Malmsight and Detect

[Nalien]

Detect is not vital. You can easily replace it with any AoE attack. Stuff like Shadow Flare makes it completely redundant. Given its fire and forget use and 180/150 second cooldown, it is a worthless skill in PvP. A sustained Detect at least brings its use up to par with skills like Shadow Flare.

Currently if you see someone use Hide, you can counter it on most Jobs (Freeze on their last known location, Shadow Flare, Flaming Arrow, Miasma II, Death Blossom, the list goes on). If you didn't see them use Hide, you're not going to know to use Detect anyway. It is an extremely weak skill, marginally better than Malmsight. A full minute (which still gives Ninjas more than a minutes window to strike unless there are multiple players with Detect around) may be too long, but as it stands it's a pathetically useless skill. Just pop Shadow Flare and sit in the middle of it, much more effective.

As for Malmsight, that 50y range and inability to use it without dropping Hide just make it completely worthless. The fact that on the map it just gives you a cluster of dots even more so, I can just tell my party the numbers, and even Jobs of people I'm scouting. I toyed around with the idea of making a macro for it ("Enemies sighted <pos>" or something), but no, it's just an awfully useless skill... I'd honestly rather see it dropped for an incombat useable Hide, but people would probably consider that overpowered, even given the fact that Jobs like Black Mage can just watch you use Hide and then Freeze you...

[yuixjfa]

incombat useable Hide.

Yes please.