Larcenous Strike

Dual Wield. Stab your foe and steal boons from them. Deals increased damage if it hits a foe with no boons. — In-game description

Larcenous Strike

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword
Off hand dagger

Type

Dual Wield

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

13007

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0.5½  

1

2

 

Larcenous Strike

Dual Wield. Stab your foe and steal boons from them. Deals increased damage if it hits a foe with no boons.

 Boons Stolen: 2

 Damage: 796 (2.17)^?

 Damage: 513 (1.4)^?

 Damage Increase: 20%

 Range: 130

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Dagger Training — Gain bonus power, which is increased when wielding a dagger.
• Deadly Ambition — Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage. Applies poison once per attack use.

Acrobatics

• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.

Trickery

• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Notes

• Only hits one target.
• The order of boon removal is
  • Against NPCs: Stability, Fury, Resistance, Quickness, Protection, Swiftness, Vigor, Aegis, Might, Resolution, Alacrity and Regeneration.
  • Against Players: Aegis, Resolution, Resistance, Protection, Swiftness, Might, Regeneration, Quickness, Stability, Fury, Vigor, and Alacrity.
• Unlike Bountiful Theft, this skill will transfer the entire stack of the boon removed to your character. For example, if your target has 25 stacks of Might, you will gain all 25 stacks, while your target loses all 25 stacks. Same for duration stacking boons like Swiftness: hitting a target with 2 minutes of Swiftness will give you the full 2 minutes.
• The bonus damage is calculated after the boon strip takes place.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the initiative cost from 2 to 1 in PvE only. Increased the power coefficient from 1.6 to 2.17 in PvE only.
March 19, 2024	Increased the power coefficient from 1.3 to 1.4 in PvP and WvW.
March 27, 2018	Reduced damage by 15% in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill now deals 20% bonus damage to boonless foes. This damage is calculated after the boon strip takes place.
July 26, 2016	Updated the skill fact to display the number of stolen boons.
April 19, 2016	The number of boons stolen by this skill has been increased from 1 to 2. The initiative cost has been increased from 1 to 2.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All skills categorized as dual-wield have received a 5% damage increase.
September 09, 2014	Initiative cost of this skill has been reduced to 1.
October 15, 2013	This skill now steals only 1 boon.
June 25, 2013	Increased the initiative cost to 2.
April 30, 2013	Larcenous Strike has been added to the game.