Gunbreaker breaks my heart

[Anthonywb]

I guess I'll just have to tank.... T_T tanking is too much anxiety for me, though.

[LittleChickenNugget]

I'm excited about Gunbreaker actually. When I heard it was a tank, even more so. It looked like a really cool concept and while I main healer, I'm considering maining tank depending on how GB plays.

[Shura]

There were only DPS in 4.0 and people were "Huh???" about this. With same case in 5.0 the reaction could be even worse (it is quite bad with no new healer already). And well, Yoshida-P explained well, why they decided to add new Tank.
Somehow, I personally waited for GUN for 5 years and always though about it as about tank so I'm on happy side of boat, though I do understand why some people were disappointed - not all players like to play tanks overall. It was quite the same with Dark Knight.

Actually there has been a "DPS" every patch. Ninja for 2.0, Machinist in 3.0, Red Mage & Samurai for 4.0 and Dancer will be 5.0 along with updates to limited job BLU. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about Gunbreaker being tank, I'm actually very excited for it and can't wait to play it; I prefer it as a tank. But just saying, there has been a DPS class every patch.

[Halivel]

Actually there has been a "DPS" every patch. Ninja for 2.0, Machinist in 3.0, Red Mage & Samurai for 4.0 and Dancer will be 5.0 along with updates to limited job BLU. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about Gunbreaker being tank, I'm actually very excited for it and can't wait to play it; I prefer it as a tank. But just saying, there has been a DPS class every patch.

Sure. My point was that second expansion in a row without tank or healer could cause... very negative reaction from half of community that mains this roles. Now only healers are disappointed (and I hope we will see good rework for them in 5.0 and then new job in 6.0 because they need it).

[Physic]

The "main character" jobs are almost always tank jobs. With Squall and Lightning(kind of) joining the ranks through Gunbreaker, the only real exceptions I can think of are Fionn, Terra, and Zidane.

they werent tanks, no one was tanks back then.

[Shura]

Sure. My point was that second expansion in a row without tank or healer could cause... very negative reaction from half of community that mains this roles. Now only healers are disappointed (and I hope we will see good rework for them in 5.0 and then new job in 6.0 because they need it).

Ya, I thought there would be a healer job this time but I do understand their point of view. Ranged Melee category has only 2 and has had the least updates. Plus when the current healer system is broken, adding a 4th will just make things more unbalanced. I can see why they want to fix the system first before adding a healing class. A lot of people complaining for a healing class but honestly, I'd rather the system become balanced and improved then simply having a new healer for the sake of having a new class with a broken system. As someone who is BRD main, I not sure how I even feel about Dancer; MCH felt too much like BRD with RNG based attacks, not sure how they will differentiate DNC from BRD/MCH.

[Daralii]

they werent tanks, no one was tanks back then.

I know, but it's how they represent them having been main character jobs in the single player games.

[MrKimper]

I disagree, I think gunbreaker is a good balance for right now aesthetically for me, I personally like jobs that don't LEAN towards any sort of alignment spectrum for example. PLD is way too much of a holy knight archetype in it's animations and mannerisms, but out of the three tanks I like it's overall aesthetic the most. DRK is edgy which I like, but a lot of it's animations are very over exaggerated edge. and it's animations look too "floaty" for me, the two hander doesn't look like it has any weight to it you're just tossing around an exaggerated foam weapon. WAR is probably my favorite gameplay and lore wise but the weapon design just doesn't speak to me since I don't like overly exaggerated axes, I'm fine with the more tame axes but the newer ones just get too complicated. Likewise some of it's animations are just dull to look at.

Meanwhile GUN pretty much meshes everything I like about PLD with a hint of DRK's edginess and hopefully a similar playstyle to WAR. It's pretty much the perfect tank in my eyes, though I do understand the frustration since I was really hoping we'd get some sort of "nuetral" blade wielding job, I love SAM and NIN but sometimes you get tired of the obvious eastern aesthetic and flare and want something more nuetral.

[Burningskull]

I to wish Gunbreaker was a DPS. I can tank, but I hate it. I was all ready to switch to tank but... once they announced that DNC was going to be a DPS that was going to use CHAKRAMS I haven't been able to stomach tanking. >< Oh well. Maybe next FF MMO lol.

I would have also preferred them add another job as Tank this expansion and pushed Gunbreaker back to 6.0 to be a DPS. But like the old man says, You can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up faster.

[Derio]

I just hope it’s good. I got over my tank anxiety when DRK released and have been tanking ever since. I can see how some ppl are unsure about tanking especially since a lot of content has released since 2.55.

But this community is very supportive of new tanks.

The crazy thing is the ppl who want gunbreaker to be a dps sound like the same ppl who wanted DRK to be a dps and the ppl who wish WAR was a full fledged dps