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Lock'e's damage rarely centered around his actual skills though, and had more to do with his weapon choice early game.
Late game, everyone had magic and his definition kinda fell by the wayside, as did all non-magic centered characters.
Zidane was an interesting theif take, very little of his skill set had to do with dealing and the Trance thing, and his personal definition outshines his thief nature. That and... those dual-swords, not sure what about them screamed 'thief'.
Tidus had the steal ability, but the skill-set was accessible by all characters eventually. He defined himself more as light/speed DPS than a traditional thief. (He was also a sword and board weilder.)
Vaan... well, none of those characters had definition unless you gave it to them. They were more FFVIII style than anything else. Same can be said with any game that pushed individual definition down to weapon type and limit breaks.
Late game, everyone had magic and his definition kinda fell by the wayside, as did all non-magic centered characters.
Zidane was an interesting theif take, very little of his skill set had to do with dealing and the Trance thing, and his personal definition outshines his thief nature. That and... those dual-swords, not sure what about them screamed 'thief'.
Tidus had the steal ability, but the skill-set was accessible by all characters eventually. He defined himself more as light/speed DPS than a traditional thief. (He was also a sword and board weilder.)
Vaan... well, none of those characters had definition unless you gave it to them. They were more FFVIII style than anything else. Same can be said with any game that pushed individual definition down to weapon type and limit breaks.
Very true. But that's kind of my point. Thief as a class has been defined already in the FF (universe? continuum? hallucination?) series pretty badly thus far. Those characters that actually walk around as identifiable thieves tend to just be quick damage dealers with the Steal or Mug ability. In FFXI they had to make a job out of it, but even then.... it was a light damage dealer with the Steal ability. They fleshed it out a little by giving it things to do besides stab... but it pretty much boiled down to stab.
I'm having a hard time finding this very specific definition of thief that is apparently missing from the proposed class in FFXIV. Also, I feel it necessary to point out again that this is NOT FFXI.