Skills too weak (useless) / Attacks too strong. Bad balance.

[upbeat holly]

Currently, I find the balance between skills and normal weapon attacks very poor.

What do I mean by that?

For many skills, it's simply not worth using them because the damage is extremely weak. If I theoretically want to deal a lot of damage, I can just use my strongest weapon and spam my mouse button.

If I also have the buff shout that gives me attack speed, then no skill is worth using anymore.

This is a real shame, because the skills are actually well-designed. Many skills need buffs, and/or weapon damage should be reduced by 15-30%.

[novel sierra]

A lot of skills are about physics and cheese. Used "correctly" they can clear a lot of enemies.

Skills that are straight damage with no gimmicks are the weak ones not worth using compared to your free-swing weapon.

Some skills have terrible targeting (boomerang). Once they fix that, we'll see.

[lilac flicker]

What GrailQuest said.

The bigger issue is more intuitively communicating each skill's "good use" potentials, and bringing their damage/physics impact better in line with their VFX and hit-feedback.

I've run into more than a few skills with visual effects that LOOK like they should send enemies flying. . . yet barely stagger more than standard attacks.

. . .and then there's boomerang, which would kill 2 enemies and launch a 3rd across the map.
||Actually I think they already nerfed boomerang. . .? But I digress lol||