REQUEST: Class Gap closer for all classes

athena9205 · June 23

Nightblade has "teleport strike", Templar has "focued charge", Dragonknight has "Chains of devastation", Sorcerer has "Streak", even the new class Arcanist has Apocryphal Gate. But warden has no gap closer even though the one skill that should be it "frozen gate" only pulls 1 target and is more of a trap spell than a 'gate' spell. Necro has the beckoning armor but no gap closer skill either.

For the warden can DEV make one of the gate morphs send the warden forward to the location rather than bringing targets to the warden? As i see it, that skill is worthless in PVE and a very specific niche skill in PVP. Fine to leave one of the morphs for PVP and have the other set for PVE. What i'd like to see is kinda a mix between the sorc streak and the arcanist gate. Warden casts and half a second the warden becomes an ice comet flashing forward to the target area and reconstitutes back whole again. Any foes withing 5 meters recieving frost damage and high chance of chill.

For the necro, i'd like to see a different style gap closer. Necro is big into bones and corpses. How about a corpse taker skill. I read from Dresdin files book that the foe named corpse taker would swap bodies at will. Fantastic idea. Make it so that the necro choses an area near a corpse of his casting and swap. That corpse becomes the necro and the former body becomes a corpse.

Arcanist: I'd like to see the Fleet footed gate be an auto jump rather than requiring the arcanist to actually step into the gate to move. The other morph allows allies to use the gate so no auto jump on it.

Aliyavana · June 23

you can do subclassing and pick one of those skill lines from another class

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO · June 24

Warden has the vines pull to friendly target. Necro is the odd one out but classes don't need to be identical.
There are 3 weapon line charges and vampire/ww line movement abilities too.

athena9205 · June 24

i know you can get the gap closer from other lines through subclassing and i know the warden has vines to pull you to a player, but not an enemy, which is the point. The main reason is the ice gate is just USELESS outside PVP. I'm just presenting possible future changes that i'd like to see.

LunaFlora · June 24

would be a good grimoire for the Undaunted line perhaps.

your ideas are also good though

athena9205 · June 25

One thing i learned in Tanking is that (in dungeons) the DPS like to go first, stirring up all the mobs. There is a set pattern to the placement and movement of the mobs in the dungeons. If the tank is in the lead and can collect them up quickly (rush agony, void bash, scribe, leash, etc) then the DPS can cleave through the mobs with ease. I have successfully created this method with using Stampede or templars charge (before subclassing). Streak can also accomplish this but you have to actually streak Thru the target to get rushing agony to work. Nightblades teleport strike has a half second delay which always bugs me, and its on a DPS skill line so subclassed tank will not work for that (same with streak and charge). Arcanist gate is just worthless for gap closing in this manner. Necro doesn't have one. And warden's Winters embrace skill line, which only viable tank skill line on that class, has a stupid ice gate that does not gap close. Honestly it should have read ice trap not ice gate. As i see it, right now the warden's winters embrace skill line is the worst tank line in all the classes (except maybe sorc, which has 2 DPS lines). Fix a morph of the 'gate' to a gap closer and that will change imho.