Yeah, pretty much choose any sub job.. it'll help your stats... I'd say because you are weak Melee maybe go with Monk. As a theif you probably won't be provoking, so monk attributes would probably be your best bet. Then once you get into advanced jobs, go with Ninja or Ranger, probably best overall combos there. Play around though, I though mage classes would suck, but I love my WHM and now that I have gotten DRK I know that that is the path I wil take in Retail eventually. I thought I would really like monk, but as it turns out I hate it (at east as a Taru).

Side note: I have searched many times while playing and I appear to be the only one actively playing a Taru DRK