Gunbreaker should be Tank and DPS

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Originally Posted by Bixillarla

They tried they with arcansit which can be a Scholar or Summoner. They said they would never do that again.

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Never say never. I'm all for more options.

Gunbreaker is one of the most iconic Final Fantasy jobs? I can't think of a single game that had a Gunbreaker job. Even Squall's job was just a Mercenary, he just used a gunblade as a weapon.

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Originally Posted by Kandraxx

You could probably say this for warrior/dark knight as well

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Um no, not warrior. But you can say it for drk. Because we did get drk₂ which for what ever reason they called it reaper. Should really have made it drk₂ rather than rpr, because that's what it is. And yeah it would be great if drk and drk₂ worked like smn/sch so I could just level drk and pull out the scythe when I wanted to play drk₂

I mean why would dark knight ever wear a scythe...

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Originally Posted by Kandraxx

Another thing is that dps could really use a “sword user” besides the exotic samurai, as SAM is not everyone’s taste.

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A Gun-Machette is really exotic too imo.

I think it's a really fun class as is. If they shoe horned it into a DPS there would be a lot of upset players.

Also by this metric WAR/PLD should also be able to queue as healers.

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Originally Posted by KariTheFox

What would a "DPS gunbreaker" even play like? Just like how GNB plays now but with all the tanking abilities removed? Or would you want to add more buttons to GNB's already incredibly busy kit?

Both options sound kinda bad to me.

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Incredibly busy No Mercy window. Outside of that its actually rather boring. If they could fill up that downtime with something entertaining other than 1-2-3 + one gnashing combo it would be really nice. But yeah, leave it as tank.

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Originally Posted by Lunalepsy

You are pinning for hybrid/support classes. The holy trinity disapproves of such combinations. I don't see FFXIV deviating from the current standard any time soon!

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Utterly nonsense. MMOs have had the trinity since the beginning and also had hybrid/support classes. Everquest support classes were absolutely amazing. WoW even had hybrid/support classes in Vanilla and TBC with Paladin, Shaman, and Druid.

Laziness is what has killed the hybrid/support classes. Not the holy trinity.

GNB seems fine as it is.

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Originally Posted by van_arn

I really don't like multiple specs. I'd rather see them release a melee dps that uses a "gigachad big deeps gunblade" instead, should they choose to revisit the gunbreaker concept.

They did something similar with Dark Knight and Reaper stemming from the XI concept of DRK.

I don't think we currently need another melee.

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Give me the Regula van Hydrus job SE, I want that Garlean Gun-Greatsword combo.

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Originally Posted by Kandraxx

But then locking it behind a role most players shy away from in MMOs. Not about hard to play or not, but as a tank you’re simply the actor on the stage while the dps/healer audience watches you and a lot of people don’t like this playing in the spotlight.

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I still don't get it why this is a thing in FFXIV. In WoW it only sucked tanking M+ for instance, but that was because you were the only one that had to do homework before running a dungeon while DPS and healers just mindlessly followed you. In FFXIV there's absolutely nothing that makes Tank harder or put them on a spotlight as you said, their rotations are oversimplified when compared to DPS and Tank mechanics aren't hard at all after you see them the first time while in most dungeons you just run wall to wall pulling everything.

I mean, you play a White Mage, healers are always the hardest roles in games because you are not only responsible for your health and mechanics but also to compensate for any mistakes your peer might make, you should be used to being in the spotlight by now.