Especially since enemies 100% cast regeneration on Fane at the start of combat, and healing with poison hasn't shown reliable to me still (usually it quickly turns to fire, as everything does).

Haven't used all the stuff talked about here, but from all I did, I can't help but agree. Some notes;
*Chloroform sounds fairly overpowered for a level 1 skill, so why be against a little nerf to it?
*Taunt really suffers from its enemy/team disparity. I do agree removing the armor-check, but changing the enemy effect to something like 50% damage to non-taunter enemies while under the effect, rather than have the AI use up your entire inventory.

I'll have to check ingame for most skills I deem useless, since I pretty much unmemorise them and forget them, but a few notes;
*Shackles of Pain shouldn't be countered by armor. It does no damage at all, takes 2AP, and the usefulness depends on taking damage (to which most of the times enemies utilising this spell get killed by their allies to have effect, ruining their AP in the process so, yeah...) for which players take less than enemies anyway (also the reason why damage reflection generally sucks in these types of games, D:OS2 included). The few times enemies used it on me it was rarily something I bothered being worried about. So removing it makes it a better tool for them, and us. Rather than just being blandishly useless as it is now.

Phoenix Dive. In Beta it offered fire immunity for 1 round so you wouldn't burn yourself with it. Which, you know... makes sense. Now each time it's used you hurt yourself with it too. Why was this changed?