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Originally Posted by
Randuir
I agree that there are scenarios in which it is useful. However, it's not always useful, nor is it useful in every game. I'd consider something a generally worthwhile class feature if it'll be useful at least once per session in any given campaign. Things like evasion, or 'hide in plain sight' qualify for this, but something like trackless step won't come up much in most games. It's useful in games build entirely around outdoors survival and stealth, but it won't help you much in a standard dungeon crawl.
It's like a feature that sais '+5 to diplomacy when dealing with Fey'. That's not a useless feature, but unlikely to come up much unless you're playing a campaign focused around the fair folk, so for a general rating of the feature, I wouldn't mind of people dismissed it as 'mostly flavor', because it is indeed just flavor if you're playing a city-intrigue or dungeon crawl in the underdark campaign.
Edit: and then I read your last sentence again properly. It seems we're basically saying the same thing, just slightly disagreeing about the kind of rating such a feature should get.