[renowner]

Yeah I'm a spellthief currently, after having not played the game for a good long while. I tried to make the smoke wall work but its just entirely useless most of the time. Pretty much everyone has an option to move before attacking, leaving the smokescreen, or just you know. . Moving one tile to get out. A line of smoke is just kind've the most useless way for smoke to be used.

When its tied to ninjutsu, you can make smoke with a bomb. So you also get some damage, and its an AoE.
Bakaga shuriken lets you apply smoke while striking someone.

Smokescreen from spellthief lets you. . . Pretty much just waste three momentum, really. You'd be better off using distortion or invisible weapon or something.

I also never really notice anyone cast confusion either, since a single target confusion that does no damage isn't usually worth the effort. Maybe we could have it changed to combine the two? Smoke that has a chance to confuse when you cast it on someone? I still don't really think i'd use it at that point but it would at least be SOMETHING to make it less useless.