I am rehashing parts of various good AF guides I have read on the net in order to clear up some of the confusion and give some added details to you, my fellow thieves. Let me know how you like it. I just finished the Rogue's Poulaines section since I did the actual quest this morning. Check it out.


Edit: Removed link due to the Alla/IGE merger, May 2006.


Edited, Wed May 19 18:17:23 2004 by Famke

Edited, Wed May 19 18:18:04 2004 by Famke

Edited, Thu Jun 17 10:30:18 2004 by Haggan

Edited, Thu May 4 01:59:56 2006 by Famke

Edited, Sat May 27 12:23:08 2006 by Exodus

Edited, Sat May 27 15:01:09 2006 by Famke

what to sasy ? -> /rate up
good one

i m using now this one
http://www.loopi.co.uk/ffxi/

its too great quide but your looks more complex with party setup etc i like it too

i thank all of u loopi too and u too for such a complex quides

/bow /respect

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Also, I added a line stating that the order in which you visit the thieves isn't critical.

Just added the Knife walkthrough and a home page.

Edited, Thu May 4 01:54:26 2006 by Famke

one moer time rating up /rate up :-)

raelly good work and nice quide

EDITED:

ohh famek about THF HAT

It has quite the INT boost, making it ideal for stealing and lock picking

ints unproven mythus :)) that INT ise helping BOOSTING STEAL and lockpicking :-)

i perosnally think that INT is helping lockpicking but too its unproven by myself :-)

but i think INT has nothing to do with stealing ...

pls write there that that is a rumor that INT is helping with thatt :)



Edited, Thu May 20 05:50:22 2004 by TSP

Added Rogue's Vest section.

Great site! Hate to be picky but in your vest section you mention attaining the vest the same way as armlets, simply opening the coffer. I know you meant culotte but I was just letting you know incase you are picky about it :) Other than that the site is very well done and I look forward to more (*`_`)

Bring on the nitpicks. I tried to make these as good as possible and have proofed them a bit you already you all have come back with good error catches and improvements. Great work.

I changed the armlets typo and added info about the alternate steal spot for the quedev stew, but I'm not sure about the dice roll one. I listed that you must roll with sniggix and he tells you about the dangruf wadi gobs. I listed this in the prep stuff. I think that's what you are referring to as missing?

Edited, Mon May 24 07:04:36 2004 by Famke

Hehe, sorry famke missed that in the prep portion ;p I haven't slept in about 24 hours....things start to get a bit blurry :)

Great guide!!! :)

I did the Castle Zvahl Baileys coffer this past weekend and it was every bit as tense as you described! Unfortunately I did not find your guide until today; the guide I was using had the drop-down points shown but it did not explain the different levels, etc, and how you got to the middle area. I checked the four corner rooms first :( The good thing about the middle area is that the first time you check it, you will know if any of the 4 coffers are there as all the spots can be seen at once. The lowest drop-down landing puts you into a hallway with high walls so once you get to the middle, you can only reach the coffer if it is at the end of that particular hallway. If you drop down to the middle landing, you will be on the flat "top" of the walls and once you get to the middle, you can drop down into either of the two hallways that border the area you are standing on.

Man those are some nasty looking demons down there!!!
/em panics

I had 2 skeleton keys with me, both of them failed as several arhimans spotted me and attacked while I picked. The second thief tool worked and I got the vest, then I used my Warp scroll and managed to warp my dead body back to Lower Jeuno where I lay by the hp drawing curious stares until a kind whm passing by did a raise II on me... =)

By the way, I only used invisible (tonko:ichi) and sneak oils - never used deodorize and got no aggro until I dropped invis to pick the coffer.

I'll try to do one of them tonight, likely the culotte unless you'd prefer the gloves first.

I also added some clarification about the use of Deodorize. Basically those mobs will never detect you based on scent, but as far as I understand they will not be fooled by Hide because they can smell you. You need to be smell-free first and then using Hide will ditch them.

