Steal

Animation

Steal

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Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Profession mechanic

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Shadowstep to your foe and steal from them.

 Range: 900

— In-game description ^[?]

Stealing is a mechanic unique to the thief profession. By using the steal skill (bound to F1 key), the character will shadow step to the enemy and steal an item from them. Stealing has no activation time and may be performed during other actions without interrupting the action, and can even by used while disabled. After an item has been stolen, it will be "pocketed" and replace your steal skill until used. Steal begins to recharge immediately in the background while the stolen skill is occupying its slot, so Steal will be available right away if it has recharged by the time the stolen skill is used.

Each enemy in the game has a small pool of possible items to steal. For example, a character may steal an egg from a moa and use it as a healing item, or steal feathers from it and use them to blind enemies and stealth themselves. In PvP the stolen items are profession-specific, for example the thief can get a Whirling Axe from a warrior. Players don't lose items stolen from them, the thief just gains access to the associated stolen skill.

Most items that can be stolen can be found as environmental weapons, and usually function in the same way. These ground items can interfere with stolen items, especially if the stolen item and the ground item are the same. Usually, the stolen skill will be lost if the environmental weapon is used, and vice versa.

Benefits from and recharge of stealing don't require the steal to be successful. Using Steal without a target in range will disable the skill for the full recharge time and award any associated bonuses for stealing. Similarly, using Steal on inanimate objects will incur the full recharge time without awarding an item, but the bonuses will be activated, and the Mug trait will damage the target.

Stolen skills

Skill	Description
Blinding Tuft	Throw a handful of feathers, vanishing in stealth and blinding nearby foes.
Bone Crack	Stun your foe
Branch Bash	Launch your foe, breaking the branch
33x33px  Club Shockwave	Smash the club on the ground, knocking down foes in a line in front of you.
Consume Plasma	Gain all boons.
Drink	You become invulnerable.
Eat Egg	Restore health and initiative.
Exploding Venom Sack	Cover the target area in a poisonous cloud.
Ice Shard Stab	Stab and Chill your foe.
Mace Head Crack	Daze your foe.
Rusty Scrap Strike	Bleed, poison, and weaken your foe with a strike from your rusty scrap.
Shoot Rifle	Shoot your foe, launching them back and making them vulnerable while pushing yourself back.
Skull Fear	Strike Fear [sic] into nearby foes.
33x33px  Throw Coral Shard	Throw a coral shard at a foe to cause bleeding and vulnerability.
Throw Feathers	Throw a handful of feathers to blind nearby foes. Stealth yourself.
Throw Gunk	Throw gunk at target area to inflict a random condition. Creates an ethereal combo field.
Throw Lava Rock	Throw a lava rock that burns your foe.
Throw Net	Immobilize foes by throwing your net.
Throw Rock	Throw a rock to knock down your foe.
Throw Scale	Throw the scale to Bleed and Poison your foe.
Tooth Stab	Stab and bleed your foe.
33x33px  Use Scepter	Use the scepter attack with a random effect.50% chance to stun your target with a Lightning Whip. 50% chance to burn the area around you with an unblockable Flame Burst.
Use Staff	Use the staff to create random attacks.50% chance to damage and stun foes with a Chain Lightning that strikes up to three foes.50% chance to damage and burn a single foe with a Fireball.
Whirling Axe	Spin and attack nearby foes. You can move while spinning.

• See list of stolen skills by creature/profession

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Serpent's Touch - Stealing applies poison for 10 seconds.
• Improvisation - Stealing recharges all skills of one type (venoms, signets, traps, tricks, or deceptions). Deal 10% more damage while wielding a bundle.
• Mug - Deal damage and gain life when stealing. This attack cannot critically hit enemies.

Shadow Arts

• Hidden Thief - Stealing grants you 2 seconds of stealth.

Trickery

• Each point in Trickery increases the recharge rate of stealing by 1%.
• Kleptomaniac - Stealing gives you 3 initiative.
• Bountiful Theft - Stealing grants you and all nearby allies vigor for 15 seconds. Up to two boons are also ripped from your target and granted to nearby allies.
• Long Reach - Increases the range on stealing.
• Sleight of Hand - Stealing also dazes your target for 1 second.
• Thrill of the Crime - When you steal, you and all nearby allies gain fury, might and swiftness for 10 seconds.

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Skill types

Trivia

• At one point during early development, stealing would force an environmental weapon in the character's hands. This was accompanied by a trait which allowed the thief to "pocket" the stolen item, which later evolved into the stealing system as it functions today.