Aura steal

[ForteTeppo]

A friend told me Aura Steal has the ability to steal Buffs, this is including 2-hours. I would like to confirm if you really can steal a 2-hour buff from an enemy.

 

[Dejavu]

i dont believe it can but that would be interesting to try on say... seiryu

 

[mdkuser]

no. useless ability generally. Although i have merited it to level 1 cause it can have a use sometimes.

 

[Khajit]

SE keeps on nerfing the amount of stuff you can steal so any use you can find from it gets lower and lower as the game goes on. I'd consider it far more useful if i could steal brd buffs in dynamis or if stealing warmup actually gave the acc/eva bonus... or if there was anything besides warcry, blaze spikes, and boost to steal from a mob..

 

[LadyKiKi]

From what I noticed anything you can dispel you can steal. Need confirmation though.

 

[Sneakypants]

It's pretty meh. Put 1 in it if you enjoy the novelty of it.

 

[Necrosis]

feint is really the only thing you should cap in tier2 merits, aura steal's situationally nice (spikes, stealing zerk, etc), but would be better if you could steal things like bard buffs.

can't steal 2hs (that I know of), but I've stolen pretty much every PC JA from charmed people.

 

[Javir]

Based on all my experience, if you can dispel it you can steal it. You can't dispel 2-hrs but you can dispel things like "Berserk". Though now that this comes up it makes me wonder what job abilities can be stolen. I need to make Dejavu my test dummy and try to steal his SA or TA <.<

 

[Necrosis]

I've stolen shit like dodge/hasso/seigan/focus from brainjack'd people in salvage; it's too bad AS doesn't work in ballista for whatever reason.

 

[Langly]

It doesn't? I guess steal is getting the override in ballista to only pay attention to petras/no petras. That sucks, and another reason to fix ballista.

 

[BobDaMahn]

Aura Steal Dispels that is the main reason to use. Regen is one the effects I didn't see mentioned above, as well as the Pro and Shell buffs, additionaly HP up and MP up can be stolen. Feint by far most important but you would be mistaken to think Aura Steal Dispel's are a waste.

 

[Acutie]

gravedigger

 

[Javir]

Aura Steal Dispels that is the main reason to use. Regen is one the effects I didn't see mentioned above, as well as the Pro and Shell buffs, additionaly HP up and MP up can be stolen. Feint by far most important but you would be mistaken to think Aura Steal Dispel's are a waste.

most of these weren't mentioned cause they were implied, however, I didn't know about the HP and MP up things <.< That could be fun

 

[BobDaMahn]

Besieged Bosses have these effects sometimes, Ive had over 2800 HP as 75thf/nin and my norm is 1205. Kinda sweet. Aura steal is a nice counter when solo Marid's as Voracious Trunk eats your Shadows you can jack them back works on several mobs that have steal abilities/effects from you. Forgot to mention Reraise earlier, if say Jaded Jody steals the Mages buffs Reraise is one of the effects you can jack.