2. Many abilities or skills or spells, when being activated, trigger some sort of "explosion" effect, sound and flash, even though it feels absolutely uncalled for.
Yea, D:OS legacy, very annoying and out of place.
And jumps / shoves of course need a revision. Shoves should be standart action, Jumps should provoke AoO, or banned at engage in close combat, there was a lot of talk about it.