A missed opportunity for GNB for future expacs

[Valic]

They named the skill at level 76 "Bloodfest" for pve, and named it "Draw and Junction" in pvp for some reason. I feel like they could've left it Draw and Junction for pve since you do draw and put aether into your cartridges... Not only that but Bloodfest is Seifers skill where he jumps up and makes a fiery cross on the field that sinks into a hole(a lil comedic looking tbh.).

https://youtu.be/wnHYraDyQv4?t=139

The missed chance here is, we could get an aoe that continues in a chain after demon slice and demon slaughter into "Bloodfest". Could be an animation similar to how PLD jumps into the air slashing, but in our case we jump and make an exploding cross slash on the ground in a similar fashion... Mechanically, I could see it either being apart of a new gauge mechanic or just simply adding a 2nd cartridge so you could follow-up with 2 Fated Circles in a row for aoe damage.

Just kinda realized today thanks to FF Mobius lol.

[Jybril]

Yeah. Some skill names are kinda off lol.
The skill Seifer used is called "No Mercy" which is in XIV, a DPS increase by 20% at level 2.
It would have made more sense to have an animation that draws from mobs/boss and call it
Draw and Junction and gave that the buff or a buff.
In Dissidia NT at least, Squall draws certain buffs depending on their role.
Maybe they can do something like that in PvE in the future and still
have it called Draw and Junction.

[Rasikko]

No Mercy in FFVIII is just a physical attack with a power of 80 though. Not gonna frustrate myself by looking up the damage formulas for that game right now, but I'm thinking our No Mercy is a little more significant.

[Valic]

No Mercy in FFVIII is just a physical attack with a power of 80 though. Not gonna frustrate myself by looking up the damage formulas for that game right now, but I'm thinking our No Mercy is a little more significant.

Not gonna lie though, I would love to see a physical job cast a spell and that spinny windup sword lol. Im somewhat glad about No Mercy not being what it is, I half expected our lightning shot to be discs that get shot out like from No Mercy. Kinda lad they're not.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I wonder when Gunbreaker will get Lionheart and Reverse-Zantetsuken.

[Valic]

I wonder when Gunbreaker will get Lionheart and Reverse-Zantetsuken.

I could bank on a combo extender called lionheart, either given to our solid barrel combo like how continuation was given to our gnashing fang combo... Or they introduce some sort've overcharge mechanic where you get a 2nd level cartridge in your charges that turns your continuation into lionheart. Plenty of room for it, just wondering how they'd do it tbh.

As for Reverse-Zantetsuken... Tbh, hoped we'd get an easter egg for that skill somehow. Like going up against trial Odin using something akin to it would one shot the boss or something silly. Or using it when he does his one shot skill at the end. I wouldn't count on that one 100% though since there's no animation for it and I think that's more of a counter summoning technique than a gunblade specific one.