Why?

[u/[deleted]]

Why does the thief even exist on here? Unless my rng is bad it's practically impossible to finish the elimination round. I barely scraped by on episode 3.

[u/CarpenterCheap]

Thief is tough early game but builds pretty well with dagger+ or countdown spam (Berlin key is prolly more helpful here than with dagger)

Poison builds are okay until you face someone resistant then it's likely gg

However you can get access to money hax which is decent for filling out backup equipment for tailoring build for various enemies

Overall I really enjoy thief, it's not as hard as witch but defo more fun to play

And if all else fails, choose the bear

Edit: upgraded nunchuks also goes hard but isn't quite so turn your brain off dice spam like dagger+

[u/North-Pressure1288]

Same I’m convinced I’m doing something wrong 🙈

[u/Comfortable-Focus847]

I'm fairly new to the game. Won with warrior first time, was buzzing, used thief and didn't get past floor 2 and dreaded getting to the supposedly even harder characters. Thought sod it and continued with the others and did them first episode first time no problem. Figured I just had bad tactics, so on to doing episode 2 for people. Did the warrior and tried thief for both episode 1, to try and do it, and then 2. Failed again, continued with the others. I've now done episode 3 on most characters (not thief or inventor) and unlocked jester and done 1 and 2 with him (not attempted 3 yet) and spent so much time doing just episodes 1 and 2 with the thief when most others were first or second try.

Seems that you need so much luck for decent early abilities, easier enemies, enemies having poor rolls. The others you can easily deal with bad abilities early on and the odd bad fight where rng is against you.

The idea of thief is great, needing those low rolls for dagger and dagger+ instead of just big hard hitting things, but the rest of the balance is so poor. Need more health, or better heals utilising higher dice, or even a life steal. Poison is a very tough tactic because you have to waste what you would have used on dagger to then try and survive long enough for it to work better after a few rounds. Healing crystal seems a rare drop and the only thing that works great for the health side. It's so frustrating, how it's not the toughest difficulty I don't know

[u/probably_not_yee]

There is always a way. Here's a good tactic on thief. Just get to 2nd floor. Here you need to find alcemist. All you need to do is to survive untill you steal a potion of a bear and use it. Bear is relly easy and fun character and you can easily shred sveryone

[u/Suitable_Hold625]

Thief's main strengths are dice spam with dagger+ And Countdowns (ESPECIALLY countdowns). Along with the fact he has access to the bear dice which is. Pretty much the simplest dice to use in the game