Useless Major Skills

[kawaiiamethist]

Name some useless skills a game has bestowed you. All the better if the skill was allegedly important and or efficient.

I bring this topic up because I just completed Korean developed, Japanese published JRPG Magna Carta II. As far as JRPGs go it had everything I want in a modern JRPG, such as a battle system that kept me awake, an abundance of side quests pretty graphics, some hard - but not impossible - bosses, next to no level grinding, a decently realised world and strong voice acting.

A battle skill option that did annoy me were the co-op techniques. I didn't see a point in them, and only used it once because a side quest forced me. Having to use a specific type of weapon (taking the healing ability from my main healer was never gonna happen!) and keeping account of karma bars that anally during the heat of battle was madness, especially with the high damage the characters did with their special skills. The game did not need co-op, and the player did not suffer by not using them...

except if you chose to do that Marith side quest without saving following the Juto battle and were forced to do that damn fight all over again -_- They're damn lucky I had a solid strategy, because it has serious rage quit potential.

 

[Swaki]

the spells in emerald city, most of them was used once, and only near the end, all they really did was confuse you, giving you an extra object in the puzzles.

 

[Christemo]

the Army Control system in Dragon Age. untill the fight with mr. Archdemon, i didnt use any troops (because im too awesome) and accidently got a trophy for it. even at the Archdemon, i only used my golems to watch all the darkspawn while i used the ballista glitch.

 

[mrhappyface]

Knowing how to breath...Its overrated. You need it to live, but when you're underwater or in a vacuum you're going to die unless you get oxygen asap. A necessary evil.

 

[InsertWittyName]

the Army Control system in Dragon Age. untill the fight with mr. Archdemon, i didnt use any troops (because im too awesome) and accidently got a trophy for it. even at the Archdemon, i only used my golems to watch all the darkspawn while i used the ballista glitch.

Ballista...Glitch? Please explain.
OT: I found the ice magic tree in dragon age to be shit.

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

Hmm... need to think about this...

I think the jump enhancement in Deus Ex: Invisible War.

It supposedly gave you access to areas otherwise inaccessible, but I could get anywhere I needed just fine, and, of all things, it wasn't a passive effect.

Not worth the time.

 

[Raptorace18]

The unarmed skill in Fallout 3. Almost every human and mete human in the game uses guns or at least melee weapons and the only enemies that are exclusively unarmed either have tails packed full of cyanide, mouths full of barbed wire or katanas for fingernails.

 

[Christemo]

the Army Control system in Dragon Age. untill the fight with mr. Archdemon, i didnt use any troops (because im too awesome) and accidently got a trophy for it. even at the Archdemon, i only used my golems to watch all the darkspawn while i used the ballista glitch.

Ballista...Glitch? Please explain.
OT: I found the ice magic tree in dragon age to be shit.

well, its not exactly a glitch, but theres 2 ballistas on the top of Drakon, and if you turn them at the archdemon and just spam-shoots him with them, he will be stunlocked and heavily damaged. you can pretty much do this right to the end, but the darkspawn in the 2nd half of the fight can make it tricky without some golems (or something else, but the golems are beast).

that was the only way i defeated him, hes hard as fuck otherwise.

 

[Hutchy_Bear]

Most spells in Skies of Arcadia. If it doesn't heal or buff/debuff there is no point in it.

 

[comadorcrack]

Force Suppression in The 2 KoTOR games. It was resisted every time ¬¬

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Acrobatics in Oblivion. That's if you're playing the game properly. As in not trying to break it by jumping over the city walls. Eheh.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

the Army Control system in Dragon Age. untill the fight with mr. Archdemon, i didnt use any troops (because im too awesome) and accidently got a trophy for it. even at the Archdemon, i only used my golems to watch all the darkspawn while i used the ballista glitch.

Agreed, it was not very useful. I haven't used any of the armies at all.

But ballistas against the Archdemon? Please.
My main character (that is, a dwarf fighter) was the only one standing at the and, but I beat him fair and square... sort of.

The other useless major skill...
well, all the magical abilities in Fable: TLC.
Sure, they were fun, but once you max out Hulking Rage, you can forget all about difficulty.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Swimming in Deus Ex. Kinda terrible because you only need it *once*. At the end of the game.

 

[Gigaguy64]

In Golden Sun 2 ton's of the Psyenergy was supposedly important, but you only used most of them out of battle, and then you only used them one never to be spoken of again.

For example.
Sand, Push, Catch.

 

[DreamKing]

Most spells in Skies of Arcadia. If it doesn't heal or buff/debuff there is no point in it.

Funny, I really liked the spells.

I found some skills in Tales of Symphonia to annoying to pull off and the end result was not really worth it (See: most, if not all of the summons.).

 

[spikeyjoey]

The unarmed skill in Fallout 3. Almost every human and mete human in the game uses guns or at least melee weapons and the only enemies that are exclusively unarmed either have tails packed full of cyanide, mouths full of barbed wire or katanas for fingernails.

deathclaw gauntlet- bypasses armour.. therefore best "melee" weapon for carving up the enclave

my character 0wned with a combo of the chinese stealth suit, deathclaw gauntlet and ninja perk

and it looks badass with a hockey mask

 

[TPiddy]

the Army Control system in Dragon Age. untill the fight with mr. Archdemon, i didnt use any troops (because im too awesome) and accidently got a trophy for it. even at the Archdemon, i only used my golems to watch all the darkspawn while i used the ballista glitch.

Agreed, it was not very useful. I haven't used any of the armies at all.

But ballistas against the Archdemon? Please.
My main character (that is, a dwarf fighter) was the only one standing at the and, but I beat him fair and square... sort of.

The other useless major skill...
well, all the magical abilities in Fable: TLC.
Sure, they were fun, but once you max out Hulking Rage, you can forget all about difficulty.

I used the armies every time... they're helpful... they will serve as targets for the darkspawn and fodder against the archdemon. They won't do much damage to him but at least he will spit the fireballs at them instead of me. In fact, the only way I've beaten the archdemon (twice) is by staying back with my mage and then my archer rogue, casting weakness hexes and using shattering shot while the rest of my troupe did (and took) the damage to him. It worked both times.

I'm on my third playthrough, with a dual-wield dwarf, so I'm gonna have to figure out a way to get some knockdown protection and try to save most of my armies for the demon.