Buff the Bandit Skill Steal

I personally feel dit/sin 2nd classes are pretty balanced already. Most ppl go sindit early on then change back to dagger once savage blow/mastery is maxed making them much more versatile. The damage difference between a geared dit and a geared sin that early on isnt that huge/unbalanced. Giving a single target dps class a mobbing skill at 2nd job sounds pretty absurd to me. Also how would steal even work? You have 40% chance to steal gear from the mob then kill it again for more drops?

 

There's plenty of useless skills, disorder for example is useless. Turning steal into an aoe mobbing item stealing skill sounds abit broken to me. You wouldn't need to kill mobs for certain quests anymore, can just run through the map and spam steal on groups of mobs then cc and do the same on the other 5 channels. Not sure how that balances anything.

 

Attacks multiple enemies at a high speed and has a chance to steal an item from an enemy. You can only steal one item per enemy, and you can continue trying until you succeed. Has a chance to stun enemies.

Aoe mob skill, that has chance to stun and can be spammed on a group of mobs until at least 1 item is stolen from each mob. What exactly don't i understand?

 

Well before we jump to turning steal into a mob attack, why don't we just make sure you properly steal an item first?

 

Hyuga

I guess you kinda missed the point here.

The problem is, this skill doesn't work.
Even when it will be fixed and buffed it's kinda bad.

Damage: 130%, attacks up to 4 enemies
comparing to
Pirate SK Damage 190%, attack up to 6 monsters (1st job skill!)
is just very bad.

Stun doesn't even matter with that low DMG, and you will get more etc items just by faster killing with other jobs.

Bandit path is not that great anyway, give him some love!

 

I +1 this. I'd love to see some change

 

Correct me if im wrong but...SK is their main dps skill if going bucc? Dit's already have savage blow, i've played bandit for a long while and never thought steal would be impactful at all in their gameplay style but i guess everyone has their own views. I dont even remember steal working in the official servers when i played but nonetheless, my point is; you wont be running around using steal on mobs when you are killing said mobs with 1-2 savage blows.

There is no downtime between savage blows for you to weave a steal in so i want to understand the logic behind the skill entirely. How would making steal work balance anything between the dit/sin class and how would you use it effectively?
It is an entirely different topic regarding making steal an actual functioning skill, but im mainly interested in how Qwyl believes it will balance anything.

Bandit 2nd job is avg, as are most 2nd job classes. Bandit 3rd job is the highest damage and fastest leveler in the entire game. As for 4th job, Kim has completely removed the cooldown on boomerang step AS WELL AS increased it's range by nearly 2 fold AND allowing shadowers to use it off cliffs, ledges and into walls. Bandits are more than great on this server.

 

Good point, but it's still a shame to have an active skill that is so useless. It's a fun skill to use regardless, so it's still a shame

 

just wanted to way in on this. I agree with Krauser94, and others who think is should be buffed. but it shouldnt be buffed alot... if that makes sense. but yeah bandits arent that bad at second job, because of savage blow. but steal really is useless.
lore wise, steal makes alot of sense for a thief, because T-H-I-E-F, hence we should be able to steal shit!
at least buff it so it actually steals shit, and not occasionally cause a mob to drop like extra 20 mesos...

 

From my perspective,i don't mind this skill to "work" (steal items from a monster in a low success-rate). the 3 mob dmg part is the problem here.
Dits are pretty hard (hell) to level till level 70,why? well because after level 70 THEY RUSH TO 110 IN NO TIME with mesos explosion.
i think its pretty balanced and should remain untouched or else will be too easy to level as a bandit and this class will be broken.

With that being said,the results of buffing a certain class will eventually affect the market (which is unstable these days because of the newcomer wave)
so even if the staff consider to actually buff it,hold onto it.

 

+1 for making a useless skill useful... and making thieves actually able to, you know, steal stuff.