Guild Wars 2

When using any boon stealing ability you aren’t able to steal the stacking boons.

I had noticed multiple times that when using bountiful theft or larcenous the opponent would always be left with their might. The worst part of this though is when you do steal the might from someone (when it’s the last or one of the last 2 boons), you don’t steal all the stacks.

I want those might stacks!
http://imgur.com/hSdtkxY

But that’s what I get instead.
http://imgur.com/GqmkJ7T

I tried to steal the 25 stacks of might from the jelly but I only got 1. The picture shows 3 might stacks. I got one from thrill of the crime and two from stealing the 25 stacks of might. Something clearly isn’t working. I know this IS a bug b/c in the SotG dealio the devs straight up said that the thief WOULD be able to steal those might stacks.

Oh, you can steal the might stacks. You just have to have 25/3 = 9 thieves stealing at once. Did they forget to mention that?

Maybe the pve jelly don’t use normal Might.
Since I steal stacks from people just fine.

if you used bountiful theft then that’s why, it only steals 1 stack of the boon

bountiful thieft is garb

old bug :/
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bountiful_Theft

Bountiful Theft always worked like that in a broken way. It steals all the might stacks at once, discards all of them except one then applies the one remaining to you and allies. The trait sucks because of that.

Last time i used bountiful theft on the jelly it gave one my party members the full 25 might stacks, even though it lasted for like 2-3 secs.

Bountiful Theft has always been that way. I’m about to test LS for myself on Ettins.

LS steals stacks just fine.

LS realy sucks…
Boon Stealing has a priority for:
-Swiftness
-Regeneration
-Fury
-Protection
-Might
-Retaliation

in my personal opinion it should be totally random, I don’t want to steal Swiftness\Regeneration every freaking time I face an engineer with 25 stack of might and retaliation always up..

This skill is awsome on the paper but it sucks on the ground..
against anyone that is not totally kitten you will never steal thos 25 stacks plus retaliation cos he will always dodge your second hit or will have 3+ boon on him

I hope this skill will get fixed soon, and Bountyful Theft too

Yes this is how Bountiful Theft has always worked.

It seems like might its the 3rd or 4th boon stolen, however, so using steal in the instant before you land larc strike usually leads to instant 4 boon strip + giving you all the might stacks

yeah but you’re talking just for 1 type of build that requires at least 20 point in trickery.. not a bad spec but not everyone that is using sword\dagger want to run 20 points in trickery.. and also I shouldn’t be forced to run like that just for trying to steal might…

also I am sure that might and retaliation are the last boons in the priority list, so if someone is running with 6 active boon at the time, you won’t be able to steal might and retaliation even using Steal and LS..

I realy ask for a change: I want to steal boon in a totally random way, I don’t ask to steal might\protection or retaliation every time but just to have the same chance to steal one of those boon and not always Swiftness\Fury\Regeneration

Kolly.9872:

yeah but you’re talking just for 1 type of build that requires at least 20 point in trickery.. not a bad spec but not everyone that is using sword\dagger want to run 20 points in trickery.. and also I shouldn’t be forced to run like that just for trying to steal might…

also I am sure that might and retaliation are the last boons in the priority list, so if someone is running with 6 active boon at the time, you won’t be able to steal might and retaliation even using Steal and LS..

I realy ask for a change: I want to steal boon in a totally random way, I don’t ask to steal might\protection or retaliation every time but just to have the same chance to steal one of those boon and not always Swiftness\Fury\Regeneration

Psssh… steal from a warrior or thief (might stacking during stealth) and the majority of the time might will be one of the two boons you end up grabbing… LS is fine as it is. It just depends on which class you’re targeting.

Bounty Theft is a boon stripper, not a boonsteal like LS. If it strip a might stack, you get one stack of might regardless of how many stacks you stripped.

It’s a bad trait except for the vigor buff, it’s not like you have other choice in that tier anyway.

Hexalot.8194:

Kolly.9872:

yeah but you’re talking just for 1 type of build that requires at least 20 point in trickery.. not a bad spec but not everyone that is using sword\dagger want to run 20 points in trickery.. and also I shouldn’t be forced to run like that just for trying to steal might…

also I am sure that might and retaliation are the last boons in the priority list, so if someone is running with 6 active boon at the time, you won’t be able to steal might and retaliation even using Steal and LS..

I realy ask for a change: I want to steal boon in a totally random way, I don’t ask to steal might\protection or retaliation every time but just to have the same chance to steal one of those boon and not always Swiftness\Fury\Regeneration

Psssh… steal from a warrior or thief (might stacking during stealth) and the majority of the time might will be one of the two boons you end up grabbing… LS is fine as it is. It just depends on which class you’re targeting.

yeah cos for you it is meant to be used against another thief or a bunker?
wake up, usually bunkers have more than just 2 boons up, and you will end up with swiftness and fury or regen if you’re lucky.
LS sucks as it is, try to actually play tPvP and strip boons from some good bunker and you will see what I mean..
I am just asking for an equal chance between all boons, I just don’t get it why some boons must be prioritized upon others