[Shujin]

Empty pockets is a fairly simple thing.

It boost success chance for a steal, alas only after you evade which...Lets be honest. You will have plenty enough Cel on a dodge build to have 100% steal chance even without maxing steal itself out.

The item belt thing is...Extremly Situational, given the conditions and only 1 Turn length, but I guess it can be nice?

I would like to add something else however, that might also make it useful for other classes with Trickery effects:

+15% to trigger a Trickery effect once, after a dodge.

Simple enough change, Either alone or on top of the steal success chance which...I do not think anyone really cares about. Or I don't know, let you go into sneaking after a successful steal.

[Autumn]

Bumping up the pilfer buff could also be a good alternative, as was attributed by the Fulgurite meta, having answers to prominent item usage is a good thing to have.

[renowner]

Counter point, Give Pilfer a trickery effect like steal that lets you attack after using it! 3m just to restrain isn't very useful, and it'd be cool to have a real reason to use the 'pilfer' weapons, since +15% steal rate is extremely never an issue. Especially when the off-hand enchantment that gives +5 guile already does so.

[Shujin]

Why not buff both extremely niche and nigh unuseable things, instead of arguing against one another of which one is worse and therefore the other doesn't need a buff.

Pilfer and Empty pockets are both kinda really bad. this is however a Empty Pocket thread.

[Snake]

How about...

Empty Pockets

The good thing about people attacking you is that they don't notice stuff missing. When you evade a basic attack, you gain +15% success rate to your next Steal within 3 rounds, and if successful, the target cannot use items for 3 rounds.

Trickery: You will teleport behind your attacker and automatically apply your Steal skill to the attacker.