You were talking about Ultimates, because you suggested giving Etheryn two Ultimates. Assassinate is an Ultimate, and it would've been replacing her Ranger Encounter Power, Summon Harrick. Assassinate plus Aurora Arrow is two Ultimates.
Okay, that's my bad, substitute whatever Encounter power would be comparably useful. Garrote maybe? I'm not too familiar with the Thief powers, since that was the fourth character class I got around to trying out.
This moves the goalposts, though. You've gone from saying that abilities are "useless" to saying that the characters whose sets include those abilities are not the best and/or simplest option, which is not remotely the same thing.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. And don't bother telling me to "git gud", someone already sent that message.
Quin could use a buff and probably an additional set or two, but "could use a buff" doesn't mean "is useless"
Fair enough. Not sure what you mean by "additional set or two", but it sounds like it might be exactly what I'm asking, for all characters (though whatever you added to Cait and Brint would have to be fairly perfunctory, since they're so much stronger than the later companions).
and Soothing Dance itself is a perfectly fine move. The bunny boy probably just needs to be brought in line with the other big-time resolve attacker, Bimbo Azyrran, Destroyer of Worlds (who carries teams even harder than the meme cows do).
Welp, despite meeting Azzy in the first major encounter area, and playing most of the way through the game almost five times at this point (I have a level 5 character, a level 4 character, and I think two 3s and a 2), I've never once managed to recruit Azzy, not even looking up how to. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but no number of hugs and snugglefux are getting her to change her dialog toward me, nor have I seen any way of discussing her with Sanders or vice versa.
It is if the enemy has frost resist. That's its drawback.
It's just +X frost damage on top of the normal attack, though, isn't it? If they resist the extra frost damage, you still get the effect of a normal attack. I thought that was how it worked. Does it turn the entire attack to frost instead? Even if so, though, how many creatures have frost resistance?