Arcane Thievery/history
May 11, 2021
- Arcane Thievery: This skill now requires a target to activate.
Arcane Thievery
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Manipulation
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“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
- : 3
Conditions Transferred- Range: 1,200
- Unblockable
— In-game description
February 25, 2020
- Arcane Thievery: (Competitive split) Reduced quickness and slow duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
Arcane Thievery
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Manipulation
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“Manipulation. Send conditions you have to your foe and steal their boons. Successfully hitting your target inflicts slow on them while granting you quickness.
- Range: 1,200
- Unblockable
— In-game description
December 12, 2017
- Arcane Thievery: In addition to its previous effects, successfully hitting a target now inflicts slow on the target for 4 seconds while granting quickness to the mesmer for the same duration.
Arcane Thievery
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Manipulation
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“Manipulation. Send three conditions you have to your foe and give them slow, and steal three of their boons while granting yourself quickness.
— In-game description
August 08, 2017
- Arcane Thievery: This skill has been unsplit and now has a 25-second recharge in all game modes.
Arcane Thievery
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Manipulation
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“Manipulation. Send three conditions you have to your foe and steal three of their boons.
- Range: 1,200
- Unblockable
— In-game description
February 22, 2017
- Arcane Thievery: The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 35 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
Arcane Thievery
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Manipulation
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“Manipulation. Send three conditions you have to your foe and steal three of their boons.
- Range: 1,200
- Unblockable
— In-game description
July 26, 2016
- Arcane Thievery: The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 45 seconds to 35 seconds.
Arcane Thievery
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Manipulation
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“Manipulation. Send three conditions you have to your foe and steal three of their boons.
- Range: 1,200
- Unblockable
— In-game description
September 29, 2015
- Arcane Thievery: Updated this skill to transfer blindness.
June 23, 2015
- Manipulation skill range has been increased to 1200.
Arcane Thievery
- Profession
- Mesmer (skill list)
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Manipulation
- Training cost
- 4 Hero points
- Game link
“Manipulation. Send three conditions you have to your foe and steal three of their boons.
- Range: 1,200
- Unblockable
— In-game description
June 03, 2014
- Arcane Thievery: Fixed a bug that caused the Far-Reaching Manipulations trait to reduce the cooldown of this skill.
April 15, 2014
- Arcane Thievery: Fixed a bug that would reset the cooldown for this skill when Far-Reaching Manipulations was equipped.
October 15, 2013
- Arcane Thievery: This skill will now have a consistent animation when used with a greatsword.
April 30, 2013
- Arcane Thievery skill: Now correctly transfers the boons removed from enemies and the conditions removed from the mesmer.
March 26, 2013
- Arcane Thievery: Now has the correct range when the Far-Reaching Manipulations trait is equipped.
December 14, 2012
- Arcane Thievery: Fixed a bug that allowed mesmers to steal skills from Kasha using Arcane Thievery.
October 22, 2012
- Arcane Thievery: This skill now appropriately removes the aegis boon rather than being blocked by it.
Original version
Arcane Thievery
“Manipulation. Send conditions you have to your foe and steal their boons.
- Range: 900
— In-game description