Why are attributes forgotten?

Theres some skill attributes that could use some love and they haven't been getting it
from a-net OR players.

Deadly arts
Shadow arts
Water magic
Command
Smiting Prayers.
Spawning

Anyone wonder what happened to these.

I mean ya Water magic still used.....but its one of the most expensive attributes ever.

Lets discuss the forgotten attributes.

Because the skills in those trees suck?

Spawning. Outside of Spirit's Strength and some farming builds (http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10178095) it's just filler.

Yes so why has A-net forgotten them for so long?

Having crappy attributes (except for water >.< its just....not good enough)
Does not make the game better>.>

They're not used because they suck or are inefficient. Anet probably has better things to do then buff a whole bunch of skills (there's probably about 1000 now).

Some of the skills just need a quick 50 second touch up for todays meta

Smiting is the only thing I do on my monk. Spawning is like soul reaping, is it not? Not really meant to be used in my opinion. Shadow arts are always used in farming builds. Water? Pffft, suckage.

Spawning and Soul reaping have virtually nothing in common. For one, Spawning has a large, mostly worthless, skill set. SR, while it has few skills, still has some interesting ones worth taking...

They're used in farming and those caster sins.
Rubbish in most situations.
Not that bad...
If only we could smite like Saul...
Bleh...

I occasionally use Water magics on my ele. Though mostly for snare.

Water really isn't that good. :-\ same for Air. :-\ sure, they have their uses, and niche's... But for the most part, they both kinda are worthless for PVE.

The only healing build I use on a rit is the one with Attuned Was Songkai. Ritual Lord, Spirit's Strength, and Reclaim Essence are also good in my opinion. All spirit spammers use spawning powers, along with the Rit/Ns.

Shadow arts & spawning is not forgotten. The basis of A/ runner's & Spirit spammers come's from spawning & shadow arts. Wind prayers & water magic though are the forgotten ones. And ofcourse any skills in fastcasting which probably have never seem the light of day. And pve wise hammer mastery..

That's how bugged skills, swinging metas, and buff-then-nerfs happen.

Keystone signet?

Go HA without water magic..... gfg.... Water magic is the most powerful snare skill tree in the game. Many PvP mechanics revolve around it. Spawning has a lot of great skills. Spirit's Strength is amazing, as is wielder's remedy, and you can make a really creative MM if you play with the skills.

Shadow Arts is a bit weak, but meh it has Shadow Form and shadow refuge and deaths charge. Deadly arts has Shroud of Silence... umm, it ownz face.... Smiting prayers needs a boost here and there, but holy dmg is powerful. word of censure on an ele is hax. :P I kid!

i thought this thread was about when people forget to put their remaining attribs which they forgotten on lol
anyway...on topic
water magic is fine
command is fine
but the rest are kinda "meh"

PvE speaking, Water Magic has Steam which is a decent anti-melee/ranged with low cost, low recharge, perfect to complement a fire build with an utility skill.

Air is good for blind weakness and cracked armor, in some situations with mostly warriors/ranger/paragons I run 2 blinding surgers which give my party all the time to kill everything without having to worry about any kind of damage.

[skill]Steam[/skill] + = nice.

um What's wrong with Command...i think it's great, my Paragon's build is based mostly on this skill tree...

All lines the OP mentioned would ruin the game if they would become too good, I'm especially thinking deadly arts, smiting and command. Water magic is already pretty potent to begin with.

Used with those thoroughly IMBA and thoroughly annoying SoJ sins. They finally got the nerf stick, thank God. There are also some skills from the set that have gotten play, most notably the twice-nerfed Expose Defenses.
Farming builds yes, but Return and Dark Escape are staples of the Arena monk, and Shadow Walk is showing up on more sin bars nowadays.
Snare is invaluable in HA, to say the least. In a PvE context, have one snare ele with Deep Freeze, and a couple eles with SH. Watch them all burn and laugh.
Far from useless, I've used "Go for the Eyes!" and "Find Their Weakness!" in PvE with my paragon, quite useful. That and paragons use a boatload of Command skills in PvP. Only Zergway uses Motivation paragons.
Dual smite is a lesser-known but also effective HA build. The line could use some damage buffs, but it's far from useless.
Okay, you got me here. Other than Spirit's Strength...kinda pointless.