Arcane Thievery

Manipulation. Send conditions you have to your foe and steal their boons. Successfully hitting your target inflicts slow on them while granting you quickness. — In-game description

Arcane Thievery

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Manipulation

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

10185

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0.25¼  25  

Arcane Thievery

Manipulation. Send conditions you have to your foe and steal their boons. Successfully hitting your target inflicts slow on them while granting you quickness.

 Boons Stolen: 3

 Conditions Transferred: 3

 Quickness (4s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Slow (4s): Skills and actions are slower.

 Quickness (2s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Slow (2s): Skills and actions are slower.

 Range: 1,200

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Mechanics

Bug:

If the target moves out of sight during the cast, the skill goes on full cool down and misses.

• When used underwater, the activation is 0.5½ second.
• Steals the full duration and stacks of boons; transfers the full duration and stacks of conditions.

Related traits

Chaos

• Master of Manipulation — Manipulations grant aegis to yourself and nearby allies.

Chronomancer

• Danger Time — When you inflict slow, you and your clones' outgoing critical-strike damage is increased for a duration.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 11, 2021	This skill now requires a target to activate.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced quickness and slow duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Now inflicts slow on target for 4 seconds Now grants yourself quickness for 4 seconds
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill has been unsplit and now has a 25-second recharge in all game modes.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 35 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
July 26, 2016	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 45 seconds to 35 seconds.
September 29, 2015	Updated this skill to transfer blindness.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Manipulation skill range has been increased to 1200.
June 03, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the Far-Reaching Manipulations trait to reduce the cooldown of this skill.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that would reset the cooldown for this skill when Far-Reaching Manipulations was equipped.
October 15, 2013	This skill will now have a consistent animation when used with a greatsword.
April 30, 2013	Now correctly transfers the boons removed from enemies and the conditions removed from the mesmer.
March 26, 2013	Now has the correct range when the Far-Reaching Manipulations trait is equipped.
December 14, 2012	Fixed a bug that allowed mesmers to steal skills from Kasha using Arcane Thievery.
October 22, 2012	This skill now appropriately removes the aegis boon rather than being blocked by it.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Arcane Thievery has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.