Steal Rogue using bow?

[Oyama]

Hi,

I am quite new to the Ragnarok world and after playing a Hunter since 4 weeks, I ran out of zeny...

Now I want to make a Steal Rouge and after going through the skills, I want to know if the skills Steal and Snatcher work when using a bow.
Do you have to stand directly next to the monster?

If bows and stealing skills don't work together, what are good stats for using a dagger but focus is on steal skills?

Thanks alot for your help!

[Triper]

Steal yep, snatcher nop.
Yes in the terms of weapon range not atk range and is by melee dmg.

AGI/STR/DEX by that order

[Oyama]

Oh thats bad... high dex and snatcher would have been nice...
What about Agi and Dex nearly equal and therefore lower Str? Because I want to steal/snatch and not deal damage...

Is ~20 Vit and ~18 Int enough?

[Triper]

The problem isn't really the "i want the drops so slow kill", is that you've always to kill them in the end so you need a STR/AGI/DEX for hard stuff and use manual steal or play with elements sometimes.

I have my Stalker with 99 AGI/8x STR/4x-5x DEX/1x VIT most of the time and works fine with ivory knife and thief card set[the paper card+shinobi card+...], dmg is ok, enough for steal and i've a pretty high aspd. If stuff die too fast, manual steal ftw, can't do nothing about that.

[FreshSoul]

I have my Stalker with 99 AGI/8x STR/4x-5x DEX/1x VIT most of the time and works fine with ivory knife and thief card set[the paper card+shinobi card+...], dmg is ok, enough for steal and i've a pretty high aspd. If stuff die too fast, manual steal ftw, can't do nothing about that.

does double strike proc another steal chance ?

[Triper]

Skills don't proc skills.

[XicoR4]

Skills don't proc skills.

Depends, there's a couple of weapons that make you auto-cast a skill when you use another skill (Elemental Sword, Nepenthes Bow, and a couple of the KvM weapons come to mind).


Regarding the actual rogue build, a high str with mid to high agi and a bit lower dex with a few points (~20) on vit seems to be the norm and works pretty well for PvM. That build lets you level with copied melee skills (like bowling bash) if you want to level faster, instead of relying entirely on control click. You should tweak the build to your liking though.

[Triper]

That isn't a skill proc'd by a skill, is a script working.