What are the worst abilities that you're never tempted to slot?

Iselin

For me it's a tie between the NB's Agony and morphs and the Sorc's Rune Prison. I could see theoretical special circumstance use with builds that takes advantage of disorients, but I just seem to always pass them by and go a different direction.

They almost seem to me like refugee abilities from 10 or 15 year old games when long-duration CC was used routinely (remember WOW Sapping and Sheeping when they were useful in dungeon runs?)

How about you? Which abilities do you always ignore?

me_ming

Healing Ritual

Neoauspex

I second Healing Ritual

Cryptical

Blood altar

Karius_Imalthar

Soul Trap? Oh yeah... blood altar. Charging Maneuver? Does anyone actually use this morph?

There are definitely some that I have never used but I can see their usefulness although situational. I don't want to outright say they are useless because I see other players use them. Maybe they know something I don't know.

Carbonised

Inferno and its morphs. Considering that we have Inner Light, Inferno is nothing but lulz. Man they really ruined that ability (Cauterize is even more lulz).

Stonefist is a close second in my list. Damage is pathetic, and both morphs suck.

Honorable mentions are Impulse, Fire Rune and Equilibrium.

Sheezabeast

Trapping Webs, post-change. Stamina ground-based AOE sounds so cool ;_; but fails to deliver

bubbygink

Some skills have an obvious choice for morph (e.g. crystal frag) so the bad morph is basically never slotted (so crystal blast in this case). But one skill i don't think I've seen either morph used in any context is circle of protection from the fighter's guild line. About as expensive as caltrops, extremely small radius, and bad effects. Both morphs are totally worthless in my opinion.

Rohamad_Ali

Baleful Mist . It's just a fart cloud .

Ahzek

Blood altar has to take the number 1 spot.
Other than that bone shield and rapping webs are also pretty garbage.

SolarCat02

I used to say Guard without hesitation any time anyone asked me this question, but wouldn't you know, they made it actually useful!

Currently I would say Cauterize. It's the only heal in the game that will never heal the caster. I was really excited to learn Dragonknights were getting a heal to use for others, but if I still need the other things to heal myself why would I replace one of the more versatile skills with this one? I would like to see this skill tweaked. (Dragon Blood could also use some love).

Pandorii

Equilibrium - trade health for magicka (unable to self-heal)

Sallington

Crystal Blast

Danksta

I actually had to look the name up, Radiant Aura. Who takes that morph over Repentance?

Koolio

The new trapping webs

Joy_Division

Where to start?

Eclipse
Healing Ritual
Blood Alter
Quick Siphon
Radiant Aura
Empowering Chains
Cauterize
Fragmented Shield
Cinderstorm
Aspect of Terror
Power Slam
Whirling Blades
Elemental Susceptibility
Blessing of Restoration
Ring of Preservation
Expert Hunter
Baleful Mist
Charging Maneuver
Lingering Flare

NeillMcAttack

Prolonged suffering, the agony morph, helped me out big time to get my first completion of VMA on my MagBlade. The ability to just cast and forget about a particular enemy until I cleared the rest was a reall help for me.

Khaos_Bane

Joy_Division wrote: »

Where to start?

Eclipse
Healing Ritual
Blood Alter
Quick Siphon
Radiant Aura
Empowering Chains
Cauterize
Fragmented Shield
Cinderstorm
Aspect of Terror
Power Slam
Whirling Blades
Elemental Susceptibility
Blessing of Restoration
Ring of Preservation
Expert Hunter
Baleful Mist
Charging Maneuver
Lingering Flare

Most likely, that's just the beginning. It's truly sad that there are so many terrible skills. The skills really need to be cleaned up.

theher0not

Soul Trap: why use it when I have the benefit from it on my weapons?

Inferno: Super underwelming, I finaly got it to rank 4 so I could morph it (and the morphs felt really bad so I didn't) and now I can finaly take that away and get Poison Breath back.

All the CC that breaks on damage spells like Petrify. I have never been in a situation where I felt like that skill would be usefull.

vyndral13preub18_ESO

Khaos_Bane wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

Where to start?

Eclipse
Healing Ritual
Blood Alter
Quick Siphon
Radiant Aura
Empowering Chains
Cauterize
Fragmented Shield
Cinderstorm
Aspect of Terror
Power Slam
Whirling Blades
Elemental Susceptibility
Blessing of Restoration
Ring of Preservation
Expert Hunter
Baleful Mist
Charging Maneuver
Lingering Flare

Most likely, that's just the beginning. It's truly sad that there are so many terrible skills. The skills really need to be cleaned up.

Agreed. It is the whole reason you limit the amount of skills you can slot. So you can make them all cool and meaninful and people then Have to choose. If half the skills are going to be crap you might as well let me have 40 skills on my bar. because most of them are near useless or with one very specific use.

Izaki

Carbonised wrote: »

Inferno and its morphs. Considering that we have Inner Light, Inferno is nothing but lulz. Man they really ruined that ability (Cauterize is even more lulz).

Stonefist is a close second in my list. Damage is pathetic, and both morphs suck.

Honorable mentions are Impulse, Fire Rune and Equilibrium.

Flames of Oblivion is a must have for mag and stam DK...

Elder_III

Yep, many skills need a buff or tweak to be less then a niche option (and even then most aren't worth taking). I concur with the majority of the skills listed here.

*This is coming from someone that prefers to not follow the meta and just use what is effective and fun but not "the best" 100% of the time.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Iselin wrote: »

For me it's a tie between the NB's Agony and morphs and the Sorc's Rune Prison. I could see theoretical special circumstance use with builds that takes advantage of disorients, but I just seem to always pass them by and go a different direction.

They almost seem to me like refugee abilities from 10 or 15 year old games when long-duration CC was used routinely (remember WOW Sapping and Sheeping when they were useful in dungeon runs?)

How about you? Which abilities do you always ignore?

Prolonged Suffering (agony) and Rune Cage are both highly useful skills in VMA, especially on stage 9 as you can stun the summoners, ogrims, and the healer on the last boss. 100% not necessary, but if you are playing a mSorc or mNB and are struggling with the arena, these skills are excellent. They are also not bad if you want to force an opponent to dump stam on a CC break. I typically dont slot them in PVP, but I could see a potential use for them.

My list would start with any heal that requires channeling, be it regular or an ultimate.

Nocturnalan

I prefer Radiant Aura. Everyone runs Repentance, that's why. And Aura works while Repent doesn't if there are no corpses around.

AtraisMachina

Arrow spray and knockback bow skill. Blazing shield. Silver shards. Radial sweep. All of the undaunted skills. Its like 70% of the skills in this game are pointless.

Ahzek

AtraisMachina wrote: »

Arrow spray and knockback bow skill. Blazing shield. Silver shards. Radial sweep. All of the undaunted skills. Its like 70% of the skills in this game are pointless.

You dont play PvP.

Apherius

Oh ! sorcerer pets ( pve boy here )

Bandit1215

Bone shield or whatever it's called from undaunted and the Templar reflect.

GDOFWR420

Pandorii wrote: »

Equilibrium - trade health for magicka (unable to self-heal)

This

Strider_Roshin

Bone Shield.

Ghettokid

Wrecking blow(old one), jesus beam, vigor, purifying/extended ritual, cloak, elusive mist, hurricane, dk-wings, BoA.

They're all so bad and useless.

Yeah and blazing, meteor, dawnbreaker and repentance.