Gunbreaker breaks my heart

[Anthonywb]

PLEASE, could you make gun breaker job have a dps spec... goddammit.... so annoying. I was so excited to play gun breaker until I found out that it'd be a tank class. T_T

[grinkdaboy]

im more annoyed that it's called gunbreaker and not gunblader. i refuse to call it gunbreaker. and to assauge your concerns regarding tanking: it's so easy. warrior is basically a fat dps and drk can either be damage mitigator tank or off-tank fat but not quite as fat dps as warrior. gunblader will probably go fit in the same niche as warrior.

[Alestorm]

I'm sorry, but tanks and healers deserve cool new toys to play with as well. Maybe consider learning to tank, it's not as hard as some people make it out to be.

Not all expansions should be only DPS jobs.

[Halivel]

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.

[Daralii]

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.

[Belhi]

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.

I cant really see Tidus as a 'tank'.

[Destati]

And a lot of healers were excited to play Dancer until they found out it would be a DPS class.
Personally I'm just happy we have those jobs period. As a DPS main, I don't mind playing as tank or healer from time to time. It's worth giving all three roles a try.

I cant really see Tidus as a 'tank'.

Funny you say that, because GLD/PLD's fighting stance was based heavily off of Tidus'.

[Bacent]

Don't gun breaker my heart
I couldn't if I tried
Honey if I get restless
S.E. you're not that kind

Felt like I needed to make a joke.

But seriously... I'm glad we're not solely getting DPS this time around. And you're kind of a bit late to the gunbreaker isn't a DPS topic.

[Daralii]

I cant really see Tidus as a 'tank'.

He's functionally a paladin if you follow his sphere grid- sword and shield, early access to party buffs, later access to enemy debuffs, eventual access to white magic. And as Destati mentioned, the GLD/PLD battle stance is heavily based off of him.

[TitaniaZero]

As my group's 4 man tank, I'm pleased with something new. And assuming that DNC is a fun class I'll have something new for my 8-24 man stuff too. Though I sympathize with the healers that wanted something new, it sucks not having something new to work with for most of your game time.

Edit: And thinking of it... FFXIV doesn't have SPECs for their jobs. If you want a DPS spec for a Tank then well... there are few DPS jobs to choose from for the DPS 'Spec'. Specs can go and stay in WoW.