Which skills are not worth it?

[Cerbrosyn]

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[Schrader]

What build are you using? Tell me all of your builds and I'll tell you which skills arent worth it, theres so many

[Cerbrosyn]

Originally posted by God Himself:

What build are you using? Tell me all of your builds and I'll tell you which skills arent worth it, theres so many

I just want to know which skills are underpowered

[Yojo0o]

DOS2 does a good job of making every skill at least somewhat useful in the right hands. I'd say Bless is probably less-useful than the game would lead you to believe, considering how commonly it is used in dialogue.

[Pyromus]

A handful of the combo skillbooks are pretty useless. The polymorph element skins come to mind, but there are a few other. 48 extra skills, they can't all be winners.

Buyable basic skills, favorable wind isn't great. Fossil strike is replaced kinda quickly by impalement. Living Wall is extremely niche. Pin down and Reactive Shot are both kinda meh. Heart of Steel is pretty much just worse Fortify. I don't think I've ever made good use of oily blob. Flaming tongues is weird in how the attack is triggered, but isn't awful. Dimensional bolt is random element, so it can backfire and hit undead with poison or those oil/fire blobs with their attribute and heal them. Provoke is weird, because enemies can target the ground with grenades and hit the teammates you're trying to taunt them off of.

That was just me going down the list in the wiki page. Even the ones I listed aren't terrible, and can be used if you play around them. No skill in the game is useless, but by your phrasing of "not worth it" there is some room for interpretation on what that means. Since learned skills can be swapped out outside of battle for free, you can always test one out and all you lose is the gold it took to buy the book, which is pretty much a non factor.

[Chaoslink]

All skills that don't teach spells.


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And summoning.

[Pyromus]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

All skills that don't teach spells.


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And summoning.

oh wait, I thought he meant like the skillbook skills. Ugh this game needed more specific nomenclature

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Pyromus:

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

All skills that don't teach spells.


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And summoning.

oh wait, I thought he meant like the skillbook skills. Ugh this game needed more specific nomenclature

Hence why I refer to them as spells

[Razorblade]

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

DOS2 does a good job of making every skill at least somewhat useful in the right hands. I'd say Bless is probably less-useful than the game would lead you to believe, considering how commonly it is used in dialogue.

Bless is actually incredibly useful. It cures almost any status affliction, and can be used on smoke from Smoke Cover or Smoke Grenades to create an AoE invisibility effect that last multiple turns. This makes it both the ultimate support move, and a great cheese move.

[Pyromus]

Originally posted by cool-dude:

Originally posted by Brunosplays:

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Most of the source skills are pretty useless. Best source skills are skin graft, fanes source skill, and the source skill that comes with a custom character.

Oh this I strongly disagree with. The ones you listed are good, with Fane's arguably being the best in the game, but most source skills are very strong. All 3 of aero's are able to lockdown a whole encounter, pyroclastic erucption pretty much insta kills 3/4 of the encounter, bloodstorm/grasp combo is the most boringly broken op thing in the game, and sparkmaster is the most fun thing I've used and is quite powerful as well. Then there's dust blast, mass traps, mass cleanse, and vacuum aura when you throw the combo skillbooks in there. Source skills are anything but useless.

[Schrader]

Originally posted by cool-dude:

Originally posted by Brunosplays:

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Most of the source skills are pretty useless. Best source skills are skin graft, fanes source skill, and the source skill that comes with a custom character.

Source skills are useless? Are you insane? Pyroclastic, grasped of the starved, apotheosis, blood storm, mortal blow, overpower and so many damn more

[Crazy Ivan]

I like laser ray and earthquake for geomancer. Steam lance for healing in necro fire. But curse counters this,

[[N63] chrisragnar]

Originally posted by Crazy Ivan:

I like laser ray and earthquake for geomancer. Steam lance for healing in necro fire. But curse counters this,

He was not asking for the good skills, that would make too much sens i guess.. rip

[[N63] chrisragnar]

Originally posted by God Himself:

Originally posted by cool-dude:

Most of the source skills are pretty useless. Best source skills are skin graft, fanes source skill, and the source skill that comes with a custom character.

Source skills are useless? Are you insane? Pyroclastic, grasped of the starved, apotheosis, blood storm, mortal blow, overpower and so many damn more

I'm assuming he means the spirit vision, vampire etc. Not the once that use SP.

[Senki]

The only spells that are really useless are the breathing bubbles from aero,cryotherapy from hydro and oily carapace from geo.It's usually not worth wasting ap on any of those.There are more spells that people don't usually use but they can be fun to play around with and can have some uses.

[Pyromus]

Originally posted by N63 chrisragnar:

Originally posted by God Himself:

Source skills are useless? Are you insane? Pyroclastic, grasped of the starved, apotheosis, blood storm, mortal blow, overpower and so many damn more

I'm assuming he means the spirit vision, vampire etc. Not the once that use SP.

nah, he lists skills that use sp in the same post