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Originally posted by Hayashi:
Won't you lose the theif's ability when you d/class him until he reaches one level better as a fighter? I'm concerned about traps and locked dors & chests.
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I've come across precious few locked doors and chests in this game. Most locked doors require keys to get through, and those that don't can easily be bashed by one of your "tank" characters. The traps thing is a bit sticky, but the only time it's really a problem is in Chapter 2 in the Dragon's Eye. If you dual your thief right after Dragon's Eye, s/he should be fine through the next couple of chapters (and the experience starts rolling in during Chapters 3 and 4, and very few traps there, except for one notable place in Upper Dorn's deep (and I won't spoil you further there). During that time, have your cleric memorize "Find Traps" and use it. By the time you need to find traps again, your dualled thief should be back up and running as a fighter/thief.
Of course, you could multi as a fighter-thief from the beginning, but a lot of people don't like multi characters because they take so long to level up...unless you're running the 4-character party.
Oh, and I would recommend dualing at 8th level Thief, max. If you have a bard and a ranger in your party, ignore "Pickpocket" (Bard gains in that automatically) and "Move Silently" (Ranger gains in that automatically) and concentrate on building up "Find Traps" and "Open Locks"...unless you want to use your thief for backstabbing (which I've found to be not really worth that much and it places a rather weak character AC and HP-wise in a vulnerable position if backstab fails). Pickpocket is also pretty lame in this game, as you can't steal from merchants and there's precious little good stuff that NPC's carry. That may change in HoW, but since I haven't gotten there yet, I don't know.
Cheers,
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[This message has been edited by Sazerac (edited 10-08-2001).]