Quote Originally Posted by Kaiserdrache View Post
Certain skills could be ecentually maybe used in preparation of a battle, to start a battle with a certain effect on already instead of having it a few seconds later, but thats it
That's exactly why they made some abilities combat only in the first place. They didn't want people using them preemptively and then waiting around for the CDs to be up again pre-fight. WARs using Infuriate x2 and then waiting for the CD to reset, starting the fight with full gauge and all CDs ready. Standing around for a few minutes waiting for an AST to have Divination ready from the get go, etc.

Problem is that that was only ever an issue at the very highest level of play. Sure the combat-only changes 'fixed' that, but at the cost of making all other content much more annoying.