How in heavens name are you supposed to play this game as a thief? I am a non-magical, non-technological thief (level 6), and I am getting my ass kicked everytime I get into a fight If I want to travel, I have to safe and try numerous times before I don't get intercepted by wolves or other stronger animals. I am probably doing something wrong, can anyone tell me what it is? Email me at dhg@bouma4.myweb.nl In the meanwhile, I am going to build myself a fine good mage, to see if that works.....
Your not gonna survive in Arcanum if you only have pickpocket or lockpicks skill. As mentioned in the manual, you need to have a balanced sets of skills. When ur facing a butch of hungry wolves, pickpocket wont help you. What are you going to do, steal their paws or teeth off or perhaps their fur? No right? You gotta have fighting skills.
I've played the game with 3 different thieves. The first one I had a really nice bow and so I shot them up whereever I went. Unfortunately, I couldn't handle some of the later baddies so I kinda gave up on him. The second one was a very charismatic theif so I had followers to beat up baddies. The last one that I'm trying right now is a mage theif, though I really don't know what branch I should follow.
I've found that, with thief characters, it's always best to go for melee early in the game and develop the thief skills later on (ie, between 5th and 10th level is the best time to start). Just make sure your melee skill is halfway through the bar or higher, and you should do fine. Starting out with all of your points in thief skills is NOT a good idea.
Experimentation suggests you should pick dodge and an offensive combat skill and develop them to at least mid bar. Which combat skill depends on how you plan to develop your character later. (Do you want distance or a heavy damage close in weapon? Are you planning on going tech later? If so throwing doubles for explosives, gunsmithy if you are planning that route.
Yes; but it does not appear to work that way in this instance. I have had pure mages who encountered no such difficulties with lock picking.
How come no one mentions backstab as a thiefs main offensive skill? My thief kicks major butt with backstab. On turn base mode so you can get into position, while in stealth... Cant beat it.
