Ideas for the tank dash-ins

[Duskane]

Well just some ideas

Mp gain on plundge
Intervene either stronger with sheltron or it gives a free sheltron
Onslaut is free with Chaos cleave buff
Gnb just refreshes its mini shield

[aodhan_ofinnegain]

It would simply be your usual WS. Meaning that, on a 100% uptime boss, you wouldn't have to use your "increase WS range" at all. Basically, GUN DPS would be more consistent than other tanks since you'd have more ways to keep uptime.

But this makes no sense whatsoever, it has to be a joke, how the hell does a sword based attack from a range actually deal damage, even if you argue that the aetherial charge as a means for damage, it's still flawed, since the blade is not striking the enemy, have you bothered to read the name of the weaponskills. Do you honestly think the aetherial charge will make the gunblade fly out of your hand and smack the boss for you or something stupid like that. PLD's HS and Confiteor makes sense, beacuse...they are spells, only weaponskills that make sense are the ranged physical and the weaker potency than normal weaponskills, that tanks have for pulling.

[Reynhart]

But this makes no sense whatsoever

As much as it makes sense to throw a kite shield and have it magically come back, or swing your 1m sword around you and hitting everything 3m around, or hitting metal or stone monsters with you bare fists, or wielding a roughly 200 pounds great sword or great axe, or having returning chakrams...If "making sense" is what bothers you, you have much more things to be concerned than a magic buff that would allow your weapon to hit at long range...

[Jandor]

But this makes no sense whatsoever, it has to be a joke, how the hell does a sword based attack from a range actually deal damage, even if you argue that the aetherial charge as a means for damage, it's still flawed, since the blade is not striking the enemy, have you bothered to read the name of the weaponskills.

Have you fought the 3rd boss of the Nier raid? Every melee job in the game is attacking from range in that fight, dudes stood well out of sword range splashing about in the sea.

[aodhan_ofinnegain]

Okay, then why stop at just GNB, why not let WAR and DRK hit the boss from 10yalms away, hell why not make it 20yalms, then why stop even there, best let melee DPS also hit from 20yalms away so they can keep 100% uptime... then what's the point of calling them melee anymore.

[ReiMakoto]

Yes, they aren't, as they don't shopt bullets...yet they still shoot aetherial charges, which still make them weapons with range capabilities.

The Aetheric Charges do not give Gunbreaker Gunblades ranged capabilities for offence which is clearly stated in the Jobquests, when firing the atheric charge for damage you're essentially setting off a grenade at the barrel end of the gunblade i.e. not a projectile, this is why their pull move lightning shot is a blade beam thing that they drag along the floor rather than just blasting the, from range. Now they are able to fire things in the sense of Heart of stone and for thier final limit break they are fireing barriers, but it is unclear wether this is just generic atherial manipulation like with say a plds intervention, as it does not use any catridges to do these moves

[Reynhart]

Okay, then why stop at just GNB, why not let WAR and DRK hit the boss from 10yalms away

You're right, identity be damned, let's give everyjob everything !
/sigh