Gunbreaker is more Siefer than Squall. A disappointing realization.

[Jaydarksol]

When shadowbringers came out, and the Gunbreaker tank class was released i was incredibly excited to see the weapon come to fruition. It is above all a magnificent class and i have much respect for it.

Though i came to the realization why i am not too fond of the look and feel as it currently stands.

Siefer had a pistol gunblade, he was forced to wield it with 1 hand and slash and fight like such. This is what the current gunblade animations do with very minimum spots of 2h elements.

Squall always fought while holding his gunblade with 2 hands, similar to a greatsword. Something the current gunbreaker class does not share, as nearly 90% to all of its abilities strike with a single hand.

I am curious and maybe hopeful that there is a chance that much like we have /cpose, is it possible for us to have both the single hand and two handed animation strikes with our gunblade depending on which technique we choose to fallow: Squall or Seifer's.

[Heliantheae]

The /vpose or /bstance is straight up Seifer.



EDIT: Didn't realize I kind of made a Seifer glam to go with it.

[Valic]

Tbh... I like Seifer, so this isn't disappointing to me. They gave us JUST FINE SOUND EFFECTS TO BEGIN WITH, then people complained because good god their nostalgia ruins this effing game's newest job. No one complained prior to its release how it sounded, they just loved we were getting it. Now people QQ over every detail, now we have crappier sounds GG. Gunblades just need to be longer, only issue there. We use two hands for some of the attacks too so idk why everyone's QQ'ing about that now. Ya'll need to stop complaining about things that don't matter and sound just fine, this is FFXIV, not FF8, not dissidia. FINAL FANTASY FOURTEEN. Stop whining for your dumb false nostalgia and making SE do unnecessary work.

Yes its based off FF8, everything else in this game is based off some FF, but they at least take some time to adjust it to feel new and fresh, enjoyable. Whoever whined about the sounds deserves a suspended account imo because now I have to find a new main AGAIN after spending weeks gearing and leveling this job. All because some kids go "wah I can't hear explosions, it needs to sound like a cannon vomiting michael bay farts wah MUST BE EXACTLY LIKE SQUALL GUNBLADE FROM FF8 CUZ VIBRATION OF PS1 TRIGGER FEELING OOMPH". Thanks for ruining something nice kids, I'm an FF8 fan, only one I truly played through and through and I didn't need these changes.

[Gula]

I keep seeing disappointing being thrown around a lot. Disappointing story, disappointing X, Y Z. Are you really disappointed or is there no other word for how you feel?

[Valic]

I keep seeing disappointing being thrown around a lot. Disappointing story, disappointing X, Y Z. Are you really disappointed or is there no other word for how you feel?

Tbh, story was a mock up, didn't even mind it in the end, nothing will compare to DRK's story anyways. Wasn't horrible, just not enticing, but they also only had about 4 quests to do so anyways so... not like they could build up anything as is. I appreciated the lore around it, walking around and getting to fight in normally what is a town area in mmo's too. Again, people are complaining about the stupidest nonsense lately.

Squall always fought while holding his gunblade with 2 hands, similar to a greatsword. Something the current gunbreaker class does not share, as nearly 90% to all of its abilities strike with a single hand.

I am curious and maybe hopeful that there is a chance that much like we have /cpose, is it possible for us to have both the single hand and two handed animation strikes with our gunblade depending on which technique we choose to fallow: Squall or Seifer's.

We have both Squall poses for our /cposes right now. One is from Dissidia, one is the original for the most part with a more reasonable battle stance to it. I don't like our /cpose but I'm not gonna whine about it, Id like Seifer's stance as an option so we have both but female chars get lightning's so again... don't care. We have plenty of 2 handed strikes. Blasting Zone, Solid Barrel, Burst Strike, and Jugular Rip use 2 hand. Everything else is one hand or magic, and you have to remember this again.... we have garlean gunblade users who use 2 hands and one hand too, and the fact our gunblades are NOT FF8's. They use magic ammunition and are identical only for fan service of gunblades, give them some slack and stop trying to press your nostalgia into this job. Squall also used some 1 handed techniques in Renzokuken and in Dissidia too so, again... stop whining about something that doesn't matter. Nothing should've changed about it at all, LEAST OF ALL it's beautiful animations.

[Cetek14]

5.0 GNB was perfect. If you don't like it go play FFVIII. They didn't remove it from existence.
WAR and DRK are currently big weapon users. GNB is something very fresh. We just need old sounds back and it's back in the game.

[Kabooa]

Implying Seifer is the inferior choice of the two.

Nah, thanks. The fact that it was specifically a Seifer-esque aesthetic we were getting (And we knew this as early as the reveal) was what got me so pumped.

[Jaydarksol]

Tbh... I like Seifer, so this isn't disappointing to me. They gave us JUST FINE SOUND EFFECTS TO BEGIN WITH, then people complained because good god their nostalgia ruins this effing game's newest job. No one complained prior to its release how it sounded, they just loved we were getting it. Now people QQ over every detail, now we have crappier sounds GG. Gunblades just need to be longer, only issue there. We use two hands for some of the attacks too so idk why everyone's QQ'ing about that now. Ya'll need to stop complaining about things that don't matter and sound just fine, this is FFXIV, not FF8, not dissidia. FINAL FANTASY FOURTEEN. Stop whining for your dumb false nostalgia and making SE do unnecessary work.

