Section 7: A Thief's Guide to Siege Perilous
7.2: When I create my thief, which skills should I choose?
In addition to all the regular thievery hijinx, if you have any
intention (right now or in the future) of stabbing someone with poison
or
revealing stealthed players on Siege, choose these 2 skills when you
create your thief:
- 50 Poisoning
- 50 Detecting Hidden
As a new thief it’s tempting to start with 50 Stealing and 50 Hiding and
get ready to start bank stealing as soon as possible. But the good
thing
about training a thief is that almost all the skills – like Stealing,
Snooping, Hiding, Stealth, Ninjitsu, Tracking, and Detecting Hidden –
take no
gold to train. And even skills like Magery only requires a single 100%
LRC suit. (And on Siege, many people will be happy to donate a 100% LRC
suit to any new player to the shard.) Poisoning is one of the more
expensive skills to train. But when it comes down to it, some skills
are more
tedious to train from zero skill than others.
Poisoning and Detecting Hidden are two of the most tedious and since you
can only have 1 character per account, you only get one chance to pick
the
right skills and get a free 50 points.
Soul Stones - It's important to remember that Soul Stones are very
important (and expensive) on Siege Perilous because in a way, they get
around the limitations of having 1 character per account. Just remember
that you need a minimum of 2 stones to be able to swap skills. Even
if you don't play on using Poisoning or Detecting Hidden at first, it
might be worth starting with these skills when you start and put them on
Soul Stones in case you change your mind.
-Chad Sexington