Old skills you'd like to see returned in a new fashion.

[Eloah]

With the launch of 6.0 and the recent PLD rework, we've learned that SE isn't averse to bringing back old skills. And with recent talks about the Goring Blade changes, it got me thinking about how other skills might change, specifically old removed ones.

My thought was about the Scholar spell Leeches, and how it could be re-implemented into the game. My thought was, since SCH got a skill similar to Thrill of Battle, maybe Leeches could act like Bloodbath.

Leeches
Grants target 5 stacks of Leeches.
Leeches Affect: Restores HP with each Weaponskill or Spell successfully delivered.
Cure Potency: 400

This was my thought. But, I'm curious what others think. Is there an old skill you'd like to see brought back into the game, and would you give it a new twist?
Duration: 30 sec

[Jeeqbit]

Bulwark is a bit of an exception though, because it was always about blocking attacks, it's just that it only increased the chance of an RNG block rather than making it guaranteed.

If you look at what they did with Sheltron, which only guaranteed a block one time, what they actually did was merge Bulwark into Sheltron by simply making Sheltron guarantee all attacks get blocked for several seconds. They never truly got rid of it, just merged it to reduce button bloat.

Because in 6.3 they wanted to move away from blocks on PLD's short cooldown mitigation so it works better against dots, it was logical to reverse the decision and put the blocks back on Bulwark, so that the short cooldown mitigation was no longer about blocking but so that PLD is left with a class fantasy ability that blocks.

That was the context and I don't think this context applies to most other jobs, but they have tried to keep old abilities alive in a new form where they can. PLD still has Sword Oath as stacks for Atonement and DRK still has Darkside as a trait on their gauge, they still have Dark Arts when their shield is absorbed and they still have Delirium that gives them Bloodspiller stacks, which used to be a combo.

[Eloah]

Bulwark is a bit of an exception though...

Kinda, it's still an old skill that was brought back though. The skill doesn't need to change per se. It could act like a "downgrade" for a current skill, kinda like the Monk changes. Or function the same but be slightly different. Like I'm sure people would love to see Wide Volley return on Bard, as an actual AoE version of Sidewinder.

[Seraphor]

Shell and Protect for WHM. Even if just in name only.
I think Protect should be a lower-level form of Divine Benison, and Shell should be a party-wide shield on a cooldown that upgrades to a better version in the 90-100 range.

[Connor]

Wide Volley
Foe Requiem

1.0 Rain of Death animation,

Make Bard great again Yoshi-P. Let me backflip, actually sing during battle, and encircle my enemies with beams of pure light (it’s totally not magic)

[Wind-Krysvein]

Bring back the aggro combo attack animations for tanks

[Absurdity]

Bring back the aggro combo attack animations for tanks

This. Just give me the option to swap out Storm's Path for Butcher's Block and Soul Eater for Power Slash, the animations were by far superior to what they kept when they consolidated tank 1-2-3 combos.

As for Dark Arts, despite the "spam" complaints from Stormblood I think the ability deserved better than to be turned into this utterly bland TBN proc, even just for it's animation and VFX.

[Gemina]

It's not so much skills, but rather animations I miss. Aero 3, Darkside, and Sustain just to name a few. I think these animations could replace the animations for Dia, Grit, and fairy commands respectively as the current ones are pretty lackluster.

[kevin_satron]

bard limit break 3 healer

[Deo14]

Kaiten. You don't even need to give it something new, old one will be more than enough.