I wish Gunbreaker would be a DPS class.

I really don't care who gets what, so long as it's the most enjoyable form of the job. The problem is I don't see any role as being capable of doing all that interesting of stuff with Gunbreaker. Conceptually, it's awesome. On screen... it looks like a weird melee MCH swinging an overweight one-handed sword as if tantrum-crazed. XIV tanks aren't allowed real mobility, because tanking in XIV is mostly just holding still and being hit. Any and all of the cool stuff in the trailer is fundamentally impossible with our engine. Gunbreaker is perfect for a tank, just not an XIV tank.

Watch it just be a proc based priority system Tank to do it's stuff. Ugh.

Just let it be now since not many Jobs can be picked to be a Tank Job in FF series unless that Job been used by a "Main Character" in a FF game.

Tank Job has a iconic image for being the Leader/Hero of the group that takes the most damage for the team while leading the team into battle. With Squall being a character that charges into the fight more head on, I am not surprised considering this job is based around him.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

I am still more for Modern Assassin instead to provide that sword/gun experience for a DPS job.

It would be interesting to have a Modern Assassin Job with the lore being that it was created from the demand for "specialists" in espionage, protection, and assassination due to internal fighting against different industries and potential threats to the people who own these industries.

We know competition among organizations and businesses are life threatening at times in FF14 world within different City States, Garlemald, and etc and sometimes "specialists" maybe needed to deal with these issues.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dfess

While I do think we need more tanks, I do wish it was a DPS job and the other planned job/jobs would be a tank instead.

---

If one of the planned jobs is Dancer, then do you really think that would make a better tank than Gunbreaker? I want my new healer to be Dancer!

I was hoping for it to be a dps too but I've also said repeatedly through the years that I'd be fine if it was a tank. I ended my FF XI days as a PLD and I considered myself a darn good one. Guess it's about time things come full circle. Gunbreaker is coming and that is the job I've been waiting for since 2.0 launch. Every other job has been filler for me.

Hmm nty i dont want 2 see a million ppl named squall and saifer

My only complaint is that this means we now have 4 tanks that all primarily deal slashing damage and only 1 of them actually use a shield.

I was hoping for something that dealt piercing damage like say a pike+towershield or pull another monster hunter collab and give us a gunlance setup. Or go the route of blunt damage with a mace/Warhammer + shield or 2 handed warmaul or the magitek hammer we've seen in game.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MorbolvampireQueen6

Hmm nty i dont want 2 see a million ppl named squall and saifer

---

Well once 5.0 Raid is out it will be 2B or not 2B.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

My only complaint is that this means we now have 4 tanks that all primarily deal slashing damage and only 1 of them actually use a shield.

I was hoping for something that dealt piercing damage like say a pike+towershield or pull another monster hunter collab and give us a gunlance setup. Or go the route of blunt damage with a mace/Warhammer + shield or 2 handed warmaul or the magitek hammer we've seen in game.

---

Maybe one day they will throw out a Disciple of Magic Tank class. 4 Physical Tanks just makes me just not care.

I don't mind having tanks for this upcoming expansion; hell I welcome it. But I have to question Gunbreaker as one. Yes, I do understand it was one of the most requested jobs so SE did the smart choice of working on it for the expac but...

sigh

I guess what I'm trying to say is maybe the order of things we got was wrong? Like, I could see Gunbreak being dps IF SB had 1 tank and 1 healer/dps but because we got 2 dps AND Gunbreaker was highly requested, SE didn't have a choice.

Could they have put on hold Gunbreaker as dps? Maybe but it would've been a bad business decision.

I guess this was a situation where you can't win it all.