Swipe

Shadowstep to your foe and steal from them. — In-game description

Swipe

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Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Daredevil

Slot

Profession mechanic

Movement

Shadowstep

Game link

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API

“

Shadowstep to your foe and steal from them.

  Unblockable

  Range: 600

— In-game description ^[?]

Stolen skills

Primary article: Stolen skill

Swipe has identical stolen skills as Steal.

Related traits

 Daredevil

•  Physical Supremacy — Gain access to physical skills. Your maximum endurance threshold is increased, while Steal is replaced with Swipe.
•  Endurance Thief — Gain endurance when you successfully steal from an enemy.

 Deadly Arts

•  Serpent's Touch — Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison.
•  Mug — Deal damage and gain life when stealing. This attack cannot critically hit enemies.
•  Improvisation — You can use stolen skills twice. Recharge one random equipped utility skill when you steal. Goes on cooldown regardless of if a utility skill is recharged. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.

 Shadow Arts

•  Hidden Thief — Stealing grants you stealth. Deception skills gain reduced recharge.

 Acrobatics

•  Swindler's Equilibrium — Successfully evading an attack while wielding a sword or spear recharges Steal. Swords and spears deal increased damage.

 Trickery

•  Kleptomaniac — Stealing gives you initiative.
•  Thrill of the Crime — When you Steal, you and all nearby allies gain fury, might, and swiftness for 10 seconds.
•  Bountiful Theft — Stealing grants you and all nearby allies vigor. You rip boons from your target and grant them to nearby allies.
•  Lead Attacks — Increases damage and condition damage per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.
•  Bewildering Ambush — Stealing also applies confusion.
•  Sleight of Hand — Stealing also dazes the target. Reduces the recharge of Steal.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 01, 2019	Fixed a bug that could cause the shadowstep to fail in rare situations. Reduced recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
April 26, 2019	Fixed an issue in which Steal's[sic] cooldown would not be appropriately reduced by the Sleight of Hand or Swindler's Equilibrium traits.
April 23, 2019	Swipe has been added to the game.

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Skill types and profession mechanics