Why did Gunbreaker need potency buffs?

[Absurdity]

One of the side effects from the buff is that Gnashing Fang + Jugular Rip(580 potency) is now MORE potency than Burst Strike + Hypervelocity(560). Meaning that it is now better to No Mercy before your Gnashing fang and lose a Burst Strike + Hypervelocity than previously when you would No Mercy after Gnashing Fang because Burst Strike + Hypervelocity was more potency.

That's exactly what I meant with "It makes our 3 minute and 9 minute burst less nonsensical".
Because using NM after Gnashing was rather counterintuitive.

[eagledorf]

That's exactly what I meant with "It makes our 3 minute and 9 minute burst less nonsensical".
Because using NM after Gnashing was rather counterintuitive.

Yeah, but if aligning the rotation was the goal, PLD needed it much more than GNB. Either you drop an Atonement to align party buffs (which still doesn't work) or you hold a stack of Sword Oath until after you apply Goring Blade so that you get an Atonement instead of Riot Blade under FoF. Plus there's FoFing before the pull and different timings (before or after Riot Blade) for FoF depending on party comp...PLD is incredibly janky right now.

IMO what GNB needed was more range on Continuation and probably honestly a skill reduction. Right now it's frankly annoying to move the boss during Continuation windows and also to weave defensive cooldowns without clipping your rotation, especially with the way most fights are designed now where you dump all your cooldowns at once rather than cycling then. Personally I'd take using my brain once every 1.5 min over jamming a button because the skill won't go off all the dang time.