Best thing for a thief:

Full set of virtue armor, an insured +15 Stealth ring and bracelet and a willingness to die often. Stealth around champ spawns and you can easily pick up enough gold once the champ is dead. If you're lucky, you can swipe a scroll.

So far, I haven't been lucky =P

Alternatively, if you're a twink stealther like me you need a blessed burglar's bandana and some insured shadow dancers and the rest virtue armor, even though you don't get the set bonus.

My plan is to eat the scrolls as soon as I swipe them if I can. This is more for fun than for actual profit.

eh...what's a twink stealther? sound's dirty heh

LOL Oh heck ya!

Again, I think insurance in Fel just simply shouldn't apply and would be a lot more fun and risky again...risk=fun for me ~ Hell! That's the answer to the skill based issue as well. No one will wear that cincture or those midnight bracers!

Whatever happened to that Skill Tier idea the Dev's had going? Too unpopular??

Ahh, a twink stealther is ME!

54ish real skill
+30 from Jewelry
+20 from Shadow Dancer
+10 from Burglar's Bandana
=114 without any effort at all =D

I am!

54ish real
+30 jewelry
+20 Shadow Dancer
+10 Bandana

oh sweet! kk sorry I get it

Doing it that was leaves extra room for more skills

Do you remember the disarm thieves tho in UO: R?

You could be fighting someone with a weapon like a katana, kryss, etc.. that was rather good and disarm\steal it lol

So, it seems the uptodate thieves are for champ spawns mainly now.. and not as much as field thievs by gates etc..

i'm a rp theif so yea.. it's fun for me.

I am making a thief. Almost there and I can't wait until it is complete. Reading www.uothief.com has made me want to become a thief. And here is my template .

Completed With item bonus
100 Hiding
80 Stealthing
100 Snooping
110 Stealing
90 Posion
115 Fencing
120 Ninja
80 magery

I am almost there and I can't not wait to get out and try my new skill.

That's an interesting template you have there...
So your using fence for the shadow strike and poison right?
Good getaway template that can also be deadly.

How are you going to use him tho? It looks like your going to be a field thief for 1v1 targeting. Do you think the insurance is going to ruin alot of your fun? Or are you going to steal regs, gold, pots, and things of that sort?

I'm not sure if this can still be done, but I remember you use to be able to steal commodity deeds, and sometimes you would find some nice finds where people have put a large stack of material into one.
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p.s. Is there anyone on Great Lakes that could maybe show me some good locations for money and\or taming. Blue beetles seem to sell good 50k a pop is what i saw one guy selling them for.