Quote Originally Posted by ovIm View Post
To make burst phases less busy, really.

You know, they could have just put those gapclosers on the GCD, as an alternative to the ranged attacks, and keep the animation. That way, we would not use gapclosers during burst either since GCD's are super valuable. But honestly, at this point, I don't expect SqEx to come up with actual solutions to issues like that, only bandaid fixes and promises for the next expansion.
That's.. such an assenine way of doing it, but now I know why it is so thank you x_x but yeah... REALLY BAD.