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Treasure hunter? That should have been given to all jobs, all the steal abilities too but instead they brought in thief and, well, basically enabled many of the rmt players and caused much of the problems they ended up having to hire a task force to deal with. And you could say well there was no stopping that but still, they might have had a bit more control over it had they just left thief out.
Hmm yeah it does make THF a bit unfair, Steal is pretty useless and i've heard suggestions of changing it to steal a temporary item like you get from blue treasure chests (which is similar to how GW2 THF works). I think everyone would agree Treasure Hunter has been a THF gimmick that has caused more harm than good for the job as it's kept the job somewhat relevant but in doing so prevented SE from making changes to THF to make it better.

SE tried to make THF more viable without Treasure Hunter by making it manipulate enmity but it's such a niche role that I doubt it really makes any difference.

If they changed how steal works, and removed Treasure Hunter, SE could maybe focus on making THF better.