Runes of Magic US / AU

This is a list of skills I have seen to be outdated, broken, or do not function as intended. These skills need to be fixed.
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Mage
- Meteor Shower: This skill functions as intended. The amount of damage is not effected by the elemental boosts provided by Fire Knowledge or Wind Knowledge. This skill's damage does not scale well past level 50 compared to other Mage skills.
- Phoenix: This skill functions as intended. The amount of mana required is much too high and the damage dealt is much too low. This skill deals low damage at the cost of large amounts of mana and has a cooldown time of 10 seconds.

Priest
- Chain of Light: This skill functions as intended. The amount of damage is not effected by the elemental boost provided by Prayer. This skill's damage does not scale well past level 50 compared to other Priest skills.
- Wave Armor: This skill functions as intended. The amount of damage blocked does not increase proportionately with the target's stats. The flat amount of damage blocked by this skill is negligible in 60+ content.

Druid
- Blinding Silence: This skill deals a flat amount of damage and is not effected by stats.

Elite Skills
Warrior/Druid
- Rose Vine: This skill works as intended. It uses a type of damage no other skill uses, Blood Damage. The tooltip says that.
- Tremor: This skill works as intended. The amount of accuracy lost is a flat number and does little to warrant the use of mana. It also doesn't generate rage even though it is a melee skill.
- Redemption: This skill works as intended. The amount of Accuracy gained is minimal compared to the total amount of accuracy players normally have once they pass level 50.

Scout/Druid
- Snake Poison Arrow: This skill has a chance at providing one of the effects. Neither of the effects can occur at the same time regardless, the stun lasts 3 seconds and the poison lasts 6 seconds while the skill's cooldown time is 6 seconds. The skill sometimes triggers neither of these effects.
- Focus: This skill functions as intended. The amount of physical attack gained from having any amount of wisdom is much too small. Even as a bonus, this skill does very little to aid the player in the level 50+ content. 50% of Wisdom for Scouts will amount to less than 5% of their total Physical attack when fully statted.

Scout/Priest
- Spiritual Leader: This skill functions as intended. It cancels other effects that have the same effects on players.

Rogue/Mage
- Booby Trap: This skill deals damage as intended. The damage that is dealt is not attributed to the player. Even if the player places the trap to kill an enemy, the enemy will not be attributed to the player unless the player has entered combat. If this trap kills an enemy without the player first engaging the enemy in combat, the enemy will not be lootable.

Rogue/Druid
- Poison Shroud: This skill works as intended. The damage from the skill is negligible because it is based on magic attributes. While it may look useful, it uses a poison bottle each cast. In a situation, this skill is not useful because it has low damage and has very little effect on enemies past level 50.

Rogue/Knight
- Reckless Warrior: This skill functions as intended. Even when upgraded, the percentage increase on physical attack is 1% even if the skills are at maximum level.

Mage/Scout
- Thunderclap: This skill functions as intended. The fact that the effect is removed by the target receiving damage is where the problem lies. Other elite skills and skills from other players that deal damage over time ultimately render this skill useless.
- Power of the Wind: This skill functions as intended. The amount of magical accuracy given is negligible when facing opponents.

Mage/Rogue
- Shadow Protection: This skill functions as intended. It conflicts with other casting speed buffs and potions as well, cancelling them.

Priest/Warrior
- Fighting Spirit Combination: This skill functions as intended. The damage ratio on this skill is significantly lower than other elite skills.

Priest/Scout
- Tide Control: This skill functions as intended. The added bonus is negligible even with a tiered bow. This skill adds no beneficial damage.

Priest/Rogue
- Snake Curse: This skill has very low damage. Even with the boost from Wraith Halo, the damage from this skill is very low.
- Lure of the Snake Woman: This skill has an extremely low range. 150 range is worthless versus other ranged players and has much lower range than other disabling skills.
- Snake Spirit: The mana returned doesn't use percentages. Once the player is level 50 and above, the skill's mana returned is very low.
- Shadow Fairy: Wraith Halo's dark damage boost is much too low. 10% boost in dark damage is not very much when the dark skills have very low damage to begin with.

Priest/Knight
- Enhanced Grace of Life: This skill functions as intended. It overwrites normal Grace of Life, regardless of level. A level 1 Enhanced Grace of Life will cancel a level 70 normal Grace of Life.

