Passive Ability details for Gilfinder  

I was playing around with the two items that affect gilfinder: assassin's culottes (AS) and andvaranauts (AN), killing random orcs and gigas in Miz Coast. I also killed mobs with thf main, war main, and war/thf. Here's the gil numbers I got (just to be sure it didn't affect the numbers, I didn't steal or mob any of these guys. I did have theif's knife on, and the tablet ability "Treasure Hound" was active while I did this, not that I think either affects gil drops).

 
                THF+AS+AN| THF+AN |THF+AS | THF |WAR+AN |WAR/THF+AN|WAR/THF| WAR 
Orc Footsoldier   87         82              85     104             91        
                                 
Orc Bowshooter    98                 82      84            85       98       69 
                  104                                              101        
Orc Trooper       100        100     92      85     85     107      88       55 
                             87      96             101    83                55 
Orc Gladiator     115        98      97      93                              57 
                                 
Orc Stonelauncher 103        104     95      86     106    86      101       63 
                                                                             59 
Gigas Catapulter  192        122     123     107                   174       118 
                  119        195 
                             109           
Gigas Braver      182        167     168     125    111    169     125       96 
                  156        151     124 
                                     184 
Gigas Martialist                                    134    166     163       
                                          
Gigas Warwolf     163                133     164           119               79 
 

About all I can conclude from this is that thf and /thf over level 5 clearly give more gil than other jobs, and that the andvaranauts give the equivalent to /thf to a job that's subbed something else. Supposedly the andvaranauts and the cullottes give an extra bonus on top of thf's basic ability, but it's such a small effect that it's really hard to measure, since mobs drop random amounts of gil within a certain range. I'll let you decide whether it's worth the effort to equip them.

**edit** Sorry for the weird formatting, but I couldn't get the table to display any other way

Edited, Jun 24th 2009 2:59am by Vashkoda

No, Gilfinder does in fact work with groups. Good example are the giants in Qufim/Delkfutts. They drop ~60-120 gil without and 100-210 with. Two people get ~60-100 each, so clearly it's 120-200 total.. More then the 60-120 average as you say it should.

At level 10 thf's get the passive trait, Evasion Bonus 1. This the the first of 3 u get. Their levels are 10,30, and 50.

I would have to disagree. The differance in gil dropped isnt as extensive between each drop on same named mobs to warrent a multiplier. Or, if its true, we are talking a multiplier of 1.25X to ~1.45X more gil, which isnt much of a a mulitplier in a normal sense. Its by no means 2X or more of a multiplier. If it were to be calculated I'd figure a percentile system would be a better way to measure it. Then again, its all the same number(s), we just dont know it...yet.

it is a lvl 5 thf trait... you get it as soon as you get lvl 5 thf...

This page was proly written off the japanese version of the game before it was translated. Dunno, but the kana version of Gilfinder proly translates more directly to "gil steal".

Anyone familiar with kana around that can confirm or deny my theory?