The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

[Kazrah]

Ever have an item or done something in the game that you feel like has lost its purpose? Something that may have had a use at some point in time, but now just feels like an arbitrary chore? I felt like there are enough of these now that we should make a list. Maybe make a fun game out of it, who knows.

All you have to do is state what the thing is, your case to question why it's still a thing, and provide a reasonable solution (or at least as close to one as possible). Claims can be refuted as well to explain why something should still be a thing in the game, but do keep it civil....I know, easier said than done on these forums sometimes, but I thought that had to be said anyway.

And remember: devs are not all-powerful, so not everything can be done at the snap of their fingers.

[Transient_Shadow]

Protect. It just takes up cross role space. I'm certain they could have done some math and edited damage taken so protect would no longer be necessary.

[Reinha]

Why can't we send mail to our alts? From a consumer POV this is a pretty basic thing we should be able to do.

[MilanFrozen]

Protect. It just takes up cross role space. I'm certain they could have done some math and edited damage taken so protect would no longer be necessary.

Well when you die you lose protect and it has to be recast when you're ressed.

My 'why is this still a thing' is just some of the currencies in the game taking up inventory slots.

[Shurrikhan]

The first action in a macro not being queueable. I can understand the subsequent ones not being queuable, but not the first. They're our only way to attach open target specificity, and yet they're unable to be queued.

Also, not being able to click the terrain through units when placing ground AoEs.

[Alestorm]

Why is Esona a cross class ability when all 3 healers had a version of the same spell?

Also why does Rescue have a delay to it? Whenever I try and use it for the one person that loves to never move the delay ensures they still get hit by the ability I was trying to save them from.

Lastly: Why does beneficial spells like the mana transfer have a chance to either miss or be dodged by the target, go on cooldown AND burn the mana? Seriously....

[Vulcwen]

The seal turn-in UI.. it's bad. Why can't we just turn in stuff directly from our inventory similar to selling stuff to vendors for gil?

[Vidu]

...even if you'll burn me for bringing this up: Genderlocks on gear.

Specially in the light of recent events (the release of the male bunny outfit, that took about 2 years) I've asked myself this question again - infact I've asked myself different versions of this question:

If removing a genderlock from gear later takes them 2 years but they eventually wanna do it as Yoshi stated once, why do they keep adding to genderlocked gear?

And while I personally dont agree with the argument that "Male characters shouldnt be allowed to wear dresses because its not something men do" (or some version of this), I can at least see a tiny bit of a reason there not to unlock something like the Thavnair Autumn dress (and obviously keep the Shirt males only aswell then). Just a tiny bit though, that I dont agree with.
However, this "reason" falls flat on its face when it comes to stuff like the Expeditioners Shoes for example. Genderlocked Shoes? Why?

As for the reason of giving the artist more freedom creating gear-sets for just one gender: They can still do that. They can initially design a set for females, a set for males and still model them for both genders.

Solution: Stop releasing genderlocked gear - start working on unlocking stuff instead. If they want to do that anways better not build up more workload and instead try to remove the locks that already are in place - specially the extremly arbitrary ones like on shoes, gloves, headgear.

[Yeol]

Why does beneficial spells like the mana transfer have a chance to either miss or be dodged by the target, go on cooldown AND burn the mana? Seriously....

Server ticks.

It is also the same reason why when placing all dots on a single target then Bane but the last dot placed does not transfer to the other ads. You need to use another skill before Bane or wait for server ticks to register it.

when you Benediction/Holmgang/Hallowed Ground/Living Dead but still die and your ability goes on CD.

Use Aetherflow but get no stacks.

(._______.) why?

[Tridus]

Lastly: Why does beneficial spells like the mana transfer have a chance to either miss or be dodged by the target, go on cooldown AND burn the mana? Seriously....

Wow. Never seen that one except on Dark Knights, because Darkside makes them immune. That would be infuriating.


I'm going with Protect. The way it's implemented right now it's a dead slot unless you macro it. It's not interesting to use. It's that macro I push at the start of the instance because people expect it.