Melee without gapclose

nCats

Tell me, fellow forum dwellers, who does such and how do you feel about it? Been trying it recently with some interest, want to hear what others are thinking.

ak_pvp

Most MDKs run without gapcloser, since theirs suck.

Just use a ranged stun (Foss roots too so is decent if someone tries to escape.) and dot up. If someone runs, then let them tbh. Only really a magsorc has full power from afar.

nCats

Yes, I know that, should have made it clearer originally. Some melee magblades do that too. My interest is in stamina classes. Seen a few stamplars do such.

The definite advantage is that the resources go up, given gapclosers are expensive.

Mojmir

none of my stam chars use a gap closer.

DeHei

You dont really need a gapcloser... Most popular playing with gapcloser is using it with eye of the storm for magickabuilds...
But pls we have enough of this idiots..

Neloth

I can't play my melee magblade without lotus fan (I'm not using destro ult btw).

The problem when you outnumbered, you always want to kill the weakest targets, which usually try staying far away from you. In 90% of those encounters you snared or rooted 24/7, which makes almost impossible for magicka build to reach the desired target, and here gap closer greatly helps.

Also, it's very painful to fight someone with crippling grasp/encase/other range root without gap loser.

Chilly-McFreeze

Stam Sorc running DW + Bow. Can't decide wether I shall call Bolt of Lightning a gap closer or not, since it's neither target locked nor spammable. Most of the times I just use it to LoS.

I find it rather uncomfortable to have no gap closer. I can offset this a bit by running Hurricane + Quickcloak to stack the speed buffs but it's nowhere as comfortable as a real GC.

Brrrofski

I don't use one on my stamplar.

I run dual wield on front bar. I use blade clock for speed. I'm orc which helps. Javelin someone, charge heavy attack while moving towards them, land it straight into jabs.

React

My stamplar build here on the forums utilizes 2h and DW with no gap closer. You definitely don't need one, I've been playing without one since 1t with no issues. You just need to get used to utilizing sprint and dodge roll as faux gap closers. For example on my stamplar: javelin -> Dodge roll in the same direction -> jabs or dawnbreaker. Works like a charm, and the DW passives are very strong offensively + the attack weaves are much more fluid than 2h so you'll be able to put out more damage overall in most cases.