>I'm pretty tired of this crap.

I'm guessing that in general the staff is tired of situations where someone immediately reposts something, almost verbatim, after it's deleted.

>You wonder why people are leaving this mud, maybe it has to do
>with how this game circulates more on wasting massive amounts
>of time and less about being fun.

I bet it was fun for the thief. Now he doesn't have to waste the time of killing the vampire in Barovia for an amulet. Because he has yours.

>I'm asking why the ability to steal things right off of a
>players body when already having the ability to rob from their
>inventory as they flee AND parting block AND see what
>direction they flee in for flee/knife spam.

This is like asking why necromancers get pwk when they also have sleep, and scourge, and blind, and course. Why? Why not?

The entire thief class is predicated around their ability to get "stuff" from you without actually killing you. Why is this any different? Warriors can dirt/disarm you. Orcs can grapple weapon. Warriors can strip. Invokers can destroy (certain) worn gear with stone shatter.

>Just how is this edge/skill anything more than a I'm going to
>be a jerk skill?

Is a jerk move to want someone's gear and take it? If so, then most everyone who plays this game is a jerk, because much of it revolves around killing people and taking their shinies.