The new Dark Knight and Gunbreaker gap closers look AWFUL

I like the new sparkly teleport. It makes the player look more graceful and learned. Though it would be nice if the game implemented a system like WoW's glyphs where you can change the animations of abilities so people who liked plunge can get that back.

As a ff8 fan, Im just upset that Rough Divide gap closer was a part of Squall’s limit break that has been replaced with this new gap closer like tf i didnt like it. Who asked for this??? But i guess its something i have to get use to lol

What I really hate about DRK/GNB gap closers is that in dungeons if I use my gap closer as anything but a PLD/WAR the mobs just stand around until I hit them, why? It's such a little thing but it gets so annoying in dungeons, why did Plunge and Rough Divide die for a cruddy gap closer that also just ignores mobs aggro? It's more annoying then anything gap closing to an enemy only for them to continue about their day not noticing you, WAR/PLD gap closers are superior in that regard as it pulls the pack with the gap closer.

I never thought I'd be in DT complaining about how not only do the gap closers look terrible, but their functionality can potentially be annoying with rounding up mobs whereas the other 2 tanks have 0 issues with this.

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Originally Posted by Rayne6665

As a ff8 fan, Im just upset that Rough Divide gap closer was a part of Squall’s limit break that has been replaced with this new gap closer like tf i didnt like it. Who asked for this??? But i guess its something i have to get use to lol

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Or you just start playing melee dps because tank gameplay has become even further lobotomised in Dawntrail.

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Originally Posted by DisjoinedDust

I don't know what their reasoning for removing the damage and effects for the DRK and GNB were especially if they left it for WAR and PLD. However I would like to know the reasoning. And if it was just cause they didn't want us using them in rotation then why leave it on WAR and PLD? But I digress.

The animations for Shadowstride and Trajectory just feel lacking. No snappy animations the enmity loss from the changes makes it almost impossible to keep hate in W2W pulls especially with a Pictomancer in the party. I always seem to lose one Mob and then have to Unmend it back in the enmity list. Now granted that enmity generation update to the AOE combos may help in this endeavor but still an issue.

I personally feel DRK and GNB lost more of their job identity from this change than gaining more identity.

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Deemed to have too busy bursts. This makes little sense as drk and gnb’s niche was higher apm.
Source: either I made it up or read it on the job guide adjustments section

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Originally Posted by Awful

What I really hate about DRK/GNB gap closers is that in dungeons if I use my gap closer as anything but a PLD/WAR the mobs just stand around until I hit them, why? It's such a little thing but it gets so annoying in dungeons, why did Plunge and Rough Divide die for a cruddy gap closer that also just ignores mobs aggro? It's more annoying then anything gap closing to an enemy only for them to continue about their day not noticing you, WAR/PLD gap closers are superior in that regard as it pulls the pack with the gap closer.

I never thought I'd be in DT complaining about how not only do the gap closers look terrible, but their functionality can potentially be annoying with rounding up mobs whereas the other 2 tanks have 0 issues with this.

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I totaly agree with you ! The New gap Closer is slow and put off contexte, the animation is ugly as fuck and do nothing more than juste standing front of mob you ignore you for attacking your team becaude your news gap Closer do nothing except some shiny sparkle like a magical girl ... DRK and GNB Lost more indentity and stylish than news spell can add ...

I know GNB and DRK need to be upgrade comparing to thé WAR but changing the gap Closer for a useless one with boring animation who not matching at all with the class is dumb. This uniformitation of tank gap Closer is a lost of Time, money and broke a part of the souls class.

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Originally Posted by Aedius

I totaly agree with you ! The New gap Closer is slow and put off contexte, the animation is ugly as fuck and do nothing more than juste standing front of mob you ignore you for attacking your team becaude your news gap Closer do nothing except some shiny sparkle like a magical girl ... DRK and GNB Lost more indentity and stylish than news spell can add ...

I know GNB and DRK need to be upgrade comparing to thé WAR but changing the gap Closer for a useless one with boring animation who not matching at all with the class is dumb. This uniformitation of tank gap Closer is a lost of Time, money and broke a part of the souls class.

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Magical Knight and Magicalbreaker LMAO
100% agree
Powerful landing and spinning rush through the air are more stylish.

I agree so much. Their justification of changing it makes no sense at all, they could've just removed the damage and kept the animation the same. Nope, they had to replace it with a half-assed sliding animation where you literally STOP before you even touch the enemy. So, so ugly. My favorite part of tanking is (or was) slamming the gap closer button as soon as someone pulls because of how satisfying it feels. I'm praying they revert the change in a near future patch because of how incredibly unnecessary it is.

I know that they did this to free-up some of the business of rotations because people would save rough divide and plunge for purely damage, but I think a better solution would have been to just implement a minimum distance from the target before being able to use the gapcloser

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Originally Posted by Aedius

I totaly agree with you ! The New gap Closer is slow and put off contexte, the animation is ugly as fuck and do nothing more than juste standing front of mob you ignore you for attacking your team becaude your news gap Closer do nothing except some shiny sparkle like a magical girl ... DRK and GNB Lost more indentity and stylish than news spell can add ...

I know GNB and DRK need to be upgrade comparing to thé WAR but changing the gap Closer for a useless one with boring animation who not matching at all with the class is dumb. This uniformitation of tank gap Closer is a lost of Time, money and broke a part of the souls class.

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The greatest insult is the sound effects attached. It's fairy twinkle bullshit, and God do I hate it.

Why are these even on charge cooldowns if they serve no purpose but to close distance, now? Boost the range and let me spam it in that case, I want to stick to M3 like a tick while he's hippity-hopping across the arena.