Are they any good? Should i use a straight thief or like a assasin or bounty hunter? Thief-Fighter maybe? Someone fill me in

It's best to have a thief with decent skills, even if you certainly can get around without one. No necessary or very powerful items can be found behind difficult locks and traps can mostly be easily avoided, though trap setting is a wonderful skill which can be very useful in a number of difficult fights. A bounty hunter certainly holds the most offensive power, his special traps can be thrown (set from a distance) and you can thus use them as a regular ranged weapon (a la exploding potions), only restriction is that the enemy has to be out of the thief's sight. An Assassin does what he sounds like, he turn invisible and move in on a party and get rid of mages or just about anyone in an eye-blink and retreat just as fast while your fighters move in to tackle the now severely weakened party. You could use a Swashbuckler if you're short on melee power, no backstab modifier for him.

if you're a beginner, i suggest getting a normal thief. and if you want to make A LOT of money the easy way, fill him/her up with pickpocketing skill. this way you can steal from people on the streets, but even more important, from most stores (you can't steal from Adventurer's Mart). You may also want open locks skills. Yoshimo,(who you get pretty much at the beginning) is full of the other skills.

I still wanna know how to backstab. my guy wont do it and hes a straight thief. and also ive been out of irenicuses dungeon for around 20 minutes and ive probly already stole around 50000 gp in items from stores. to bad you cant sell the items you steal

go to the shadow thieves guildhall(docks), they will buy them
also apperently there is some guy who appears in wakeens promenade after dark but i'm not exactly sure who or where he is

backstabbing is simple once you learn how. all you need to do is...

1. equip a weapon capable of backstab (sorry, i don't know which weapons are allowed, but i do know that daggers and short swords can be used)
2. successfully hide in shadows
3. walk up behind a guy and attack!
4. then run cause you won't be completely hidden anymore.

Hope this helps! [img]smile.gif[/img]

invisiblity works too, rather than hide in shadows. Improved invisibility and a cloak of non-dection is particurly nasty

where do i find a cloak of non-detection?

I think you should try a assassin there me fav.
Becuse there backstab is a wonder!! you can do so much damage and there great scout's.

The assassin's poison weapon ability is fantastic.