, innate abilities, etc). Also made it so that there arent any missable items.
Is there anything that you thought was just... lacking... that you've wanted to change in the base game? I think the story is perfect so I'm not going to be changing that. Maybe in the future i'll try my hand at telling a new story from Delita's perspective but thats very advanced for me at the moment.
@@supersaiyaneevee1573 What I really appreciate is that there are folks like yourself who want to craft their own version of FFT and share it with others to enjoy! 💪
I do have my issues with specific Jobs, but in the grand view I think my enjoyment of the game comes from what I can do with the tools I am given, and I find ways to make the Jobs that are lacking useful through gear and Ability combinations.
That said, from a PVP perspective, it would be SUPER fun to have free reign to create competitive PVP-oriented Jobs and Abilities. I admit, however, that would be very challenging to balance. 😱
Glad you stopped by the channel to check out the content, and I look forward to seeing your work in the community! 👋