Ideas for the tank dash-ins

[aodhan_ofinnegain]

Gap closing is not a mobility issue, but an uptime issue.
If you have the option of doing your combo at range, you don't lose any uptime when coming back to the target. Even better since you wouldn't lose uptime even while dodging an AoE. And it would fit a Gunbreaker, since some animations clearly show them shooting something from their barrel.

Worth pointing out that GNB gunblades, aren't actual guns, "the firing mechanism, emitting a range of magical effects by utilizing aesthetically imbued cartridges " courtesy of the ffxiv gunbreaker job guide. Garlean gunblades are both gun and blade. So no it would not be thematic in anyway.

And uptime or mobility, are basically the same the thing, get to back to boss asap so you can keep uptime, neither is mutually exclusive.

[Reynhart]

Worth pointing out that GNB gunblades, aren't actual guns

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

And uptime or mobility, are basically the same the thing, get to back to boss asap so you can keep uptime, neither is mutually exclusive.

Since they're the same, keeping attacking even at range would have the same effect of having a gap closer. Thus giving every job tools to face every situation, while having their own flavor. So you could have two charges of "your next 3GCD have a 10y range".

[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