SCH, Brainless Skills

[Enla]

Honestly I feel Esuna is a far bigger offender than Protect, because at least the latter has some use in end game content. Even during leveling content I can count on one hand the instances I needed it in the SB dungeons and only one during the actual raids. I understand they were running out of ideas for the role ability list, but seriously Esuna needs to go back to being a normal learned ability.

[Lurkios]

Honestly I feel Esuna is a far bigger offender than Protect, because at least the latter has some use in end game content. Even during leveling content I can count on one hand the instances I needed it in the SB dungeons and only one during the actual raids. I understand they were running out of ideas for the role ability list, but seriously Esuna needs to go back to being a normal learned ability.

While I agree that Esuna is a silly thing to have as a cross-class, I would not consider it a "brainless" skill. It does take at least some, ableit absolutely minimal, level of attention to use it. I was using this thread to list abilities that could be macro'd with a timer and you'd see absolutely no downside to doing so, totally brainless skills.'

My main complaint with Esuna is the mana cost. Outside of a few specific instances it's cheaper to just throw out a physick to cover whatever damage the status effect I didn't Esuna did than to actually Esuna. (That said, rather than see Esuna go away, I'd like to see more punishing status effects so we have a reason to use it. I'd also like to be able to choose which effect to Esuna when there are multiple effects on a player.)