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

Silver_Strider · December 2016

Equilibrium is far and away the most useless skill in the game. Once upon a time, it was necessary but this skill is a relic of days long since passed and needs a replacement/retuning. As it is now, there is virtually no reason to use this skill or it's morphs. Now if say it granted Major Berserk for the 4 seconds you couldn't self heal...it still wouldn't be used lol.

Mojmir · December 2016

Symmetry for sure. Agony,eclipse,quite a few morphs just pale in comparison to others.

BomblePants · December 2016

What about 'shade'....rubbish.....

Rajajshka · December 2016

Blood altar & fire rune..

Astanphaeus · December 2016

MaxwellCrystal wrote: »

PvP perspective
Dragon's blood and morphs.
Dragon fire scale
venomous claw
standard of might
stone giant
Flames of oblivion

All suck IMO for PvP.

Do you even DK?

Cinbri · December 2016

Healing Ritual - if zos would secretly remove this skill noone even notice it, as it has no use at all.

SnubbS · December 2016

What's the NB ability that puts thorns around the enemies feet?

That one.

Mojmir · December 2016

SnubbS wrote: »

What's the NB ability that puts thorns around the enemies feet?

That one.

Agony

Enslaved · December 2016

Tried every skill and its morphs for DK, NB and Sorc. So, I pretty much slotted them all for leveling purposes.
Tbh, pretty much any skill can have some use at some point. Only skill that is so useless that I was like wtf Zos, is scalding rune. I mean, it is terrible in PvP and PvE, no matter what.

Iove · December 2016

Came here to list pretty much every templar skill, and the only ones worth using keep getting nerfed xD

Brrrofski · December 2016

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?

You know, defensive rune is amazing on overload bar. When you need to get away stick that on, and the best guy to hit you gets CCed. Helps you get away a lot.

BlackEar · December 2016

I use charging maneuver but I don't pvp

leepalmer95 · December 2016

Kram8ion wrote: »

The new immovable and manifestation of fear? If that's what it's called

A use manifestation of fear on my nb bow dueling build. It's very strong.

K4RMA · December 2016

soul trap

leepalmer95 · December 2016

Theres people listing so many good skills...

Do you people even try some of these skills or does your copy + paste build not use them therefore you've never tried them.

Brrrofski · December 2016

Nocturnalan wrote: »

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

As soon as someone uses a potion it's absolutely pointless. It's a useless skill. Just having repentance slotted and not using it is better.

Narvuntien · December 2016

Bow knockback.. it was my only way to heal on my stamblade and I couldn't really kill things fast enough at the earlier levels and I needed a heal.

Stone giant... I like just like the long range disabling things like that... It acutally feel quite nice to use with that bonus defense as well. My DK hasn't leveled enough to get fossilize yet

I assume that straight replaces it.

Enslaved · December 2016

Narvuntien wrote: »

Bow knockback.. it was my only way to heal on my stamblade and I couldn't really kill things fast enough at the earlier levels and I needed a heal.

Stone giant... I like just like the long range disabling things like that... It acutally feel quite nice to use with that bonus defense as well. My DK hasn't leveled enough to get fossilize yet I assume that straight replaces it.

Stone giant is useful as long range interrupt.

redspecter23 · December 2016

I'd say there are very few skills that are just completely useless. Most have some sort of niche use at some point, even if it's not fantastic. Some that I'd say are bad are only that way because the other morph is just so much better. The alternative of repentance. I don't even remember the name. It's not absolutely horrible. I'd just never use it due to having to give up repentance for it.

If I had to choose one that I feel is underpowered and could use some sort of buff

Trapping Webs

The damage is underwhelming. The synergy is clunky and even if you do hit it, it lacks punch. It fails as a damage ability compared to other options and has little to no utility to make up for it. Delayed dps abilities should hit harder than instant cast ones (steel tornado) by a significant margin in my opinion.

lolo_01b16_ESO · December 2016

I personally level all skills to the point where you can morph them. You'll never know what will happen in a future patch. Many of the skills listed in this thread used to be good at some point and others, which everyone uses now, have been bad in the past.
Anyone remembers the time when Radiant Aura would increase stam reg by 80% and spell symmetry was part of the top dps rotations? Or the glorious days of fragmented shield spam in trials?

Derra · December 2016

Astanphaeus wrote: »

MaxwellCrystal wrote: »

PvP perspective
Dragon's blood and morphs.
Dragon fire scale
venomous claw
standard of might
stone giant
Flames of oblivion

All suck IMO for PvP.

Do you even DK?

Almost every "good" DK on EU has stopped using scales in pvp because the skill is just a terrible buggy mess.

Bashev · December 2016

Cauterize - This is the worst skill in the entire game. I am not sure is it bugged or @Wrobel intentionally designed it like that. The skill does not offer anything for the caster except the 10% crit chance.
If the heal was able to heal the caster this could solve some of the PvP mDK healing issues.

mb10 · December 2016

TBh trapping webs hits like 14k on my stam nb
AND you get two cool spiders to fight for you AND the synergy hits hard too.

Just because youtubers dont use it, doesnt make it a bad skill at all.

Blood altar is pretty useless but probably one of the coolest looking skills in game.

Lieblingsjunge · December 2016

Trapping Webs. Because spiders terrifies me & makes me feel physically ill.

Healing Ritual. Wat the heck is that thing? Your friends will be rip before the heal goes out!

Blood Altar. I like the design of it & the thought behind it, but I don't like the skill. It's just underperforming badly.

Damage-morph of Mist Form. Mist Form is the only way someone that's not an mSorc can escape. Why the heck would u want it to deal damage when the entire point of it, is to get away :c?

Resto staff ultimate. I can probably defend the one morph that gives crit damage increased, but wait, no, not really. This one is pretty meh for 125 ultimate.

Eclipse. Okay, I like the design, I like the intention. It just underperforms.

SublimeSparo · December 2016

Spell symmetry on backbar on a tank is pretty OP-
Can chain/ talon/ deep breath/mystic orb spam pretty much indefinitely, it can also be used to generate ulti.
Another interesting use/feature of this skill is that although you can't self heal for 4s, your health regen is not affected- thus a high health regen build can almost indefinitely cast it weaved with say dragonfire scale and even with low magic regen keep near on 100% uptime.

Doctordarkspawn · December 2016

Blood altar.

Remove, make a PVE heal over time without the burst healing to make Vigor obsolete.

Trapping webs.

Lower damage, increase range to caltrop range, basicly leave it as is otherwise.

Boom, two of the most useless group abilities from Undaunted become usefull and no one has to PVP if they dont want to anymore.

Wifeaggro13 · December 2016

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?

Anything CC related. Zos completely missed the mark with this game. The whole game was designed around Dps, such a waste of a MMO .

Fodore · December 2016

Radiant destruction, useless ability and does next to no damage, needs a buff imo

starkerealm · December 2016

Pandorii wrote: »

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

How is this not in nearly every post in the thread?

Ghettokid wrote: »

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.

Honestly, mist is pretty lackluster across the board. I get that elusive has a real utility function, but I struggle to slot it.

Dawnbreaker I'm honestly conflicted on. I used to use Flawless most of the time, on my main (before the Werewolf regen nerf.) But, now... eh... I'd rather just use Batswarm.

anadandy · December 2016

Sheezabeast wrote: »

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

Agreed - that was such a waste of a skill point.