Guild Wars 2

On early release, traits like Bountiful Thief would grant the buffs even if you didn’t had a target, we could get 10 seconds of Might Swiftness and Fury just by pressing F1.

This was fixed and now the buffs are only granted if you actually land the steal. if it is dodged or out of range or you don’t have a target you get no boons.

Hidden Thief (imo) should work the same way but i found that if I press F1 with no target i still get the 2sec (3 if traited) of stealth from Hidden Thief.

Its not a major bug nor it OP but still it should be fixed i guess…

It’s most likely supposed to work this way.

humm… i doubt it.

Would be nice to hear from a Dev / Mod about this just to clear it up

Not a bug… follow the wiki:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hidden_Thief

then

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Steal

“Note that using Steal without a target in range will still put the ability on a 5 second cooldown, while gaining any traited bonuses.”

So someone added more detail to Steal then they did to Hidden Thief on Wiki.. that makes it correct ?

stinkypants.8419:

Not a bug… follow the wiki:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hidden_Thief

then

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Steal

“Note that using Steal without a target in range will still put the ability on a 5 second cooldown, while gaining any traited bonuses.”

That was probably changed recently, previously it would put in the full CD, I dont remember seeing this change on any patch notes but if true, with Boutifull Thief we can have permanent Swiftness fury and Might will not in combat. That is SO OP….

I will test this when i get home from work! if true in WvWvW it’s just SICK xD

I noticed that if you do not have any target “hidden thief” stealths you and “steal” goes in full CD. If you have a target but it in not in range “steal” goes in a 5sec CD but you do not get stealthed.
Didnìt try with “bountifull thief”.

10 seconds? I think you have your traits mixed up, that’s thrill of the crime.

Imperator totius Sylvari.9164:

10 seconds? I think you have your traits mixed up, that’s thrill of the crime.

you are correct, tks for for the correction

If you have any traits that give you buffs when you steal (initiative, and/or swiftness/fury/might, and/or stealth etc), when you gain the buffs , steal goes on full cooldown. If you have a target and it’s out of range, steal goes on its short cd, but you do not gain any buffs. If you have no target in range, you gain the buffs and steal goes on full cd.

So no, we can’t gain perma-swiftness through stealing.

glad to hear that! tks for clearing this up

Trait of vigor on steal will not be given on steal without target in range

Wait… haven’t had a chance to test… but I thought stealth got applied on the short cooldown if you were out of range, but had a target…

hrm…