Snakecharm is not useless, it is needed to make snake pits.

Hunting; Cluck, Rustle, FishCatch, Soothe (when disarming a snake trap, the snakes that come out, cannot be soothed ), Mimic (yeah sometimes calls an animal out a real rare sometimes, would be neat to call adoraths or cave-fishers and have them come ), Stalk, I would add Ambush too, but actually if you are lucky you can ambush with a nice manuever. Its not great but not useless.

So 6 out of 14 skills in Hunting appear to be pretty useless as soon as you are above circle 40.


Tracking; Treehunter (since it is supposed to help stalk), DeepseaHunter (which I could have swore use to allow prints in water but I don't think it does anymore, I forgot to retest), Bond Deliver used to be real nice but now it is broken or buggy, in which it doesn't go past doors, nor will it work plane wide anymore.

Now granted the rest are good skills, just really wish some of these skills were upgraded, or at least put some resistance skills into the Hunting/Tracking skillset. I would say into Ecology as well but I am not familiar with Ecology and am not aware if they get and resistances. But being a "tracker" you would think you would have bonded more with nature/environmental part of the basin allowing at least elemental resistances if not physical resistances.

Pureblade; Furrow is useless, the minor amount of damage it does is nothing for the eq/balance time it takes to slam your sword into the ground, I think I did like 500-600 damage to Forren when testing this. If it would actually prone them and impale them on your blade ripping them out of the ground, I think it would be alot nicer.

Those are all I am able to fully comment on since I am not very intimate with alot of the other skillsets.

Refugee -

Pulp is useless, use crushes.

Maneuvers are useful.

And otherwise -

Sleepsense is largely useless, I only use it to find other dreamweavers.

Isn't Rustle the one that you use to catch live animals? Like cows and sheep? Isn't that helpful for when you want to do a bunch of commodity quests? I mean, maybe not as useful experience-wise, but if you want to up your village's production of cloth or milk, I'd think it would be useful. Wouldn't it?

Of those I only find Forwardflip useless. Haven't learned Hyperactive yet, but I was sad to find out there are only 2 skills from ~fabled to trans in acrobatics and stopped at tripleflash :/ I imagine hyperactive+forwardflip could be nearly like trample though *shrug* PerfectFourth i always thought of as a nice skill for newbies. Fugue is good and annoying on other bards. Oh and handstand and handspring are kinda useless. What's the difference between the latter and somersault?

Isn't PerfectFourth the one that makes the room your in give extra rats or weevils? How the world is that useless?

Nobody in their right mind (that isn't a complete noob) hunts rats or weevils.

When I had hexes I used healthleech, dementia can be used for stacks, it's all about how you use them, rather than the actual afflictions.

:\\ They must have nerfed it since the last time I tested then. bummer.

Dementia I can understand, but why would you even waste the eq on healthleech?

Damage based combo

Well, duh, but... it drains like 300 every 10-60ish seconds :/

Every little helps.

healthleech can be fun to stack in choke..

oh and for useless skills..toadcurse, 8 power for a pretend instakill thats stopped by and emote..woop woop!

Forward flip is useful. Imagine a faeling doing it, in rapid succession. He can do what a mountainsmudge does, but in less time. And barrelroll. You have a group of enemies one room north of you. You want to avoid it. Barrel roll north, and you get two rooms ahead of your last position, dodging all of them. Far from useless.

... no.

timed it. took 1 less second.

Yes it is Noola, but after circle 20-40 not many people are hell bent on doing massive commodity gathering, its not what rakes in the big gold, nor does it give awesome karma or exp. But it is useful at first I guess, but in the long run a skillset that has nothing for damage resistances is kinda sad, when they have so many silly skills

Why do you always bring up damage resistance whenever a topic goes even remotely near Hunting and Tracking?

A mending break every 1 second is still worthless. And it doesn't even break 100% of the time.

How is outpacing curing useless? The 100% fail rate is a different story, though.