Skills Primary article: List of thief skills Utility skill types
An experienced thief can take on multiple targets but preferably one at a time. They must rely on stealth, evasion, surprise attacks, and debilitating and damaging conditions to overpower their opponents. Thieves are less powerful in terms of durability in comparison to some professions. Thieves also have their own special weapon skill types Dual Wield skills, Venoms that empower the thief and nearby allies, Stealth Attacks and shadowstep skills. The cost of initiative is being unable to use weapon skills while waiting for their initiative to regenerate over time. This resource allows the thief to use attacks back-to-back and more quickly in a unique pattern. The thief's weapon skills have no recharge time instead they use initiative. The stolen item will be taken from a pool of several possible items for each creature classification, including opposing players in PvP. In terms of game mechanics, the thief does not literally steal an item, but instead creates a bundle based on the targeted creature's classification that the thief can store for later use.
Thieves have the ability to steal an item from an enemy that they can use as a bundle.
