Props to an awesome game, but I just cannot "connect"

[Kiroh]

I'll never understand this obsession people have with wanting a zillion useless abilities.

The problem is that many of the already few skills we have are useless, or very rarely used.


BLM - Freeze, Apocostasis, Blizzard 1 and 2 once you have 3, aetherial manipulation, Thunder 2, Surecast.
WHM - Repose, Fluid Aura
SMN - Tri-disaster, Enkindle (people use it but let's face it at equal, if that, damage to fester and a huge CD timer, it doesn't add much)
BRD - Army's Paeon, Rain of death (only used when free procced), Quick nock (same as RoD)
DRG - Feint, Keen Flurry, Piercing Talon, Ring of Thorns, Doom Spike (people use it but twice the tp cost of a normal skill and not even worth the damage unless fully buffed), Dragonfire Dive (ridiculous CD for something that does less damage than jump)
MNK - Rockbreaker, One-Ilm Punch, Fists of Earth, Featherfoot, Haymaker, Perfect Balance (it's nice in certain situations don't get me wrong, but the loss of combo bonuses usually far outweigh the benefits of using it)
PLD - Shield Swipe (resistance built and the requirement of a block to use it, works on some skills but not others, lots of things immune to it), Tempered Will (mostly used for convenience rather than actual combat usefulness), Cover (if you have the time to use this skill it's time you could better spend on just taking hate off the target and bringing it back to you), Awareness (loss of chance for crit heals)
WAR - Steel Cyclone (Inner Beast is a better use of wrath), Mercy Stroke (if it's that close to being dead, the bard has already sniped it with misery's end, if not you wasted it)

And there are plenty of other skills that, while useful are severely underwhelming. The point is that making fewer skills doesn't make it a better game, it just makes the useless skills painfully more obvious.