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Dragon’s Dogma 2lets you express your creativity in combat through one of the variety of available vocations, like the fleet-footed Thief. With the ability to glide through the night as easily as they cut through enemies in combat, the Thief is an excellent offensive vocation boasting excellent speed and a deceptive play style.
If you love using dual daggers, then the Thief vocation is the best in Dragon’s Dogma 2 for you, as you’ll be limited to this form of weaponry. Whether you need to thin out a horde of goblins or must turn your attention toward a lumbering ogre, the Thief vocation has the tools to handle any dangers with its high-damage output.
What Are The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Thief Vocation?
Strengths
Thieves boast the best movement speedof any vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2, allowing you to easily move around the battlefield, especially withWeapon Skills like Concussive Leap or Cutting Wind.
The single-target damageoutput of the Thief vocation is superb, as Draw and Quarter (bosses) and Masterful Kill (standard enemy) offer ways to inflict massive chunks of pain on your foes.
Similarly, thieves can decimategroups of enemies with Weapon Skills like Cutting Wind, which allows you to dash toward enemies before you cut them down with your daggers.
Aside from their raw speed and offensive capabilities,thieves can avoid damage fairly well, with their evasive abilities (Formless Feint) or by countering blows (Masterful Kill).
There are evenseveral utility options for thieves to choose from, including smoke bombs (Smoke Shroud), rope grapples (Implicate), and even stealing items from enemies (Plunder).
Weaknesses
With the great amount of power, comes an exceptional amount of frailty, asthieves will receive a lot of damageif they are hit, though there are a few means to mitigate this via items and support.
Most of your single-target damage relies on youclingingto a boss, so it can become difficult to inflict large chunks ofdamage against flying enemies.
There’snot much variety in the elemental damagethieves can inflict on their own, as they only have access to fire.
Thieves are also extremely stamina-hungry, meaning they need several boosts to their base stamina (via rings or otherwise) to continue to deal damage efficiently.
If you don’tmanage your stamina carefully, you will be exhausted and must pause in battle and find safety while your stamina recharges.
Thief Weapon Skills
The Thief vocation boasts access to various powerful attacks and tricky utility abilities that can be put to good use in battle.
Ultimately, you must decide if you want to play a Thief focused ondeception using quick strikes and backstabs, or if youprefer to jump on enemies and deal massive amounts of damagewith your daggers.
Biting Wind
Cutting Wind
Dashespast the target with blades extended. Followed by furtherslasheswhen attacking on contact.
Enkindled Blades
Ignited Blades
Slams daggers together toignitethem withflamesfor a short time. Can be used while clinging or pinning a foe.
Shadow Cloak
Shadow Veil
Enables you toblendinto your surroundings, making you difficult to see. Less effective when attacking or dashing. Consumesstaminawhen in use.
Helm Splitter
Skull Splitter
Leap up, thendivein the air withspinningblades. More powerful from height. Can be used mid-air.
Powder Charge
Powder Blast
Place anexplosiveon thegroundthat can bedetonatedfrom afar. Can be used when clinging to a foe. The upgrade gives a more powerful explosion/range.
Concussive Step
Concussive Leap
Uses an explosive blast towithdrawfrom the detonation. The blast mayflinchsmall targets. Upgrade to consume less stamina and improve flinch.
Ensnare
Implicate
Casts cords tosnaretargets and tug them.Pullssmall targets closer, andtoppleslarger, off-balance targets.
Smoke Screen
Smoke Shroud
Throws asmokebomb thatblindsnearby targets. Can be used while clinging or in mid-air. Theupgradeextends theradiusandduration.
Pilfer
Plunder
Robtargets that have beenknockedoff balance and targetsnotinbattleof a curative or otheritem. Larger targets must be downed. Upgrade to stealrareritems.
Gut and Run
Draw and Quarter
Stabsand gouges the target before drawing back. Must beclingingto orpinninga target to use. Inflicts moredamageon the foe’sweakpoint.
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Blades of the Pyre
Brings the daggers together toignitean inferno so potent that you cannot escape being burned.
Formless Feint
Accelerates your reactions toevadeallattacksfrom hostiles. Consumesstaminawhen active.
Overall, the Thief vocation is blessed with several unique, funskills that fit into the roleplaying themeof the class while maintaining anincredible amount of functionality in combat.
Offensively, there aren’t many better vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2 than the Thief. It should be your first selection if you favor fast combat with lethal damage.
Thieves are meant to avoid damage while inflicting some of their own, and you canrely on Biting/Cutting Wind to be a staple in your arsenal, as the mobility on the battlefield it offers is second to none.
However, feel free to cling to an enemy and slash away with your daggers, as this method is extremely effective against large enemies.
Thief Core Skills
The Thief’s Core Skillsare quintessential abilities thatembody this vocation perfectly, as their thematic accuracy, and importance to the vocation are similar in magnitude to the Weapon Skills.
Unleashes a flurry of forward slashes.
Controlled Fall
Tucks the body into a tight roll when hitting the ground to swiftly regain your feet. Reduces impact damage.
Bump and Lift
Robs the target of an item when an attack connects. Has a low success rate when using carve.
Footpad
Kicks off the wall, allowing you to launch from a great distance.
Scarlet Kisses is the most important of this group for combat, as you’ll often need toslash an enemy a few times to finish themoff after connecting with one of your Weapon Skills.
Bump and Lift is a fun thematic boon, but not exceptionally important.
However,Controlled Fall and Footpad are excellent toolsto use when platforming or dealing with enemies who like to grab and throw you.
Thief Augments
Thief augments are the cherry on top of this fantastic vocation’s cake,giving you the last few improvements neededto make you even more deadly in combat.
Verve
Augments yourStrength.
Subtlety and Poise are “nice-to-have” options for your Thief, butVigor and Verve are essentialto creating the best Thief possible in Dragon’s Dogma 2.
Use the power of clinging and surprise attacks to reach your damage potential as a Thief.
