Underused skills

You want to talk about underused. Try Scourge Healing (works well in the Maguuma Jungle and whenever the Aloe/Juniper Bark/whatever are around.) Also works well if you feel like toying with grawl seeing as their shamans like to heal, alot.

I tend to carry Smite Hex quite a bit. The recharge is slow but it packs a punch.

One little under rated combo i have found, that can be used in any place that has many conditions, is Martyr and Mend Condition. It is so cool b/c as a monk you can take any amount of damage and the if you have 4 conds. on you you heal for 100-200 health FOR 5 ENERGY and to me a 200 pt heal for 5 energy is pretty cool. And be removing all those conds. the other members of the group need less healing so you can use cheap 5 pt heals. And then when you, the monkey, get down below half life you can use martyr again and mend cond. to do a full heal on yourself.
Only problem is you have to have a bunch of conds. for it to work correct.

A coo combo from
The Sensei

I think "Watch yourself" and "Read the Wind" are the most underrated skills in the game.
Watch yourself: +20 armor to you and adjacent allies for x seconds depends on tactics.
-- consider +40 armor halves the damage taken by a player, +20 armor is pretty good. And I belive it's +20 armor against all. The skill is cheap to use as well, only 4 adrenaline, and thus can be maintained for the whole battle.

Read the Wind: your arrow travels twice as fast and deals +x dmg depends on marksmanship.
--This skill works wonders w/ distracting shot. Also it costs only 5 energy and lasts 12 seconds no matter what. The draw backs for this skill is that it can't stack w/ other preprations and take 2 sec to cast.

Scourge Sacrifice.

Definately lightning orb. lol j/k. Id say shield of deflection.

I would have to say the Mesmer illusion skill, illusion of weakness. it can add up to about 150 health( don't know exact). All you ahve to do is before a PvP battle, or any pve, cast it on ruself and use a quik heal. Once ur health is low, u get that 150 health back. Saved my butt a few times.

A lot of IW mesmers I've run across use illusion of weakness. It's worthless after the first cast of it though... I'd rather have that slot for a more useful skill.

I think Healing Spring is definitely underused. It's like an unremovable AOE Healing Breeze with no 10-regen cap-- what's not to love?

That is all too true wallaby. I really like stacking it with otehr ranegrs, especially an all trapper group in Undererold or Fissure. No need for monks if you stay clsoe together.

I have always had a soft spot for mantra of persistence, an inspiration mesmer stance that lasts ages and causes all illusion magic hexes to last up to twice as long. I can put down a conjure phantasm that will last for 24 seconds! Or put imagined burden on someone that will last for 36 seconds! Its great to see warriors in arenas walking around so slowly for ages

Anyway, it makes for a great fun build for arena.

I've taken in mind some of the warrors stances - seems they work pretty good for non warriors but since some of them end if you attack get the circle of usefullness to very little if you are a warrior.

Yeah tactics are underused. Me? 16 tactics and soloing just fine thank you.

Light of Dwayna. I could only assume its the 25 energy cost, because at a 4 second casting time... I know I would use it.

Light of Dwayna is basically a rebirth that casts faster. 25 mana = basically all the mana you'll have when you cas it anyways.

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Power shot is better only vs elementalist and monk...i guess...but even there the penetrator deals a hell of a punch, with just 3-6 points less. AND vs warriors it reduces their armor with around 16 up to 20 armor which is equal to ~ 38-50% increased dmg.

The most useless/underused skill, and I believe 99.9% of people agree with me, is: CHARM ANIMAL

You only use it once to get your pet, then it's useless and sits on your skill bar like an eye sore. C'mon, dev team, get rid of it.

shatter dilusions. Beastly if gameplanned right. charm animal? doh: ( And penetrating shot, power shot, all that crap, why? If you're going for damage then a simple quick shot build or barrage will do more damage. If you're in pvp with a warrior, I hope he isnt using tactics. For pve tactics is far more useful. To whoever said healing spring... uber l33t skill. And attempting to use wells in a pvp match will leave you very dissapointed. This thread really should be broken up into pvp and pve, because skills that are great for one are useless for the other, and visa versa in many cases. And signet of devotion... also uber l33t. The one skill i've never gotten around to getting because of the damn run out to ascalon settlement. Great skill though, especially in pvp when quickening zephyr is being used.

Also underused = obsidian flame and crystal wave. hellish damage for the two.

Pheonix. It doesn't make any sense to me, but I've honestly only seen a few people cast it on occasion. Being an E/N myself, I find myself using it as often as flare.

You didn't use phoenix through north shiverpeaks? I used it ever since I bought it in Grendich Courthouse and will be using it until I get to Kryta probably. It's no meteor shower, but c'mon, what else are you going to rely on in the early game? Firestorm? HAHAHA