Brotherhood of Thieves road to Warrior Bandit

Brotherhood of Thieves road to Warrior Bandit

Stat Distribution: Basically I went +3 STR and +1 CON for 4 levels then +4 DEX, repeat as needed. Only add DEX imo when you seem to be missing your attacks more. The leveling at early levels comes best when you kill quickly so concentrating on STR is a good thing. After GC1 my distribution was erratic basically filling in holes when I thought they needed it concentrating on STR and CON.

Starting out lvl 0 – 12 where to grind. After you log in, and you refuse the tutorial( way too long imo but good for first time players) start busting pots until you get 10 gold. Go to the Village Blacksmith and purchase the weapon of your choice. I prefer the spear, for the animation and hey it just looks cool. Next go out of the village entrance and kill foxes until you ding LS2. You should have accumulated enough money/animal parts to sell and be able to afford some Kung Fu lessons from the Sifu in the village. I recommend taking both the spear attacks, one is active and the other is smashing.

Once you have the active one trained at the training dummy, head back out of town towards Plum Hill. Find any yellow or orange (oj from here out) conned Scamps or Rascals. These will be your meat and potatoe mobs for the next 7 levels. Once you ding LS9 head back into the village and gather various quests and catch them all up. Also while you are there upgrade your weapon, just save 3 each of the pouches, tobacco leaves and big pouches for the collection quest. Once you are ready head back out to Plum Hill again. Run through the mobs and head to the Heifi gate. Head for Wan Dye in the center of the market area and get the chest piece for a reward to replace your clan chest piece. Then head back to plum hill. This time the thieves are what you want. Again hit the yellow and oj ones until you ding GC1.

GC1 first skills to Thieves, what skills I took and descriptions for them.

Basic Whirling Spears
Active
Spear
Whirling spears
VE:1
Instant cast
Range:2.0

Cheng 1:10 to 43 damage
Cheng 2:21 to 74 damage
Cheng 3:40 to 126 damage
Cheng 4:53 to 166 damage

This is the style I took at GC1 very fast and very hard hitting, at cheng 1 I could barely get a smashing attack in before the next animation was activated. Cheng 3 is golden imo with a great animation and still does a ton of damage for the level. From GC1 to GC 3 I grind on the thieves near the southern most part of Southern Path. Yes, I know they are white, green and blue but its good money and steady killing. From GC3 I moved on up the road killing blood wolves as I went and began killing the White Shadows in that area. Even in groups of 3 I had little to no problem with the Leaders and the Disciples. However if a Master comes you better be moving. Do quests as you feel you need to. I moved into Shai Zhang and began questing/grinding there on Blood wolves. Until GC7, I then returned to Tai Shan, completed my quests and went to train.

Whirling Spears of Circles
Active
Spears
Penetrating Spears
VE:2
Instant Cast
Range 2.0

Cheng 1: 16 to 56 damage
Cheng 2: 27 to 88 damage
Cheng 3: 44 to 142 damage
Cheng 4: 59 to 182 damage

I like this style chain, the animation makes me feel like I am doing a lot of damage and its fairly fast. In Shai Zhang I grinded on Bandits until GC10 and then moved into the Walled plain area and grinded on Disciples of Black Shadows until OC1 doing quests as I felt it was needed.

At GC 12 my stats were:

STR: 62
ESS: 10
WIS: 8
CON: 34
DEX: 34

Seemed to be pretty balanced for me. Damage was consistent and kept a steady drop in the mobs health bars while leaving me able to take 3-4 yellow cons at a time before I meditated, usually around 10-14 green cons before meditating. YMMV

This may be old news to many but as a new player i felt info in this area was lacking. I left quest info out as I feel they are pretty easy to figure out. it is the effective grinding spots that are difficult. This may not be the most efficient way to do it but it was the way I went about it and had fun doing so.

/salute Happy Hunting all!!

This guide is by daxter of official forums

ust adding and another suggested way to grind them LS levels

do add the Attributes as dakxter mentioned.

How I start my build at creation , +2 dex +2 con +1 ess +5 str then after that 3 str 1 dex / 3 str 1 con / 3 str 1 dex / 3 str 1 Ess, till my HP has reached 400, and VE reached 300 after that it pretty much just goes 4str / 3 str 1 dex. Unless your using axe, then you may need a lil more dex. I actually don't add the Ess or Con till mid GC levels. you will never need more then 300 VE, Actually about 240 should work, I just spam the smash skill, which smash uses a lot more VE.

no need to waste time on pots, you can if you want to, nothing wrong doing it that way, just faster to start on the foxes . . after 5 foxes your LVL 1 , just stay there or go straight to Timid Scamp, then you be level 2 after about 5 or 6 of those Scamps and should have close if not more then 100 gold , why stop there, take it to level 3 and just purchase that level 3 weapon and skills. then start your quest. ( if your planing on sticking it out there till lvl3, then stay on Foxes till level 2)

once quest are done, head back out to the Scamps and Rascals

you really do not need the smashing skills, since you will get the basic clan skills at GC1. So you never really have time to train up the basic smash. you just level too fast in the LS levels , so the smash is really not that important (during the LS levels). course it doesn't hurt to get it to get used to using the Smash skill

At level 4 the quest to join the clan is available, wait till your level 6, this way your saving yourself some traveling time. Catch up with quest now

after that you can go through the BoT base/fort . . enter from village gate , and exit out the south gate, you can start on the wolves there, but I suggest just turn right once you exit ,run down the hill, cross the bridge, there is a spot that forks off to the left . . use that spot to meditate when needed, but start on the timid female thief . you can stay there for a very long time making good money,loot, and XP.