Skills you never use

[Malzian]

Though I'm curious about what you said Ashkendor. Is that just to get closer to the boss quicker to start dpsing or something else?

It's to get to the boss quicker. I hate it though since you have to start the fight off facing away from the boss so it can feel a little clunky.

[TheUltimateSeph]

It's to get to the boss quicker. I hate it though since you have to start the fight off facing away from the boss so it can feel a little clunky.

Ah ok. Cool. Yeah it does feel clunky. Seems it would be easier if instead of jumping backwards it just jumped in the direction you are facing with your camera or something. Would make my life easier anyway.

[Powercow]

One Ilm Punch (outside of PvP) is all but entirely worthless. It's up against two very good skills for that section of the combo, costs a ton of TP, does squat for damage, and almost nothing worthwhile can actually be punched off. The last boss I can recall it working on was the final boss of Haukke Manor (Hard)'s stoneskin effect. I mean, it works on the Attack Up from Whistle on those Dhalmel enemies in Neverreap too... for... what that's worth... which isn't anything.

In PvP it's great, but it could have just been a PvP-only skill.

[Kurogaea]

So out of curiosity I'm wondering what skills your class / job has that you pretty much deem worthless and never use. I'm pretty sure every class has at least one *stares at BLMs Freeze spell* I'll start this off with my DRG since it's my main, Feint, Keen Flurry, Piercing Talon, and Elusive Jump. I guess I can see how each one could be situationally useful but honestly I never find myself in one of those situations. Maybe I'm underestimating their usefulness, idk.

How about you guys?

Edit: Going further with the discussion, if you deem a skill worthless right now what do you think could be changed about the way that skill works to actually make it worth using? (I really don't have any good ideas for mine right now so if anyone else can think of any that would be awesome. I'll try to come up with something though.)

I have ruin as a cross-skill.......its useless. :/

[Chiramu]

I find uses for all of my abilities, except Feint. Feint literally is a complete waste of TP and time out of your rotation. The animation is far too long and there is no use for it.
Perhaps with the introduction of Time Mages, Feint might have some relevance, but atm Feint is the single most useless ability in the game :/.

[zar]

all of the specialist actions

[AskaRay]

I find uses for all of my abilities, except Feint. Feint literally is a complete waste of TP and time out of your rotation. The animation is far too long and there is no use for it.
Perhaps with the introduction of Time Mages, Feint might have some relevance, but atm Feint is the single most useless ability in the game :/.

Lies
I use it all the time on my BRD and MCH.
Useless maybe for its actual class.

[Ashkendor]

For GLA/PLD... mostly just Awareness, as it's recast is so high and mostly pointless - critical damage is usually quickly recovered from anyway so it's a moot point having a brief buff that guards against it.

Awareness synergizes well with Bulwark since you can't block crits. But yeah, I almost never use Cover outside raid.

Though I'm curious about what you said Ashkendor. Is that just to get closer to the boss quicker to start dpsing or something else?

Yup! Saves you a couple of seconds running up to the boss and you get to use all your jumps under your buffs.

[Chiramu]

Lies
I use it all the time on my BRD and MCH.
Useless maybe for its actual class.

I find it a waste of time from my MCH rotation too, maybe cause I find there is a lot of other things to think about then an ability that has no combo to it.

[RyuSaarva]

Wide Volley. Poor, poor WV.

nah it's good when tank pulls the entire dungeons and there are magic users all over the place so that large circle aoe is handy then or when you are far away from enemies and you can't use quick nock yet.