KMS Steal Demonstration

Steal does 520% on a mob of 4 (max). SB does 480%. Fire Pillar is vastly better than Fire Arrow, doing comparable it on mobs of 2 and hitting 6 targets at max. Corkscrew makes it much easier to form mobs and SSK outdamages DU + FF on mobs of 3, not to mention that DU is hardly better than FF in the first place. Most mob skills outdamage same-job single target skills on mobs of 2 or 3. A mob skill that barely outdamages SB on max targets is pretty awful. SB is an incredibly powerful 2nd job skill and more than enough to train with. If you were to max Steal, you would quickly replace it with BoT, which is MUCH better than Steal anyway.

While BoT(which really sucks until it hits 4 targets anyway, and it won't until Lv.76 in most cases) is a lot better than Steal, Savage Blow isn't. The new hitbox and damage, paired with it's better attack speed (600ms > 720ms which is a great difference when talking about mob skills) along with the fact that it mobs and the amount of training spots with great spawn rates already makes Steal much better than Savage Blow for me. If you get Steal after 19 Mastery and 6 Booster, you will be able to hit 4 monsters at Lv.47 and 3 monsters at Lv.41. When you're at CPQ, skills that hit multiple monsters win from single target ones quite easily. If you 4 hit KO a mob of 4 monsters with Steal, Steal is better than Savage Blow due to the speed and range it has. For single target damage Double Stab is good enough until you start fighting monsters with more HP, which you won't until Lv.60 or so anyway.

Also, if you get Steal first, your single target attack will be Double Stab until later levels. Steal is twice as good as Double Stab on a mob of 4, and the same as Lv.13 BoT with a better frontal range(and you don't have to use that stupid first hit). Stealing items has become a bonus, and Tay can kill Roids faster than my CB can (my damage range kinda sucks though).

Build you end 2nd job with if you max Steal:
30 Steal
30 SB
19 Mastery
20 Haste
6 Booster(must)
16 Free points(Dark Sight should be maxed in the 1st job, Nimble Body sucks)

This would mean you could get 6 Booster and 16 Endure, 20 Booster and 2 Endure or 11 Booster and 11 Endure(lol?). I actually start to regret putting points in Endure now, the amount it heals is too low to help with anything really, even with the KMS updates (if you spam SB you use 375 mp in 10 seconds. Endure recovers 40(which equals 40 to 80 mesos depending on potions used) of that, which is a little more than 10%, really worth spending 20 SP on that? SP consumption is about the same for all Bandit/CB/Shadower skills). I'd rather have 28 Steal than 20 Endure too.

This post turned out much much longer than I wanted it to be. Oh well...