Try and think of a skill more useless than this.

Except both skills are extremely useful. One gives you some extra HP you can play with, and another allows you to run away from your enemy, while he/she thought you couldn't.

If you have plague signet (elite) and are necro (primary or secondard), you have no worries about illusion of haste. Some skills seem useless, but depending on your class combo can be very effective.

I do agree with Otyugh's Cry being useless, the range of the skill is useless and in most cases the animals are only lvl 5. The only place it maybe useful is in the southern shiver peaks fighting the Stone summit rangers with Elder Wolves.

unnatural signet, wow now that is a useless skill, I honestly cannot think of a practical app for it, you could never use in combat, and if you used out of combat to nerf NPC rituals, by the time you could uses your skills again they would have re summoned the rituals. (unless by skills they mean skills other than casting, if you can still cast spells it actually maybe useful.)

At the cost of 10 energy it's worthless.

And considering you get crippled at the end of it, what good does that do? they'll just catch up and own you then.

10 energy to cure Crippling and run away from an angry Warrior? I think it's pretty useful for that purpose. Sure, I gotta deal with the Crippling at the end, but the hasted duration is plenty enough to get some distance between me and that warrior. Also remember that I would (ideally) have a monk on my side with Mend Condition.

If you a necro with Plague signet, just target chasing hostile and use, the crippled condition is transfered to them, so you have had a head start to run away, then you cripple them, at no energy cost, sounds useful to me. It depends on your build and what skills you use, simple as that.

As a warrior primary, my vote for most useless skills go to Fear Me and Frenzy.
They're not as bad as Unnatural Signet, but pretty useless from a cost/benefit point of view IMO. Can't see any use which would justify wasting slots on these.

Note: Plague Signet is an elite skill.

Note2: People chasing you will probably know that at the end of illusion of haste you get crippled.

Note3: Fear Me is better than you'd think, with no recast time, and a surprisingly large radius, you can drain a significant amount of energy if you build up your adrenaline beforehand. Lots of good guilds used to run fear me abuse back in the WBE's

I wonder what the worst build would be.

It'd be interesting to have a PvP mode where you get to build the avatar for your opponent...

Worst build I can think of is a monk/warrior with no skills equipped other than frenzy.

Monk primary would make you 1st priority target, and then you'd use frenzy, take double damage, and just die. DIE!

I always thought the main attraction of Otyugh's Cry was to buff up all the pets in your team with +20 armour for 30 seconds, for a mere 5 energy. They're animals, they're within range.

Holy Wrath + Cyclone Axe = Devastating ... in the right circumstances...

lol... worthless. you should be thankful when a mesmer shatters or drains this one.

I could fill this thread with Blood Magic skills alone...

Barbed Signet - sacrifice life to steal roughly the same amount of health back from your target. Could be useful, if you could do it more than once every 30 seconds.

Dark Pact - less damage than Flare, takes longer to recharge and, oh yeah; sacrifice 10% for the priviledge of casting it.

(My Favourite) Shadow Strike - compare to Vampiric Gaze. Same cost but Shadow Strike takes longer to cast, longer to recharge, does less damage and only heals you when they are above 50% health. No reason to ever use this spell in preference to Vampiric Gaze. Why they even bothered putting it in I don't know.

Otyugh's Cry is pretty useful in PvE: Let's say you're being attacked by a group a 5 devourers (or any other animal), if you then use Otyugh's Cry, all other devourers will attack your current target. Not only will this kill your target pretty fast, you also get a timespan where you're not being attacked at all.

I was recently a nay-sayer about Illusion of Haste (Illusion of Weakness doesn't need to be defended. It is a great skill for PvP if you are heavily invested in Illusion). I finally figured out the appeal of IoH.

It is an enchantment. As opposed to a stance. If you are trying to get away from that pesky warrior distoration + IoH works wonders.

Don't forget that Illusion of Haste can be recast as soon as it runs out, removing the crippled effect everytime. As long as you have energy, you can just keep running. Some good inspiration skills, and energy is not a big problem for a Mesmer.

Mesmers have a lot of pointless skills as well...

Devourers are not animals, they are monsters. If Otyugh's worked on monsters, it would be the only skill in my bar (well, maybe I'd have oath shot too).

Let's look at my fave line, necro...

Dark Fury - Enchantment Spell
Sacrifice 17% maximum health. For 5 seconds, the next time any nearby party member attacks, that party member gains one hit of adrenaline.

I'm sorry, what? You want me to take a huge hit in health so my buddy the warrior can have adrenaline for 5 seconds?!? I don't think so.


Dark Pact - Spell
Sacrifice 10% maximum health and deal 10-40 shadow damage to target foe.

So I'm gonna spend 5 energy, 1 second of casting time, AND 48 health so I can deal 40 damage to an enemy BEFORE armor? Hahahahahha.


Order of the Vampire {Elite} - Enchantment Spell
Sacrifice 17% of maximum health. For 5 seconds, whenever a party member hits a foe, that party member steals 3-13 Health.

For an elite, this one is pretty ****ed. I mean, 5 seconds? COME ON!


Spinal Shivers - Hex Spell
For 12-26 seconds, whenever target foe is struck for cold damage, that foe is interrupted and you lose 10-6 Energy or Spinal Shivers ends.

Because I just have TONS of energy to spend on something as useless as an interupt like this. Oh, gotta love the duration of it too. Useless...

Dark Fury: so your buddy the warrior, and your other buddy the warrior, and your other buddy the warrior, and your other buddy the warrior, and you, the W/N yourself, get an additional strike of adrenaline on top of the strikes you're already getting from the attacks for five seconds (the adrenaline doesn't disappear afterwards or anything), and with a 5s recharge you can keep casting it for continual double adrenaline gain for you and your buddies around you. Combine with zealous weapon and you can keep it up for quite a while.

Dark Pact: combine with Dark Aura for a pretty nice combo - Pact is quite spammable, and there's plenty of ways to regain health.

Order of the Vampire: 3-13 health stealing means +13 damage on every hit already, as enchantment you can use an enchanting upgrade for 6 seconds which means you can spam this for continual damage buff with only one second downtime. The healing from life stealing is a fun extra.

Spinal Shivers: 26 second window in which you can interrupt at your leisure. Grab a cold damage wand and interrupt every skill you don't want that character to cast - 6 energy interrupts are quite decent.