Skills you never use

[Lemuria]

Skills that I personally never use:

Freeze - Do I even need to explain this one?
Lethargy - a lot of high end mobs are immune to this anyway
Manawall - used to be cool. Now it's just a rubbish version of stoneskin.
Surecast - I get interrupted a grand total of never, and when there's even a small risk I'd use Swiftcast over this any day.
Stone II - caveat attached. It's still good for level capped stuff, otherwise Stone III surpasses it in every way.
Repose - Remember when sleep spells used to work? What happened after level 50?
Divine Veil - I'm sure this has a use. I'll be damned if I can figure out what that is though. It's like a rubbish version of galvanize.
Shukuchi - On paper, it's an awesome skill. In practice it's almost impossible to use quickly due to the AoE marker placement required.

[BraveheartRamo]

As SMN, I rarely use Bind coz of the casting spell time. However it might be useful only when swiftcast is ready.

[Odett]

I'm not sure how it works on a keyboard, but on a controller you can pre-set the direction and distance you want from skills like Shukuchi that require an AoE marker to be set. I find Shukuchi to be a great skill and it works pretty well to get back into the action when you get knocked back, or need to get to a certain spot fast like Thordan. Yeah, you can do without it, but it's pretty stylish just teleporting around.

A lot of clunky-looking skills lose their clunk once you use them more often. Same goes with Aetherial Manipulation.I don't play BLM in Heavensward much, but I found a lot of cool uses for it back in level 50 content when I used to main BLM. You could Manawall in Titan EX so you did not have to move for the first Landslide, then AM to the party to stack the WotLs, completely negate the Leviathan body slams, use it on T7 to get around quicker if you got shrieked, and on Shiva to move around if the ground was frozen (Shukuchi also works great for this to get back into melee range^^).

A lot of "seemingly useless" skills can be used in pretty creative ways if you look hard enough, although others like Freeze, Hyoton, and One-ill Punch are ones that are almost useless unless you're in a PvP setting. To this day, the only use I found for One-Illm Punch in PvE was taking off the Stoneskin from the last boss in Haukke HM if you couldn't stun the eye fast enough, and also on that one guy from the Four Winds FATE. I see Divine Veil as a nice little extra thing you can do, it's more of a "why not?" skill to me. It doesn't hurt to use it during jumps in A1S or for Thordan's LB, or whenever the group is close together in A2S. I haven't gotten very far on A3S so I'm not sure of its use there, but it's OtGCD so I guess it doesn't hurt to throw it out here and there. I never really use Haymaker or Feint though.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Quelling strikes. Tanks need to git gud

[Hysterior]

Dissipation and Silent Dawn

[AskaRay]

Quelling strikes. Tanks need to git gud

"I'm sorry, I swear I had no idea my opener would steal aggro"
/innocent

[FoxyAreku]

I use every skill I have on my healers, summoner, and machinist. Except I guess Stone II when I'm not level synced, and Tri-bind outside of PvP.

Also, to OP: You should use Elusive jump because it drops your aggro to zero.

Divine Veil - I'm sure this has a use. I'll be damned if I can figure out what that is though. It's like a rubbish version of galvanize.

It's actually the most OP barrier in the game if someone using a cure II or benefic II on the paladin. Try that sometime.

[TheUltimateSeph]

I use every skill I have on my healers, summoner, and machinist. Except I guess Stone II when I'm not level synced, and Tri-bind outside of PvP.

Also, to OP: You should use Elusive jump because it drops your aggro to zero.



It's actually the most OP barrier in the game if someone using a cure II or benefic II on the paladin. Try that sometime.

But I like trying to rip hate off tanks. It's fun lol. I mean it rarely ever happens but when it does I get a big smile on my face xD

[Immut]

It's actually the most OP barrier in the game if someone using a cure II or benefic II on the paladin. Try that sometime.

You're confusing how it works with how we wish it worked. it's 10% of the pld's hp.

[Gralna]

Observe - Waste precious cp to hope for a good or excellent condition, only time I could think of to use it, is when my quality is already so high I don't need it, otherwise it's too much of a gamble to risk. If it didn't cost any CP it would be very helpful, but also take pretty much all of the rng out of crafting.