Bismarck.Drakelth said:
»conventional wisdom says *** no, But I do know a guy who cleared all the v20 fights taking a thf in on every one of them so ymmv
The deeper I get into endgame content, the more clear it becomes that every job has its uses, provided:
A, everyone is equipped well enough for the task at hand,
B, the party knows how to account for one another's strengths and weaknesses,
C, everyone understands how to play their job well, especially in the environment at hand.
I think Thief just gets a (relatively) bad reputation because it's an extremely common job for people to have leveled, and yet only a handful of those take it seriously. You get all these people who got power leveled to Master Level 50 Thief and don't know how it works beyond Sneak Attack.