The new Dark Knight and Gunbreaker gap closers look AWFUL

I'm sure this has been posted previously and I never really post on these fourms, but I feel really strongly about these replacement abilities.

I wanted to see the changes for myself before judging them. The new gap closers for Gunbreaker (Trajectory) and Dark Knight (Shadowstride) look AWFUL!

Rough Divide and Plunge had character and looked good with the classes they were associated with. These replacements look generic and boring.

I understand that the devs wanted to remove the damage associated with gap closers but why not keep what was already there and just remove the damage from them?

EDIT: Found one other thing I hadn't considered before with these new gap closers. Because the new gap closers don't deal damage, you don't gain emnity from using them, so they are basically worthless to start a fight with. Guess I'll just be using my ranged attack from now on and take this ability off my hotbar.

please read this dark knight rework:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...hield-Mechanic

Just did a couple GNB runs and I feel like I own an apology for thinking you were all being overdramatic about the gap closer animations.

It feels like a placeholder for the real animation.

And it also make a pack of mob in dungeon don't t target you first for some reason. Best advice i could give is make these 2 gap closer stun or inflict something to grab attention of the pack.

It's still weird to me that they don't fit the theme at all.
Gunbreaker could shoot behind it to dash towards the enemy.
Dark knight could teleport or turn to shadows then reappear Infront of it.
Like the dragoon, gunbreaker, dark knight and white mage movement tools are basically the same looking.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by The_User

And it also make a pack of mob in dungeon don't t target you first for some reason. Best advice i could give is make these 2 gap closer stun or inflict something to grab attention of the pack.

---

it cause drk/gnb don't deal any dmg anymore while war/pld still has 150 potency on it. thus don't build enmity anymore

They could probably be a bit snappier. They feel sluggish, maybe I'm wrong but it feels like both Plunge and Rough Divide were faster.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Praesul

They could probably be a bit snappier. They feel sluggish, maybe I'm wrong but it feels like both Plunge and Rough Divide were faster.

---

Yeah it's because the delay was after landing the actual movement of the animation was shorter. The effects are also bad, look at monks effects you can see how much faster it seems. The animations are just dull and uninteresting, even the shield charge on paladin has more impact. They could of just kept the old animations and removed potency. Bards repelling shot still shoots an arrow even if it doesn't do damage.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Ramiee

Yeah it's because the delay was after landing the actual movement of the animation was shorter. The effects are also bad, look at monks effects you can see how much faster it seems. The animations are just dull and uninteresting, even the shield charge on paladin has more impact. They could of just kept the old animations and removed potency. Bards repelling shot still shoots an arrow even if it doesn't do damage.

---

See the shield charge of Paladin or the Warrior charging forward, big axe ready to swing, make sense - they add flavor to this class. Rough Divide and Plunge did that for Gunbreaker and Dark Knight too. These new animations just sluggish, boring, bland, and overall just bad. Like someone else said, they just look like place holders for something else.

I do like the general animation of DRK's (although plunge was also just really cool), it certainly looks more "magical" but it feels a lot less impactful from what I've played, I think plunge was overall more satisfying at least for me.