What skill do you miss most?

Can be a DoW, DoM, DoH or DoL skill, just what old skill that was in the game previously but is now removed do you miss most?

I miss Shadowflare so much, it was simple, it was useful, enough flare visually to be noticed but not overbearing, it was just nice.

time dilation/old celestial opp

Reuse. It gave us a reason to want to HQ glam items and furniture.

Dark Dance.

I know it was kinda weak, but with that battle stance DRK absolutely screams parry buff.

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Originally Posted by QooEr

time dilation/old celestial opp

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this... ofc the old cards too but at least that >_>

Unchained
Deliverance
Bloodbath
Brutal Swing

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Originally Posted by Tint

Dark Dance.

I know it was kinda weak, but with that battle stance DRK absolutely screams parry buff.

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Seriously. People gave it sh!t but it was an amazing dungeon CD. Dark Dance + DA > Dark Passenger meant you weren't getting hit for a good 10s.

For me it has to be Shadowflare as well. Did damage, provided a slow debuff. Something to do while Sacred Soil was on CD.

In that same vein a lot of AoE that SE took away.

Flaming Arrow for Bards.

Grenado Shot for MCH.

Why SE thinks that ranged jobs should be in melee range for their AoE is beyond me. IMHO it's a bad design decision.

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

Can be a DoW, DoM, DoH or DoL skill, just what old skill that was in the game previously but is now removed do you miss most?

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ring of thorns for lancer. it was a circular AOE instead of the the Cone aoe it has now for dragoon. The animation for Ring of Thorns was nifty as well

There are couple of skills and even dare say some cross skills and role actions that I miss.

Monk's Howling Fist. Great off-GCD ability that made me feel like Titan doing a landslide every time I did it.

OG Fluid Aura. Gimme back my damage and knockback.

Miasma II
Quickened Aetherflow
Bane
Selene with all her abilities (no, current selene doesn't count, she's just EOS but yellow)\
Miasma
cleric stance (both HW and SB versions)

Cleric Stance, ARR version.

Steel Cyclone's healing effect.
Don't know if that counts for the topic, but its something i miss.

Aero 3 for WHM
time dilation / old celestial opp , old card system for AST

Old Abysal drain....

Aero 3, Time Dilation, Flaming Arrow (that's more for favor), Foe's Requium

Things removed by trait - Split Shot, Slug Shot, Clean Shot, Rage of Halone.
Things removed from the game - Power Slash.

Protect and Stoneskin for CNJ/WHM.
Convalescence for GLA/PLD
From 1.0, Phalanx, Aegis Boon (the original, not the different current PvP ability with the same name), Red Lotus and the original 5-hit version of Rage of Halone.

And being able to cross class CNJ spells like Raise on PLD.

Protect
Miasma II
Shadowflare

I miss my MCH skills: Dismantle, Paliside, and my bishop turret and invul hypercharge

I kinda wish reloading was a thing, for those who dont remember its basically florusihing with ur standard rotation. they could've tweaked it and i dont undertand how its inferior to what we have now, double procing for twin Clean shots was fun and involved what we have is barren and boring

Long list here get ready. It was too hard to pick one when there's so many i miss. typing this list was shocking just how much has been removed over the years

Cross class skills as a concept. It was rewarding to level more classes as you got more skills. Sure some essentials like provoke should have been role skilled as they are now
Unique low level blockers on tanks- shadowskin, bulwark and OG foresight
Execution attacks: Ageha, misery's end, mercy stroke, heartbreak...can't recall the last one

All of ast's unique ones- Time dilation, celestial opposition, cards+associated spread and royal road, Luminiferous aether, combust 2 being separate, stella, disable, gravity doing more than tickle
Whm: Aero 3, OG fluid aura, ARR cleric stance, protect/shell, divine seall (Fine it got readded under a different name), stoneskin 1, stoneskin 2, holy being strong damage wise and not just stun
Sch: Selene, miasma 1, miasma 2, bane, shadowflare, rouse, eye for an eye, aetherflow
Dark knight: Powerslash, OG delirium, Scourge, Dark dance, Shadowskin, OG low blow, OG reprisal, sole survivor, Dark arts, darkside (i loved that aura and the animation)
Dragoon: Ring of thorns, phelebotomize, keen flurry, feint when you could actually affect things with it, OG leg sweep, SB spineshatter dive
Warrior: Brutal swing, butchers block, skull sunder, mercy stroke, inner beast, fracture
Machinist: rook and bishop, dismantle, palisade, suppressive fire/arm graze (i REALLY miss having a stun on my ranged) grenado shot(much less noisy than spread shot), lead shot, and the old ammo mechanic. rend mind
Monk: axe kick, haymaker, internal release

old bard songs, and the stun on arcanist/summoner.
flaming arrow and whatever the flip+purple arrows raining attack bard had

Shadowflare

refresh and mana shift...
I need to have a bargain point to get a fast resurrect ticket... XD

Dragoon's pole dancer aoe attack. I loved that skill to death because it was both cool and pretty funny at the same time.

