Stealing Guide: Steal Odds, Brigand's Gloves and Every Item You Can Steal

Steal and Mug work on a flat 1 in 5 chance against almost every enemy in Final Fantasy Resonance, and many early enemies have nothing to take. Use Mug instead of Steal, check what an enemy carries before you spend turns on it, and buy Brigand’s Gloves at the airship’s shop in Chapter 5: they make every item steal succeed. Stealing is worth the effort because 41 pieces of gear can’t be bought, found in a chest or won as a reward, and no enemy drops them.

How Stealing Works

Zidane’s Vision teaches Steal at Mastery Rank 1 and Mug at Mastery Rank 5. You find the Vision in the Sanctum of Zidane on Dirnado once Chapter 2 takes you there, so nobody can steal before that. The All Visions guide covers the rest of his Mastery Ranks and awakening abilities.

Each try has a 1 in 5 chance to work against almost every enemy. The Sandworm in the Zoldaad Empire Territory is the one exception, at 1 in 10. Your level, your stats and the difficulty setting don’t change the chance, and staggering the enemy first doesn’t help. A miss doesn’t raise your next chance either, so you can keep trying at the same odds until it works.

Each enemy can be robbed once. The battle message tells you where you stand:

• Failed to steal anything… means the roll missed. Try again.
• There’s nothing to steal! means the enemy has nothing left, or never carried anything. Stop spending turns on it.

Check an enemy’s Stealable Items and Rare Stealable entries on its info screen before you start. Many early enemies carry nothing at all.

Enemies can carry a normal item, a rare item or both. When a steal works on an enemy that carries both, you get the rare one about a quarter of the time. An enemy that carries only a rare item always gives it, which makes those enemies the best targets.

How to Improve Your Steal Chances

Only a handful of things change the odds, and most of them come from Zidane himself.

• Use Mug. It uses the same odds as Steal and deals damage on the same turn, so it’s the better pick for 5 more AP (20 against 15).
• Buy Brigand’s Gloves. This accessory costs 4,000 gil at the airship’s shop from Chapter 5, and it’s the only equipment or ability that raises the success chance of Steal and Mug. Equip it on the character who steals and every item steal succeeds on the first try.
• Equip Discerning Eye. Zidane’s awakening level 1 ability (20 AP) raises the rare share from 24% to 49.5%.
• Equip Treasure Hunter. Zidane’s awakening level 3 ability (50 AP) makes every successful steal take the rare item. It replaces Discerning Eye, so don’t equip both.
• Use True Pyroclasm. Vaan’s Resonance attack steals from every enemy it hits, every time. Vaan’s Vision is in the Sanctum of Vaan on Mysidia.

Brigand’s Gloves plus Treasure Hunter is the setup to aim for. With both, one Mug takes the rare item from any enemy that carries one. Awakening costs magicite; the All Visions guide lists where to find it.

Zidane’s Steal Strength, Steal Speed, Steal Vitality and Steal Magic don’t take items. They’re attacks that weaken the target and strengthen Zidane, and they don’t count as steals for Thievery.

Stealing Gil

Vaan’s Gil Farmer (Mastery Rank 1, 10 AP) steals an enemy’s gil and works two times in three. Brigand’s Gloves don’t help here. Two passives use it for you: Gil Farmer on Stagger (Mastery Rank 3, 25 AP) triggers it whenever you stagger an enemy, and One for the Road (awakening level 3, 30 AP) gives each of Vaan’s skills a 50% chance to trigger it.

Gil and items are tracked separately. After Zidane takes an enemy’s item, Vaan can still take its gil.

Thievery

Zidane’s Thievery passive (awakening level 0, 30 AP) raises damage dealt by up to 50%. It counts every successful steal over the whole game, items and gil alike, including the ones you made before you had it. Each steal adds 0.1%, so the bonus reaches its full 50% at 500 steals. Steal whenever it’s free and the count takes care of itself.

Enemies That Steal From You

Cutpurses on the Kingdom of Grandshelt overworld, and Footpads and Thief Bosses in Dirnado and on Mt. Thunderclap, have their own Steal that takes 5% of your gil. Defeat them first when you’re carrying a lot of gil.

Steals You Can Miss

These enemies only appear in story battles or one-time side battles, so steal before you win. Most carry healing items, but a few are worth the turns: Gilgamesh’s Fuma Shuriken and Elixir, and Intangir’s Elixir. Fight is where you meet each one. The Chapter 1 story and side battles come before you can get Zidane, so they aren’t listed.

Gear You Can’t Buy or Find

No shop sells these 41 items, no chest holds them, no request or Colosseum battle awards them and no enemy drops them: 21 weapons, 11 pieces of armor and 9 accessories. Slot shows whether the item is the enemy’s normal or rare steal; rare ones need luck, Discerning Eye or Treasure Hunter. Chapter is the first chapter you can reach the enemy; a dash means an optional area or the Colosseum. The earliest ones are the Ring of Rage from Dhorme Chimeras in the Kingdom of Grandshelt, which you can go back for as soon as you have Zidane, and the Astral Blade and Arcana Blade in the Water Shrine in Chapter 3.

Every Enemy You Can Steal From

Enemies are grouped by the chapter where you can first meet them. You can’t steal until you have Zidane in Chapter 2, but the Chapter 1 enemies are still around when you go back. Overworld enemies are listed by region, and some only show up in parts of a region you reach later, like the level 30 Cactuars in Dirnado. Steal is the normal item and Rare Steal the rare one; a dash means the enemy carries none. Enemies that share a name are told apart by level. To see exactly where an overworld enemy appears, search the world map for its name, or for the item you’re after, and it lights up every area where it can show up.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Optional Areas and the Colosseum