Yes its based off FF8, everything else in this game is based off some FF, but they at least take some time to adjust it to feel new and fresh, enjoyable. Whoever whined about the sounds deserves a suspended account imo because now I have to find a new main AGAIN after spending weeks gearing and leveling this job. All because some kids go "wah I can't hear explosions, it needs to sound like a cannon vomiting michael bay farts wah MUST BE EXACTLY LIKE SQUALL GUNBLADE FROM FF8 CUZ VIBRATION OF PS1 TRIGGER FEELING OOMPH". Thanks for ruining something nice kids, I'm an FF8 fan, only one I truly played through and through and I didn't need these changes.

I understand your jaded feeling towards posts similar to this, however the most iconic gunblade wielder is Squall, he is the poster child of every idea of it. Even the collectors edition of shadowbringers came with Squalls revolver.
Its difficult not to base this class look off ff8 as it is where it comes from, and what made it virturally everything it was. The animations must have the essence of what made the gunblade so likeable. Players even so many years after understand that the gunblade is tied to Squall. This is where my disappointment rests. the main inspiration for this entire class is from FF8, the most iconic character associated with the weapon is squall, so why choose to favor Seifer?

If its their choice to do so then great! the gunbreaker isnt for me. But it goes against the entire promotion and somewhat underhands the look and feel.
There is nothing wrong about what i am saying, you may disagree but thats ok too im not going to bash you like you did a number of your fellow fans of the game/nostalgia.

As for the sound of the gunbreaker animations, the heavier sound is better than the *tink* sound it had, they are not daggers.

[Valic]

I understand your jaded feeling towards posts similar to this, however the most iconic gunblade wielder is Squall, he is the poster child of every idea of it. Even the collectors edition of shadowbringers came with Squalls revolver.
Its difficult not to base this class look off ff8 as it is where it comes from, and what made it virturally everything it was. The animations must have the essence of what made the gunblade so likeable. Players even so many years after understand that the gunblade is tied to Squall. This is where my disappointment rests. the main inspiration for this entire class is from FF8, the most iconic character associated with the weapon is squall, so why choose to favor Seifer?

If its their choice to do so then great! the gunbreaker isnt for me. But it goes against the entire promotion and somewhat underhands the look and feel.
There is nothing wrong about what i am saying, you may disagree but thats ok too im not going to bash you like you did a number of your fellow fans of the game/nostalgia.

As for the sound of the gunbreaker animations, the heavier sound is better than the *tink* sound it had, they are not daggers.

Because it's a gunblade, the job isnt tied to a character. They're based off them, they aren't them. Idc about your FF8 nostalgia, the animations are fine. I'm not jaded on anything, I just can't stand when people get so greedy they think something new and nice needs to change for THEIR memories and nostalgia. Nothing about it goes against the promotion, they showed what it'd be like with Thancred with both the sounds and magic ammunition, it plays well, sounded great, and has beautiful animations. My "fellow" fans ruined this job's sounds, I'm gonna bash whoever ruins my favorite job because "LOL MY NOSTALGIA MUST BE OR IT TRASH". You people who aren't satisfied with your lot demand more and then ruin it for everyone else, the minority of people who complained here about the sounds, as now brought about 10x as many people complaining about the changes. Stop begging for your nostalgia to be forced on a new job that's RESEMBLES gunblades of FF8, its FF14, you're not squall or seifer, those are bonus easter eggs for knowing the game, get over it.


As for the "tink", there's more of a "TINK" now than before. I can't even hear slashes now, it nothing but loud muffled explosions for 90% of our skills while we hit something with cardboard. All of your complaints are invalid and clouded by your nostalgia for something that NEVER SOUNDED like this, and never needed to be a carbon copy of the exact characters you grew up with. Again, get over it, its a new game, new style, you're not Squall, this isn't FF8, its all references and that's it. Leave our gunbreaker alone, you people have done enough. It's already based enough off of FF8, you don't need more.

And AGAIN, I am an FF8 fan, but a true FF8 fan loves that game, they don't try to force the design on new ones. FF14 was clean, cirsp, precise, you could hear the triggers, clicks of the gunblade, like it had inner mechanics, as well as very steel scraping sounding slashes coupled with explosions that highlighted this. It's not a boom stick, it's not a cannon, there is currently no "blade" in it right now if you listen to our base combo hitting an object, it sounds like cardboard, blunt, its not a stick. It didn't sound like daggers, play NIN and tell me it was exactly the same I dare you. NIN sounded thinner, MUCH thinner, old GNB sounds had heavy swings but light/steel-like slashes. I'm sorry but your nostalgia is covering your judgement in this. I'll bet you hated Eden too lmao.

[Jaydarksol]

This is interesting. For the most part of my gaming experience in FF 14 currently, i have met wonderful players who really back and forth and share in a debate or discussion, a single post on the forums however proves something different.

Having aggressive individuals like Val calling anyone who disagrees or has an issue with someone whiney be compelled without reason to go on a rant, or have others in the forums suggest that this is complaining, or whining is pretty unusual for this game.

Maybe i haven't been here long enough to experience all that the forums have to offer but let me be clear:

1) Squall is the iconic character for FF8, Seifer is a side character, and while it would be great if he and squall shared the limelight they do not. Though i love and respect that a lot of fans can appreciate both.
2) Since fans can appreciate both, then my question is why not have the animations favor both styles.
3) the OG post suggested/requested the idea of having a sort of technique alignment or choice in the future. Where if you chose to fight like squall your animations would reflect as such, if you chose to fight like siefer you animations would reflect as such.

There is no reason why the fans shouldn't have both, no damage change required, no adjustments, just animation alterations.

My thoughts initially are that i am turned off by the class because it doesnt reflect the image of the gunblade wielder i associate it with, and i am aware this is a lot of "i" but i am not alone in this.
Those who like Seifer i love that you do, and i would honestly prefer that you are able to keep that. but Squall is the core, the animations should have the ability to reflect both at the very least, not just hints of it.