Quote Originally Posted by bokchoykn View Post
There are a few actually truly useless skills in this game. Holmgang is not one of them. A Warrior cannot OT Leviathan without Holmgang. It is very useful in T9 (Take an entire Bahamut's claw without it dying).

If you wanna talk useless, look no further than Haymaker, One Ilm Punch, and Awareness. I'd give up Bloodbath and Foresight before I'd give up Holmgang.
The thing is that I use Bloodbath and Foresight almost off cool down. While it may be arguable whether the uptime of the skill makes up for the lower impact, the purpose of those skills is very clear. Holmgang's purpose is not very clear. It tries to do too much and as a result it does nothing well.

My opinion of Haymaker is the same as my opinion of Keen Flurry and Featherfoot, melee DPS were intended to off-tank for certain mechanics (Garuda Extreme) and these skills exist as tools for that role. Unfortunately, most people would prefer to overload the main or off tank than to accept the fact that Monks and Lancers are fully capable of tanking because their skill sets were designed with this idea in mind, but I digress.

As for One-Ilm Punch, it has no real use now but it is perfectly possible that there will be mechanics that allow certain buffs to be removed in which case it will be used accordingly.

Awareness is just silly. I'm not sure why they even wasted a skill on Sword Oath.

Just a note, I don't think Warriors need special treatment. Other classes have some really lack luster skills that simply exist. It'd be nice to see those get some love as well so that they are actually worth being on the action bar.