SMN gap closer is amazing, but...

[SeverianLyonesse]

I am still confused why SMN, a ranged DPS, has a gap closer that it is encouraged to use frequently to combo into Crimson Strike but doesn't have either:

1) A quick means of recreating some distance from enemies like RDM has.

2) Other melee abilities that actually add value to being in close range.

I have the same misgivings about Sage's Icarus. Are these abilities supposed to only be situational and give the jobs a basic melee option? Because Crimson Cyclone, at least as presented to me, doesn't seem designed to be "optional."

[Kylis]

I am still confused why SMN, a ranged DPS, has a gap closer that it is encouraged to use frequently to combo into Crimson Strike but doesn't have either:

1) A quick means of recreating some distance from enemies like RDM has.

2) Other melee abilities that actually add value to being in close range.

I have the same misgivings about Sage's Icarus. Are these abilities supposed to only be situational and give the jobs a basic melee option? Because Crimson Cyclone, at least as presented to me, doesn't seem designed to be "optional."

I find it quite useful as we are in melee a lot to simplify healing. Default position when nothing is going on would be in the melee pool.

[Yllisar]

Rather than making Crimson Strike an ogcd, they could just reduce the recast timer of Crimson Cyclone (or both) to 1.5 s. I agree that the current implementation feels a bit clunky.

[IchiExorz]

I kinda don't mind the way it's implemented.
I'm just confused why SMN even got it. Like it looks cool & it kinda feels satisfying but a mobility ability that you can only use in a less than 10 sec window that only makes u move forward?
There's going to be almost no point in a fight where the mobility part will actually be useful.

[Corbeau]

I kinda don't mind the way it's implemented.
I'm just confused why SMN even got it. Like it looks cool & it kinda feels satisfying but a mobility ability that you can only use in a less than 10 sec window that only makes u move forward?
There's going to be almost no point in a fight where the mobility part will actually be useful.

I used it just this week to negate a should-have-been-lethal knockback when doing P4N for the first time. It's a lot harder to get use out of a GCD gapcloser than an oGCD gapcloser, but it's still possible.