I kinda miss Wide Volley on BRD. I wish BRD had an AoE rotation, like other dps, that chained Quick Nock -> Rain of Death / Wide Volley.

Ho boy where to start

for smn
Miasma 2
ruin 2 blind
miasma healing reduction and slow
virus
Spellspeed proc buff
shadowflare
spur
rouse
sustain
radiant shield
contagion
AETHERFLOW
normal energy drain
(doesnt really count but) unnerfed bane
manashift

and for sch

miasma
bane
selene
shadowflare
eye for an eye
addlo cheese
miasma 2
rouse
convalescence

Let's see... I don't think I could choose just one.

Dancing Edge. That's an FF staple, cool animation, and they got rid of it. Keeping the way less cool Aeolian around ugh.

Butcher's Block. My favorite global on WAR.

Berserk as a an ATP boost of 50%

Hawk's Eye

Royal Road

Impulse Drive

Howling Fist

Heavy Thrust

Aero III

Stella

Shadowflare as a GCD DOT field

Dark Arts

Scourge

Blood Price

Kiss of the Wasp/Kiss of the Viper - Being able to swap between Jugulate stunning and silencing was nice.

Jugulate.

Sub skills over role skills. Role skills, while nice from a utiltiy perspective are bland and make the jobs feels less flavourful.

Internal Release

Bishop Autoturret

Grenado Shot

Mana Shift

Erase

Power Surge

Perfect Dodge

All status ailments that were removed from most job class skills.

Most of all : AST Royal Road and the original RDM Impact

Then Time Dilatation, (the original Celestial Opposition), (the original Minor Arcana) for AST, Aero 3 for WHM, Miasma 2, Shadowflare, Rouse (not sure about the name, but the pet buffing oGCD) for SMN and SCH, Foe's Requiem for BRD.

Scourge
Power slash
Dark arts
Shadow skin
Sole survivor
Dark dance
Delirium (both gcd and SB unique version)
Old abyssal drain
Old Blood weapon
Old reprisal

I miss all of them -_-

I miss Astrologian as a whole... orz

Stealth for gatherers, hate that spinning gold coin effect, I have to click off everytime I change to a gathering class/ also auto unspoiled node buff but it's less annoying since those are not up always.

Yes

/10char

Scourge, probably. Just because it was a nice animation, a secondary DoT for Dark Knight and had like a laser/light saber sound effect to go along with it.

Cleric stance... i just want it back :/

BRD wide volley. i dont get it, why this skill is removed, why not quick nock?

wide volley is much cooler, more badass, the arrow effect is more pleasing to the eyes, the way it does and how the hundred of arrows just plummet to your enemy is waay more menacing than quick nock.

but instead we got quick nock instead, a flimsy quick shot of arrow with soft sound effect and the arrow DIDNT EVEN FLY STRAIGHT, what a joke lol

Yeah, most of the old Dark Knight kit for me as well. It's hard to pinpoint one skill as it was ages ago that I played with it but I remember enjoying it so much more than the current DK.

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Originally Posted by RyuSaarva

Stealth for gatherers, hate that spinning gold coin effect

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So much this. SE keeps putting in these awful giant "stance" effects and then players complain about them so they have to dial them back/remove them anyway. It would be nice if they just dialed them back to start with.

Not a skill, but Quickened Aetherflow. I still have no idea why it was removed. Like, what was the point in adding it last expansion (Badly, at first) just to take it away from us?

For DRK:
Sole Survivor.
Stormblood Abyssal Drain.

The former felt great to use after the tweaks it received at the tail end of SB.
Abyssal Drain was just bliss during dungeons as well, with the means to significantly enhance if you managed your mana correctly.

Then Sole Survivor was subsequently removed, with Abyssal Drain being converted from a self sustain tool to a free damage CD?

The fact that living dead remained unchanged on top of that just feels like cruel irony.

For PLD:
Stormblood Cover
Shield Swipe
Flash
Cover used to be one of the most satisfying skills to use in the game, no it's practically an insult when intervention exists.
Shield swipe was just a fluff damage tool, but it added depth to PLD.
I would trade the utterly terrible Shield bash skill for the satisfying feeling of landing Shield Swipes anyday.

Flash was honestly kind of meh, but it was kind of novel to have a enmity tool that did not deal damage.
The blindness on dungeon mobs really added up too.