Edited, Mon May 24 19:26:35 2004 by Famke

excellent.
rated up.

I will put off doing my af2 until youve done the review for it.

/cheer

Outstanding info...thatks a ton for all the work!

Anyone who goes to this much trouble to help out other people is a god among men. I bow respectfully before your generosity. ^^

Is anyone else having problems getting info on the THF Gloves link? It seems to give me a "BAd URL" message."

I've been doing the guides one by one, and the armlets are the last one, I just haven't done it yet. Should be up in the next day or two hopefully, but I'm trying to hit 60 (hit 59 last night) so we'll see which comes first hehe.

GBM that was great info about Oztroja and I updated the legs guide to reflect all of your tips. Good stuff.

Thanks everyone for your support, helps keep me motivated and am glad if this can help any of you! You are too kind Reepacheep. ^^

Also added links to lists of the key dropping mobs.

Sammeh hehe yeah was great PTing with you but for the life of me I can't remember your game name atm. Perhaps we can party up later today or something. I've been using Viper since 33 and Dancing Edge @60 will be such a nice change of pace... /wave

Edited, Wed May 26 16:44:18 2004 by Famke

Nice Work Famke !Bump!

Famke can I ask you to redo the layout? it's difficult
to print this out now.

I had to use Mozilla which knew how to shrink to fit...
IE and Opera had trouble fitting the text in.

As most of us will print this out 'cause you can't
browse the web at the same time as you're online,
making it more printer friendly would be great.

Sincerely,
Scalor

Edited, Thu Jun 3 13:06:30 2004 by Scalor

Scalor the steal tips and tricks are moslty rumor, but perhaps they are true. Some say steal from behind, some say while the mob casts a spell, some say behind while a mob casts a spell. Perhaps I will add some more techniques for stealing to the dagger section but since it is a topic of such dispute I wasn't sure what to do.

EDIT: I added a blurb about the best time to steal.

Hmm as for the layout I tried to make it as simple to print as possible. I will try to print it on my mac and see how it messes up.

EDIT: I changed all the sections so the body text is no longer bulleted. Perhaps this was causing the print error and hopefully it will flow now on those other browsers. If you want to check that would be great.

Thanks jersey.

The hands section is being made now, hopefully its done soon its just a LONG one and ive been busy.

Thanks again, take care.

Edited, Thu Jun 3 16:46:47 2004 by Famke

Edited, Thu Jun 3 16:53:05 2004 by Famke

Added the Rogue's Armlets finally. Sorry it took so long;;

If it needs any work (it probably does) let me know. ^^

Done and done.

Good work on the legs! Getting all 6 done feels good and you are almost there, now let the saving for Peacock Charm and Scorpion Harness begin!;;;;;;

Edited, Tue Jun 8 00:27:09 2004 by Famke

Good luck on that, you really need it :)

kk... Questions!! lol...

Currently about to hit 50 (hoping sometime this week) and I am happily looking forward to going to get my next piece of AF.

So I was looking at the guide that's posted for the armlets and in the prep work it states that you have to have done AF 1-1 ( check!! ) and that you need to have started the AF 1-3 quest... is this true?? Do you get the Bonnet before the Armlets and just can't wear it till you hit 54? <Help me out!>

Other than that, AWESOME guide!! Bookmarked the site and we'll be hitting it frequently in the near future!! ^^

/bump

You just need to trigger the bonnet quest, then you can go ahead with the armlets quest. I suppose you could get the bonnet before the armlets, but this isn't required. Just head to Windy and talk with the mithra to unlock the bonnet quest and then you are set to trigger the armlets.

Famke, your site is an excellent resource.

I thought about what would happen if you tried to do wadi before you killed climbpix. The gob in the shop tells you about wadi before you kill climbpix so it is certainly possible, but I have no answer for you. If you tried this and discovered an answer it would be cool so I could add the info to the guide. Good luck.

As for a glitched part of Sauro I am not aware of that either.