How Easy Is Gunblade Compared to Paladin?

[Kacho_Nacho]

Objectively speaking, I think WAR has the fewest abilities to put on buttons and PLD the most.

I knew a guy long, long ago who was missing multiple fingers (I don't recall exactly how many, 2-3) and that was his problem, he just didn't have enough fingers to hit all the buttons. I don't know about your disability, but that's the kind of thing I always imagine when people mention having a disability of some kind. That said, there's a couple different setups you can use to get around that sort of problem. You can get the MMO mouse (which I just think everyone should have one anyway), this game is also pretty controller friendly, or you can do like a one handed keypad with a thumb stick and Razer and Logitech both make those.

For myself, I just had to put pads down to protect my wrists because certain high APM jobs were a strain and the pads have alleviated a lot of the problem.

I don't know, is any of that helpful?

Yes, very much helpful. I won't go into all that's wrong with me. I'll just say I go OUCH a lot.

I'll give GNB a whirl. and if that doesn't work out, I'll level WAR.

[Kaedan]

The thing about GNB is you have to be able to double weave well, and you have to be able to time your gcds and other skills well with your No Mercy window.

Also, GNB has the most skills of all the tanks, so if you don't have at least 3 FULL hotbars worth of control options (more if you use optional buttons for hard content), it's not going to be a tank you want to play.

[Steelbreeze]

GNB has more APM, so if you are struggling against a disability, go with PLD. Both are much easier than DRG though so I think you'll be fine no matter what tank you play.

[Orso]

Gunbreaker is much easier to play than Paladin. You have less to keep track of as a Gunbreaker, but you also have less options. (In terms of protecting/healing your teammates/party - clutch moves that Paladins can pull off at the cost of lost dps). Gunbreaker is a fun and flashy class that is easy to produce good dps numbers with. I think a good analogy would be Machinist to Bard. You have more things to keep track of as a Bard, whereas Machinist is just straight dps for the most part with 1 party damage mitigation ability. I main Paladin, with Gunbreaker, Machinist, Samurai, and Bard as alt jobs. Good luck with it!

[DemonicNeko]

Honestly tanks are pretty easy to play. Not a single one of them is hard to play. This is not like WoW where you have to do special mechanics to play a class well. Yes WoW Tanks from Mist of Panda to Legion actually had some depth to them. Maybe not for Warriors, Paladin and bears. Yet at less Death Knight and Monks had you learning your class mechanics or dropping dead.

[snipski]

All tanks are easymode now, i personally find DRK the easiest because you just put on Edge of Shadow and your good to go, war needs a 3 hit combo to set up Storms Eye wich i find abit more annoying.

[DaphneLing]

easy mode:

/micon "Gnashing Fang"
/ac "Continuation"
/ac "Gnashing Fang"
/ac "Savage Claw"
/ac "Wicked Talon"

[Duskane]

easy mode:

Just don't mode

[Absimiliard]

easy mode:

More like monumental loss of DPS mode. Macros are awful.

[DaphneLing]

More like monumental loss of DPS mode. Macros are awful.

SMH. Monumental DPS loss is an exaggeration. Not everyone plays like an elitist or perfectionist. I go through contents just fine, even savage raids. More buttons = more complexity = more mistakes = DPS loss.