Knight/Mage
- Holy Light Domain: This skill functions as intended. The damage on this skill is extremely low. The amount of damage reduced seems fine but this skill adds very little damage depending on stats.
- Lightning Armor: This skill deals set amounts of damage. It is not effected by player stats and cannot be critical. Compared to Briar Shield, this skill is extremely low in damage.
- War Prayer: This skill functions as intended. The bonus parry rate is extremely low once the player goes past level 50.

Warden/Druid
- Crystal Heal: This skill functions as intended. The amount of healing done by the skill is not effected by any stats. The amount healed is not worth much once the players pass level 50.

Druid/Rogue
- Shadow Contract: This skill functions as intended. The amount of dark damage increased is still significantly lower than the amount of earth damage increased. There is no damage advantage to using the dark damage skills. This skill does not add enough to consider this combination as a major damage dealer. The amount of mana gained is also negligible when the player passes level 50.

Item Set Skills

Priest
- Altar of Shadoj: This skill functions as intended. The amount of damage is fixed. It is not effected by any stats.
- Mana Rune Stone and Mage's Repayment: This skill functions as intended. The amount of mana returned is not worth much when the player passes level 55. Priests do not have mana issues unless they are losing mana through an enemy debuff.

Mage
- Stone Scale Blade: Since this skill deals Earth damage, the amount of damage it deals is considerably less than other skills the mage has.
- Lucky Chance: This skill gives you another skill to use instead of just using the additional skill to begin with.
- Earth Collapse: Since this skill deals Earth damage, it does not deal very significant amounts of damage.
- Sword of Divinity: Since this skill deals Light damage, it does not deal very significant amounts of damage.

Warden
- Unbind: This skill does not function as intended. Warden's pets are not effected by these effects anyways.

Enemy Skills: Some enemy skills are not properly labelled as beneficial, bleeds, poisons, curses, helpless, or harmful effects. I cannot list them all as the unmarked ones outnumber the properly marked ones.

Thank you for reading the list and considering these as problems as much as the users.

Quoted from "mnkmurphy885;533238"

Ranix, the Mage Item Set skill is called "Lucky Chance" (next to useless) and the new one from the Jenny's set (forget what it's called) is pretty useless as well (light damage).

Not sure why you threw in Iceblade, does that mean I can make a list of skills I want to see "fixed" (ie nerfed) also? Just pointing out that putting that in there is inconsistent with the rest of the post, and potentially opens up controversy. We really don't want another highly useful post being derailed again, do we? Ice Blade belongs in another post entitled "Skills I want to see nerfed." It isn't broken the way you mean in this post. Whether it's "broken" at all is a matter of opinion.

I would add the mage skill Meteor Shower (no elemental mastery, so low low damage). Also add S/P skill Spiritual Leader- it doesn't stack with any other cast-speed increasing skills, so people ask S/P's not to use it. I think that qualifies as broken.

Excellent post- I was looking at the Sorceror and Champion skills on Rom Welten, and it seems like they have less useless skills than some of the old classes, it would be nice if Runewaker would look at and reevaluate some of the older class skills that didn't work out quite the way they meant them to.

When I say broken, I mean outdated or in need of repair. That is to say if some skill uses a formula that is built for level 50 play and scales poorly or over the top in the 50+ range.

I had mentioned Lucky Chance because I had heard many complaints about it functioning like that. I hadn't heard anything about the new one that deals Light damage. I will definitely add Meteor Shower and Sword of Divinity to the list.

I mentioned Ice Blade as a skill to fix, not because it is OP or I hate P/S (I don't because I have played P/S). Iceblade has a broken damage formula because it hasn't been touched since it was originally released. If you feel that it functions as intended and deals fair damage, I'd be happy to take it off the list for you.

I don't see too many S/P around and am unaware that this is a problem. Spiritual Leader does not stack with any other effects including potions? Does it cancel out all other speed boosting effects?

Thanks for your input on some broken skills I have no experience with.

About the new classes, it is hard to say if these skills will be useful or not as they haven't been tested in game. I do agree that the new elite skills seem to be more useful.

Thanks for the contributions so far. I do not have access to every class combination and I rely on you guys to fuel this thread.

I added a few new things, changed a few of the problems, and took out Iceblade. It seems to me that Iceblade really doesn't have a downfall but isn't completely overpowered. The mana cost is a bit low but it is the same case with most mana based skills for both Druid and Priest. I did not add Touch of the Unicorn as this thread is mainly about skills.