Remove damage from movement skills

[Cabalabob]

The problem with charges is that it doesn’t mean you can use the skill and still have it available, it just means you now have to use it twice within your burst window and then still not have any charges when you want to use it...

The simplest solution would be to just remove the damage from these skills and have them purely for mobility, but it’s true that it seems silly to slam into an enemy with your shoulder or weapon/shield and do no damage. It would also mean removing more buttons from our already pretty basic rotations.

Instead, I think they should add a new category to skill types. We have weaponskills, spells and abilities, I think they should add a “utility” category and it should include skills that can do damage but can’t be buffed, for example, won’t be effected by trick attack, battle litany, or personal buffs like fight or flight or brotherhood. That way you’d still want to use these skills for damage but combined with the charge system you could also hold onto the second charge and use it whenever within the recast of the first charge meaning you can still use them for damage but also have it available for when you want to move. (Which is the basic idea of why they added charges in the first place).

[Morningstar1337]

Instead, I think they should add a new category to skill types. We have weaponskills, spells and abilities, I think they should add a “utility” category and it should include skills that can do damage but can’t be buffed, for example, won’t be effected by trick attack, battle litany, or personal buffs like fight or flight or brotherhood. That way you’d still want to use these skills for damage but combined with the charge system you could also hold onto the second charge and use it whenever within the recast of the first charge meaning you can still use them for damage but also have it available for when you want to move. (Which is the basic idea of why they added charges in the first place).

I agree with the charge issue, but as for the quoted part. I feel like "utility" would be strange considering that it would cover abilities like Mantra and Battle Litany as well GCDs like Raise.

Plus IMO it would make sense to have a 4th ability for those weird skills that are on the GCD yet have Cooldowns like oGCDs