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Originally posted by karlosovic:
In my opinion you should never dual-class from a thief, only ever dual-class to thief (if you want part thief). The reason for this is that you never want a thief to stop gaining levels.
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Oddly enough, my view is quite to the contrary: You should only Dual
to a Thief if you want Use any Item and the Traps. The Thief is a wonderful class to Dual from, as you can quite easily get 100% (or close to it) in all the skills you want in only a few levels. Look at Imoen: She's got 100% Locks and 95% Traps, the only two Thief skills that are really
vital to a party, and she's only
Level 7! Give her some Boots of Stealth and the Mercykiller Ring and she can actually Stealth for you, too. (She certainly doesn't need any other equipment.) Now, let's pretend that Imoen didn't Dual until Level 15, and was a Swashbuckler to boot. That's why the Swashbuckler->Mage kicks butt. I know it's been dissed earlier in this thread, but come on: You don't miss out on a single bit of Mage power, you get EXP for all the Locks & Traps you find, plus you get a -4 bonus to AC and a -3 bonus to THAC0, and you can put 2 stars in melee weapons that you couldn't even
use as a straight Mage! Sure, you can't Backstab, but you completely
own every other Thief skill there is, and you won't even need equipment to do it.
Other considerations:
Assassin->Fighter. Sure, you've got the hitpoints of a Thief.....but the THAC0 of a Fighter. Hoooooo boy!
Swashbuckler->Fighter. Same hitpoint problem, but the AC and THAC0 bonuses might just be worth it. I've never heard of this class being done, but it should be quite interesting.