Am I the only one that feels Lunge is too similar to shift. For a light-footed leather wearing rogue the fast blink movement makes sense but not for a heavy armoured knight. I know everyone likes fast moving builds and skills but I think movement skills should feel unique to the class.
I have a suggestion to change lunge’s movement that would set it apart from shift. The sentinel should leap in the air, hang there for a split second then lunge downwards. You can add thematic changes to it like if you are a paladin you get holy angel wings and concentrate the ground when you land or if you are a forgeguard you become an iron gauntlet when you smash down (similar to the forge strike red hammer).
I think the bigger question is why does the Sent have more movement skills (2, 3 if you include VK specific) than every other class (1 tops, Prim could argue 0 as fury leap is more like an attack that moves, but that’s not important)?
Mage has 2 (Teleport & Surge), Lich also has 2 (Transplant & Reap). You could argue that the Sentinel has 5, Lunge, Shield Rush, Smite (with Descend), Volatile Reversal & (kinda) Void Cleave. Fury Leap is still a movement skill, even if it’s slow as ####.
TBH, I think Lunge already feels very different from Shift. It requires a target, travels significantly further, and deals damage both by default and in a different way than Shift does.
Sure, if you look at them purely as “It moves you in a straight line” then they’re the same, but both skills have a lot more to them than that.
