Talk:Thief

Outlaw counterpart and other quibbles.
Apparently, the game considers the counterpart to Outlaw, a renamed Thief, to be Archer and not Ninja.. Despite both Outlaw and Ninja having the same basic utility (lockpicking stealth class that fights primarily at range) and both getting a reinterpreted Awakening Thief promote (Trickster=Adventurer and Assassin=Master Ninja, as I've argued before) as one promotion option and a "mounted" class (Bow Knight and Mechanist) as the second option. I honestly don't understand why Outlaw would parallel Archer other than Archer having nothing else in Nohr to parallel since Nohr seemingly hates Bows as much as Hoshido hates non-winged horses. (On that note, the Cavalier=Ninja thing seems to be solely because "the Cain/Abel pair are Ninjas" and not due to any similarities in the classes themselves.) Maybe it's just me, but some of these parallels don't seem right and seem randomly assigned so that every Nohr base class parallels a Hoshido base class, even if the two classes have only the smallest bit in common. (What in Hoshido would parallel Armor Knight? Are we supposed to believe that Spear Fighter is meant to parallel that and not Lancer?)

TL;DR version: Outlaw paralleling Archer and Ninja paralleling Cavalier, and not each other, seems kinda off to me. At the very least, not noting the parallels between Outlaw and Ninja in favor of the "official" parallels seems kinda...dishonest to me?--Otherarrow (talk) 22:36, April 15, 2016 (UTC)