Aetherial Manipulation should be more like Shukuchi

[Iudicium]

>least used skills.

BAHAHAHAHA, come talk to me when you have things as useless as One-Ilm Punch, Haymaker, and Arm of the Destroyer.

None of those are bad though. One-Ilm Punch is godlike in PvP, Haymaker is really useful at low levels, and Arm of the Destroyer is a silence in Opo-opo Form (situational yeah, but still actually useful).

[Kiokin]

None of those are bad though. One-Ilm Punch is godlike in PvP, Haymaker is really useful at low levels, and Arm of the Destroyer is a silence in Opo-opo Form (situational yeah, but still actually useful).

Because I want my level 45 job skill to be taken up by a PvP oriented ability in a game that launched with no PvP. Haymaker was of dubious use while leveling and moved straight to complete garbage at max level. Arm of the Destroyer is weaker than an auto attack and its silence is more work than its worth to use, just get someone else to do it.

[Clarkamite]

Because I want my level 45 job skill to be taken up by a PvP oriented ability in a game that launched with no PvP. Haymaker was of dubious use while leveling and moved straight to complete garbage at max level. Arm of the Destroyer is weaker than an auto attack and its silence is more work than its worth to use, just get someone else to do it.

While I tend to agree with everything you said, nothing beats the feeling of going into a T1 back in the day and everyone asking, "Who's got first silence?" or even the dreaded, "No BRD? Let's quit." and me simply saying as a Monk, "It's alright. I'll solo silence. Watch."

Then proceeding to solo silence every High Voltage. Very situational, yes, but you have to admit solo silencing on a monk feels pretty badass. At least they have that ability.

[PenelopeWinn]

Although yes its usable, he has a perfectly valid point. No reason to talk down. and no reason for the skill to not let you pick where ya wanna go.

[Horobi]

A lot of fights require you to stack up for aoe heals, then split up to dodge aoes, then stack up again. Making a macro for aetherial manipulation on your least likely to mess up healer make it work well.

Heck, on Shiva EX I tend to try to use it before the cooldown is back up.

[Nutz]

I like this skill but never use it. It's either never needed, or if I could make use of some teleportation type skill it's because I was off on my timing. In those cases I typically panic too much and can't select a target in time anyway (either they're too far away to use it or I have to cycle through too many 'bad' ones). It's the sort of skill that I just know is great for situations that I'm never in -- namely a very organized group where I'm using my time so effectively that I'm managing an extra cast at the expense of walking and then teleporting out of range from an attack. Typically I just do dungeons on BLM so it's a novelty.

[ShaolinMike]

I like this skill but never use it. It's either never needed, or if I could make use of some teleportation type skill it's because I was off on my timing. In those cases I typically panic too much and can't select a target in time anyway (either they're too far away to use it or I have to cycle through too many 'bad' ones). It's the sort of skill that I just know is great for situations that I'm never in -- namely a very organized group where I'm using my time so effectively that I'm managing an extra cast at the expense of walking and then teleporting out of range from an attack. Typically I just do dungeons on BLM so it's a novelty.

I use it moreso to get INTO position after running to dodge an attack. It takes too much planning on PS4 to be a quick enough escape move.

[Defteros]

I'm willing to bet, as is, Aetherial Manipulation is one of the least-used skills, below even Tri-Disaster.

[DarkLordCthulhu]

this sounds like "SE I don't know how to use Aetherial Manipulation correctly, pls nerf it so it suits my needs."

[whiskeybravo]

I'm willing to bet, as is, Aetherial Manipulation is one of the least-used skills, below even Tri-Disaster.

I use it all the time just for fun, macro to #4 so in the middle of turreting I just port over to the healer if 8-man or other dps if 4-man. Hard to say if it's ever actually saved me from anything (porting close to the healer has come in handy) but it's fun to just randomly slide across to room to say 'sup to whoever :P