What Skills are "Overused"?

Not since the nerf.

Ursan Blessing, please dear lord remove this from the game all together -_-

People stopped using Splinter Weapon??

Go PVP... WoH is overused like a mother Red Engine Goring Red Engine Gorer. Same with Ride the Lighting no adays. I see at least 1 of those every 2 or 3 games.

Some of these responses confuse me. How can the staple of the class ever really be "over-used"? Any built in self heal for melee is practically req. Warriors without healing sig, Rangers without troll, etc.... those are people I wouldn't want to party with as a monk. The "I won't help you if you don't help yourself" mentality still rings true.

That's like saying that assassin's over use daggers or something. It just doesn't make sense.

LoD was on every monk's bar before the nerf, the reason is just simple:because it is a better skill. you wanna use Healing Hands in PvP? go for it.

The question is, are skills overused because they are overpowered, because they are the best in most situations or because they are the best of the worse.
Or is it about skills that are used by 'ignorant' players?

Because this is the only decent healing elite there is to be able to "red bar" in this game since the LoD nerf.

Welll.... Rodgort's Invocation / Rodgort's Mark seem pretty common. Meteor/Meteor Shower/ Fireball... I feel like they're on every PuG Ele's skillbar. I can't complain much for what Meteor Shower does, but that 25e is a lot...
My rit and ranger overuse splinter, even since the nerf. It STILL puts a hurting on clustered up mobs.
Bloodsong on my rit, but again, it has a purpose...keeping me lightly healed, and meeting the condition for some channeling spell spamming.


Not overused: Glimmering Mark. :P

I have to say Ursan Blessing only because if you don't have it you cannot play with others. You must H/H. Ursan is a great skill, so for that reason it isn't "overused" to have it on your bar, but if it becomes a requirement to be included in any group then that is definitely overuse.

My Ele has recently finished NF and so I went to visit the DOA. I'd never been there and was looking forward to checking it out. Unfortunately I could not find a pug. Several groups were forming asking for Ursan warriors and monks. I saw a non-Ursan warrior trying to find a group and about 5 people told him to leave or get Ursan. He replied that he didn't own EotN. Many folks then said that only Ursan warriors or monks could do DOA. All others had no business even being in the Gate of Anguish.

I left. I could tell that my nuker would never find a group so now I'm working on getting my warrior thru NF so that again, I might explore the DOA area. This isn't right. I'm sure there were sucessful groups beating the DOA quests before EotN was published.

EDIT: Englitdaudelin, you'll be happy to know that only 1 of the 5 Nukes you named is a staple on my nuker's bar and that's Fireball. I won't say that I don't use MS on occasion, but it isn't my favorite. I prefer Echo/Savanna Heat. I run with 102 energy and rarely dip below 40 energy. It's nice not having a 25e spell.

I'm pretty sure this thread is the pre-cursor to aNet's next big nerf bat. Thanks guys

But in light of the topic at hand, anything spirit-ish for spiritway.

For me, speaking as a ranger, I'd say savage/distracting shot are never left behind. Ever.


Edit: Is it me, or do threads like this pop up with an ulterior motive (i.e. complain about Ursan)? Lol.

Plainly incorrect. 'Overused' implies that use is not commensurate with its merit. See: Overvalued, Overrated.

Ergo, it's largely impossible to overuse skills that are categorically better than all other options.

As expected, this thread is useless while there is still disagreement about what "overused" actually means.

Good lord enough with the UB whine, go play in the streets or be constructive to a thread.

Prior to it's nerf LoD was probably one of the most overused skills in all of gw. Now Shock, WoH, Animate *.

*hides behind anti-flame sheild*

Lol, good skills get overused because they are good... nerf one and a new skill will take its place until anet nerfs that one

Searing flames, but i love it with my ToF paragon.

I dont use AoEs like meteor shower or savannah heat anymore in PVE, but I use earth ones against destroyers. I just love -33% damage all the time from setting things on fire ^^

Some skills are overused for the simple reason there is very little alternative skills that can "equal the efficiency" of "overused" skills.

To solve the problem of "overused", you must provide an "alternative". Of all the 1235 skills in GW, how many skills are actually useful and efficient that you can put in your skill bar of Eight? 10 Percent? Then divide that by 10 professions.

This is why ANET's action on updating "underused" skills is a good direction. Its a proactive move than reactive. Doing it littlle by little is a smart move too so every update wont turn to whinefest on both sides.

Maybe time is against ANET concerning GW1, but its a better solutions than be reactive to ghosts and demons conjured by some people.

My take.

It's overused because it's the best not because of noobs.