Talk:Master Thief/@comment-44500340-20191129114244

A follow up on testing a lvl 16 pawn with Master Thief: 3 Star Aneled Stiletto Dagger/DF Rusted Bow Master Thief/Mad Dash/Soaring Stone DownPour Volley Sinew/Suasion/Fortune/Aquisition/Morbidity/Ferocity Inclinations:1st Acquisitor 2nd Medicant(3rd Pioneer-4th Utilitarian)

1) I paired this pawn with a fighter pawn that only had a shield (no sword) in order to encourage grappling downed foes. I tested this in the Garden of Ignominy* and the results were very good indeed. With the help of the rusted bow topor and the Aneled blindness, the chances for the pawn executing Master Thief increased dramatically. The pawn used Master Thief on every warg that was held grappled down. This was very surprising. Master Thief pairing with Soaring stone looks to be quite important for this, as it knocks foes into the air more regularly than Implicate and has a faster execution, which increases the chance of a grapple.

2) When the pawn went into the open area where the Cyclopes resides; while the pawn was fighting a goblin, it blinded it and used Master Thief straight after the last slash. It was like watching a combo. I then added fivefold fury, but that stopped the pawn using any other skill. In this case, when the warg was grappled, only fivefold was used. When I took it off - the pawn went back to using Master Thief (same thing went for Whistle Dart), so I think in order to get Master Thief working successfully is to not try and fill all the bow slots. When I added Pentad Shot, it was not spammed as hard as FiveFold but was still used a lot more on a grappled foe than Master Thief.

3) In regards to the inclinations - this setup (in my experience) seemed to produce the best results in order for the pawn to use Master Thief and Mad Dash. It's a very odd setup, but trying Acquisition and Utilitarian wasn't as succesful as I had hoped it would be for some reason. I'm not sure why the pairing with Medicant is making the pawn do what it is doing.

Can someone else please try this setup and see if they have similar results?


 * I need to try this on the mobs outside of Gran Soren