Guild Wars 2

I will submit a video of all known reasons that Steal bugs once I get internet, as well as finish my guide (this is slightly more difficult). Should have internet come Tuesday – I hope.

Edit; once again spelling due to using a phone.

As a Thief, you don’t wait for Internet you come to them.

My favorite steal bug is when it ports you to target and back in second and leaves you with few condis and in wtfbbq mode.

Caed steal internet and blame anet.

Bojoo.7819:

My favorite steal bug is when it ports you to target and back in second and leaves you with few condis and in wtfbbq mode.

Caed steal internet and blame anet.

Double port is my fave at the moment too… especially when escaping from something….

Phaeton.9582:

Bojoo.7819:

My favorite steal bug is when it ports you to target and back in second and leaves you with few condis and in wtfbbq mode.

Caed steal internet and blame anet.

Double port is my fave at the moment too… especially when escaping from something….

To be honest, that has only happened me a few times and only in WvW.
My favourite remains the “Out of Range” one: despite porting to the target, you still get the Skill go in full CD. Funny thing is that, when you use it when the target is ACTUALLY out of range, the skill will only go to 5s CD.
It’s almost as if the game itself wants to troll you.

Maybe steal bug is a marketting strategy!!! since there wont be any buffs coming our direction anytime soon, therefore they create bugs to later fix it and create illusionary buffs.

Sizer.2654:

Maybe steal bug is a marketting strategy!!! since there wont be any buffs coming our direction anytime soon, therefore they create bugs to later fix it and create illusionary buffs.

Sizer.2654:

Maybe steal bug is a marketting strategy!!! since there wont be any buffs coming our direction anytime soon, therefore they create bugs to later fix it and create illusionary buffs.

the sad part, this is probably true O_o

Sometime the sad truth can be more funnier than any comedy shows combined.

hihey.1075:

Steal bug and getting hit “mid dodge” happen a lot to me…
Getting “out of range” “obstructed” when I’m right next to the enemy is quite common, and usually means a quick death to me. I mean, planning ahead “my steal would miss because of bug” it’s kinda stupid.
I don’’t know why they changed it either. It was so perfect before…

+1
bursted while dodging and obstructed when enemy is right infront of me between 200-400range..

Sizer.2654:

Maybe steal bug is a marketting strategy!!! since there wont be any buffs coming our direction anytime soon, therefore they create bugs to later fix it and create illusionary buffs.

You (thief) are not in need of buffs!

Wow, stop stealing from people then you scrub.

After patch, still present.

Tried Steal 10 times on a Golem next to me. Got “Out of Range” 3 times. Still got teleported to it, but didn’t get bundle and all the other stuff (mug, SoH, BT, poison).

It looks even worse after patch.

They made steal even worse! WTF ARENA???

Block doesn’t proc Larcenous strike, whch is a bit unfair as it clearly is a hit. Medi Guards are now an even bigger pain in the kitten . Im not sure yet, but Steal might no longer bug in combination with Flanking strike, can any1 confirm?

U miss steal every time you do heartseeker+steal
KITTEN IT!

dDuff.3860:

U miss steal every time you do heartseeker+steal
KITTEN IT!

CONFIRMED.
That’s the reason behind the insanely high number ot steal misses I’m currently getting.

Let’s hope this will be a huge enough bug to let them notice this. Making a video right now and posting it on the bug section ASAP.

U ALSO MISS STEAL comboing with flanking strikes. GJ ON FEATURE PACK.

SAME FOR PISTOLWHIP

Attracting devs attention to this thread, also posted it to the support devs.

not only nerfed, also bugged
+1 fail september fix patch

Let’see how we’ll wait for dev reply in this topic – 3 years latera – still waiting

dDuff.3860:

U miss steal every time you do heartseeker+steal
KITTEN IT!

It’s fine for me.

Pistolwhip is fine for me. Heartseeker clearly isn’t, and the same goes for every thief I have asked this question to.

sizers gonna be mad lol

THis is completely game breaking and needs to be fixed ASAP. We’re playing in 4 days and now we have to wait even longer before we can practice for ToG.

Video is UP now. Going to spam it in most sections of these forums so that the devs get acquainted with it ASAP.

09/09/2014 the day when steal is far away.

steal can be used with other ability was a bug

just like how building momentum gave 50% endurance and how whirling axe can dodge.

teehee, anet troll at max level.

Yup. I was willing to try and be optimistic about the changes to flanking strike. But now we have an even buggier steal, chaining with steal is 80% likely to produce the "out of range" bug, and we have an unblockable attack that cannot be reached in its chain if the enemy is blocking.

actually it would be a good balance change having steal not being able to be chained with other abilities. It defiantly needs its damage somehow lowered

if it were intended, yes

anyways with steal bug… /CARE

I hope they fix the steal bug however

1. Nerf teleports (steal, infiltrators,)
First of all, you shouldn’t be able to teleport in enemy if you’re not in line of sight (This is the most gamebreaking kitten about thieves that has ever existed since launch)

2. > more stuffs to nerf

I play thief

The lack of dev response in this nakes me sad. Unless it was intended and the devs are out there laughing how useless thief now is.

