absoulutely worst skills for each class in pve

Just curious how many casts did it take to get those guys down to 0 and how quickly did they recover (without shackles)? It looks like you put -5 degen on them and nailed them with quite a few energy drainers. Unfortunately not a sound build for general PvE. Good to know they eventually run dry, but I know from general play casting 2-3 energy drains really don't put much of a dent in monster casting. Spirit shackles seems to be the key. I didn't say I disagreed, and unfortunately, the screenshot is a bit dated. My mesmer has since been deleted as a PvE character, and is only resurrected as a PvP. I couldn't say how long it took to drain them.
[On a side note- Mind wrack is just there for feedback on the energy drains. When the animation for damage triggers, I know it's activated.]

Anyway, they recover pretty fast, unfortunately (Look at Life Pods; They suffer 10 energy loss every time you hit them with Holy Wrath on, yet they manage to toss out the occasional heal o_O). Particularly bosses.
Energy draining normal monsters is quite silly and impractical, as you could just nuke them instead. Signet of Weariness's benefit is that it has a large AoE. However, as I'd just said, energy draining normal monsters is silly. As a single drain on a boss, it recharges too slow to be any good, and the amount is standard for domination drains.

I'd say Ether Lord beats out all other mesmer skills for worst mesmer spell in general (since I'd done them categorically). On a boss, you're looking at 5 seconds of 3 pips of energy. That means you'll steal a whopping 5 energy over time, at the cost of your entire energy pool.

I'd say Ether Lord beats out all other mesmer skills for worst mesmer spell in general (since I'd done them categorically). On a boss, you're looking at 5 seconds of 3 pips of energy. That means you'll steal a whopping 5 energy over time, at the cost of your entire energy pool. I am not much of an ether lord fan either and it is a pretty poor skill. It actually is a pretty good canidate for worst memser skill overall. I didn't select for the least useful PvE skill (was considering it though) because if timed perfectly you net roughly 5 energy and theoretically in some odd situation that could be useful. However most of the time it hurts much more than it helps.

Would frozen soil work at Thirsty River? Yes, if in the sense you mean preventing your team from casting resurrection spells. No, if you mean preventing the event-driven 2 minute resurrection cycle. Frozen Soil has almost no applications in PvE, seeing as most monsters can't resurrect.

Ranger - Frozen Soil

This has absolutely no use in PvE, since there's only 2 mobs in the entire game that can resurrect. One of them is level 2 (and I hope you can kill them in 1 shot by the time you get FS) and the other is a boss with Unyielding Aura. Also in the bottom of fissure of woe, there are spirit guys who use res sigs on each other ^^

Some of the people...

Whoever said divine spirit sucks needs to be shot. Frenzy is a tigers fury alternative and is better IMO as long as monk doesnt suxxor Tell me why divine spirit is not the "uber suckage" spell. Go on. Costing 10 Energy to start with. During the whole duration you will be hampered by skillrecharge times. Sure the costs are lower but you allready paid a high price to start with and as soon as it wears off... you've got a useless skillslot for another 50 seconds. I sure agree on divine spirit being great...

And about frenzy, if i see a warrior use it in PVE he instantly drops on my healing priority list. If he loves soaking up my energy i love watching him go down, it is as easy as that. This skill has uses in PVP where you can kinda gamble with it, but in PVE the tank WILL get hits.