Are These Skills Still in the Game Data?

[Vyrerus]

Are skills they've removed from jobs still somewhere in the game data?

Examples:

Butcher's Block
Power Slash
Mercy Stroke
Ageha
Dancing Edge

That's just a few. I'm just curious, if they're gone from our bars and lists, but still in the data, do you think there will come a time when they reuse them as "new" skills?

A lot of folks do miss these skills or other skills, and they know that. It seems a shame for them to throw away the work of the animators and stuff by just deleting those skills.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I dont miss Stoneskin or Eagle Eye really...but it is funny to play old Content and still see Enemies using it

[DiaDeem]

[Renalt]

I'd say they are still in the data because I've been doing old content and MSQ with an alt and there are NPCs that use them.

Flash also being one of them.

Who knows? They might come back as a Lost Action in Bozja or if they do another similar zone.

[Alleluia]

I miss my spinny axe stun animation.

[Silver-Strider]

I don't miss Stoneskin

BLASPHEMY!!!

[Alleluia]

*cough* Protect*cough*

[Ath192]

A reason to re-use assets? say no more!

[PredatoryCatgirl]

Mercy stroke sounds like something you see in the dark corners of Balmung.

I said what I said.

[Enkidoh]

Old abilities remain in the data, just the references that point to them are changed to dummy them out (hence the 'greyed out/red slash' icons that replace them if they were still on your hotbar when they were 'removed').

This goes also for 'original' versions of abilities that were changed or updated extensively (such as class-specific abilities that became role abilities, such as Swiftcast or Rampart). The originals are still there in the game DATs, just dummied out and replaced by new abilities with similar functions and the same name.