Spellsteal

Spellsteal
Spellsteal (1 rank) Mage ability 30 s. yd range 16% of base Mana Instant sec cast Steals a beneficial magic effect from the target. This effect lasts a maximum of 2 min.
Properties
Class	Mage
School	Arcane
Cooldown	None

[[Category:mage abilities]][[Category:mage abilities]]

Rogues aren't the only thieves in Azeroth.

Spellsteal is a utility spell that steals a magic buff from a single target. It was introduced in the Burning Crusade.

Rank	Mana Cost	Level	Cost
1	29% base mana	70	10 88

Notes

Spellsteal targets random buff on the enemy.

Tips and Tactics

Use [Detect Magic] often to find buffs to steal. Sometimes a buff appears to have no practical use and is not worth stealing. However, if your party has no Priest or Shaman to dispel the buff, spellsteal accomplishes the same thing.

Spellsteal Targets

• PvE
  • Sethekk Halls
    • Many of the mobs have a buff called Arcane Damage that gives +150 spell damage.
    • Talon King Ikiss's Mana Shield can be stolen when he goes below 15% health.
  • Shadow Labrynth
    • Cabal Zealots transforms into green Core Hounds when they are low on health, that buff is stealable. It prevents you from casting spells, but looks cool.
  • The Botanica
    • Bloodwarder Menders have a +297 spell damage magic buff called "Holy Fury". (Mind controlling the mob with a priest to buff you will result in a 30 minutes buff instead of 2 minutes.)
  • The Mechanar
    • Sunseeker Astromages have a fire shield that does ~700 damage every 3 seconds to enemies in melee range. Spell damage increases this effect.
  • Old Hillsbrad Foothills
    • During the final boss fight against the Epoch Hunter you can steal his Disrupt Magic debuff. This prevents all of your pretty buffs from being removed, and as an added bonus it will remove any beneficial buffs that the boss has.
  • Opening the Dark Portal
    • Temporus: You can steal/debuff his Hasten spell that increases movement speed by 200%.
  • Karazhan
    • Moroes: The 4 adds of Moroes have a 550 attack power buff on them that you can steal. Though you will not get any advantage from this besides debuffing the adds, reducing their damage.
    • Ballroom trash: Some of the trash there have a regen that you can steal. They wont heal anymore and you'll have a free regen.
    • Ethereal Spellfilcher Before the chess event has a +8% spell demage buff that Can Stack. Very useful.
    • Stables trash: Spectral Stallions periodically cast a melee buff that makes them grow larger in size. Stealing this buff will make you grow in size increasingly when stacked. You will not get any advantage of the buff but it debuffs the mob, plus it is fun to be a giant =D.
    • Romulo and Julianne: Julianne's Devotion can be stolen to increase your spell casting speed by 50%. Romulo's Daring can be stolen mainly to debuff him as it only increases melee attack speed.
  • Netherstorm
    • Some of the blood elves around Sunfury Hold cast a stealable buff that adds roughly 150 spell damage. However, it doesn't stack with mage/ice/molten armor.
  • Nagrand
    • Vir'aani Arcanists have a spell called Vir'aani Concentration. It increases arcane damage dealt by 10%, and reduces your chance to be interrupted by melee attacks and abilities by 10%.

• PVP
  • Warlocks
    • [Fel Armor] can be stolen and it increases your spell damage by 100 and healing done to you by 20 percent.
    • [Demon Armor] can be stolen to grant you x armor, shadow resistance, and x health 5/sec.
  • Priests
    • [Power Word: Shield] can be stolen to give you their damage absorption bubble.
    • [Power Word: Fortitude] can be stolen to give you their stamina buff.
    • [Inner Fire] can be stolen to give you their armor buff.
    • [Renew] can be stolen to give you their healing over time spell.
  • Paladins
    • [Blessing of Protection] can be stolen if you can spot it fast enough.
    • [Blessing of Freedom] can be stolen just look for the yellow waves beneath the player's feet.
    • [Blessing of Kings] can be stolen to increase your stats increased by 10%.
    • [Blessing of Wisdom] can be stolen to grant you x mana 5sec.
    • [Avenging Wrath] can be stolen to increase all your damage by 30%. Look for the wings.
  • Druids
    • [Mark of the Wild] can be stolen to increase your armor by x, all attributes by x, and resistances by x.
    • [Thorns] can be stolen to do a short range, low damage, aoe nature spell.
  • Warriors
    • [Commanding Shout] can be stolen to increase your maximum health by x.
  • Shamans
    • [Lightning Shield] can be stolen to do x nature damage to attackers.
    • [Water Walking] can be stolen to allow you to walk on water.
    • [Water Breathing] can be stolen to allow you to breath underwater.
    • [Earth Shield] can be stolen to ignore spell interruption, and damaging melee attacks can heal the shielded.

Past changes

Spellsteal was introduced in the Burning Crusade expansion.