I think it was nerfed at some point.

Oh, my bad I misunderstood... and really I didnt know clamp did more damage than bloodthirst... wowsers, that makes it useless when ya get clamp yer right But for those who don't have it, yeah it is good then

I haven't tested the change to Celebrate, it might be useful now. Depends on if it actually lets me use one less hit to kill things or not. Extra damage is worthless otherwise. Other than that, every buff song in Wildarrane. Stonemists, during my last test, didn't do anything, so it's broken in addition to being relatively worthless.

And even if Forwardflip with Hyperactive can outpace their mending, why the hell would you ever use it? The opportunity cost of using all your balance for that instead of going for a kill is insane. Whenever you stop, they mend up damned fast and you just wasted 10p and a bunch of time. Other than that, Hyperactive is utter trash for a commune bard, to the point where I believe the inept ability of any other skill is far more useful than trans acrobatics.

Basically, almost all of Wildarrane and most of Acrobatics are pretty worthless.

Oooh oooh I thought of one, how about the Feign Death skill thing in Dramatics? How often do you use that? Since it only works until someone tries to autoscoop up yer corpse

rustle IS useful. when I had it, I could bring in all the cows, and not have to wander around looking for hay to give them

Yep, though it's an aria, not an aura. Did you want a complete list?

Besides the fact that weevils are the slowest way to gain experience and gold, and completely not worth doing for anyone, it's useless because the extra weevils invariably end up in the trees. It's always faster to just go to the next room than to wait for the other two weevils perfectfourth calls, having to climb up and down constantly to see where they showed up.

It doesn't work on sheep. In my experience, rustling is slower than finding hay because it doesn't work most of the time, and the balance loss even on a failed attempt is absurdly long.

Too bad you can't just sprint, then. Sprinting would be much quicker and just as effective without costing 2 power. Wouldn't it be great if Sprinting were, say, about seven skills earlier into the skillset?

Get a mount. The success rate jumps dramatically, just like the help file suggests. Imagine that?

But, if you go and nerf rustling, I'd be very annoyed!

Though, I do wish there was an ability in Tracking that let your hound herd sheep and cows as a sort of upgraded version.

Making the net isn't because if you've already gone to Skarch, you're seconds from the person who can make it for you. But maybe charming the snake is useful if you use snakes other than baby adders. Of course, that still means the skill is useless for half the people who have it (the ones with Ecology instead of Tracking).

Barrelroll really should let you jump corner rooms, then it would be really useful, and the incredibly complicated move it's made out to be in the AB files. Still not sure why it's called Barrelroll though, seems odd.

And yeah, when I had my druid stag, Rustling was awesome. Doing it on foot is asking to be frustrated.

I think you are forgeting about combat stances. Those are pretty much useless.

Also, Engage.

Useless skills:

Phantomsphere
Phantasmagoria
Pollute/Maelstrom/Fury
Influence skill in geo/aquamancy and druidry (wtf does it do!?)

Does it not work?

Phantomsphere might, theoretically, someday, possibly be useful for long, drawn-out group fights?
Phantasmagoria is interesting from an RP point-of-view, but not useful at all.

I think Pollute/Maelstrom/Fury could be used a lot more than they are. In a group fight, it would be very nice for the mage to stand back a few rooms, then use pollute (or the equivalent). If the mage's group is prepared, it should do enough damage for them to be able to pick off a good number of people (in theory). I've never seen it done successfully, but it looks theoretically okay.

Influence supposedly makes it easier for you to influence areas if you set up a demesne first. I might try melding tosha to see if it actually makes any noticeable difference, but I doubt it's enough to tell.

Get gallop, it is 100x better than sprint (cuz it has no hasty messages at all, can gallop without stopping )




You have a point SnakeCharm is useless for Ecologists I guess But is useful for hunters, now if prints would only work on all types of mobs, astral, water etc yay!

Crowform.

I get more use from Trickster than from Crowform.

Build the DarkNest! It'll be free to cast (provided they make the egg last longer).

Guessing DR for Stag/Crowform was rejected?

Yeah, it was.

Thus, Crowform remains useless for Warriors, and Stagform pretty much useless for everyone.

Alas.