But hey, at least we can life steal unload from 1050 range now! /sarcasm

Phone. Double post.

grouch says theyre working on it

Sizer.2654:

actually it would be a good balance change having steal not being able to be chained with other abilities. It defiantly needs its damage somehow lowered

Then you would be the only one playing thief , whats the fun in playing thief without the ability to combo things together?

Cynz.9437:

Sizer.2654:

Maybe steal bug is a marketting strategy!!! since there wont be any buffs coming our direction anytime soon, therefore they create bugs to later fix it and create illusionary buffs.

the sad part, this is probably true O_o

You were right Irrwi. I rage quit thief today. – Pancakes

Sizer.2654:

Maybe steal bug is a marketting strategy!!! since there wont be any buffs coming our direction anytime soon, therefore they create bugs to later fix it and create illusionary buffs.

That, or they secretly broke it to make Trickery less desirable to spec into. Because, if it’s unviable, then maybe more players will pick up the trash that is P/D venoms or P/P. They’ll keep nerfing our only viable sets until the trash sets are more common. Since thief is already so op, that they can’t simply fix the kittenty sets to make them viable instead.

#genius#anet#teef op#pls nurf#bearbows&turrets4life

Up for dev response
It’s unfair that our class ability doesn’t work and after half-day still no fix. Anet ridicolous.

Sizer.2654:

Maybe steal bug is a marketting strategy!!! since there wont be any buffs coming our direction anytime soon, therefore they create bugs to later fix it and create illusionary buffs.

Instead of an evil marketing plan, QA kittening up as usual seems way more likely.

Can we see any REDPOST on this topic? It is problem of class mechanic that makes thief gameplay unenjoyable.

Fix steal and remove being bursted mid-dodge PLS! Srsly.

ah man this class is now unplayable like nothing sad sad…..

We are still looking for red post.

•Thief: •Steal: Fixed an issue in which thieves were unable to hit with this ability while using a movement skill.

Sadly, it didn’t fix the obstructed bug. Still getting shadow stepped to the target only to have "obstructed" appear and steal enter full cool down without dazing, healing, damaging or boon stealing.

I watch Sizer’s stream for “Mid freaking dogdgeroll!!!” and “Steal bug! Again!!” at this point. Oh, and watching him own on Battle of Kyhlo clocktower.

But maybe they could make steal have 2 parts? (3 total) where you click once to steal the ability and a second time to warp and daze? that way if you get obstructed by the ability steal, it can go on a two second cooldown and the warp/daze doesn’t happen. That or completely eliminate obstructed bug in a non LoS scenario, but that might take some server side fixing that might affect a ton of other skills and finally fix obstruction bugs in general.

Phaeton.9582:

•Thief: •Steal: Fixed an issue in which thieves were unable to hit with this ability while using a movement skill.

nothing got fixed, HS + steal still works only half of the time, BP+ HS+ steal doesn’t work properly and ports you back
was taken yesterday…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONcJFPEaqek

Cynz.9437:

Phaeton.9582:

•Thief: •Steal: Fixed an issue in which thieves were unable to hit with this ability while using a movement skill.

nothing got fixed, HS + steal still works only half of the time, BP+ HS+ steal doesn’t work properly and ports you back
was taken yesterday…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONcJFPEaqek

they basically reduced the range of HS+steal combo, and unfortunately I think its intentional. I wvs testing it and it seemed to always work only if my HS was within the 900 steal range, where previously, you could HS into steal range.

as for porting back on steal, this bug IS NOT exclusive to HS+steal, this has happened to me many times prepatch on multiple weaponsets.

tl;dr: The combo works within 900 range, the max range of this combo has been reduced by the range of HS

Cam Ron.4170:

Cynz.9437:

Phaeton.9582:

•Thief: •Steal: Fixed an issue in which thieves were unable to hit with this ability while using a movement skill.

nothing got fixed, HS + steal still works only half of the time, BP+ HS+ steal doesn’t work properly and ports you back
was taken yesterday…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONcJFPEaqek

they basically reduced the range of HS+steal combo, and unfortunately I think its intentional. I wvs testing it and it seemed to always work only if my HS was within the 900 steal range, where previously, you could HS into steal range.

as for porting back on steal, this bug IS NOT exclusive to HS+steal, this has happened to me many times prepatch on multiple weaponsets.

tl;dr: The combo works within 900 range, the max range of this combo has been reduced by the range of HS

The BP+HS + steal port back bug is 100% reproducable though…. meaning it happens every time now.