"Claws of the Magpie" notable question

One of the mods on the notable "Claws of the Magpie" says the following:

25% chance to steal power, frenzy, and endurance charges on hit with claws.


By steal, does it just mean generate? Like 1/4 of your hits you'll get a charge? Or does it literally mean steal, as in from monsters you hit that already have charges swirling around them? It's quite rare to see monsters with charges outside of mapping.

I took that passive a few times. It does steal a charge from enemies, not just generate your own. Also tried it in PvP, and there it worked a bit differently it stole ALL the charges from player I attacked at once.

So if it doesn't actually generate charges, it's pretty much useless. Enemies almost never have charges except if you roll that specific mod in maps.

There are a number of enemy types that passively generate charges, and charge gaining effects on enemies are common enough that you're likely to get a few charges automagically in most maps.

The passive is especially good for allowing you to AoE through maps with a charge gain affix though. And it makes enemies with endurance charges into free kills (rather than taking exorbitantly long to kill).